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Timber deck with a glass balustrade beside a white weatherboard house, looking out over the sea at sunset

Building, fencing and landscaping in Nelson, Marlborough and Christchurch

Mathew Buckingham, Licensed Building Practitioner. Decks, pergolas, fences, retaining walls, interiors and gardens.

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What we do

Two-storey modern house with dark timber cladding, a timber slat screen, glass balustrade and a ground-level timber deck

Building

  • Decks and balustrades
  • Pergolas
  • Cladding and timber linings
  • Aluminium joinery and doors
  • Interiors, stairs and feature timber
Curved timber crib retaining wall filled with river stones below a modern house

Fencing and construction

  • Timber, paling and picket fences
  • Gates
  • Retaining walls: timber crib and block
  • Verandahs
Concrete path lined with clipped box hedges and standard roses beside a weatherboard house

Landscaping

  • Gardens and planting
  • Hedging
  • Paths and edging
  • Raised vege beds
  • Gravel areas

Jobs we've done

  • Two-storey modern house with dark timber cladding, a timber slat screen, glass balustrade and a ground-level timber deck
  • Cedar slat pergola roof over a patio, with white lattice screens and climbing plants
  • Modern house with a sweeping curved white wall, stone cladding and a timber soffit above the garage
  • Modern home lit at night, with stone cladding, a timber front door and downlights under the soffit
  • Covered timber deck with a bar leaner and stools, and a timber table with bench seats
  • Living room lined with pine boards on the walls and ceiling, with a wood burner and downlights
  • Black aluminium-framed glazed shopfront with a timber threshold, set into a corrugated-clad building
  • Tall vertical timber feature panel beside a window in a white-walled room
  • Plywood-lined room with a black-framed sliding door opening onto a timber threshold
  • White panelled front door with an arched window, framed by two potted plants
  • Clear polycarbonate verandah roof on white posts along the side of a house
  • Cedar slat pergola fixed to a white weatherboard house, with lattice and climbing roses
Mathew Buckingham in a hi-vis work shirt, smiling, with the Marlborough Sounds behind him

Meet Mathew

Mathew Buckingham runs Buckingham Contracting and is a Licensed Building Practitioner. He and the team do building, fencing and landscaping around Nelson, Marlborough and Christchurch.

All the photos on this page are their own jobs.

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Three members of the Buckingham Contracting team in hi-vis shirts on a newly built timber-balustraded deck
The team on a finished deck

Alby, a black and white dog, sitting in a garden next to Mathew And Alby, the team dog.

“Finished on time and on budget, great atmosphere around their team, and quality workmanship. Will definitely use them again!”

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Where we work

  • Nelson / Marlborough

  • Christchurch

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Call 022 367 9583