A Designing Life
Words Denise Irvine, Images Brydie Thompson
Creating a home environment that looks and feels good sounds simple. Yet it is so easy to get bogged down by the myriad choices and plethora of products available today.
Consult a good interior designer and you may discover how quickly they hone in on your individuality and seem to identify your taste and style better than you can.
Lynette Lochhead is one such designer. In over 30 years in the business she has seen styles change and evolve, products improve and multiply, trends come and go and return in a new guise. The one constant that keeps her inspired is that interior design is all about people before it’s about the places they inhabit.
Our Place: Lynette Lochhead
Rebecca Mauger
Bay of Plenty Times
LYNETTE and Peter Lochhead purchased their Te Puna property nearly 40 years ago ... long before the convenience of dishwashers and en suites.
So the house, lovingly referred to by the family as Hotel Te Puna, has undergone regular extensions and changes throughout…
Home Magazine
JUNO Magazine – Spring 2020
Lush Bay of Plenty garden 'feeds our souls'
Monique Balvert-O'Connor / NZ House & Garden
Ask Lynette Lochhead to sum up her garden in one sentence and she’ll say: “It feeds our souls.” There was little to wax lyrical about, however, when Lynette and her husband Peter moved to their Te Puna property near Tauranga four decades ago as newlyweds – it was essentially a sheep paddock. The house they built then has grown with their family, as has the garden they have established.