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Happy days

The real estate ad may as well have read: “1960s home for sale in Swanson, Auckland; only one previous owner. Two bedrooms, six types of mismatched flooring and lashings of yellow, beige and brown. Not one straight wall but solid kitchen and bathroom. Outdated but will make a great family home if new owners have imagination and a strong work ethic.”

Enter Aimee Fleur and Reece Young, looking for their first home and armed with the required vision to turn the little brick house around. What they didn’t quite envisage, though, was that it would take them a decade to complete – and in the meantime, the

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