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COOL, CALM & COLLECTED

THE PROJECT

With Aaron Jones of Urban Function Architecture and Abbie Herniman of The Home Maker, Karl Saunders and Hat Hail of Built Chch created this four-bedroom home in Christchurch's Sumner for themselves and their children Ollie (8), Sam (8) and Scarlett (6).

During their first renovation, of a small unit in central Ōtautahi/Christchurch in their early twenties. Hat Hall and Karl Saunders painted a wall in their kitchen an eye-watering red. While the owners of architectural building co Built Chch's current home was being constructed, they bided their time in an in-need-of-an-update dwelling with patterned brown carpet (not to mention screaming pipes, flickering lights, lethal stairs and doors opening straight onto the

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