About Us

 

 

Meg and Scott McMillan are the couple behind Tea Pea Homestore. Established eighteen years ago as one of New Zealand's pioneering online stores, it has since grown to add two Wellington shops, one in the City and another in Khandallah. Founded on providing exceptional customer care alongside inspiration, creativity and a generosity of knowledge. Meg, Scott and their team show up every day to deliver excellence, delight and beauty.

 

As Wellington's independent little department store. Tea Pea's curation is design-led, keeping its loyal, trusting and long-standing customer in mind. Leading women's apparel brands, sought-after homewares, accessories, jewellery, beauty and baby. Always built from independent brands and designers, from New Zealand and further afield, many of the labels Tea Pea started out with are still on the shelves today, nearly two decades of relationships built and kept.

A proper family business

 Tea Pea is very much a family business. Griffin, twenty-one, founded his first business at seventeen, Tiny Truck, and that delivery and moving business comes in handy at Tea Pea when something big needs shifting. Coco, eighteen, works full time in the business alongside her parents. Thirteen year old Rosie has her own jewellery label, Rosie Valentina, and the store is proud to stock it.

 

Away from the shop floor, Meg and Scott live in a renovated 1950s house in the leafy Wellington suburb of Khandallah. Home is shared with their children, two Tibetan Spaniels, thirty-seven fish, and a pet mouse called Ralph. Scott is also a partner in the marketing communications company Once Upon a Time and sits on the board of Retail NZ. Tea Pea is at the heart of everything they do, as it has been for the last eighteen years. Meg and Scott don't just run it, they live and breathe it, at home just as much as in store.