Woodville home wins silver award
Hamish and Kathryn Illsley of HT Illsley Building were thrilled when they won a silver award at the Registered Master Builders Manawatu¯ -WhanganuiTaranaki 2018 House of the Year Awards in Palmerston North last month.
Their award was for a house in Woodville in the New Home Build $450-550,000 category, and to achieve it better than 82.5 per cent of the criteria had to be ticked.
The Master Builders Magazine says: “Sustainable and very low maintenance, the house ticks every box on the owner’s wish list, so she can sit back, relax and enjoy the view. Or if the fancy takes her, accommodate guests.”
The owner is Roselle Pharazym who has lived in Woodville for two years but was a long-time visitor who had decided to build on land she and her husband bought five years ago on Fergusson Street.
Meeting Hamish Illsley several years before, she chose him to build a Lockwood home.
“From the very first meeting through to design, on-site construction and landscaping all carried out by myself and my team it has been a most satisfying project,” Hamish says.
Hamish used nearly all local subcontractors — Trevor Nelson for tiling, Derek’s Electrical, Mark Dean Plumbing, Bernie Walsh for glass, Bruce Hunt for landscaping, Neil Davis for exterior decorating with Greg Stark of Wellington to do the specialist interior blonding finish.
Some of the home’s many special features include insulated Lockwood walls, double-glazed joinery units, an insulated floor with tiling throughout and underfloor heating in selected places, solar heating providing 10 per cent of requirements, a massive tank supplying