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Purple carpet. It's not the average request, but that's what the owners of this home wanted, so that's what they got. They also acquired a blue front door, apricot walls, chequerboard flooring, jungle wallpaper, a glasshouse wing and, says homeowner Holly Turner, “when I said I wanted three disco balls in the kitchen, Janice said, ‘Don't be silly, that's a bit naff. You can have two, though!'”

Holly says nothing was too hard or too wacky for director of JK-W Interior Architecture & Design Janice Kumar-Ward during the renovation of the heritage home Holly shares with her family in Ōtepoti/Dunedin's Māori Hill. If disco balls make dishwashing fun and lilac carpet in the

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