TAYLOR HOUSE, HAVELOCK NORTH.

This significant addition and alternation for Ardmore Architects saw an existing home on a rural site with beautiful established gardens completely reimagined.

Using rusticated timber weatherboards and vertical cedar shiplap, the home was brought into the 2020s while retaining its classic look and feel.

A modern marble kitchen is now the heart of the home, which has been opened up via the removal of interior walls to embrace a relaxed, stylish open-plan aesthetic.

The home’s showpiece is the large covered portico which creates an outdoor living area leading to a covered pool house for the ultimate outdoor Hawke’s Bay lifestyle.