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    Lake house

    Jul 30, 2021 4 minutes
    Words Melanie McDaid
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    Simon Devitt

    Sam Fillmore grew up holidaying at the house next door to where he and his wife Fiona have built their majestic lake house, on the water’s edge at Ōkawa Bay, set on the western shores of Lake Rotoiti.

    Fiona explains, “My husband’s parents own the place next door, and he has been coming here for over 30 years. So, to be able to build a home for our two teenage boys to continue enjoying this special part of the world was really important to us.”

    “They wanted this interaction where someone can be cruising past and people can wave and yell out and

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