Everyman’s House

Artist Dick Frizzell’s Haumoana home ‘Faraway’ – “a sky blue, maritime-themed house that is surrounded by an olive grove, an orchard and a flower and vegetable garden” – features in the real estate section of The New York Times. “From the kitchen window Frizzell can look out on a gravel beach and the South Pacific Ocean beyond. ‘There’s something ionized about the atmosphere, it just seems to pick up the fresh salty tang of the ocean,’ Frizzell said, who, like his wife, Jude, is 65. The 206 square meters house was designed in the Cape Cod style, inspired by Martha Stewart and the architecture that Frizzell saw on a trip from New York to Canada in 1998. Frizzell is proud that he designed the new house ‘down to the very last millimeter,’ working with Graham Burgess, an Auckland architect, to bring about his vision. In recent years Frizzell, with the agreement of the Four Square company, has adapted Charlie to represent a kind of New Zealand  Everyman. His artwork of the character is sold in many galleries around the country and it was used on the cover of The Great New Zealand Songbook, published early this year.”