THE PROJECT
Photographer Emma-Jane Hetherington and her architect husband Tim Dorrington renovated this three-bedroom home in Auckland's Westmere for themselves and their children Jasper (16) and Charlotte (14).
At heart, architects always want to build new. Particularly when it comes to their own homes, their heads are brimming with ideas they're itching to trial. Renovations are a compromise, and Tim Dorrington of Dorrington Atcheson Architects felt no differently, but with his wife, photographer Emma-Jane Hetherington, pregnant with their first child, it was a case of needs must. This was no time for flights of fantasy.
The couple had been living in a cottage in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland's Arch Hill, which involved navigating three flights of stairs to access all areas. It was
