After surviving the trauma of the Christchurch earthquake, the last thing Peta and Roger Ford wanted was to design and build a house themselves.
"We didn't want to have to deal with anything," Peta Ford says.
"We just wanted to say, 'We like that plan, now make it happen and here's our budget'."
The couple moved north with their children after their Parklands home was damaged in the February 2011 quake. They are among a growing number of migrants from Christchurch and Auckland who have opted to buy house-and-land packages in the Bay.
After researching building companies, the Fords chose to go with Venture Developments because they liked the contemporary design of its homes.