Box Living Joins the 100 Club!

Media Release: 14 October 2013

Box Living Joins the 100 Club!

The 100th house design has just come off the draughting board at Box Living, the Auckland company that has pioneered a post-and-beam building system with a distinctly modernist aesthetic.

Set up in 2010, the boutique business has struck a chord with homeowners around the country and commissions have doubled each year. “Our point of difference is that our clients enjoy the best of two worlds. They get an architecturally designed home, as well as the surety of costs and construction times that is generally only offered by generic house-building companies,” says Dan Heyworth, CEO of Box Living.

The real beauty of the Box is that it delivers homes that don’t look as though they have just chugged off a production line. “Although we work with a pre-designed system, it’s so flexible that it can adapt to every client and each site.”

Making architecture more affordable has also proved a huge selling point; Box Living guarantees a fixed price for all construction work. Heyworth: “Because the base structure and jointing detail of each house remains the same, we are able to offer architectural fees that are about one-third of the cost of traditional charges.”

The first Box ever built was a three-bedroomed home in Muriwai for a young family. “Our clients came to us with a stack of magazines that featured mid-century architecture – and wanted something similar,” explains Heyworth. Homeowner, Jo Reddy, says the house captures a feeling of ease and comfort that makes it a lovely place to live. “Architect Tim Dorrington worked hard on the proportions of each room; the house has such a sense of completeness.”

Box Living’s 100th client approached the team to design a house on a steep section overlooking Palm Beach on Waiheke Island. Love Chile, Associate Professor of Public Policy at AUT, says: “We wanted something innovative that would fit a difficult site and we liked that with an architect, builder and project manager, the Box Living guys were a readymade all-in-one team.”

Box Living Stats

• 100 houses designed

• 21 houses built

• 11 currently under construction

• 40 in design, consent, waiting to be built

• 51 Box Classic (our take on classical mid-century post-and-beam architecture.)

• 49 Box Modern (our modern interpretation on the classic theme)

• 17 with a footprint under 100 square metres

• Houses built in: Auckland, Waiheke, Kawau, Wellington, Ohakune, Christchurch, Wanaka, Coromandel, Nelson, Whangapoua, Leigh, Langs Beach, Mahurangi, Matapouri, Whangarei.

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