Keith-Brown works with interior and landscape designers and helps clients with briefs that are all about light, warmth and exposure to outdoor spaces, whether that’s by creating outdoor areas or making sure there is “visual onto green space”. She cites a recent example in Petone where her team brought in a skylight to a dark hallway, and opened the house up to a north-facing courtyard. ”You want to come into the house seeing there’s another room. It’s sunny and pretty and the kids can play in the sandpit and you can look out to the vege garden.”