THE PROJECT
With design team Macintosh Harris, fishmonger Geoff Creighton and his wife Rose built this four-bedroom bach at Auckland's Piha Beach for themselves and their hree adult children James, Emma and Lucy.
A lunch invitation to Geoff and Rose Creighton's beach house is a hot ticket, well worth the drive out to Piha. Geoff, who's in the fishing game, has access to the freshest kaimoana around, and is known for throwing the odd crayfish on the barbie. He also whips up a mean whitebait fritter. The secret to a good fritter is not to over-egg it, he says. “I use only the egg whites — otherwise it's an omelette.” The secret to a good holiday house is along the same lines: keep it
