The Drawing Room
The Drawing Room is an arts and crafts business at 500 Colombo Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, inside the Sydenham commercial centre.
Checked 17 Oct 2026
Shop our huge range of international art supplies online or visit our Christchurch store. NZ owned &operated, we’ve been… Read full description ↓
The only arts and crafts business on the record in Sydenham
From the street
Opening hours
| Monday – Friday | 9 am, 5 pm |
|---|---|
| Saturday – Sunday | 10 am, 4 pm |
Hours change, especially over holidays: confirm with the business before a special trip. About 52 hours a week, by the map’s count.
Reviews
Getting there
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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.
Nearby
More nearby places 6
Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.
The nearest other craft
More nearby craft 2
Also in Sydenham
More businesses in Sydenham 7
What the record holds 8 sourced facts
What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | 500 Colombo Street, Christchurch 8023 | OpenStreetMap |
| Kind | Craft | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +6433660033 | Its own website |
| Website | thedrawingroom.co.nz | OpenStreetMap · its own site agrees |
| NZBN | 9429038647024, NZ Limited Company | NZBN register |
| Registered name | THE DRAWING ROOM LIMITED | NZBN register |
| Registered since | 10 Feb 1994 | NZBN register |
| Industry | Artist supply retailing | NZBN register |
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What its website says
Shop our huge range of international art supplies online or visit our Christchurch store. NZ owned &operated, we’ve been helping hobbyists & artists fulfil their creative needs for over 25 years! Delivering NZ wide.
— Its own website. Read from its own site, a lead, not checked.
The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Local centre zone | District Plan |
| Commercial centre | Sydenham, large neighbourhood centre | District Plan |
What stood on Colombo Street
From Canterbury Stories. This photograph names the street, not this business. The street page pairs it with a Street View pose verified outside Formaggio's, 2025-04. The street’s then and now →
The reports nearby
2,432 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 2,102 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
The 2,432 reports on file
Pest / Vermin
Damaged Street Light
Dumped Rubbish
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridgeQuestions, answered briefly
Read answers 8
An arts and crafts business in Sydenham, Christchurch.
500 Colombo Street, Sydenham, on Colombo Street. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap.
phone 03 366 0033 (its own website), its website.
Monday – Friday: 9 am, 5 pm; Saturday – Sunday: 10 am, 4 pm, as mapped on OpenStreetMap.
Gordon Harris (626 m), Paint 'n' Sip (1.3 km), Trinity Glass (1.8 km), every one in the city.
the address’s own record holds 36 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Extrastaff (7 m); the Colombo St near Cass St bus stop is 58 m away: routes 1, 8, 44; a cycle lane passes the door; nearest park: Carlyle Reserve (39 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
Sources: OpenStreetMap · Christchurch District Plan layers · Christchurch City Council off-street parking layer (CC BY 4.0) · Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record · Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer · The business’s own website · New Zealand Business Number register
Read source notes 7
- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch City Council off-street parking layer (CC BY 4.0),
- Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record, distances measured here from the pin
- Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer, lanes, separated paths and the named Major Cycle Routes (CC BY 4.0)
- The business’s own website, read politely by chch.live for contact details the open record is missing, re-checked monthly
- New Zealand Business Number register, the public facts every NZBN entity files (legal name, status, registration date, industry), matched here by name and address
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); council and ECan data under CC BY 4.0; Wikidata CC0. Something wrong? Fix it on OpenStreetMap or tell us. The whole directory lives at /businesses. This page as markdown: /business/the-drawing-room-sydenham.md.