哈雷丁夫妇的舒适山居

After showing us around her hillside house in Auckland, Andrea Harradine shares her house style.

The sun is streaming in, all the windows and doors are open and the stereo is blasting.

The house features quite a lot of different materials throughout and because it has so much glass, there actually arent that many walls. It also came with quite a lot built in, like the kitchen bench that doubles as a casual dining table, so our interior additions are quite minimal really.

I would

say our interior is just very us, we have never attempted to style or

theme our home and it just morphs and changes as we do. Its comfortable,

un-fussy and scattered with pieces we have both made and accumulated over the

years. In a funny way I think we are still figuring out what we want our

interior to be and probably only just coming to terms with that fact that we

have the opportunity to dictate the aesthetics of our space without the

influence of adolescents, now that our children are fully grown.

I would save the piano. Music is my true love. I have had it almost as long as I have had children and it also lived with my mother who has now passed, before making its way back to me. Todd would probably save his fishing rods.

Light shades for above the kitchen island from our collaborators and friends at Monmouth Glass. They are hand blown, subtly irregular and diffuse light beautifully.

series and Ottolenghis

We would remodel the kitchen, it definitely needs better storage. We would probably put another storey on top – the master bedroom naturally; it would have truly incredible views. We would probably also put a second self-contained dwelling somewhere else and if money really was no object we may as well put in a pool too; Todd has his heart set on a container one.

Todd is the chef in our house. Food alongside fishing, biking and a myriad of other extracurricular activities is his passion. His repertoire is pretty extensive and by no means limited to any genre or style. His go-to would always be something with fresh fish when possible (which thanks to his skills is often) – perhaps a Thai style curry or baked dish with Japanese flavours.

At the moment we are in lockdown so its quieter than normal but usually a lazy morning in bed reading and listening to the birds, followed by some gardening or taking the dogs for a walk on our local west coast beach, topped off with a classic roast by our in-house chef.  

The rough, wild and beautiful Te Henga Bethells beach and the many local bush walks. The constant quiet also has to be a major perk.

We have no plans to leave although we do want to build our own home one day. But we do feel that this house and especially its outlook is so iconic that even if we werent to live here, we would probably want to find a way to keep it in the family.

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