The main bedroom, a low oak bed in white linen with the seaward slider open onto a private deck

GALLERY

Nothing hereis staged.

Shot over two mornings in January, in the state the house is handed over to you. Same furniture, same view, same fire.

The house, in order.

Tideline House seen from the beach at dawn, long and low on its grassed terrace above the sand — Arriving, first light

The wood burner alight against a board-formed concrete wall, with a linen sofa in front of it — The fire, laid before you arrive

The living room looking out through open full-height sliders to the pool, the beach and Mercury Bay — The living room, facing the water

The kitchen island in board-formed concrete with oak stools and oak cabinetry behind — The kitchen

The main bathroom, a board-formed concrete vanity and walk-in shower with a narrow window onto the pōhutukawa — The main bathroom

The twin room, two low oak beds in white linen with a window onto the pōhutukawa and the bush hill — The twin room

The oak dining table beside full-height sliders standing open onto the deck and the bay — The dining table

The pool at the edge of the timber deck, its flat surface lining up with Mercury Bay beyond — The pool, heated year round

The timber deck at dawn, boards running toward the open sliders with the bay beyond the building — The deck, first thing

The outdoor shower on the cedar batten wall, an oak duckboard underfoot and coastal grasses beside it — The outdoor shower

Close on the board-formed concrete kitchen island, the grain of the formwork visible along its top — Board-formed concrete, everywhere

The corner where the dark-stained cedar batten wall meets the board-formed concrete base, raked by low sun — Cedar on concrete

Looking out through the gnarled trunks and red flower of the pōhutukawa to the bay, the house low at one side — Under the pōhutukawa

The long low standing-seam roofline of Tideline House from above, the bay filling the distance — The house from above

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THIS HOUSE IS MADE UP. THE WEBSITE IS REAL.

The guest is yours. The stay is yours. The money should be too.

Every night you sell through a listing site, somebody who has never seen your place takes a slice of it. A site like this one is simply yours. Guests find it, they book on it, and the whole payment lands with you.

If you own a bach, a lodge or a holiday home, send me a message and tell me about it. I’ll tell you what I’d build and what it would cost, and it costs nothing to ask.

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