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With Lloyd Hartley Architects, full-time mum Nadia Magill and her husband James, an executive general manager, renovated this four-bedroom home in Auckland's Saint Marys Bay for themselves and their children Isaac (4) and Tristan (2).

Life is never static. Families expand, expectations change, so wanting a bit more space, and then perhaps a bit more, is natural. It comes with the territory. That was the case with this 1920s bungalow that sits on a narrow patch of land in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland's Saint Marys Bay. By the time Nadia and James Magill bought here in 2017, the lean-to (and three

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