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  • Your Home and Garden

    The open home

    Oct 13, 2019 4 minutes
    Text by Debbie Harrison.
    Photography by Jackie Meiring.

    MEET + GREET

     Sarah Kee, 42 (university student; also helps with her friend’s fashion label, Mahsa), Bruno, 14, and Elvis, 11.

    Walking around Sarah Kee’s home in Point Chevalier, Auckland, it’s clear she has exquisite taste. In most of the rooms you’ll find artworks, sculptures and artisanal furniture, each with a story to tell. But open the door to a son’s room or another lounge and you’ll see an installation of another sort: stacks of mattresses.

    “The boys always have a friend or two over for the night,” Sarah says with a smile. “That’s what I most wanted

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