Stephen Knight

Now, specifically thinking about the living areas facing broadly north, because then it's going to get more sun.

Now, what's quite funny is if I think about my own house, the front of it is actually south facing.

And so what they've done is they've put the lounge and the kitchen at the back of the house so that the important living areas are north facing, right?

Whereas if my house was on the other side of the street, then it would be north facing or the front of the house would be north facing.

So you'd put the lounge and the living areas at the front of the house.

But sometimes you actually might deliberately have a house that is not north facing, right?

So if you're in a really expensive house on the hillside in Takapuna in Auckland facing Rangitoto, which is our volcano that's out in the harbour,

Well, you'd probably build the lounge and the living areas deliberately facing southeast to capture that big view because that's going to add more value.

And then you'd compensate with larger windows.

And I just point this out because sometimes in New Zealand, we always have this idea of north facing, north facing.

But there can be exceptions for how you do it.

Because if every house like the front of it was going to be north facing, we'd have to build all of the houses on the same side of the street, right?

And actually, the next one on our list is actually one you just mentioned before about rooms connecting in odd ways.

I should say as well that this is all about trade-offs, right?

So if I think about my own house, when I first walked into it, I was like, why is there a bathroom right next to the kitchen?

There is a bathroom with a shower and a toilet.

It's actually a shub, a shower bathtub.

So it's basically quite high walls.

Anyway, as I said before on the show, when I came through the house, the real estate agent got into it and was like, it's really good if you've got young kids.

Really good.