Haven Magazine

VILLA VISION

Anyone who knows Karen Delehanty knows she doesn’t do things by halves.

Run a successful Wellington interior design business for 26 years? Tick. Raise three sons largely on her own? Buy a Wairarapa vineyard with her second husband, Pete Mason, then open The Petit Tasting Room in Martinborough to sell the couple’s wine? Tick, tick and a big fat tick.

When she’s not doing that, this pint-sized powerhouse looks after her youngest son Reid, who’s in a wheelchair, and his one-year-old daughter Sage. With so many moving parts to their lives, Karen and Pete needed a place to regroup

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