Keep your eye out on the road for the first of Foreno’s hot new wagons adorned with the silver fern (Foreno’s one that is) and set to stun.  A super flash ride is this Mitsubishi ASX. Lucky Steve, our Territory Manager in Palmerston North who gets to drive this cool ride. (Our designer Nat is […]

Foreno Taps chosen by New Zealand designers – Nat Davis [star_list] <li>Tap Chosen: V-Line Sink Mixer</li> [/star_list] [frame_center src=”http://forenotapware.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/designerseye-nat.png” href=”http://forenotapware.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/designerseye-nat.png”] Nat Davis[/frame_center] I love this industrial styled tap by Foreno with its bold lines and heavy weight feel. And I’m not kidding about being heavy weight – it weighs 3.5kg so it really is a […]

Good home design considers how we run our lives and utilise the various areas of our home. We spend a decent amount of time in the laundry. After all, the fun task of doing the washing is something we just can’t get away from. It has to be done, so why don’t more of us […]

The kitchen is such important part of the home to get ‘right’. Not only from a cost point of view in that mistakes made while building your kitchen can be extremely expensive, but also because it’s an area of the home we spend so much time in, that it has to be a room which […]

Typically homes built within the last 17 years will have a Mains Pressure System. Showers using a Mains Pressure System will deliver up to about 24 litres per minute of tepid water at 300kpa pressure (many homes’ sytems run around 500kpa). That’s about 10 litres per minute usage of hot water or a 180 litre […]

The WAKA range has been developed to create a Maori inspired range of tapware to take to the international market and showcase New Zealand’s heritage.  The process of developing a range of tapware can be long and complex and the development of the WAKA range was no exception. Geoff’s sketched some concept designs in late […]

What is WELS? WELS stands for Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme which has been introduced by the Ministry for the Environment and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. WELS came into effect as of 1st April 2010 and will be phased in over three years (check www.mfe.govt.nz for more info). Star ratings range from 0 to 6 […]