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    ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

    Sep 22, 2021 5 minutes
    Text Fiona Fraser
    Photography
    Florence Charvin
    “I remember coming to look at the place and thinking it was so well designed, with a lot of natural light and really easy-care.”
    ROBYN MCLEAN

    ‘Im pulsive’ is one adjective that might be used to describe Robyn McLean and Jol Bates. They’ve heard a few others too – reckless and radical, as well as instinctive, imaginative and quick-thinking. Robyn says they all apply.

    “We never do anything by halves,” she laughs, settling onto the sofa alongside Jol as the family dogs wrestle a rainbow-shaped toy beside her.

    They certainly weren’t in the market for a home in late 2018 when they saw this double-storey townhouse for sale in Havelock North, just a few minutes up the road from the lifestyle block they’d lovingly tended for nine years. But, as it happens, swapping just under 1.2 hectares for a postage-stamp section was the perfect move for Robyn, Jol,

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