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HEAD OVER HEELS

One-year-old George Hosking may not be an architect like his mum or a builder like his dad, but he’s a hands-on judge of form-follows-function design. Now that he’s getting around a bit more, he can vouch for many elements in the Avondale, Auckland home he shares with his parents Maria and James: the built-in daybed in the dining area where he likes to snooze in the morning light; the low-silled window in the olds’ bedroom that means he

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