DOING IT HER WAY
When Melinda Jones and her partner, Mark Ambrose, purchased their Remuera, Auckland, property 16 years ago, it bore almost no resemblance to the light, bright, easy-living home it is today. “The walls were all shocking pink with aqua accents and there were about 20 chandeliers – everywhere you looked there was a chandelier,” Melinda recalls.
The elaborate lighting is long gone along with the carpet that entirely covered up the home’s macrocarpa flooring. The bare boards, restored by the couple to their
