Amanda Wooding, a communications contractor, her husband Ben, the chief operating officer of security and events company Red Badge, and their one-year-old daughter Willa live in a 1960s house they renovated in Mairangi Bay, on Auckland’s North Shore.
When did you buy this house and why? We bought it just before we got married in 2019. It was built in 1967 and was a four-bedroom, 91sqm weatherboard house (it’s now 115sqm).
What was the house like? It was built by the
