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  • Your Home and Garden

    AHEAD OF THE CURVE

    Nov 24, 2021 5 minutes
    Text Bea Taylor
    Photography
    Helen Bankers
    Styling
    Kate Alexander, Places and Graces

    In 2018 Maiko Nagao Irvine and Mike Irvine’s Birkdale home in Auckland graced the cover of Your Home and Garden magazine. Small, cosy and filled with Maiko’s ingenious DIY projects and interior hacks, it was perfect for their family of three.

    Today their family has a new member and, while the house appears relatively unchanged from the street, it’s a completely different story inside.

    “When we first bought the home, we hadn’t really thought very far in terms of renovation plans,” says Maiko. “All we were really focused on was getting it liveable.”

    Yet, when asked about future plans in her house feature three years ago, Maiko said, “We’d love to turn one of the wide windows in the lounge into French doors that open out

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