

G.J. Gardner Homes have a large range of plans to choose from including the Byron design from the Family Series. The Byron has a number of design features that make it a very special home.
Heat pumps are a popular way to heat New Zealand homes and offices, and the same technology can also be used to heat water. Heat pump water heaters are generally a more efficient way to heat water than standard electric cylinders.

Children staying at Ronald Mcdonald House Auckland were given the opportunity to paint a canvas depicting their dreams. Some fantastic entries were received, which made choosing the winners a difficult task!
NewBuild specialise in finance for residential contruction and can help take the stress out of financing your new home.
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Last Friday Tony Houston, Craig Potter & Alex Johnston were invited to the opening of the New Sport Facilities at Pinehurst School in Albany that G.J. Gardner Homes North Shore had built.
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At the recent Milan Eurocucina fair, the most influential kitchen
exhibition in the world, leading European manufacturers revealed
a trend towards bold, black gloss appliances.
Electrical components being installed in a new home have to fulfil two roles, practical and architectural.
Building a new home throws up a range of choices. An easy choice can be allowing for some initial pre-wiring and/or pre-ducting (which has a relatively low cost associated with it), which allows greater choice later, especially around 'creature comfort' options.
A return to the traditional looking weatherboard clad home has been a popular trend in new homes throughout New Zealand.






G.J. Gardner Homes offer many different options for your roofing. Whatever design of home you wish to build, we can find the best solution to match your personal preference and budget.
In conjunction with Cavalier Bremworth, G.J.Gardner Homes have come up with this simple guide to help you select the right carpet for your new home.











Our lifestyles and living habits have undergone incredible change over the past decade. The homes we're building today need to be designed differently to reflect these changes, and especially to cope with the impact unwanted noise can have on health and well-being.



Given that G.J. Gardner Home's vision is to have every customer recommend them to their closest friend, the Thames/Coromandel team has well and truly achieved that vision with its latest awards.
G.J. Gardner Homes Marlborough are currently building a complex for a local private school.
G.J. Gardner Otago has recently completed the construction of a new medical centre in Highgate Dunedin.

One of the most important choices you'll make when building a new home is where to locate it. Aside from checking out the general area, schools, shops, transport routes, neighbours, views, any sources of air or noise pollution etc, etc, there are many other things to consider that can't be assessed just by having a wee walk around the section.
Cheryl Brown and Rocky Hawke, owners of G.J. Gardner Homes in New Plymouth, have built their own G.J. Gardner Home to live in. The house is the Redwood Park design and the couple have come to appreciate the many features of the design. "We loved the drawings... it's a big home with lots of great spaces," Cheryl says.
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Up and coming young Red Beach swimmer Wilrich Coetzee, 12, is the recipient of a $1600 grant from the G.J. Gardner Homes Rodney franchise for help with club fees and costs.
Papamoa Eleven year old Victoria Rhodes-Carlin received a portable, pink DVD player and a Harry Potter DVD for winning the G.J. Gardner Homes Art Competition (for the 7-11 age group) which she entered while staying at Ronald McDonald House Auckland.
Pieta Prouting (5), of Mesopotamia Station in South Canterbury, is delighted with the prizes she won for her landscape painting.
The Rodney franchise of G.J. Gardner Homes is celebrating another outstanding success at the recent G.J. Gardner Homes International Awards ceremony held in Hawaii.

When it comes to choosing the colour scheme for your home there are no strict rules. However, many of us need a bit of inspiration....
Now is a great time to build with G.J. Gardner Homes. Interest rates are low, land prices are low, primary building materials have not risen in price yet and G.J. Gardner Homes have priced their homes very competitivly.
They're the ultimate in elegance and low maintenance - aluminium entrance doors steal the show in a wide range of contemporary and traditional designs. They don't swell, split or twist in changing weather conditions; they're stable and they're strong - and they never need painting.

A commercial build in the deep south sees a long-term dream come true.
Rachel Duffy had always wanted to own her very own café, but she was conscious of the pitfalls of such a business. Then the opportunity arose to purchase a nearby cottage and section, and Rachel and husband Richard jumped on the opportunity.

Constructed by G.J. Gardner Homes Franklin/Papakura, this new showhome was built to appeal to a broad range of potential customers. Placed on a section with a pleasant rural outlook, which thankfully can never be built out, the house backs on to the edge of a very new residential area that is currently under development. Primarily they wanted the home to fit in with both the setting and the nearby dwellings; this initial desire was comfortably achieved.
Designed to be a mix of modern living and classic charm, the main objective for this display home was to provide a house that would be appealing and useful to a vast majority of potential homebuilders. Embarking on a building project, especially for the first time can be a daunting task, with so many decisions needed from the outset. Thankfully, G.J. Gardner Homes in Auckland has produced an excellent resource for their customers, with this striking new showhome in Beachlands.
Just prior to meeting his wife in his native country of England, Peter Dalby had spent time in New Zealand, and decided it was the place where he wanted to live. However, his now wife, Janet, was not so keen. For the next ten years, Peter frequently pestered her, and one day she finally said yes to moving.
When Mike & Dianna Wightwick decided to build a showhome for G.J. Gardner Homes (Marlborough), they were sure about two things. First, it had to appeal to the majority of their clients, and second it, had to be a real "home". Whilst the finishing touches and furnishings have gone a long way to achieving that second goal, fulfilling the first was slightly more challenging.

G.J. Gardner Homes Manukau is in the business of building houses - great houses - but the firm could easily be mistaken for dream makers.

Fundraising Project Completed at Last - Mistletoe Bay Trust received the cheque for $50,000 on Tuesday, the result of many months of hard work from the Mistletoe House fundraising project.

The building may be finished but the finishing touches are vital. Over the last six months, Homemaker has followed the building of a G.J. Gardner home from idea stage right through to exterior completion.

Late in 2007, we decided that G.J. Gardner Homes would join the Business Club of Ronald McDonald House Auckland.

The third step in the G.J. Gardner Homes building process is deciding what kind of home you want. By now you've already created a wish list of exactly what it is you value in a home and been given feedback from the expert staff at G.J. Gardner.


Former All Black player and coach Laurie Mains knows the strength of a good team. It's that team approach, backed up by professional building systems and collective buying power, that Mr Mains says appealed to him when he took on the Otago franchise for nationwide home-construction company G.J. Gardner Homes.