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Sometimes good design is about holding back. Not playing all your cards at once. Drip-feeding the wow moments. That’s exactly what this home in Whitford, south of Auckland, does.

This was a slow-burning dream for owners Tracie and Marcus Male, who fell prey to the GFC, buying and selling a different site while financial forces swept away their plans. Ten years after they started on the path, they finally settled on this couple of hectares on

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