Trends New Zealand Trends Volume 31 No 8 New Zealand | Page 94
Holiday homes are all about laid-back
living and informal entertaining. Interiors,
and kitchens especially, need to reflect this
casual, relaxed lifestyle.
This holiday home, which will one
day be a permanent home for the owners,
was designed and built by Box Living to
provide such a welcome retreat.
Designer Samantha Elliot says radiata
pine plywood was chosen for wall linings
throughout the house, including in the
open-plan kitchen and family living area.
“The radiata pine has a large grain,
which is very bach-like. It creates a warm,
inviting interior,” she says.
“There are no plasterboard linings
anywhere in the house. Even the ceilings
are plywood. But here we specified poplar,
which is lighter in colour, with a smaller,
tighter grain. However, because poplar is
a much softer wood, we couldn’t use it for
the kitchen cabinetry.”
Elliot says a contrasting timber was
essential for the cabinets and open shelving, to add visual interest. And while
birch would have been a close match for
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the poplar ceiling, it would not have been
exact. So a completely different marine
plywood, gaboon, was chosen instead.
“Gaboon has a slightly smaller, more
swirling grain than the pine, and is pink
toned, rather than gold. It makes a good
contrast to the walls. And because it is a
marine ply, we could carry it through to
the cabinetry in the bathrooms to provide
visual continuity.”
Handles routed into the ply enhance
the casual, beachy look of the cabinets.
The shadows make them appear as black