Credits
Photography credits
Every photograph on this site is a real photograph, taken by a named person, used under the Unsplash Licence. None of them is a photograph of a job we did. They are here because a page about renovating an Auckland villa should show an Auckland villa, and licensed work by a real photographer is the honest way to do that until there is work of our own to photograph.
What these photographs are
Real houses, real work, borrowed honestly
The photographs below show New Zealand houses and real trade work. They are licensed under the Unsplash Licence, which permits commercial use at no cost and without asking permission. Crediting the photographer is not required by that licence. We do it anyway, because someone did the work.
They are not photographs of our own completed jobs. No image on this site is a before and after of a project we ran, and none should be read as one. As jobs are completed, this site's own photography will replace them, and this page will shrink.
Two things follow from that. Nothing here is captioned with an address or a job we did not do; where a location is known it is stated accurately, and where it is not known it is left out. And where no photo was good enough — a recladd with the building wrap exposed, a villa interior with its original ceilings — the slot is left as a reserved plate carrying the brief for the shot, rather than filled with something that is nearly right.
The reasoning behind that is set out on why this site exists, and the same standard applied to the numbers is on sources and method.
The list
13 photographs
| Photographer | What it shows | Photo |
|---|---|---|
| Schaa Rabbani | A cream weatherboard villa with a bullnose veranda, turned posts and fretwork gables under a corrugate roof, Auckland | View on Unsplash |
| Vihan Dalal | An Auckland suburb from above: hipped tile and long-run roofs, weatherboard and stucco houses stepping down a bush-edged ridge among palms and cabbage trees | View on Unsplash |
| Robert Calvert | Timber villas and bungalows in pale greens, greys and yellows stacked up a steep New Zealand hillside street | View on Unsplash |
| K8 | The grey-painted gable end of a timber villa, shingle detail under the eaves and a cabbage tree in front of it | View on Unsplash |
| Leonie Clough | A white weatherboard bungalow with a faded red corrugate roof and a small portico, native bush rising behind it | View on Unsplash |
| Callum Hill | A finished kitchen in an older timber house: white flat-panel cabinetry with black bar handles, subway-tile splashback, and a run of windows over the bench looking onto the neighbouring brick house | View on Unsplash |
| Jessica Hearn | A completed bathroom: large-format grey tile, a freestanding bath under the window, wall-hung pan behind a frameless glass screen, and heated towel rails on both walls | View on Unsplash |
| Nate Johnston | New timber roof trusses, top plates and studs seen looking up from inside an unclad frame, blue sky between the members | View on Unsplash |
| Jessy Smith | Steel tube scaffolding and timber planks standing off a wall, two newly fitted windows still film-wrapped behind it | View on Unsplash |
| Chris Kursikowski | A circular saw part-way through a length of framing timber, sawdust spraying off the blade, cut studs stacked underneath | View on Unsplash |
| Chris Kursikowski | A gloved hand running a random-orbit sander along a length of dressed timber on a work stack | View on Unsplash |
| Callum Hill | A painter in spattered whites loading a pole roller from a tray in a masked-off, half-empty room | View on Unsplash |
| Marina Zvada | Overlapping sheets of architectural drawings spread across a table: repeated unit floor plans on top, a dimensioned plan and a setout grid underneath | View on Unsplash |
Files are downloaded and served from this site, not hotlinked, so they load fast and do not break if anything changes upstream. The images are unedited apart from cropping and resizing.
Unsplash — each photographer credited and linked above · 2026-07-30
