Building your dream house requires imagination, passion and patience. None of which was lacking when Auckland couple Kirsten van Kessel and James Jackson found their beachfront section in Titirangi.
It’s easy to see the attraction: views that arc across Paturoa Bay and the Manukau Harbour, a quiet cul-de-sac and ample room to put their stamp on land that was once home to an old fishing cottage.
“The cottage was built in 1925 and was in such a bad way that it was condemned by the council as being unsafe and unsanitary,” recalls James, a lawyer.
But the couple had been casting about for was filmed there a year later.)
