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SPRING HILL HOUSE MEET THE OWNERS

Kirsty Volz Tell me about yourselves and your downsizing journey.

The process has been about a city change, the opposite of a sea change. We struggled with our mid-century home on a quarter-acre block for quite a few years. It was too perfect, in a way; it needed to be updated, yet we didn’t want to renovate and change it. Our kids go to school in the city, and commuting from The Gap was becoming a drag. In our new house, we’ve found that good architecture means we can fit everything we need, even on a

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