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    LITTLE STAR

    Jul 23, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS Claire McCall

    Semi-detached units are seldom thought of as sexy. Rather like marketing a mild-mannered, middle-aged bloke, real estate firms promote them as ‘solid and dependable’. When Sandii McDonald and Jared Reynolds saw this property in the Auckland suburb of St Heliers, a classic two-bedroom unit with a carport, they immediately put in an offer, then set about transforming it.

    With some parts yellow-brick veneer, others weatherboard, a few fibre-cement panels and timber-framed windows, it was a smorgasbord of ’60s materials. Squeezed in between a five-storey apartment building, a Tudor-style villa and an ’80s plaster home, the 70m dwelling looked dinky in the domestic landscape.

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