Of timber and texture
Few hallways come with a good story. However, it so happens that the fine, timber-lined one in the handsome Wellington home of Rick Wells and Lesley Haines does. The story begins in a river in the Wairarapa.
The couple had recently engaged Tim and Ana of Lovell & O’Connell Architects to create a new home for them in the charming seaside suburb of Days Bay, when Rick took a phone call.
“Friends in Martinborough rang to tell me that a contractor with rights to take timber had pulled four tōtara logs from the
