Categories Construction
New Home Maintenance
You’ve got a new home and you are not quite sure how to look after it. After all, even a brand-new home will need a little bit of love every…
Categories Uncategorized
Weathertightness Worth It?
We all know the saying, Auckland has four seasons in one day. One second it will be blue sky’s out and the next minute you are fighting hail as you…
Categories Construction
Building Beyond the Building code
When it comes to building any new building, the government has a set of rules and regulations to make sure any new build is up to a standard building criteria.…
Passive Designing
When you are thinking of building a home, you’ll come across the term passive design. ‘Passive design’ in architecture is when design takes advantage of the climate to maintain a…
Categories Interior Decorating 101
Retro Recreation
They say fashion is like a cycle, and things that were once in fashion will eventually come back and take on a new lease of life. Whoever’ they’ were, there…
Categories Building
Sustainable Home Design
New Zealand is one of the worst-performing countries in terms of home health and insulation, our homes were never built for the warming summers, and cooling winters, meaning kiwis are…
The rise of the duplex
With the Auckland housing market stretched to an absolute limit, there’s a new kind of home being built across the suburbs. The rise of the duplex is here, and Aucklanders…
Categories Building
What makes a good home design?
We always think the grass is greener on the other side. Whether it’s about your home design or about which lane of traffic you’re stuck in, there always seems to…
Categories Construction
House of the Year Awards 2020
3C Homes was honoured to be invited to the House of the year (Registered Master Builders) awards Auckland watch party last week where we got to meet some amazing local…
Categories Uncategorized
The benefits of terrace housing
The more, the merrier. Lets talk about the benefits of terrace housing. For many people looking to develop a property, the phrase terrace housing pops up pretty frequently. So today…
Categories Subdivision
Big Ideas for Small Properties
With the Auckland property market booming and the Auckland unitary plan enabling more smaller houses to be built, we are seeing a rise in smaller build investment properties. But that…
Categories Building
Sustainable homes are here to stay
It’s no secret the word sustainable has been a pop word over the last decade. But it’s not a fad, sustainability is here to stay, now impacting how cars, homes…