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Designing other people’s homes is both an art form and a labour of love, but what happens when you’re building a house for your own family instead, and — just to up the ante — two others on the same site at the same time? It wasn’t quite business as usual for architectural designer Sophie Wylie and her property developer husband Liam Joyce of Auckland’s Artifact, but they handled

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