Guest House

Feb 2020

Main Entrance and Bell Tower

Inner Courtyard

Outer Courtyard set up for an event

Outer Courtyard at Night

Outer Courtyard in the day

Gallery facing South

Gallery facing North

Gallery Rumford Fireplace

Gallery Eastern Wall

Worker and Visitor Accommodation above Gallery

Garret bedrooms above Gallery

Front View of Gallery

Courtyard Side of Gallery

Kitchen

Kitchen Hearth – a Rumford fireplace designed in the 18th century for cooking before the invention of stoves.

MBR

Photos by Sonja Read

The studio is a box trailer that can be towed away in a day. Decks are not attached and the axles are hidden behind them. Registered and warranted, the perfect workspace.

Cabinets: copper sheet cut to size by machine shop, brass strips also cut in lengths by machine shop. Plywood backing, boat nails through brass and copper.

Ceiling beams are macrocarpa, hand selected, hand debarked, structural, solidly anchored into concrete bond beam for earthquake performance

The seed shed – made during the first COVID lockdown – out of surplus materials already on site.

Bug Hotel

The garden has a metre of topsoil cleared from the building site. It now made available for local market gardeners in support of local food

19th century Church Bell from Scotland honours the first Maori Anglican Church in NZ, that was build in the nearby valley and had a church bell

An outdoor fireplace is a magnet for parties that last late into the night – many a story told, many a bottle drained.

The Guest House was the first building built… in seven weeks! Broke ground 5 Nov 1997, moved in Christmas Eve (the alternative was living in a tent over the holidays)