About Us
Meg and Scott McMillan are the couple behind Tea Pea Homestore, an independent apparel and homewares store, and lifestyle brand. Starting 18 years ago as one of New Zealand’s pioneering online stores, Tea Pea Homestore has grown to two beautiful main street stores while maintaining a thriving online presence. Our founding values of creativity, inspiration and customer care remain at the heart of everything we do. We proudly curate a mix of independent brands and designers from New Zealand and around the world, creating the unique look and feel Tea Pea is known for. Our design-led stores are filled with tactile, colourful and high-quality goods that spark joy. Whether you shop in-store or online, our friendly, knowledgeable team are here to inspire and share the stories behind every product.
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 our children and two Tibetan Spaniels; Wolfie and Dolly. 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.