MODERN LOVE

You could never accuse Emily Hunt of being afraid of a challenge. Move to New Zealand from Australia? Channel a love of interiors into a design business? Take on a major renovation that others might find too hard? Tick, tick and tick.

Sydney-born Emily and her Kiwi husband Ollie had been living on the Kapiti Coast for four years but with two young children were looking for a bigger home. In 2018, after four years of looking, Emily stumbled upon this 250sqm house in Raumati Beach.

And although she was daunted by the work that