Gain Confidence to Explore Your Dream Home with the Design Prelude Collection™

Cross Pacific Design Group can help you choose the perfect location for your New Zealand waterfront luxury home. We have a Dream Team network throughout New Zealand to support you with every step of your journey.

Explore your ideas, address your questions, and determine if we are a mutual fit with a focused, one-on-one online video conference design session with Dawn and Pru. (This offering is complimentary when you sign up for one of our packages.)

Booking is by invitation and availability. Secure your spot early.

Understand your site’s potential with a site investigation and due diligence led by Pru in New Zealand. When you provide topographical surveys and legal site documentation, we’ll review everything from the computer. Additional information may be required by engaging commissioned consultants such as Land Surveyors and Town Planners.

• Natural Hazard Assessment Summary of Site-Related Hazards
• Site Development Controls
• New Zealand Building Code Review
• New Zealand Cost Estimate

Your aspirations are integrated with your site’s opportunities in the Cross Pacific Vision Framework^TM. Dawn and Pru experience your land firsthand with a joint site visit. 

The Painted Prelude, landscape analysis through a landscape painting.

Site Assets Analysis

• Signed Original artworks shipped to client (by Dawn and Pru)
• 2-D sketch design (site plan concept(s) / exterior concept(s)
• Dawn leads Design Workshop with client to review concepts

The Cross Pacific Design Diagnosis, led by Dawn, is more than analysis. It’s the blueprint for your project to reflect your values, enhance your lifestyle, and honor the unique qualities of your breathtaking environment.

Cross-Pacific refinement based on your feedback from Concept Weaving and site realities

• Vision Integration (Site Concept inspiration + Design Brief Analysis)
• Strategic Site Response (Refined Site Design with programmatic relationship)
• Risk & Opportunity Mapping (Outline of Risk & Opportunities)
• A Roadmap to Architecture (Design Discovery Workshop Meeting)
• Implementation of outcome from Design Discovery

Your vision is refined and your design developed, led by Pru to determine the resources needed and/or subdivision design control and approval. Resource Consent (also known as Planning Approval) may be required.

• Coordinate the other separate consultants as required to meet this documentation milestone.
• Continuous collaboration between Dawn and Pru to preserve design integrity between creativity and compliance.
• Virtual or in-person client meetings at key milestones.
• Drawing Document set

Dawn brings your conceptual interiors to life with 3D Virtual Reality walkthroughs and models, ensuring every design decision feels authentically you.

Deliverables

• Curated 3D interior model views showcasing layout, flow, and material intent delivered in PDF format
• Color printed Perspective Drawings of Interior space delivered to you
• Client Experience: Virtual Reality walkthrough experience presented with a culinary experience and tailored to key living areas (delivered after approval of interior 3D model)
• Interior storyboards featuring concept imagery and material directions

Drawings, specifications, and supporting documentation required for New Zealand Building Consent (permits) are created. To meet this milestone, coordination with other consultants may be required.

• Development of the Interior Architecture Package
• Guided material selection

Deliverables

• Interior and exterior design integration and coordination
• Material and product specifications
• Building code compliance coordination
• Coordination with structural, mechanical, and other separate consultants
• Documentation package for NZ Building Consent submission.
• Pinfold Architects will act as your agent during this process

We guide you in selecting a contractor to protect the quality, vision, and value of your project.

Our tender process involves discussing, negotiating, and/or fully tendering the best fit for your project.

Deliverables

• Issuance of tender documents to a curated list of qualified contractors
• Responses to contractor queries during the bidding process
• Review and comparative analysis of submitted bids
• Clarification of pricing assumptions and allowances
• Recommendation and support in contractor selection
• Optional virtual or in-person meeting to review and discuss tenders

We stay connected to your project through every milestone, coordinating seamlessly with your contractors and ensuring your vision unfolds beautifully so you can relax knowing every detail is being honored with care.

• Contract Administration
• Site visits and coordination with the contractor and engineers as required
• Oversight consultations during key milestones.

Periodic site visits identify potential issues before they become costly surprises, ensuring your vision unfolds smoothly at every stage.

Site Observation; periodic site visits

Curate luxury furnishings and custom pieces to bring your interior storyboard to life, creating a cohesive narrative where every element speaks authentically to your personal journey and elevates your daily experience.

• Procurement of luxury furnishings and custom pieces to align with interior storyboard.
• Design co-ordination with interior sourcing companies by Pru

Pru ensures every detail meets building standards while Dawn personally returns to New Zealand to orchestrate your final styling moments, culminating in a champagne celebration where you'll experience the full magic of your transformed space together.

• Pru oversees Code of Compliance application and Contract project closeout.
• Dawn returns to NZ to assist in curated final installations and styling.
• Final celebratory walkthrough with champagne toast with Dawn and Pru.