Four years ago Hamish Dodd built the 100 Day Bach using Vulcan Timber Cladding in Ebony - how has it stood up to the harsh climate?
From a barren lakeside section to a charming barn-style holiday home in just one hundred days, Kiwi couple, Hamish and Anita Dodd, set a new benchmark on the standard of home that can be beautifully crafted on a shoestring budget and an ambitious timeframe. After four years we revisit the home to see how the Vulcan Cladding in Ebony has stood up to the harsh climate.
It’s a tough act to follow, one hundred days. But that’s all it took from start to finish for Hamish Dodd and his wife, Anita, to transform a small piece of land in Kuratau, situated on the western shores of Lake Taupo, into a homely-meets-chic-barn style holiday home.
Not one to do things by halves, Hamish, a landscape architect and spatial design specialist (who doubles as a weekend radio host and TV presenter), was on a mission to create a homely Kiwi family bach (holiday home) on a timeframe and budget that most would think impossible. But defying all odds, even in the depths of one of Taupo’s harshest winters, he managed to pull it off. And perhaps even exceed any expectations of what could be done given the (self-imposed) deadlines.
The first thing to be seen when you enter the sunny property along the stony driveway is the beautifully symmetrical building using Abodo vertical shiplap cladding in Vulcan, stained in a light warm black. Complete with matching modern sliding barn doors and a generously sized front lawn, which hosts an interesting sculpture come wind turbine and twelve solar panels, the home, although only one year old, has instant charm.
Comprising only one level, the house affords maximum contact with the landscape and sweeping lake vistas across to Taupo’s eastern shores.
Wild rabbits (that Hamish says have taken a fond liking to his newly planted garden) hop in and out of the property as if it is their own and pot-belly pigs wildly roam the neighbouring section. Thankfully, it didn’t take long for her to relent. “When Anita came for her first holiday down here with me, she just went wow!” beams Hamish. “She had no idea what to expect, because, being from Nelson, the thought of going to a lake was just wrong when you’ve got all those beautiful beaches. For her lakes are cold and full of eels!”.
Anita’s first amazing impression of Lake Taupo and subsequent appreciation of the stunning beauty of New Zealand’s North Island resulted in it being her to be the one to suggest that the two should get their own slice of paradise in the area.
“So we drove around lots of sections, talked about it and faffed about for a whole year. Then we just did it. We bought a piece of land and the first summer we just parked our car down here with friends. It was thoroughly enjoyable. Now it’s a home!” .
One hundred days of hard slog, cold nights and many a sleepless night later, their Taupo dream came to fruition as New Zealand’s first “100 Day Bach” - a popular local television series that documented Hamish’s journey through the rapid build.
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7 авг 2019
