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    THINKING BIG

    Oct 03, 2019 3 minutes

    Kathryn Hill and Chad Hooker have thrown away the renovation rulebook with their dramatic reconfiguration of a 1960s brick and tile home near Waikato hospital in Hamilton. It’s not their first outing (Hill in particular has done a number of renovations for trades in the past) but the scale of the job is unprecedented.

    Hill and Hooker were looking for a buy-and-hold investment (their first) when they happened upon the two-storey home. The “unloved rental property” (Hooker’s words) was large – both floors are 130m – with four bedrooms upstairs and a large rumpus room (but not

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