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It might have been named Lockwood House of the Year out of a short list of 10, but Tony and Sue Pfeiffer’s gull-winged, galleries Wanaka house wasn’t the couple’s first choice to build.
It wasn’t until all the plans were drawn up that the Pfeiffers realized that the cost of building their first dream home was slightly too dreamer about her bank balance.
Pfeiffer, a semi-retired energy consultant, knew they wanted a sustainable, energy-conscious home.
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Tony and Sue Pfeiffer at their award-winning Lockwood home in Wanaka.
They also wanted a location that would complement the landscape and make the most of the magnificent views of Black Peak and Treble Cone that came with the well-located plot they purchased when they decided to move to Aotearoa-NZ from Brisbane in 2019.
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The plans for his dream home provided all of that, but “unfortunately, it blew our budget,” says Pfeiffer, 64.
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The interior of Pfeiffer’s award-winning Lockwood has a fresh, scandie feel.
“So instead of doing a Great designsMoving on and finding out that we were bankrupt in the end, we just shook the architect’s hand and said, ‘We can’t do that.’
Teacher and counselor Sue, 63, a Kiwi who had lived in Australia for about 20 years, was not yet ready to give up on her dream home. Reflecting on her Kiwi childhood, she decided that they should “take a look at Lockwood’s site.”
Both were sold immediately on the concept designs.
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The couple wanted a home that made the most of the views of Wanaka.
“In fact, although the architect would say that it is very different from what he designed, the house we build [with Lockwood] captures many of the same concepts and ideas that we were trying to capture in that [architecturally-designed] House.”
The architect behind Lockwood’s pavilion-style home is Pete Bossely, who designed Wellington’s Te Papa Museum, which could also be why the design looks more like an updated mid-century bungalow than the traditional Lockwood. with 70’s toned ceiling.
Comprised of two galleried wings that extend from a double-height central hallway, the front of the house is an open-plan living-dining-kitchen space, set under a swooping gull-wing roof.
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The cozy media corner was created in the central hall of the house.
A wall of large sliding glass doors that capture the best of those mountain valley views, and blond pine walls, give the home a fresh, modern, almost Scandinavian feel.
On the outside, the building is based on the landscape by stacked stone pillars made from local shale that, according to Pfeiffer, his Kiwi-born wife really wanted to incorporate into the design.
“The stone really holds up the house and grinds it down, which we love.
“It looks like the roof of the wing is taking off, so it is grounded and flying at the same time. It’s an exceptional design. “
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Once the groundwork is done, like laying the underfloor heating and the polished concrete floor, the house passes us “pretty quickly.”
Inside, the couple had “a lot” to do with the design and layout, from the floating fireplace, to the red wood dining table in the kitchen that also rests on shale legs, connecting the indoor and outdoor areas, to the Kina. lighting accessories.
On the other side of the house, the second and third bedrooms are behind large sliding barn doors, including one that fits in a pocket, also one of the couples’ ideas.
“The builder told us it was Lockwood’s first time making a recessed pen door.”
Other unique features include custom-made open box shelving in the media area and a stained glass window above the central gallery room depicting the beloved local bird, the kea.
That connection to nature is crucial for the Pfeiffers.
“It is going to take a long time, but we are mainly planting natives because we want to bring native birds back as well.”
Construction, which included a detached garage with a study room in the front and a smaller, two-bed Lockwood that the couple lived in while the main house was being built and now plans to offer an Airbnb rental, began around January. 2019. The couple moved into the main house in November 2019.
“Once the groundwork is done and the slab is lowered, and we have full underfloor heating and polished concrete floors, the building itself goes up pretty quickly.”
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The couple plan to plant natives in the house to encourage bird life.
The total cost of the three buildings was about $ 1.5 million, with the main house costing about $ 900,000 of that.
“The first time I got here I said, ‘Well, I feel like I belong. This place feels good. It was a pretty strange feeling. So basically when Sue wanted to go home, I didn’t hesitate for long, ”says Pfeiffer.
“We spent a lot of time thinking about what to do at this particular property.
“When we landed at Lockwood we were quite satisfied, but I think the end result is better than we originally envisioned. We are on the moon, because [House of The Year] It is an acknowledgment of both our vision and the builder, who did a great job. “
