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Award winning Customkit design - Modern barn-style house with metal roof, stone chimney, and dark siding, featuring a wooden door, in a rural setting.

Architecturally designed lifestyle properties, guided from concept to completion

AWARD WINNING

Customkit partners with discerning clients to shape exceptional rural homes, estates and commercial spaces across New Zealand.

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Two Barns, Cardrona

MULTI AWARD WINNING

The lodge located in the Cardrona Valley is designed to provide a relaxed luxury experience for families and friends.

As a lodge destination, the project was designed to cater to the extremes in climate of the Cardrona Valley.

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Hallway with wooden floors, white paneled walls, and black wall-mounted light fixtures. A black-framed window at the end of the hallway shows an outdoor scene with rocks and greenery.

Finalist: Residential Interiors Award, Colour Spatial Award

BEST AWARDS 2022

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Modern open-concept kitchen with dark wood accents, a large island with a wooden front, pendant lights, and a living area with large windows and natural light

  • Top 100 (National)

  • Regional Schneider Electric Smart Home Award

  • Regional Interior Design Award

  • Regional Kitchen Excellence

  • Regional Gold

MASTER BUILD HOUSE OF THE YEAR 2022

What We Do

  • Helping clients define what they truly want before architecture begins.

  • Early-stage site guidance, planning strategy and buildability assessment.

  • Connecting clients with architects, consultants and interior designers aligned to their vision.

  • End-to-end oversight through design, consenting and construction.

  • Supplying Customkit timber systems where these are best suited to enabling your vision.

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Bespoke solutions

We believe in creating remarkable buildings that connect to the land and your lifestyle. We guide you through the design process to help you realise your vision, maximise your site and make the most of your budget.

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Barn style homes

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Timber framed sheds

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Commercial buildings

Red barn-style building with black staircase, stone wall, and vintage wagon wheels outdoors
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YOUR LIFESTYLE. YOUR LAND.

We work NZ wide

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Customkit Buildings is 100% New Zealand owned and operated with three decades experience designing bespoke lifestyle structures nationwide.

We are committed to supplying quality materials sourced and manufactured from renewable resources throughout New Zealand.

We are leaders in the design and supply of stunning, eco-friendly, natural wooden buildings, in both residential and commercial markets.

Building with wood

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