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  • Your Home and Garden

    Inside out

    Oct 13, 2019 4 minutes
    Text by Sally Conor.
    Photography by Helen Bankers.

    MEET + GREET

     Annelies Leitch, 37 (home buyer at online fashion store Onceit), Ben Leitch, 37 (general manager), Harper, 3, and Hugh, 2, plus Cash the bulldog.

    When Annelies and Ben Leitch first saw their one-acre property in the north Auckland suburb of Whenuapai, they didn’t see a rundown weatherboard house with tacked-on addition and out-of-date kitchen and bathroom. Instead, they saw an opportunity to create the family home and expansive outdoor area of their dreams.

    “It was untouched,” says Annelies. “The house was a deceased estate, the previous owner

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