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Te Huia eco land & loghome building |
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Our Mission:
Create living environments that nurture a peaceful harmonious life.
So far so good .... we created 1 acre sections on a coastal lifestyle farm adjoining a forested National Park on the West Coast of Auckland. We then designed and built a big beamed natural log home that perfectly suited the place and the space. Our 'Tehuia Twin Peaks' is a beautiful log frame structure using whole natural logs and sustainable building techniques, both modern and age proven.
We can build one for you that you can customize to suit your needs and budget here on an acre or build one to sit on your property elsewhere.
Why Build a Tehuia Twin Peaks:
The environment and space we live in affects our quality of life and our ability to handle lifes challenges. Using big natural logs for a house is a joyful process and amazing to live in. We have found that building a house like this is a journey of self discovery. And we approach it as if its like your very own vision quest. One we can now guide, support and facilitate. These big tree frames will keep you happy and content way beyond the pain of earning the money to build it. Big natural logs speak for themselves, from their heart wood. Their massive strength is visible inside and outside the home. Its natural and honest. What you see is what you get. The design and structure are on show.
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Our History:
In the 1800’s, trees provided the first European settlers in this area, with development opportunities. A handful of these original timber milling families still reside here.
We came here to the Huia 150 years later at the beginning of the 21st Century with a goal to live and work sustainably on a property we called by the old Maori name for the area, Te Huia. Te Huia Eco Estate and Tehuia Log Homes simply and naturally evolved out of our aspiration and this environment.
Our People:
Trained with some of the best log builders in Canada, the USA and New Zealand. We designed our own unique style of log building and began building them. We sell these frames for re erection on a clients land and also have land here at Te Huia on which they can stand.
Product:
The Te Huia Twin Peaks log frames are strong and structurally beautiful . There is a natural geometry to to them that well suits the New Zealand landscape and its people. Big Douglas Fir logs peeled with draw knives, naturally embue space with warm golden-light. Our frames are designed to allow you to choose your interior room layout and the materials that satisfy your budget and specific living/working needs. We use draftwood logs and mill rafters and floor joists from this draftwood timber. Draftwood logs are pulled from the forest with horses. See our video here on the drafthorse logging page.
Price:
This will depend on a number of factors specific to you. Do you want us to consult and supply plans only? Build the log frame and deliver only? On our land or yours? Get it to lockup? Frame & roof only? How many rooms? What joinery, cedar or aluminium? Floors of clay, wood or? Bathrooms and kitchen finish? An $18000 marble bath or wooden tub outside? Theres no standard answer so lets work it out together.
 200 sqmTwin Peaks Log Frame House Showhome
Concieve & Deliver
Te Huia Twin Peaks (200 sqm full log walls scribe fit notch & saddle model)
Te Huia Land
Te Huia's Twin Peaks on Lot 8 Te Huia (smaller 155sqm earlier model)
Te Huia log Home Designs are the culmination of our search. Inspired by and designed here at Te Huia, they reflect our own personal love of natural wood, and its perfection as a sustainable building material well suited to the physical, historical and cultural surrounds of coastal Waitakere, West Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand is our home and its said that all roads lead home. Te Huia 'Twin Peaks' log home is a fusion of Pacific Island, Asian, Nth American, Nordic and successful eco sustainable experience. We think of it as South Pacific fusion and it suits our ethos. That ethos is best explained by the Hanover Principals.
30-60 year old hand crafted, scribe-fit, whole Douglas Fir logs grown in sustainable renewable New Zealand forests, form the basis and defining structural elements of our custom built homes.
The ‘embodied energy’ or amount of energy used to manufacture and transport Te Huia log homes is very low. Thermal mass, insulation R-values, life-cycle costs are all great. These eco friendly characteristics mean your log home not only looks spectacular, it will feel warm and friendly to live in, and naturally as a consequence, be one of your greatest personal investments.
Sustainable forestry, crafted by hand by Kiwi master log builders, founded on thousands of years of log building experience. You can tick all the boxes.
You can click and Register here for further information on land & Te Huia Log Homes
Te Huia the land
LOCATION: 15 minutes by car from Titirangi Village on the West Coast of New Zealand, just 40 minutes from Auckland City or Auckland International Airport, overlooking the entrance to the beautiful Manukau Harbour, Huia Bay, and backing onto the protected forests of The Waitakere Ranges, is Tehuia.
Huia Bay Beach - 1 minute walk
Tehuia is a unique eco friendly property of 15+ acres of Kauri trees and pasture, overlooking ocean, river, mountain, lake and stream and backing onto 16000 hectares of regenerating native forest (40,000 acres), through which run 250 kilometers of spectacular forest, mountain and West Coast hiking trails. Drive, hike, bike or kayak through wilderness from the farm gate. The newly opened Sir Edmund Hillary Trail runs through Huia.
Or catch an international show in the city just 35 mins drive.
Whatipu Ocean Beach - 10 min. drive
This area of Waitakere was declared an eco city 10 years ago and has just been voted 'the most livable city in the world' (under 750,000 population) at the United Nations-backed LivCom Awards.
In line with the Vision of The Waitakere Council, the owners of Tehuia are designing and building for sale, several eco friendly, architecturally exciting homes, suited to the spectacular West Coast of New Zealand.
Selected building sites and buildings will leave small footprints and longterm benefits for residents and neighbours while the superb views across harbour and forest remain as much as possible undisturbed.
Tehuia takes its name from the coastal village Huia, a Moari name for the now extinct Huia bird that once lived in the Waitakere Ranges and forests of this area.
Old Kauri log on the way to the mill and export
Kauri is a native New Zealand hardwood tree that grows to a massive width living two thousand years. Kauri was relentessly felled for its timber between the early 1800's and 1950's leaving just a few full grown mature trees (2000 years old) here in New Zealand today.
A barque loads timber at Paratutae Wharf Manukau Harbour in 1909
The importance of nurturing and protection of forest in general, plus those few mature and young Kauri as a National treasure, gives purpose and enjoyment to the owners of Tehuia.
It is possible that up to 10 individually owned residences may get built at Tehuia. Each building site strategically positioned to maximize the views, privacy and West Coast landscape design esthetics. We envision no fences dividing the land and specific covenants in place to protect Tehuia's unique natural assets for all time.
The Te Huia aspiration is that 'sustainable living' dictates our use and our design.
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
-Mahatma Gandhi
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