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CROWNING GLORY

THE PROJECT

With architects Pac Studio, graphic designer Sarah Melrose and her PR consultant husband Gez Johns renovated this three-bedroom home in Auckland’s Freemans Bay for themselves and their daughter Stella (9).

You don’t need to be a regular churchgoer to appreciate a cathedral-esque space — just ask Sarah Melrose and Gez Johns, whose update of a 1900 villa in Auckland’s Freemans Bay has turned a typical student rental into a glorious, light-filled sanctuary with

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