After the worst drought in 30 years - good to get some rain. Loving the chandelier

Wanaka Joinery and Glass has a new team member; we welcome on board award-winning designer Amanda Guisolan. Amanda joins us as Design and Sales Director and she brings a wealth of design and joinery knowledge and expertise with her. Amanda has a decade of experience in the joinery design world. Her finely tuned design skills, built on a solid technical understanding of joinery, earned her two Master Joiner Awards, the ‘Best Use Of Colour’ award in 2015 and the ‘Best Regional Joinery Design’ in 2016. Amanda has an astounding understanding of the ‘design to installation’ process. Having a world-class award-winning designer on board, with an extensive understanding of the joinery process, means Wanaka Joinery and Glass provide advice from concept to completion. Read Amanda's full profile on our website

We are late 50's couple with 1 adult child living at home. The house design is unusual because of the unusual shape of the section. We are using the maximum coverage of the section at 40% The views are to the North out of the 2 lounge windows and 1 floor to ceiling window. We want this to be a house that has clever storage and all space to be utilised. Hopefully this is the house we retire to soon. We'd really like suggestions how to better use the space we do have. We have never built before and want to get it as right as we can. Our long term plan is to use the 2nd bedroom as an air bnb space with access around the back of the garage through sliding door into the bedroom. The bathroom and bedroom 2 can be locked off from the rest of the house. We have a medium sized dog and cat that share our space too. Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

We have had a balustrade on our deck rebuilt, as previously it wasn't consented by Council. Our deck is out the front of the house (and on top of our garage) so we opted to continue the weatherboard up from the sides of the garage. We had advice that we have to have a metal parapet capping put on to confirm to building code, and we have, but it's ugly and doesn't go with the rest of the weatherboard style of the house. Has anyone else had to deal with this before? I have seen lots of similar balustrades on decks (that aren't over other structures) with simple wooden capping that looks nice. Just wondering if anyone has a compliant solution that looks nicer. Ours (we needed a building consent) Other peoples (who didn't need a building consent)