STEP WISE
Sometimes home projects grow on you, and sometimes you can see the potential the minute you step through the door. It was a case of the latter for Gretchen Houston and her husband Blair when they came across their rundown villa in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn. “As soon as I walked in, I could imagine restoring the corridor into the most beautiful hallway,” says Gretchen. “I could tell the height and detail would be spectacular.”
It often takes a certain amount of vision to see past the errors of the
