Water, water EVERYWHERE
Your Home and Garden|June 2023
Choosing to build on the Whitianga Waterways was very much Plan B for one couple, but it now feels like it was meant to be
Water, water EVERYWHERE

To best view Warren and Toni Griffin's house from the front you'll need a boat. From the street, you'll see the garage and back of the house. This three-bedroom home with 2.5 bathrooms, two lounges, two laundries, a large open-plan kitchen, dining and living space faces out to Whitianga Waterways in the Coromandel.

It's a sprawling vision in cedar and Hinuera stone - to remind Toni of her Matamata childhood - and walls of floor-to-ceiling Vantage Metro Series sliding doors. It's these doors that bring drama to the home from the water and provide seamless indoor-outdoor flow.

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