Featherweight CHAMPION

As an interior designer for one of Taranaki’s largest home building companies, Sharne Greig has a wealth of advice to give her clients – mostly young families tentatively starting out on their decorating journey. But her own home, a beachside ’60s weatherboard cottage, offers a completely different set of lessons, such as decorating boldly with flair and, most of all, on squeezing every valuable inch out of a much smaller home than those she works with professionally.

At only 100sqm, the home Sharne shares with her husband Ron, and where they raised their now-grown boys, is certainly not large, but it has served their family well – maybe even better, she reflects – than