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  • Your Home and Garden

    Tiny living

    Jul 14, 2019 4 minutes
    Text by Esther Gordon.
    Photography by Claire Mossong.

    MEET + GREET

     Willem van den Bergh, 38 (architectural designer), Kate van den Bergh, 36 (designer and mum), and Leo, 5 months, plus Alba the cat.

    Kate and Willem van den Bergh were a year into their married life and knew one thing for sure: something had to give. Paying rent while trying to save for a new home amid escalating house prices was making their goal an untenable prospect.

    Kate, formerly a designer for a sustainability magazine, had worked on a feature about a tiny home built for $27K and couldn’t get it out of her

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