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Moko prints represent an essential Aotearoa accent to Foreno Tapware’s prestigious 4x4 series of tapware. 4x4 is Watermark certified (AS/NZS 3718) and the sink mixer, basin mixers are 4 and 6 Star rated under WELs (AS/NZS 6400).

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Freestanding baths and bath mixers are a great way to add the wow factor to your bathroom. For a while there, however, they came with rather hefty price tags. Thanks to our progressive plumbing and bathroom retail industry, and manufacturers like Foreno who like to make stylish Tapware also affordable, we now have lots more options available which won’t blow a hole in your budget. Foreno Tapware have two freestanding bath mixers, both with handy additional shower- head accessories – great for rinsing your hair in the bath and ideal for bathing your family pooch if they are so lucky. The current designs are...

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Foreno Taps chosen by New Zealand designers - Nat Davis

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 solid, quality product. It’s perfect for people with modern or minimalist homes who want a tap with edgy style, that is different from the norm. As it’s also available in a range of products for the bathroom, the range can be carried on throughout the home continuing the look. It comes as a basin mixer, shower mixer, slide shower and bath spout as well....

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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 pay more attention to the interior design of our laundries? We’re certainly in there enough. Often the washing machine and drier are an after-thought and in recent years, it has become increasingly more common to see houses built with a corner of the garage trying to pass itself off as being a ‘laundry’. A way to save space...

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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 makes us feel good. I love my kitchen because it works for me. You need to figure out what works for you. I suggest you start with a wish list. Write down every- thing that has always bugged...

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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 2008 which started that process. A number of visits were made to Waitangi to ensure the shape and spirit of waka taua (war canoe) Ngatokimatawhaorua were understood. Rather than computer drawing the components and developing the design with Foreno’s usual software, it was necessary...

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