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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Yes, So welcome back to the One Roof Radio Show.
Oh sorry, should I say the Weekend Collective? This is
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and Mark Kreisel. We have a little bit of a
little bit of a hack up to today's show because
we are looking to be forward to being joined by
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an interior designer, a new guest on ashow, Melissa Greeno,
to discuss questions around at basics, the basis of interior design,
but also a bunch of things like if you were
going to have a room in your house done up,
should you actually you know, are there particular design elements
in your home where you should seek advice? Because maybe
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there are some simple things like paint schemes you might
just decide I can choose my own paint, I can.
You know, plenty of people capable of choosing their carpet
and paint and all sorts of things. But when it
comes to interior design choices, are there some actual rooms
where it's quite worth while getting advice? An example I
would probably give is we recently we recently read did
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Our Bathroom? And we had some ideas what we wanted
to do, because, you know, we'd been living at the
place for a decade and you sort of think, gosh,
wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of
this and change this around? And our bathroom was living
in basically nineteen sixty nine, I think it was probably
the house was built. It had those sparkly sort of
linoleum tiles which I don't know how to describe. It
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had a sort of like a sickly green kind of
wallpaper which felt very nineteen sort of seventies or something
very retro and basically mold growing everywhere. So we knew
we were going to overhaul the whole thing. But when
it came to the decision of what to do, we
actually used a bathroom place where they had a design
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service and someone who could she came around, drew up
the plans and made suggestions and was a huge up.
In fact, I would now I look back or and
never would have done it. So to me, that's a
no brainer. And of course issues like doing your kitchen,
that would be another no brainer for getting some design
work and interior design. So I'm keen to hear from
you because it's just going to be me and you
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the listeners for the time being until we can get
hold of our guests and see what we're up to.
What what are the most important rooms in your house
that you would do up? Would you ever seek design
or architectural advice because they're you know, the big key
wef ethic of DIY is well, the big ethic of
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DIY is we love it. We love the DIY, We
love making our own own choices. But then you go
and see someone who's had their home sort of with
a bit of interior design advice, and you think, ah,
maybe I actually should have done that, shouldn't have done
that myself, and I actually got a bit of advice.
So what are for you the most important rooms in
your house that you should get advice on. But also
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the other thing we were going to touch on is
the question around the worst ever design trends, because there
are things like people have barn doors. In fact, we
stayed at any Airbnb where I didn't mind the barn door.
They had a barn door to the bedroom. It sort
of was this big sliding thing, and I thought, well,
that's an interesting touch, they've got a barn door. But
then again, when I did a bit of reading around
interior design and old fads and stuff, barn doors were listed. Nembe.
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There was the time when I don't know if razine
had a color called black white, which seemed that everyone
was doing black white. And I think probably black white
still is probably quite a popular color. In other words,
it's just a slight sort of off white sort of thing.
And so, but are there sort of colors and trends
and things that you that you need to shake off
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because frankly they're just dreadful and then there should have
never been a trend in the first place. So we'd
love your calls on it because at the moment we
are Sam's guest to use the French expression, we are
without our guest at the moment. So it's just me
and you eight hundred eighty ten eighty text nine two
nine two, and you can email Tim b at Newstalk
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SIDB dot Co dot Nz and we'd love your causing
and jump straight on the blow because I'm not going
to go to an ad otherwise I'm going to be
talking interior design. I have to say I'm not particularly
much of an expert on interior design. So the other
the other question around interior design is I guess, well,
there's one thing to have ideas on furnishings and colors
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and all that sort of stuff, But when would you
actually get architectural advice as well on something. You can
give us a call on that on on eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and hang on, I'm just going to
talk to my producer, so let's let's see what call.
Let's hand on a second, I'm just organizing a little
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bit of housekeeping here and oh no, we've lost that
call as well, So we might just take a quick
break and we'd love to hear from you. Eight hundred
eighty ten eighty. First text has come and come in
kitchen one hundred percent should get design help? Bathroom fifty fifty?
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Bathroom fifty fifty? What does that mean? Bathroom fifty Fifty're
a bit iffy on it, so give us a call
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. By the way, actually on
the kitchen thing, what is the kitchen and the bathroom thing?
What is actually the best way to get advice on
that sort of thing? Because often if you go into
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a kitchen specialist, where place that designerssistance is going to
be with you anyway, isn't it, You can go in
and have a chat with them, and they'll have people
who are design experts in the same with bathrooms as well.
Pretty much sometimes there's a bit of a pay for
its service. But so when would you actually seek independent
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advice on this stuff as well, So we'd love to
get your calls on that, by the way, somebody, Oh
my goodness, I've had a couple of funny texts on that,
and maybe I won't read those ones out as well. Right, so,
I think we may have actually got hold of our guests.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
back in just a moment. This is news Talk, said
b It's fourteen past four news Talk, said be with
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Tim Beverage. Now, I think there has been a bit
of a communication mix up. But miraculously and happily we've
managed to actually get in touch with Melissa Greno, who's
our new guest, and you're on your way to why Hecki. Melissa.
I gather we've had a bit of a lapse in
communication there, so not on your part, but I think
on ours. Sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Hey, I'm just happy that I can I can talk
to you from here after having a lovely little swim
in the ocean. It only rower.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Ah, well, that's hey. Actually, as I was as I
got up this morning and I was driving around the waterfront,
I thought, if you could be anywhere like why heck,
you're on a boat. It was just about the most
perfect early autumn day you can imagine. Isn't it just gorgeous?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, it is. It's great. I can tell you. I'm
actually really happy I'm here, not in this studio.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh right, yes, no, no, hey, thanks, thank look, thanks
for making time for us, because otherwise I was going
to have to share my interior design advice with so
I think ran out about three minutes ago. Can you
tell us a bit about yourself and your your background
in terms of getting into interior design?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Oh gosh, I think it's something that has been a
passion of mine since I can. You know, first memories
of being a little kid, movinganging my room around, changing
the living room around, going to friends' houses and digging
their bedrooms and whatnot. So it's always been a passion.
My parents have often built built houses, and my sister
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with an architecture. It's kind of in the blood. It's
in the family, and it's just something that I've always
been very passionate abound.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So, yeah, is there I don't want to use the
word science to it, but you know what I mean.
But are there certain rules where in terms of dimensions
and the shapes of rooms where people you might walk
in and somebody's said I'm thinking of doing X, Y
and Z with this piece of furniture and this color scheme,
and you look at it and go, well, that's completely
going to break all the rules, it's not going to work,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I think it depends who you ask. A lot of
people do put rules and foundations around design, but for me,
I think the most important thing is is definitely balanced
and symmetry, but it's more about trying to sort of
I don't know. You have to surround yourself by things
you love, and everybody's style is very different, and I
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think that you just have to try and make your
environment reflect your life, the way you live, and as
well as it's sort of looking like something that you're
proud of and something that reflects your personality. I think
that people often do feel better in more balanced spaces.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So how much, Yeah, I mean, because sometimes people's personalities
are the fact that they're a bit of a mess
as well, though, aren't they. So I mean, if you
had someone whose instinct is to more rather than less,
would you I mean, how much do you sort of
inject your professional ideas to help people get over there
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bad ideas?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, there's there's quite a lot of instances when I
go into somebody's home and they've they perhaps can't see
through the clutter.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, we all.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Gather things over years and for our travels and all
sorts of other things, and I think sometimes it's sort
of putting a bit of a rhyme and or reason
into those beautiful things and coloring a few of them
as well, so that you can have so you can see,
you can see what you know, see the things that
you love the most, and maybe put the things that
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are not so desirable away in a cove and pull
them out every now and then. So clear space is good.
I think it's also important for mind's sake. But you know,
there's so many beautiful interiors that have really eclictic, busy
sort of stiles to them too, So it's you know,
there's minimalists, and there's also that the collectives in US.
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So I think the most important thing is that you
feel good in your space, but you also feel like
it's functional, organized, and there's not For me, I can't
live in a cluttered space, but a lot of people
if the clutter makes sense, then it be a really
beautiful environment to live in too, Like a lot of art,
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for an example, or a lot of fabrac or.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Where does where does architecture begin and end? And where
does interior design and beginning end? What are the overlaps.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, that's an interesting question actually, because I think every
project is different like that. In new builds in particular,
a lot of it begins with the architect and a
lot of the architects some of them get really involved
in the interior as well. And actually a lot of
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architects like to have interior designers working for them and
in their in their company so that they can see
the beginning right through to the very end. But in
a lot of instances they end up working alongside the
architects throughout their process. So I sort of might come
into this at the beginning date, like I've been involved
in projects, Well it'll be you know, even involved in
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looking at sections and finding the land and creating a
vision board or something to translate to the architect of
saying this is what my clients sort of got in mind,
this is something we'd love you to be able to
help us create, and you're walking hand in hand right
through from the beginning to the end. And that's a
really amazing process for me. I love it when it
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works like that, because, yeah, I think that you know,
they're very much they're very technical. They have a very
different background to what I have, but I feel like
I can come in and maybe personalize a home whereas
they are creating. I mean, an architect's job is way
more involved than mine in the New world obviously.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, it's funny because you sort of think that when
it comes to furnishing. I mean, how would you describe
in terms of how far your job goes when it
comes to Okay, the architectural job is the structural shape
of a I'm not going to try and sum it up,
but I would understand it as this layperson as being
the structural shape and of the house and the way
it's put together, without necessarily a regard to furnishings and furniture.
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But it's suddenly seems like it would be obvious that
you have to have in mind. How are you going
to put together a room? I mean somethings as simple
as where the couches and chairs going to go, where's
the TV likely to go? And that's sort of that's
partly your sort of area, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah, so basic. So a lot of the time, you know,
the architectural te be very involved in the look in
the fill of the house and an exterior from an
exterior perspective, and then a lot of the time I'm
coming in and I'm choosing you know, the flooring, the
stone of virtual decounters will be made out of the
fabrics for the window treatments. We have a lot of
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doing a lot of built in furniture at the moment
that seems to be sort of quite fashionable for people
going full circle, you know, tack, we're hard where you know,
sort of everything that you would need for inside of
a home as well as fixtures, you know, So it's
not just you know, cushions and cultures.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
No, No, that's why I was trying not to generalize,
but it's just to give that feeling for you know.
That's why I asked where that overlap would be.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I guess, yeah, there is quite an overlap with a
lot of that the architect towards the end and sometimes
you know, people have you know, are just doing a
big renovation that it need an architects. So I'll just
come in and you know, redo all their lating plans
for kitchen design, the fastroom designs and everything. You know,
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so it's yeah, hey, what are.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The are there? Are there trends come and go, don't they?
Are there any trends that you that should never have
been there in the first place. My producer, Tira I
noticed when we did a Zoom meeting a week ago
that she had blurred her background because she was ashamed
of the paint the color of her cupboards, which were
straight from the nineteen seventies and which I mean, and
(16:08):
my house as well has still got a tiny bit
of champagne pink carpet becaurse it was, and you look
back and you go, how on earth did e? I mean?
But then again, everything as old as new again. It
used to be that shagpile was you roll your eyes.
And now I don't know, are there trends that we
should say goodbye to and never say hello to again?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It was funny. I was thinking that the other day
because something popped up on my Instagram with these glass
bricks that I was always readverse to. I never liked them.
I remember our parents readd our bathrooms with glass bricks
and things in the early nineties and late eighties or something,
and I was just like, oh, but they've come full
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circle again, and actually in the way that they were
being presented in these you know, interiors and exteriors of
buildings and stuff and new new sort of styles of
those glass bricks are like, wow, they actually look really cool.
I think I could be a lover of glass breads.
Who would have thought, you.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Know, so, well, that's the sort of thing you'd see
in people's hallways as well. They'd have a sort of
false wa that'd have a wall and there'd be glass
brick sort of separating the entrance from maybe the living
room or something.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it. And I mean,
you know, we also had an avocado green ground bar
bas and oh my gosh, I don't think that should
ever come back. And I certainly don't think waterbeds should
ever be leal, but you know, well, well they might
come round again too, the water bed.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, actually, the funny thing with avocado green is I
can't remember where I saw it, and it was on
some thread on Instagram, and it was a modern designed
bathroom and the point of it was that it was
using sort of old fashioned color palettes like avocado green
and things, but it looked it somehow, just looked fantastic.
But I wondered if that was down to the fixtures
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that went with it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, Anyway, I think all those really earthy.
You know, all the sort of clay cut the clays
and the dark greens and the burnt oranges and the
deep rusts and all those colors are definitely coming back
around in the interior design world at the moment. So okay,
it's probably right on trend.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Look, we might take a break. I hope you can
stick with us just for a little longer, because I
can hear the water slapping against the hull of your
boat there on your rower. But anyway, just hold there, Melissa.
We'll be back in a moment. But we'd love your
calls if you'd like to either pick Melissa's grains brains
should I say on interior design? But also if are
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there particular fashion trends which you look back on that
you know you wouldn't mind if they came back, or
are there some fashion trends you look back when it
comes to interior design that you think they should be
dead and buried and never never come back again. The example,
I was thinking my daughter's room. We've got to still
got a shagpile carpet, And the only reason it looks
so tragic is it's probably about forty years old, and
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I'm not sure I bring it back in terms of carpet,
but the old shagpile rugs. I think that's they have
a moment of being current again, don't they. Anyway, you're
we'd love your calls. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
text nine two nine two. It's twenty eight past four.
This is News Talk sed B. It's welcome back News
Talk SADB with Tim Beverage my new guest Melissa Greno,
who's an interior designer. And actually, just before we take
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our first call, Melissa, how would people check out where
your they would find your your what you do your Instagram?
I guess, but if you've got to also a website
that people can never look at?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, sure so my website is dub dub dub dot
eternointeriors dot co dot nz.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, how do you still a perno?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
E turn o? Is E T E rno?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Sorry mis heard that E turn o? Okay, uh, look,
we're going to take some calls and I want to
I'm going to quiz you about some more tragic fashion
trends before we before we move on. But here we
go a little You're with and if we just take
a moment I'll just to put you on hold, Melissa,
because I have to work out just a little detail
there so we can put a couple of people on together,
Melissa and Susan. You're with Melissa, gooday, Hello, there.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Just a quick one.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
My pet hate which I hope never well, I hope
it falls off of it still and is the curtains
that drag on the ground.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Oh, I can't stand them. They're hideous.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Funny enough. We've just got some new curtains, and I
do think they're touching the ground. Melissa, I'll give us.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
The oh no no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
How much doesn't It depends how much they're dragging on
the ground. But yeah, there is a lot of the
people that have like villains and very high I'd like
to have that long drop on the curtains. It's a
certain kind of a look. But I agree, it does
get a little bit dirty and dusty, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Actually how long? How should the curtains hang? I think
we've just got some which are the sort of you know,
the veil. They're like the front layer without the blockout,
but which is that's in two pieces. But they do
they gracefully sort of brush the brush the ground. Is
that all right?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I mean again, it depends if you're living in a
very modern architectural home, if you're in a villa, or
it depends the look and style of your house. But
I'd say as long as you're you're not flush with
the floor just a little bit, yeah, a little bit,
maybe a couple of centimeters on, you'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh good? Did you have any other questions? There?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Susan No, No, that was just my pet pint. Okay, Tyson,
I think you're alone with that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Tyson, how are you going?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm good? Thanks, mate, Melissa, I was wondering and what
are your thoughts on micro sumit?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I love it. Actually, it's one of my new favorite
things to use.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Seems to be quite common. What are these days with
interior designers?
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
What micro cement? Did you say?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Micro? So basically it's like, are you using it in
a project? Is or are you thinking about.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I'm a builder myself, and I've found the interior designers
are using it quite a bit within the high end
architectural classrooms, et cetera. But yeah, is it timeless? Do
you think it's going to be something that will be
like a five years bad.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I don't know, because I've always really enjoyed using Venetian
plaster for an example, and microsament is basically just another
form of Venetian plaster that's been around, so you know,
thousands of years. The other thing that has become really
popular is the Ambi tech, which is like a man
made Venetian plaster, but you can't put that in wet areas.
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So the great thing about the microscament is is that
you can put it throughout your showers, on the walls, floors, everywhere,
and it's waterproof and you can tend a lot of
different beautiful colors, so you don't have any grout lines,
which I think people are loving. And you've got a
beautiful texture, and you can make that more texture or
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less test. You know, you can you can sort of
have a soft texture, is it a really strong texture,
and it can go over tile so you don't have
to rip up your tile over at the top of taile.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So is it basically is it? Is it like it
looks like your walls have been made or you're that
they're made of solid concrete, but they're not. It's just
a coating. Is that what it's that sort of luck.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah, it's basically I think they have. It's about they
have to come back about three or four times, quite
a time consuming procedure. That it's really effective, and it
looks really beautiful. It can look very very modern, and
it can also look very sort of old the world is.
So it's a cool effect. I like it a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Do you like it?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Time?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
So that's cool? Well, I do like it, but I'm
just worried. I'm about to go into a renovation myself
on my own health, and everyone seems to be using
this micro cement. But I'm like, is it a fad
that's going to I don't know, age, or am I
better off just going for like a classic mosaic or
a way tile that's a little bit more timeless you know?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Hm, Well you could.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Could have sort of maybe mixed the two together a
little bit. I think that. I think it's here to stay.
I think it's just a way more. It's sort of
a safer way of waterproofing a shower than a Venetian
plaster as people get a little bit concerned about the
Venetian plaster breaking down. I have used it before and
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it hasn't done that. But I think the microsonment is
a little bit more bulletproof as far as water control
is concerned.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Okay, yeah, but it hasn't been around long enough I
guess to actually see if they actually face the test
of time or does it crack? Does it fail like
relatively here?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, I know it's quite new here, but I mean
I think they've been doing it in the States and
Europe and certainly in Australia for a bit longer. So
to be quite honest, I couldn't give you a history
on it either, Like you know, maybe ten years down
the track we're going to see that it might have issues.
But as far as I know, it hasn't.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It doesn't look like it's something you'd do DIY, that's
for sure. Is it looks like quite a whig special.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, you definitely have to hire somebody that knows what
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
One hundred thanks for thanks for your call, Tyson. Actually
I guess actually when Tyson said is this a fad?
I mean who would know? Because every time a trend
comes in, of course, we do it because we love it,
and you don't know how something's going to age. Yeah,
and I don't know what would spell the end of
a trend. Is it just the fact that so many
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people are doing it, everyone gets tired of it. I
don't know. Have you seen trends change? And you can
see white changed, Melissa.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I just think, you know, when you look at you know,
the eighties, for an example, everything was like, you know,
more is more and blingers bling and patterns and colors
and you know, all of that was sort of in
and it was sort of a sign of the time.
Wasn't that it was way people were feeling. It was
the economies, it was.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I think that I think in this moment in time,
I think a lot of people are really feeling like
they want to be connected more with nature. So I'm
seeing a huge movement with you know, the introduction of
a lot of skylights and houses or people putting in
you know, their own personal gyms or plarty sort of
studios or meditation rooms or you know. So I think
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that health and wellness is big at the moment as well.
And I don't see that going anywhere, but I think that, yeah,
I think something's become a real fad, like maybe ten
years ago when the black taps came in, for an example,
you know, black tap prayer was like, oh wow, we
can do black taps, and lots of people did black taps,
and then there's been a move away from.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That, damn it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
But I just think, you know, if a wallpaper or
a tap, you can always change. So if you're loving
it in the here and now, go for it and
enjoy it and just you know, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And I know we've got you here for a limited time,
lest so we'll take calls until you've until you've got
to go. I can as I can hear that water
enticingly slapping up against the whole of your boat. But
let's take another call if we can. Catherine, Hello, so there.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Hello malester, my time, and my question is I want
to tart up my kitchen a bit because it is
the most important room in the house and in view
of selling it maybe at the end of the year.
It hasn't been done for twenty to even I mean
ten to fifteen years, what like the white stone bench,
(27:50):
give it a real root, because at the moment I've
got sort of I don't know, that's plastically for mica things,
I don't know what you call it. And also for
my splash back, which is not huge, but that's right around.
It's sort of a glass one's in the sun. It's
got little flecks through. Changed to white subway tiles or
(28:10):
is that not moving with the times either? Ah?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I think that. I think you know a lot of
people like white kitchens, and I think if you're definitely
wanting to increase the value of your home and your kitchen,
consider putting an engineered bench top on and either bringing
that up the back as you're splash back as well,
so you have the bench in the slash splash back matching,
(28:35):
or if not. I think a white subway pile is
something that never really dates, So I think that would
be a really great way to go, and it would
appeal to a lot of different buyers.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I do love the idea of the spash back being
the same as the bench. But when I've gotten looked
at their bench tops, they're quite thick. So will that thick?
Can they thin down that stone so it doesn't take
up so much protruding from the wall so you can.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
If you're doing an engineered stone, it generally comes twenty
mils thick. So I'm sure you know some some people
could work with this. Others wouldn't that Otherwise you can
always go for like a deck to on, which is
a thin ceramic bench pop that they can cut down
and centain. It comes like five mils, so it's very
(29:27):
easy to use the splashback. So that's something that you
could also consider doing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Catherine, are you thinking are you thinking of selling? Did
you say?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Yeah, maybe towards the end of the year, but I
would like to put a list now even for the
we're on here.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I mean that's interesting. Why doesn't it? Thank you, Catherine,
Chris Melissa that if you are looking to do something
up if you think it needs updating, I mean, how
what's what's your experience been with people who are going
to be imminently selling, because you wouldn't want to overcapitalize,
would you. You'd want to do something which left do
you leave room for someone to make their own decisions
on that or what?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I think that? Like for an example, the call that
just was having a conversation with us, just that Catherine. Sorry, Yeah,
if you've got a form mica bench top and you're
trying to sell, I think you know, if you're updating
it to an engineered bench top, I think it would
be a significant difference and the way that advice would
(30:25):
view the value of your property. So I think that's
probably quite a good idea that you don't want to
over capitalize. But there's a lot of ways. You can
just get your front of your cabinet sprayed a different
color and pop a new bench top on and your
kitchen will look as good as new. So I think
you're not investing that much more money for it to
have an overall way more you know, positive sort of
(30:49):
reflection and buyer's eyes.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
So are they changes going on because of I can't
remember the name of it, but there's there was the
danger of breathing and particles when they're preparing. There's certain
types of bench tops, and that's different workplaces be different.
I remember when we had ours installed, they were doing everything.
They were spraying everything and keeping it wet, which I
(31:11):
did notice they were doing. But is there a change
coming in that space with what sort of tops, what
sort of bench tops people going to be able to access?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
So there's yeah, there's a big shift in the engineered
bench top space, in engineered stone space where the silica
was an issue. So it was really the way in
the factories the people that were working with the bench
tops and making the bench tops. It was all the
silica that was getting into the Lundon things. So a
lot of the bench top companies now like Caesarstone and
(31:42):
Quantum Zero and all of that going silica free. So yeah,
there is quite a turn in the industry in the
moment with that. But there's so many amazing products out
there that are now silica free and then in the
engineered bench top range, so that's that's silica is definitely
getting phased out.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Was silica one of the Was it a cheaper product
or expensive or what was Does it remove options for
people's budgets or what does it leave people with?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I think just you know, they're making the same sort
of pollip product without the silica, so it's very much
the same and it's very much at the same price point.
It's not making it more expensive. They're just getting smarter
about the way that they can produce these. Okay, curial,
Can I ask.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
A question about the old plasic one that everyone bangs
on about. No one knows what they're talking about. Really,
What if anything is fung or feng shui shui shwey?
Is it a thing in design? Or is it something
people like to mention over a cup of coffee and
they don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Funk sway. I mean, and I know that, you know,
it's really important to a lot of people, but I mean,
I don't really some designers are really into two going
with that. It depends on your personal preference. What does
we believe in? And it's a Chinese mythology about where
things should be and should not be placed in the
(33:11):
house to create energy flow. So for an example, they
wouldn't put a mirror in an entry way that was
facing the door because that means your money.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Will, okay, blow out the.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Door, rather than say.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Things like that, And it's like, isn't it something to
do with you should have you should never have your
bed with the feet facing towards the door because the
only you get time you go out your room feet
first is when you've charct.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It my home because that'll be me.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
So idn't want to put it right?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
But yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, because it's just along the sort of because it's
one of those things people always talk, Oh I haven't
got not she if I've got the fang shway right,
And I think a lot of people just understand it
to be well, it's got a spiritual sort of description
to it. I sometimes wonder whether it's a way of
finding just a spiritual reason for something that might be
common sense in terms of design ideas. But you, yeah,
(34:13):
not for you.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Yeah, it's like an yeah, it's in the Eastern philosophy
that a lot of people sort have been here too. Okay, yeah,
it all depends what you put your your energy into,
what you might.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Have like, okay, just a couple of other short questions
on a couple of texts that have come through. If
I can ask a toilet next to a shower? Somebody's commented,
is it still a trend? And oh, by the way,
I went to an open home and there was a
toilet in the master bedroom and it wasn't an en
suite either. Well that doesn't sound tough. That's not my
(34:46):
cup of tea.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
It doesn't sound very appealing.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I don't know about the toilet next to the shower.
That just sounds like, well, it's just a small room.
You're going to have one next to the other, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I mean, yeah, most most bathrooms do have the open
plan of the toilet shower basin. But I'm also seeing
quite a big move towards if you've got the space,
having the loo, even a division wall within the open
planned bathroom, or having a separate loop if you can.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah, I guess that's another sort of thing that was
really popular, like open plan living for a while, and
people are saying it's not working for me now, or
it is and you have the space, or you don't
have the space to separate it, whatever you're comfortable with,
they guess.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
With the renovation, obviously, the last thing you really want
to have to do is shift the toilet, just because
of all the piping and everything that's probably already in place,
isn't it. You'd have to build everything around it, wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yeah, I mean yeah, when you're doing a renovation, it's
always way more cost effective to keep the plumbing where
the plumbing is rather than introducing new plumbing situation.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So hey, Melissa, look we do. I really do appreciate
your joining us, because I know we had a scheduling
mix up area and you weren't expecting to be on
the show today, so I apologize for that, but think
thank you so much for making time for us. I
really do appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Well, we'll look forward to having you in the studio sometime.
And by the way, as I say, you were mentioning,
you're out on a row. How's the tide and the
weather looking?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Are you going to be going for another.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Beautiful another so beautiful? Yeah? Maybe maybe not quite maybe
not another one for the day, but we've been for
a few. But I have to say we were very impressed.
We did come across a woman who had swum all
the way from Wedge from ry So she had been
swimming since eight fish in the morning. She had swum
(36:43):
all the way here with a little boat, you know,
a couple of guys on a boat next to her.
So she'd been swimming continuously for seven and a half hours.
So we're very impressed with that effort. And we felt
really tired just looking all those people.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
It almost makes you feel guilty. It's like, oh, I
only went in for a quick pats, I should have
done a couple of hundred meters. But anyway, Melissa, really
appreciate you joining us, and we'll look forward to hopefully
meeting you in the studio sometime soon.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Yeah, that sounds great. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Thanks. We'll be back with the property of the week
in just a moment. It is ten to five. Yes,
welcome back to the Weekend Collective. This is the one
roof radio show.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Just before we go.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Actually my chat with them, Melissa, it's not funny. I've
always wondered about the whole fung shwe thing, and I
always I forgot this, as she reminded us, and she
wasn't endorsing at all, but I forgot that when I
just thought it had become one of those things that
had become accepted, that there were design concepts that had
grown from that, regardless of the spiritual connection and all
that that actually made sense. But anyway, apparently not well, anyway,
(37:43):
it depends on you know, it depends on aec things,
isn't it. So anyway, I do appreciate to Melissa joining
joining us for that in her website if you want
to check it out as Eturno, dot co, dott and
Z and I'm pretty sure you can probably find her
on Instagram just by typing in her name. It's Melissa
g R E E n oug H. Anyway, right now,
it is minutes to five, which means.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
The one roof property of the week on the Weekend Collective.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, and the one roof property of the week is
as I say it every time, how it's a gorgeouss
to go and tral through a beautiful property. And I
tell you what, the photos of this property and Havelot
North Hastings are quite spectacular in terms of the outdoor
living and indoor living flow. But I'll get the description
of it. But the address of it is. You can
go and check it out on the one Roof website.
(38:36):
It is one hundred and thirty six corepunger Kopa n
Ga Road, Havelot, North Hastings and it is well. I'll
give you the value at the end of it. But
it's basically a lifestyle property offering as they describe space,
tranquility and breathtaking views of the car Worker Ranges, malt
Ruapehu and Ruahino Ranges in Mount Airin So it's not
(38:58):
sure of the old views is it. And it's designed
to embrace those natural surroundings. It's a home with the
described having a sense of peace and privacy just a
short drive from Havelock North Village. Every aspect of the
home meticulously crafted to offer comfort and functionality, and also
it looks like a great look if you're looking for
a place where you can host as well. It's a
(39:20):
gorgeous looking outdoor area as well. That's one three six
corpunger Road, Havelot North, Hastings. I'm just giving a quick
scan again through the photos myself and it must be
something I think our interior designer Guess would approve of,
with the exception of maybe one of the rugs I'm
looking at in the living room. But you can go
and check it out for yourself by googling. That quite
(39:42):
a big property as well, so the value is well,
it's expensive, so they reckon it's going to go for
around two point two million dollars. But if you're in
the market for a lifestyle property near Havelot North, then
go and check it out one three six corpunger Road,
Havelock North. Anyway, that wraps up the One Roof Radio show,
(40:02):
which is a little bit of an adventure for us today.
We got there in the end, didn't we up. Next
we're with the parents squad and we have another new
guest joining us. His name is Rockley Montgomery. He's the
principal of Vanguard Military Academy. I think I've forgot that right.
And we'll be back with Rockley very shortly. This is
news Talk, said b. It is four minutes to five
(40:52):
something to all of the d.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
How are yea lay down to a dead on the
end of your name? Steve names up in the clouds.
Oh yeah, let's know what week out the door?
Speaker 6 (41:15):
See you.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Let's for more from the Weekend Collective. Listen live to
News Talks it'd be weekends from three pm, or follow
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You're listening to the Weekend Collective podcast from News Talks
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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do see, can't do see? Bis you and my brain?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yes, So welcome back to the One Roof Radio Show.
Oh sorry, should I say the Weekend Collective? This is
the One Roof Radio Show. And by the way, if
you've missed any of our previous hours, and in this
case it's just the one previous hour, I would say
if you want to have a bit of a laugh
at entertainment and listen to some well informed and diverse
points of view, you should go and check out our
(01:29):
podcast on the News talksit b website and it's just
look for the Weekend Collective wherevy podcasts and just look
look for the panel that should get it loaded up
pretty soon. That was a great time with Nevaretti, Manu
and Mark Kreisel. We have a little bit of a
little bit of a hack up to today's show because
we are looking to be forward to being joined by
(01:52):
an interior designer, a new guest on ashow, Melissa Greeno,
to discuss questions around at basics, the basis of interior design,
but also a bunch of things like if you were
going to have a room in your house done up,
should you actually you know, are there particular design elements
in your home where you should seek advice? Because maybe
(02:13):
there are some simple things like paint schemes you might
just decide I can choose my own paint, I can.
You know, plenty of people capable of choosing their carpet
and paint and all sorts of things. But when it
comes to interior design choices, are there some actual rooms
where it's quite worth while getting advice? An example I
would probably give is we recently we recently read did
(02:36):
Our Bathroom? And we had some ideas what we wanted
to do, because, you know, we'd been living at the
place for a decade and you sort of think, gosh,
wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of
this and change this around? And our bathroom was living
in basically nineteen sixty nine, I think it was probably
the house was built. It had those sparkly sort of
linoleum tiles which I don't know how to describe. It
(02:58):
had a sort of like a sickly green kind of
wallpaper which felt very nineteen sort of seventies or something
very retro and basically mold growing everywhere. So we knew
we were going to overhaul the whole thing. But when
it came to the decision of what to do, we
actually used a bathroom place where they had a design
(03:19):
service and someone who could she came around, drew up
the plans and made suggestions and was a huge up.
In fact, I would now I look back or and
never would have done it. So to me, that's a
no brainer. And of course issues like doing your kitchen,
that would be another no brainer for getting some design
work and interior design. So I'm keen to hear from
you because it's just going to be me and you
(03:41):
the listeners for the time being until we can get
hold of our guests and see what we're up to.
What what are the most important rooms in your house
that you would do up? Would you ever seek design
or architectural advice because they're you know, the big key
wef ethic of DIY is well, the big ethic of
(04:02):
DIY is we love it. We love the DIY, We
love making our own own choices. But then you go
and see someone who's had their home sort of with
a bit of interior design advice, and you think, ah,
maybe I actually should have done that, shouldn't have done
that myself, and I actually got a bit of advice.
So what are for you the most important rooms in
your house that you should get advice on. But also
(04:25):
the other thing we were going to touch on is
the question around the worst ever design trends, because there
are things like people have barn doors. In fact, we
stayed at any Airbnb where I didn't mind the barn door.
They had a barn door to the bedroom. It sort
of was this big sliding thing, and I thought, well,
that's an interesting touch, they've got a barn door. But
then again, when I did a bit of reading around
interior design and old fads and stuff, barn doors were listed. Nembe.
(04:50):
There was the time when I don't know if razine
had a color called black white, which seemed that everyone
was doing black white. And I think probably black white
still is probably quite a popular color. In other words,
it's just a slight sort of off white sort of thing.
And so, but are there sort of colors and trends
and things that you that you need to shake off
(05:12):
because frankly they're just dreadful and then there should have
never been a trend in the first place. So we'd
love your calls on it because at the moment we
are Sam's guest to use the French expression, we are
without our guest at the moment. So it's just me
and you eight hundred eighty ten eighty text nine two
nine two, and you can email Tim b at Newstalk
(05:34):
SIDB dot Co dot Nz and we'd love your causing
and jump straight on the blow because I'm not going
to go to an ad otherwise I'm going to be
talking interior design. I have to say I'm not particularly
much of an expert on interior design. So the other
the other question around interior design is I guess, well,
there's one thing to have ideas on furnishings and colors
(05:57):
and all that sort of stuff, But when would you
actually get architectural advice as well on something. You can
give us a call on that on on eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and hang on, I'm just going to
talk to my producer, so let's let's see what call.
Let's hand on a second, I'm just organizing a little
(06:20):
bit of housekeeping here and oh no, we've lost that
call as well, So we might just take a quick
break and we'd love to hear from you. Eight hundred
eighty ten eighty. First text has come and come in
kitchen one hundred percent should get design help? Bathroom fifty fifty?
(06:40):
Bathroom fifty fifty? What does that mean? Bathroom fifty Fifty're
a bit iffy on it, so give us a call
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. By the way, actually on
the kitchen thing, what is the kitchen and the bathroom thing?
What is actually the best way to get advice on
that sort of thing? Because often if you go into
(07:02):
a kitchen specialist, where place that designerssistance is going to
be with you anyway, isn't it, You can go in
and have a chat with them, and they'll have people
who are design experts in the same with bathrooms as well.
Pretty much sometimes there's a bit of a pay for
its service. But so when would you actually seek independent
(07:25):
advice on this stuff as well, So we'd love to
get your calls on that, by the way, somebody, Oh
my goodness, I've had a couple of funny texts on that,
and maybe I won't read those ones out as well. Right, so,
I think we may have actually got hold of our guests.
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
back in just a moment. This is news Talk, said
b It's fourteen past four news Talk, said be with
(07:46):
Tim Beverage. Now, I think there has been a bit
of a communication mix up. But miraculously and happily we've
managed to actually get in touch with Melissa Greno, who's
our new guest, and you're on your way to why Hecki. Melissa.
I gather we've had a bit of a lapse in
communication there, so not on your part, but I think
on ours. Sorry about that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Hey, I'm just happy that I can I can talk
to you from here after having a lovely little swim
in the ocean. It only rower.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Ah, well, that's hey. Actually, as I was as I
got up this morning and I was driving around the waterfront,
I thought, if you could be anywhere like why heck,
you're on a boat. It was just about the most
perfect early autumn day you can imagine. Isn't it just gorgeous?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah, it is. It's great. I can tell you. I'm
actually really happy I'm here, not in this studio.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Oh right, yes, no, no, hey, thanks, thank look, thanks
for making time for us, because otherwise I was going
to have to share my interior design advice with so
I think ran out about three minutes ago. Can you
tell us a bit about yourself and your your background
in terms of getting into interior design?
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Oh gosh, I think it's something that has been a
passion of mine since I can. You know, first memories
of being a little kid, movinganging my room around, changing
the living room around, going to friends' houses and digging
their bedrooms and whatnot. So it's always been a passion.
My parents have often built built houses, and my sister
(09:19):
with an architecture. It's kind of in the blood. It's
in the family, and it's just something that I've always
been very passionate abound.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
So, yeah, is there I don't want to use the
word science to it, but you know what I mean.
But are there certain rules where in terms of dimensions
and the shapes of rooms where people you might walk
in and somebody's said I'm thinking of doing X, Y
and Z with this piece of furniture and this color scheme,
and you look at it and go, well, that's completely
going to break all the rules, it's not going to work,
(09:50):
you know.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I think it depends who you ask. A lot of
people do put rules and foundations around design, but for me,
I think the most important thing is is definitely balanced
and symmetry, but it's more about trying to sort of
I don't know. You have to surround yourself by things
you love, and everybody's style is very different, and I
(10:14):
think that you just have to try and make your
environment reflect your life, the way you live, and as
well as it's sort of looking like something that you're
proud of and something that reflects your personality. I think
that people often do feel better in more balanced spaces.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So how much, Yeah, I mean, because sometimes people's personalities
are the fact that they're a bit of a mess
as well, though, aren't they. So I mean, if you
had someone whose instinct is to more rather than less,
would you I mean, how much do you sort of
inject your professional ideas to help people get over there
(10:54):
bad ideas?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, there's there's quite a lot of instances when I
go into somebody's home and they've they perhaps can't see
through the clutter.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You know, we all.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Gather things over years and for our travels and all
sorts of other things, and I think sometimes it's sort
of putting a bit of a rhyme and or reason
into those beautiful things and coloring a few of them
as well, so that you can have so you can see,
you can see what you know, see the things that
you love the most, and maybe put the things that
(11:27):
are not so desirable away in a cove and pull
them out every now and then. So clear space is good.
I think it's also important for mind's sake. But you know,
there's so many beautiful interiors that have really eclictic, busy
sort of stiles to them too, So it's you know,
there's minimalists, and there's also that the collectives in US.
(11:49):
So I think the most important thing is that you
feel good in your space, but you also feel like
it's functional, organized, and there's not For me, I can't
live in a cluttered space, but a lot of people
if the clutter makes sense, then it be a really
beautiful environment to live in too, Like a lot of art,
(12:09):
for an example, or a lot of fabrac or.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Where does where does architecture begin and end? And where
does interior design and beginning end? What are the overlaps.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, that's an interesting question actually, because I think every
project is different like that. In new builds in particular,
a lot of it begins with the architect and a
lot of the architects some of them get really involved
in the interior as well. And actually a lot of
(12:41):
architects like to have interior designers working for them and
in their in their company so that they can see
the beginning right through to the very end. But in
a lot of instances they end up working alongside the
architects throughout their process. So I sort of might come
into this at the beginning date, like I've been involved
in projects, Well it'll be you know, even involved in
(13:04):
looking at sections and finding the land and creating a
vision board or something to translate to the architect of
saying this is what my clients sort of got in mind,
this is something we'd love you to be able to
help us create, and you're walking hand in hand right
through from the beginning to the end. And that's a
really amazing process for me. I love it when it
(13:25):
works like that, because, yeah, I think that you know,
they're very much they're very technical. They have a very
different background to what I have, but I feel like
I can come in and maybe personalize a home whereas
they are creating. I mean, an architect's job is way
more involved than mine in the New world obviously.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Well, it's funny because you sort of think that when
it comes to furnishing. I mean, how would you describe
in terms of how far your job goes when it
comes to Okay, the architectural job is the structural shape
of a I'm not going to try and sum it up,
but I would understand it as this layperson as being
the structural shape and of the house and the way
it's put together, without necessarily a regard to furnishings and furniture.
(14:10):
But it's suddenly seems like it would be obvious that
you have to have in mind. How are you going
to put together a room? I mean somethings as simple
as where the couches and chairs going to go, where's
the TV likely to go? And that's sort of that's
partly your sort of area, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yeah, so basic. So a lot of the time, you know,
the architectural te be very involved in the look in
the fill of the house and an exterior from an
exterior perspective, and then a lot of the time I'm
coming in and I'm choosing you know, the flooring, the
stone of virtual decounters will be made out of the
fabrics for the window treatments. We have a lot of
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doing a lot of built in furniture at the moment
that seems to be sort of quite fashionable for people
going full circle, you know, tack, we're hard where you know,
sort of everything that you would need for inside of
a home as well as fixtures, you know, So it's
not just you know, cushions and cultures.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
No, No, that's why I was trying not to generalize,
but it's just to give that feeling for you know.
That's why I asked where that overlap would be.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I guess, yeah, there is quite an overlap with a
lot of that the architect towards the end and sometimes
you know, people have you know, are just doing a
big renovation that it need an architects. So I'll just
come in and you know, redo all their lating plans
for kitchen design, the fastroom designs and everything. You know,
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so it's yeah, hey, what are.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The are there? Are there trends come and go, don't they?
Are there any trends that you that should never have
been there in the first place. My producer, Tira I
noticed when we did a Zoom meeting a week ago
that she had blurred her background because she was ashamed
of the paint the color of her cupboards, which were
straight from the nineteen seventies and which I mean, and
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my house as well has still got a tiny bit
of champagne pink carpet becaurse it was, and you look
back and you go, how on earth did e? I mean?
But then again, everything as old as new again. It
used to be that shagpile was you roll your eyes.
And now I don't know, are there trends that we
should say goodbye to and never say hello to again?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It was funny. I was thinking that the other day
because something popped up on my Instagram with these glass
bricks that I was always readverse to. I never liked them.
I remember our parents readd our bathrooms with glass bricks
and things in the early nineties and late eighties or something,
and I was just like, oh, but they've come full
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circle again, and actually in the way that they were
being presented in these you know, interiors and exteriors of
buildings and stuff and new new sort of styles of
those glass bricks are like, wow, they actually look really cool.
I think I could be a lover of glass breads.
Who would have thought, you.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Know, so, well, that's the sort of thing you'd see
in people's hallways as well. They'd have a sort of
false wa that'd have a wall and there'd be glass
brick sort of separating the entrance from maybe the living
room or something.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it. And I mean,
you know, we also had an avocado green ground bar
bas and oh my gosh, I don't think that should
ever come back. And I certainly don't think waterbeds should
ever be leal, but you know, well, well they might
come round again too, the water bed.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, actually, the funny thing with avocado green is I
can't remember where I saw it, and it was on
some thread on Instagram, and it was a modern designed
bathroom and the point of it was that it was
using sort of old fashioned color palettes like avocado green
and things, but it looked it somehow, just looked fantastic.
But I wondered if that was down to the fixtures
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that went with it.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And yeah, yeah, yeah, Anyway, I think all those really earthy.
You know, all the sort of clay cut the clays
and the dark greens and the burnt oranges and the
deep rusts and all those colors are definitely coming back
around in the interior design world at the moment. So okay,
it's probably right on trend.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Look, we might take a break. I hope you can
stick with us just for a little longer, because I
can hear the water slapping against the hull of your
boat there on your rower. But anyway, just hold there, Melissa.
We'll be back in a moment. But we'd love your
calls if you'd like to either pick Melissa's grains brains
should I say on interior design? But also if are
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there particular fashion trends which you look back on that
you know you wouldn't mind if they came back, or
are there some fashion trends you look back when it
comes to interior design that you think they should be
dead and buried and never never come back again. The example,
I was thinking my daughter's room. We've got to still
got a shagpile carpet, And the only reason it looks
so tragic is it's probably about forty years old, and
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I'm not sure I bring it back in terms of carpet,
but the old shagpile rugs. I think that's they have
a moment of being current again, don't they. Anyway, you're
we'd love your calls. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
text nine two nine two. It's twenty eight past four.
This is News Talk sed B. It's welcome back News
Talk SADB with Tim Beverage my new guest Melissa Greno,
who's an interior designer. And actually, just before we take
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our first call, Melissa, how would people check out where
your they would find your your what you do your Instagram?
I guess, but if you've got to also a website
that people can never look at?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, sure so my website is dub dub dub dot
eternointeriors dot co dot nz.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Yeah, how do you still a perno?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
E turn o? Is E T E rno?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Sorry mis heard that E turn o? Okay, uh, look,
we're going to take some calls and I want to
I'm going to quiz you about some more tragic fashion
trends before we before we move on. But here we
go a little You're with and if we just take
a moment I'll just to put you on hold, Melissa,
because I have to work out just a little detail
there so we can put a couple of people on together,
Melissa and Susan. You're with Melissa, gooday, Hello, there.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Just a quick one.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
My pet hate which I hope never well, I hope
it falls off of it still and is the curtains
that drag on the ground.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Oh, I can't stand them. They're hideous.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Funny enough. We've just got some new curtains, and I
do think they're touching the ground. Melissa, I'll give us.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
The oh no no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
How much doesn't It depends how much they're dragging on
the ground. But yeah, there is a lot of the
people that have like villains and very high I'd like
to have that long drop on the curtains. It's a
certain kind of a look. But I agree, it does
get a little bit dirty and dusty, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Actually how long? How should the curtains hang? I think
we've just got some which are the sort of you know,
the veil. They're like the front layer without the blockout,
but which is that's in two pieces. But they do
they gracefully sort of brush the brush the ground. Is
that all right?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I mean again, it depends if you're living in a
very modern architectural home, if you're in a villa, or
it depends the look and style of your house. But
I'd say as long as you're you're not flush with
the floor just a little bit, yeah, a little bit,
maybe a couple of centimeters on, you'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Oh good? Did you have any other questions? There?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Susan No, No, that was just my pet pint. Okay, Tyson,
I think you're alone with that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Tyson, how are you going?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm good? Thanks, mate, Melissa, I was wondering and what
are your thoughts on micro sumit?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I love it. Actually, it's one of my new favorite
things to use.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Seems to be quite common. What are these days with
interior designers?
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
What micro cement? Did you say?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Micro? So basically it's like, are you using it in
a project? Is or are you thinking about.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I'm a builder myself, and I've found the interior designers
are using it quite a bit within the high end
architectural classrooms, et cetera. But yeah, is it timeless? Do
you think it's going to be something that will be
like a five years bad.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I don't know, because I've always really enjoyed using Venetian
plaster for an example, and microsament is basically just another
form of Venetian plaster that's been around, so you know,
thousands of years. The other thing that has become really
popular is the Ambi tech, which is like a man
made Venetian plaster, but you can't put that in wet areas.
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So the great thing about the microscament is is that
you can put it throughout your showers, on the walls, floors, everywhere,
and it's waterproof and you can tend a lot of
different beautiful colors, so you don't have any grout lines,
which I think people are loving. And you've got a
beautiful texture, and you can make that more texture or
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less test. You know, you can you can sort of
have a soft texture, is it a really strong texture,
and it can go over tile so you don't have
to rip up your tile over at the top of taile.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
So is it basically is it? Is it like it
looks like your walls have been made or you're that
they're made of solid concrete, but they're not. It's just
a coating. Is that what it's that sort of luck.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Yeah, it's basically I think they have. It's about they
have to come back about three or four times, quite
a time consuming procedure. That it's really effective, and it
looks really beautiful. It can look very very modern, and
it can also look very sort of old the world is.
So it's a cool effect. I like it a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Do you like it?
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Time?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
So that's cool? Well, I do like it, but I'm
just worried. I'm about to go into a renovation myself
on my own health, and everyone seems to be using
this micro cement. But I'm like, is it a fad
that's going to I don't know, age, or am I
better off just going for like a classic mosaic or
a way tile that's a little bit more timeless you know?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Hm, Well you could.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Could have sort of maybe mixed the two together a
little bit. I think that. I think it's here to stay.
I think it's just a way more. It's sort of
a safer way of waterproofing a shower than a Venetian
plaster as people get a little bit concerned about the
Venetian plaster breaking down. I have used it before and
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it hasn't done that. But I think the microsonment is
a little bit more bulletproof as far as water control
is concerned.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Okay, yeah, but it hasn't been around long enough I
guess to actually see if they actually face the test
of time or does it crack? Does it fail like
relatively here?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, I know it's quite new here, but I mean
I think they've been doing it in the States and
Europe and certainly in Australia for a bit longer. So
to be quite honest, I couldn't give you a history
on it either, Like you know, maybe ten years down
the track we're going to see that it might have issues.
But as far as I know, it hasn't.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
It doesn't look like it's something you'd do DIY, that's
for sure. Is it looks like quite a whig special.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, you definitely have to hire somebody that knows what
they're doing.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
One hundred thanks for thanks for your call, Tyson. Actually
I guess actually when Tyson said is this a fad?
I mean who would know? Because every time a trend
comes in, of course, we do it because we love it,
and you don't know how something's going to age. Yeah,
and I don't know what would spell the end of
a trend. Is it just the fact that so many
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people are doing it, everyone gets tired of it. I
don't know. Have you seen trends change? And you can
see white changed, Melissa.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I just think, you know, when you look at you know,
the eighties, for an example, everything was like, you know,
more is more and blingers bling and patterns and colors
and you know, all of that was sort of in
and it was sort of a sign of the time.
Wasn't that it was way people were feeling. It was
the economies, it was.
Speaker 6 (26:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
I think that I think in this moment in time,
I think a lot of people are really feeling like
they want to be connected more with nature. So I'm
seeing a huge movement with you know, the introduction of
a lot of skylights and houses or people putting in
you know, their own personal gyms or plarty sort of
studios or meditation rooms or you know. So I think
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that health and wellness is big at the moment as well.
And I don't see that going anywhere, but I think that, yeah,
I think something's become a real fad, like maybe ten
years ago when the black taps came in, for an example,
you know, black tap prayer was like, oh wow, we
can do black taps, and lots of people did black taps,
and then there's been a move away from.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
That, damn it.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
But I just think, you know, if a wallpaper or
a tap, you can always change. So if you're loving
it in the here and now, go for it and
enjoy it and just you know, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
And I know we've got you here for a limited time,
lest so we'll take calls until you've until you've got
to go. I can as I can hear that water
enticingly slapping up against the whole of your boat. But
let's take another call if we can. Catherine, Hello, so there.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Hello malester, my time, and my question is I want
to tart up my kitchen a bit because it is
the most important room in the house and in view
of selling it maybe at the end of the year.
It hasn't been done for twenty to even I mean
ten to fifteen years, what like the white stone bench,
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give it a real root, because at the moment I've
got sort of I don't know, that's plastically for mica things,
I don't know what you call it. And also for
my splash back, which is not huge, but that's right around.
It's sort of a glass one's in the sun. It's
got little flecks through. Changed to white subway tiles or
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is that not moving with the times either? Ah?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
I think that. I think you know a lot of
people like white kitchens, and I think if you're definitely
wanting to increase the value of your home and your kitchen,
consider putting an engineered bench top on and either bringing
that up the back as you're splash back as well,
so you have the bench in the slash splash back matching,
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or if not. I think a white subway pile is
something that never really dates, So I think that would
be a really great way to go, and it would
appeal to a lot of different buyers.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
I do love the idea of the spash back being
the same as the bench. But when I've gotten looked
at their bench tops, they're quite thick. So will that thick?
Can they thin down that stone so it doesn't take
up so much protruding from the wall so you can.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
If you're doing an engineered stone, it generally comes twenty
mils thick. So I'm sure you know some some people
could work with this. Others wouldn't that Otherwise you can
always go for like a deck to on, which is
a thin ceramic bench pop that they can cut down
and centain. It comes like five mils, so it's very
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easy to use the splashback. So that's something that you
could also consider doing.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Catherine, are you thinking are you thinking of selling? Did
you say?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Yeah, maybe towards the end of the year, but I
would like to put a list now even for the
we're on here.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I mean that's interesting. Why doesn't it? Thank you, Catherine,
Chris Melissa that if you are looking to do something
up if you think it needs updating, I mean, how
what's what's your experience been with people who are going
to be imminently selling, because you wouldn't want to overcapitalize,
would you. You'd want to do something which left do
you leave room for someone to make their own decisions
on that or what?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
I think that? Like for an example, the call that
just was having a conversation with us, just that Catherine. Sorry, Yeah,
if you've got a form mica bench top and you're
trying to sell, I think you know, if you're updating
it to an engineered bench top, I think it would
be a significant difference and the way that advice would
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view the value of your property. So I think that's
probably quite a good idea that you don't want to
over capitalize. But there's a lot of ways. You can
just get your front of your cabinet sprayed a different
color and pop a new bench top on and your
kitchen will look as good as new. So I think
you're not investing that much more money for it to
have an overall way more you know, positive sort of
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reflection and buyer's eyes.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
So are they changes going on because of I can't
remember the name of it, but there's there was the
danger of breathing and particles when they're preparing. There's certain
types of bench tops, and that's different workplaces be different.
I remember when we had ours installed, they were doing everything.
They were spraying everything and keeping it wet, which I
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did notice they were doing. But is there a change
coming in that space with what sort of tops, what
sort of bench tops people going to be able to access?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
So there's yeah, there's a big shift in the engineered
bench top space, in engineered stone space where the silica
was an issue. So it was really the way in
the factories the people that were working with the bench
tops and making the bench tops. It was all the
silica that was getting into the Lundon things. So a
lot of the bench top companies now like Caesarstone and
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Quantum Zero and all of that going silica free. So yeah,
there is quite a turn in the industry in the
moment with that. But there's so many amazing products out
there that are now silica free and then in the
engineered bench top range, so that's that's silica is definitely
getting phased out.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Was silica one of the Was it a cheaper product
or expensive or what was Does it remove options for
people's budgets or what does it leave people with?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I think just you know, they're making the same sort
of pollip product without the silica, so it's very much
the same and it's very much at the same price point.
It's not making it more expensive. They're just getting smarter
about the way that they can produce these. Okay, curial,
Can I ask.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
A question about the old plasic one that everyone bangs
on about. No one knows what they're talking about. Really,
What if anything is fung or feng shui shui shwey?
Is it a thing in design? Or is it something
people like to mention over a cup of coffee and
they don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Funk sway. I mean, and I know that, you know,
it's really important to a lot of people, but I mean,
I don't really some designers are really into two going
with that. It depends on your personal preference. What does
we believe in? And it's a Chinese mythology about where
things should be and should not be placed in the
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house to create energy flow. So for an example, they
wouldn't put a mirror in an entry way that was
facing the door because that means your money.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Will, okay, blow out the.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Door, rather than say.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Things like that, And it's like, isn't it something to
do with you should have you should never have your
bed with the feet facing towards the door because the
only you get time you go out your room feet
first is when you've charct.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It my home because that'll be me.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
So idn't want to put it right?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
But yeah, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, because it's just along the sort of because it's
one of those things people always talk, Oh I haven't
got not she if I've got the fang shway right,
And I think a lot of people just understand it
to be well, it's got a spiritual sort of description
to it. I sometimes wonder whether it's a way of
finding just a spiritual reason for something that might be
common sense in terms of design ideas. But you, yeah,
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not for you.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Yeah, it's like an yeah, it's in the Eastern philosophy
that a lot of people sort have been here too. Okay, yeah,
it all depends what you put your your energy into,
what you might.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Have like, okay, just a couple of other short questions
on a couple of texts that have come through. If
I can ask a toilet next to a shower? Somebody's commented,
is it still a trend? And oh, by the way,
I went to an open home and there was a
toilet in the master bedroom and it wasn't an en
suite either. Well that doesn't sound tough. That's not my
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cup of tea.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
It doesn't sound very appealing.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I don't know about the toilet next to the shower.
That just sounds like, well, it's just a small room.
You're going to have one next to the other, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I mean, yeah, most most bathrooms do have the open
plan of the toilet shower basin. But I'm also seeing
quite a big move towards if you've got the space,
having the loo, even a division wall within the open
planned bathroom, or having a separate loop if you can.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Yeah, I guess that's another sort of thing that was
really popular, like open plan living for a while, and
people are saying it's not working for me now, or
it is and you have the space, or you don't
have the space to separate it, whatever you're comfortable with,
they guess.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
With the renovation, obviously, the last thing you really want
to have to do is shift the toilet, just because
of all the piping and everything that's probably already in place,
isn't it. You'd have to build everything around it, wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Yeah, I mean yeah, when you're doing a renovation, it's
always way more cost effective to keep the plumbing where
the plumbing is rather than introducing new plumbing situation.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
So hey, Melissa, look we do. I really do appreciate
your joining us, because I know we had a scheduling
mix up area and you weren't expecting to be on
the show today, so I apologize for that, but think
thank you so much for making time for us. I
really do appreciate it, my pleasure.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Well, we'll look forward to having you in the studio sometime.
And by the way, as I say, you were mentioning,
you're out on a row. How's the tide and the
weather looking?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Are you going to be going for another.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Beautiful another so beautiful? Yeah? Maybe maybe not quite maybe
not another one for the day, but we've been for
a few. But I have to say we were very impressed.
We did come across a woman who had swum all
the way from Wedge from ry So she had been
swimming since eight fish in the morning. She had swum
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all the way here with a little boat, you know,
a couple of guys on a boat next to her.
So she'd been swimming continuously for seven and a half hours.
So we're very impressed with that effort. And we felt
really tired just looking all those people.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
It almost makes you feel guilty. It's like, oh, I
only went in for a quick pats, I should have
done a couple of hundred meters. But anyway, Melissa, really
appreciate you joining us, and we'll look forward to hopefully
meeting you in the studio sometime soon.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Yeah, that sounds great. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Thanks. We'll be back with the property of the week
in just a moment. It is ten to five. Yes,
welcome back to the Weekend Collective. This is the one
roof radio show.
Speaker 6 (37:20):
Just before we go.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Actually my chat with them, Melissa, it's not funny. I've
always wondered about the whole fung shwe thing, and I
always I forgot this, as she reminded us, and she
wasn't endorsing at all, but I forgot that when I
just thought it had become one of those things that
had become accepted, that there were design concepts that had
grown from that, regardless of the spiritual connection and all
that that actually made sense. But anyway, apparently not well, anyway,
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it depends on you know, it depends on aec things,
isn't it. So anyway, I do appreciate to Melissa joining
joining us for that in her website if you want
to check it out as Eturno, dot co, dott and
Z and I'm pretty sure you can probably find her
on Instagram just by typing in her name. It's Melissa
g R E E n oug H. Anyway, right now,
it is minutes to five, which means.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
The one roof property of the week on the Weekend Collective.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, and the one roof property of the week is
as I say it every time, how it's a gorgeouss
to go and tral through a beautiful property. And I
tell you what, the photos of this property and Havelot
North Hastings are quite spectacular in terms of the outdoor
living and indoor living flow. But I'll get the description
of it. But the address of it is. You can
go and check it out on the one Roof website.
(38:36):
It is one hundred and thirty six corepunger Kopa n
Ga Road, Havelot, North Hastings and it is well. I'll
give you the value at the end of it. But
it's basically a lifestyle property offering as they describe space,
tranquility and breathtaking views of the car Worker Ranges, malt
Ruapehu and Ruahino Ranges in Mount Airin So it's not
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sure of the old views is it. And it's designed
to embrace those natural surroundings. It's a home with the
described having a sense of peace and privacy just a
short drive from Havelock North Village. Every aspect of the
home meticulously crafted to offer comfort and functionality, and also
it looks like a great look if you're looking for
a place where you can host as well. It's a
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gorgeous looking outdoor area as well. That's one three six
corpunger Road, Havelot North, Hastings. I'm just giving a quick
scan again through the photos myself and it must be
something I think our interior designer Guess would approve of,
with the exception of maybe one of the rugs I'm
looking at in the living room. But you can go
and check it out for yourself by googling. That quite
(39:42):
a big property as well, so the value is well,
it's expensive, so they reckon it's going to go for
around two point two million dollars. But if you're in
the market for a lifestyle property near Havelot North, then
go and check it out one three six corpunger Road,
Havelock North. Anyway, that wraps up the One Roof Radio show,
(40:02):
which is a little bit of an adventure for us today.
We got there in the end, didn't we up. Next
we're with the parents squad and we have another new
guest joining us. His name is Rockley Montgomery. He's the
principal of Vanguard Military Academy. I think I've forgot that right.
And we'll be back with Rockley very shortly. This is
news Talk, said b. It is four minutes to five
(40:52):
something to all of the d.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
How are yea lay down to a dead on the
end of your name? Steve names up in the clouds.
Oh yeah, let's know what week out the door?
Speaker 6 (41:15):
See you.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Let's for more from the Weekend Collective. Listen live to
News Talks it'd be weekends from three pm, or follow
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