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Family, friends, fitness and feel-good fun are central to the way Mt Maunganui’s Reid family lives their life. Their new home is a reflection of each of these elements and designed to honour what they consider most important: each other.

After several years living in their lovingly renovated previous home, interior stylist Kirsten and pastor Hayden realised they were running out of space for their young family, so when their next-door

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