Building Responsibly and Sharing Stories

Welcome to my corner of the construction world, where corporate experience meets community vision. Here you'll find insights from my journey across continents - from New Zealand's dairy industry to Malaysian markets and Arabian sands - all leading to thoughtful property development in New Zealand. Where experience meets opportunity, and where responsible development creates lasting communities.

Recent Blogs

🫨 🚰 INFRASTRUCTURE MADNESS: Mums & Dads Expected to Coordinate $1.5 M Transmission sized Pipeline

This post is to show the ridiculousness of this situation in Papakura. I joined a meeting on Thursday: Small home…

🥳 🤩 😇 🙏 Today I am Over-the-Moon with Happiness and Relief: The new Head Contractor team, you represent to me what construction should be: thanks Mr. Head Contractor 🙏

Over the past year I have chronicled my challenging journeying following the discovery of major defects in my brand new…

😇 🤩 When your BANK makes a super positive difference… helping me make progress

In the post COVID years, finance was tough and banks were prudent. I am now really feeling the change... green…

About Kirsty Merriman

For years I would plan houses, travel widely and observe communities. I also had the privilege of working for New Zealand’s largest dairy company in both New Zealand and Malaysia. All the while supported by my husband and young daughter. After a while, our roles swapped and we moved to the Arabian Gulf. Meanwhile my passion for property and communities continued to simmer.

Along came COVID and had no choice but to pivot… in the words of Robert Frost, I looked for and “found the road less travelled by” and decided that maybe I could “make [a] the difference”.