Watford Street by Gareth Davis Builders

Watford Street

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The 2011 Christchurch earthquakes damaged Jim and Karen’s 1930’s character home in Strowan beyond repair. When it came time to think about the rebuild, Jim and Karen engaged Richard Ormsby from X Design to come up with a house design that would both stand out, while remaining in keeping with the other character homes on the street. The main feature of this home was to be its timber weatherboard cladding. With the scribers and facings to be hand cut, a painstaking amount of detail was required to achieve a high quality finish on this 300sqm home. Complete and landscaped, the house sits on its site as if had been there for decades and upon entry, it is the finer details that make it a truly executive home. The team at Gareth Davis Builders made sure no element was overlooked and that each decision was in keeping with the client’s vision of a classic character home.

The 2011 Christchurch earthquakes damaged Jim and Karen’s 1930’s character home in Strowan beyond repair. Read more

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Gareth Davis Builders

A meticulously crafted 300sqm home featuring stunning timber weatherboard cladding, showcasing exceptional hand-cut details for a high-quality finish.

The 2011 Christchurch earthquakes damaged Jim and Karen’s 1930’s character home in Strowan beyond repair.

When it came time to think about the rebuild, Jim and Karen engaged Richard Ormsby from X Design to come up with a house design that would both stand out, while remaining in keeping with the other character homes on the street.

The main feature of this home was to be its timber weatherboard cladding. With the scribers and facings to be hand cut, a painstaking amount of detail was required to achieve a high quality finish on this 300sqm home.

Complete and landscaped, the house sits on its site as if had been there for decades and upon entry, it is the finer details that make it a truly executive home. The team at Gareth Davis Builders made sure no element was overlooked and that each decision was in keeping with the client’s vision of a classic character home.

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“In 2013, following the Christchurch earthquakes, Karen and I engaged Gareth Davis Builders to rebuild a home on the site of our severely damaged former house. The new home was architecturally designed to be built of timber weather boards to both replicate the home we lost and reflect the homes in the street. The design required a significant amount of detail finish particularly in the exterior weatherboard cladding. Gareth’s skills and the skills of his preferred sub trades have given us a superb executive home while retaining the classical character lines on the exterior to mimic the surrounding homes. A tribute to his building skills is really summed up from the comments of two other builder acquaintances who have seen the finished product and both have commented on how well the finish work has been carried out. That is a tribute from other builders about a peer…there is no better recommendation. In 2016, Karen and I decided to build our holiday home and it was a no contest decision to contact Gareth once again to build this house for us. The house has already attracted huge attention and has been entered in the Architectural Designer’s Awards both for the design and build quality. We can’t recommend Gareth and his team highly enough. If you are looking for a competent, quality building company who can handle the construction of your new home along with the changes you know you will make along the way, quietly, competently and with the minimum of fuss, Gareth is the man to call.”

Karen and Jim – Strowan, Christchurch