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Complete in 2019 this earthquake rebuild in the heart of Merivale is a showstopper in more ways than one. Read more
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A stunning earthquake rebuild in Merivale featuring innovative design elements, including a hydro-powered lift, opening skylights, and solid oak floors, recognized with a Silver Award at the Master Builders House of the Year Awards.

Complete in 2019 this earthquake rebuild in the heart of Merivale is a showstopper in more ways than one.

Designed by Objects to accommodate the needs of our clients as they entered retirement and beyond, this architectural home boasts many features including a hydro powered internal lift.

Other beautiful elements such as opening skylights, raking ceilings, solid oak timber floors and stunning finishes make this home exceptional, and well deserving of the Silver Award won by Gareth Davis Builders at the Master Builders House of the Year Awards in 2020. Design firm Halliburton Gibbons were charged with all aspects of interior design and the finished result is superb.

The exterior of the home was clad in Innowood composite timber cladding and this was one of the first homes in Christchurch to use this product. Attention to detail was required in order to get the mitred external corner detail correct as well as ensuring a perfectly flush finish to the window joinery.

This was an outstanding project and we are so proud of the finished result, as were our very happy clients

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“In 2013, following the Christchurch earthquakes, Karen and I engaged Gareth Davis Builders to rebuild a home on the site of our severely damaged former house. The new home was architecturally designed to be built of timber weather boards to both replicate the home we lost and reflect the homes in the street. The design required a significant amount of detail finish particularly in the exterior weatherboard cladding. Gareth’s skills and the skills of his preferred sub trades have given us a superb executive home while retaining the classical character lines on the exterior to mimic the surrounding homes. A tribute to his building skills is really summed up from the comments of two other builder acquaintances who have seen the finished product and both have commented on how well the finish work has been carried out. That is a tribute from other builders about a peer…there is no better recommendation. In 2016, Karen and I decided to build our holiday home and it was a no contest decision to contact Gareth once again to build this house for us. The house has already attracted huge attention and has been entered in the Architectural Designer’s Awards both for the design and build quality. We can’t recommend Gareth and his team highly enough. If you are looking for a competent, quality building company who can handle the construction of your new home along with the changes you know you will make along the way, quietly, competently and with the minimum of fuss, Gareth is the man to call.”

Karen and Jim – Strowan, Christchurch

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