Tussock Fields Twizel

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Sharing our newly built 4-bedroom holiday home in Twizel, New Zealand 🏔

10/07/2023

Perfect winter night. Fireside, good book, warm slippers, hot choccie. Must be getting old!

13/04/2023

Tussock Fields in all her glory from the sky 😂

21/02/2023

Fave spot to while away the day 🤍

06/02/2023

Long days at the lake 💙

06/01/2023

Helloooo summer holidays ☀️ 😁

17/12/2022

What better place to watch the epic Mackenzie Country starry skies 🛁 💫 Bliss!

05/12/2022

Latest addition - sunken trampoline. The kids dig it! 😆

21/11/2022

Those clean floor cloud reflections 😆👌

17/11/2022

Lupin season is back 🥰 Snap by

14/11/2022

Helloooo grass 😍 Lawn has had its first haircut and some more much-needed water 🥵
Looking forward to playing out here with the rugrats over summer!

10/10/2022

More Ho**er Valley spam because those views were just so good 😆

06/10/2022

Morning scenes from where you’d rather be 🤍

05/10/2022

Slowly making the place more homely with bits and pieces. This was a labour of love made to display the kids’ art and we love it ❤️

01/10/2022

Almost booked up for the summer school holidays 😱 Pays to be organised!
Roll on long summer days and BBQs in the sun ☀️

28/09/2022

We’ve gone and done it!
No point having this unused for 10 months of the year, so we are sharing it with others to enjoy ☺️

Bookings via 👇https://airbnb.com/h/tussockfields

😬🤞

13/09/2022

Insert lush green grass here 🤞🤞 3 days on the tools and we’ve got a bigger lawn area than we realised 👏

11/09/2022

Finally made it back and so glad the sun is shining for this! ☀️

12/07/2022

Lotsa snow this winter and it keeps on falling! Better not put the kibosh on our trip next week! 🌨

25/06/2022

I’ve always wanted a house with a name 😂 And now we’ve officially got one!

20/06/2022

Entry by night 🌙

14/06/2022

Won’t get to see this master bedroom outlook too often 😍❄️ Landscaping hopefully not too far off so we can walk straight out these doors in the morning

13/06/2022

Hard to beat those kitchen splashback window views on a day like this ❄️❄️❄️

10/06/2022

Never thought I’d be so pleased to have half the family struck down with Covid…came here to isolate in style 😆 Could be worse places to be sick 😷

05/06/2022

Loving our entry all lit up at night and the mix of old and new with my late grandmother’s rug 🥰. You can see both the outside lights and the reflection of the indoor lights through the glass front door.

02/06/2022

Frantic couple of days moving in but we got there in the end. Even managed to get art up on the walls and have a glass of bubbles by the fire! No tv watching though because our tv bracket didn’t fit 🤪

31/05/2022

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This dyed carpet was our solution to the mustard rug we really wanted but couldn’t find. Nice to have something soft underfoot and it really pops against the polished concrete floor 😆

23/05/2022

How wild is the Twizel sky captured by

Twizel is part of the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, which basically means the sky is protected from light pollution (when building a house this means no upwards-pointing exterior lights etc).

The number of stars you can see when there is no light pollution is absolutely bonkers. I’m starting to think a telescope would be the ideal housewarming gift for ourselves 🤩

20/05/2022

Insert fireplace here 🔥 🔥
Going to be much needed when we move in as temps dropping and one heatpump hasn’t yet arrived 🥶🥶

09/05/2022

It’s so interesting to go back and look at the initial plan we started working from and seeing where we ended up!

We started with one of the plans provided by and asked for a tonne of changes so that it no longer really resembles the initial plan!

We found that starting with a basic plan made the whole process so much easier and we were able to spend hours pouring over the plans, drawing in the changes we wanted etc, which is right up our alley and luckily the builder was happy to accommodate all our requests 😆

So…definitely not an exhaustive list…we:
- flipped the entire house to maximise sun in the living areas
- changed the rooflines so that the highest part of the monopitch was towards the views and sun
- added floor length joinery everywhere we possibly could
- moved the garage to the back of the house and added a 4th bedroom in its place
- moved the laundry into the house from the garage
- increased the living area size and removed one of the doorways in the living room to increase wall space (furniture placement is important to consider if there’s glass on every other wall!)
- added skylights to the kitchen/living/dining
- added storage++
- removed the study book
- moved the separate toilet into the bathroom (probably not for everyone!)
- changed to raked ceilings in the 2 bedrooms with the views

Phew! 🥵

What important changes did you make to your plans along the way?

Address

Cheviot
7999

Website

https://airbnb.com/h/tussockfields

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