Undulating bare land, the perfect new-home building site and a private, water's edge picnic spot got builder Andrew Grigg thinking not about a new home, but rebuilding an old barn. Rather, it was the rugged, lived-in scale of a lofty old barn bringing rough-sawn texture and history into the landscape that most intrigued him. "When we were trying to make decisions we'd always come back to the mindset: 'Could you have used something like this in an old barn?' Rough-sawn timber includes the macrocarpa pergola and entrance. Most rough-sawn timber is used outside," he says.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 07, 2017 15:56 UTC