Your Home and Garden

DREAMS DO COME TRUE

Once upon a time there was a family who yearned for a home of their own. But they lived in Auckland at the height of the housing boom, and every property they looked at with a garden big enough for their two kids and their large dog was quickly snapped up for more than they could afford.

“David designed a low-slung form reminiscent of a holiday bach”

So Oliver Driver and Ella Mizrahi began to dream a new dream. When a friend (call her their fairy godmother if you like) offered them the opportunity to buy a cross-leased riverside section on the back of her Te Atatu Peninsula home,

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