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MEET & GREET
Mary (self-employed interior designer and artist) and Matt Tapsell (executive chef), and their daughters Rosemary, six, Olive, three, and Daisy, one.
THE PROPERTY
Three-bedroom attached rental unit in Bucklands Beach, Auckland.
For Mary Tapsell, home should be a calm and comfortable place – a sometimes tricky proposition when you don’t own the property you live in. But the interior designer, artist and mother of three, has turned transforming a rental into an art form, creating soothing spaces for her family without interfering with the integrity of a house.
Two years ago, when Mary saw the attached unit in
