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TVNZ’s Coastal Wonders explores how luxury beachside homes affect wellbeing

TVNZ's new series follows host Tom Webster as he tours expensive coastal properties across the South Pacific while measuring how architecture impacts his brain activity.

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Coastal Wonders is a new TVNZ property series that takes viewers inside luxurious homes in Aotearoa, Australia, Fiji, Vanuatu and Tahiti. Host Tom Webster, known from Grand Designs NZ, uses an EEG headset to track his brain activity while exploring different architectural spaces, investigating whether living in a well-designed coastal home can improve wellbeing. The show showcases award-winning properties designed to connect with their natural environments, from beachside estates to cliff-top homes. While the series offers a glimpse into exclusive properties most viewers will never afford, it ultimately reveals that proximity to nature, rather than luxury alone, is the key factor in making these homes remarkable.

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Does living in a big house by the sea feel good? TVNZ’s Coastal Wonders says: yes

TVNZ’s new property series takes us inside some of the most luxurious homes in the South Pacific and asks: does a nice house make you feel better? “Have you ever thought of your house as an experience?” Tom Webster asks…

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