The kitchen was tucked into the corner with a blind-reach pantry, single fridge and under-bench oven. Due to the placement of the kitchen, Bed 3 door was placed where there was visibility into the entire room from the living room, giving little privacy.

We found the living room had issues as well, arising from the kitchen placement. Although on paper having 24sqm to work with for the living is great. In practice, this area was long and relatively narrow, especially for a lounge.

Through the years we have fixed the issues that arose from that layout, now settling on a more modern layout.

Now, the kitchen is placed along the wall between Bed 1 and laundry. With this new placement, the kitchen has an island breakfast bar & oven tower, while maintaining the bench space & sizeable pantry.

In moving the kitchen, the doorway for Bed 3 was able to be shifted, freeing up wall space and reducing the visibility of the room. The large blank wall is better suited for a lounge suite and TV unit.

4-BED VARIANT

As the need arose, we developed a new layout based on the Lifestyle Kiwibach, which had 4 bedrooms instead of three.

This new variant, bigger than its predecessor, is 120sqm, 16m long and 8.3m at its widest point, and is still transportable. The home pictured was built in our yard in Silverdale and transported to Whangamata.

The 2m of extra length is used for an extra utility area of the home, which houses the 2^nd bathroom, linen cupboard and laundry. The extra width is to maintain the master bedroom and ensuite size while adding a sizeable bedroom.

In the large centre room, instead multiple small ranchsliders, the 4-bed variant typically has large stacking ranchsliders.