Your_Home_and_Garden_-_July_2019

WARM WELCOME

Alan and Georgina Judd make the most of both sunshine and scenery in this well-insulated Rotorua home.

B

ritish couple Alan and Georgina

(George) Judd moved to New

Zealand in 2011 and ran a bed

and breakfast for seven years

before embarking on a new build

in Hamurana, Rotorua. It was not only an

opportunity for a lower-maintenance house

and block of land, but also to create a well-

heated and ventilated abode using Klima

Series uPVC windows. They were familiar with

uPVC windows from the UK and had missed

them in their first Kiwi home, which had been

particularly cold.

MUSTHAVES

The Judds requested a warm and

simple single-storey house with a large

living area and polished concrete floors. They

ideally wanted the design to maximise indoor-

outdoor flow, making use of the sunshine from

the north and the view of the lake on the south

side of the property. “We initially considered

bi-folddoors,butwe’regladwewentwith

slidingdoorsastheyreallyopenupthespaces.”

BENEFITS

TheJuddslovedseeingtheirplans

cometofruition,andhowthepeaceful

surroundingsseemlikepartoftheirhome.“It’s

spacious,lightandbright,anddelightfullyeasy

tomaintain.OurKlimaSerieswindowshave

a ventilationsettingsomostwindowsareon

thatallof thetime,evenwhenwegoawayfor

theweekend.Youlocktheespagnolettehandle

downandit’ssecure,soyoudon’thavetoworry

aboutleavingwindowshalf-opened,butstill

getfreshaircirculating.”Thecouplearealso

enjoyingthecomprehensivecosiness.“Weheat

ourhomewitha woodfireinthelivingareaand

underfloorheatingthat’sfuelledbya Marshall

woodboiler.Solarheatsthewater.Wegetplenty

of suncominginwhichalsoheatsthefloor.The

concretemaintainstheheatwellandtheKlima

Serieswindowsanddoorshelpretainit.”

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