in good time
May 12, 2019
4 minutes
Text by Tina Stephen.
Photography by The Virtue.
MEET + GREET
Emma Brown, 34 (owner of Emma Brown Design), Sophie, 15, Jack, 12, and Charlotte, 9, plus Kitty Kat the cat.
emma Brown can’t help but give a little smile each time she walks up to her home in rural Manawatu. The glossy double front doors are painted a vibrant – and apparently polarising – lipstick pink that can be seen from a fair distance. There was some opposition, Emma reveals, when she first proposed the bold entryway for her newly built home.
“My big, bright-pink front doors are a statement piece that delights me,” says Emma. “But when I initially shared my vision, most people advised against it, insisting I would
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