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Rogan Nash Architects and builders Create & Construct renovated this five-bedroom home in Auckland's Glendowie for a couple and their three young children.

An invisible thread runs through this home, just hidden from view. At first glance, you won't see it, yet the lifestyle-led ways in which it's woven in are a major reason why this renovation's been game-changing.

On a sunny site in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland's Glendowie, the house was built in the 1950s and updated in around the late ‘80s. For a while it worked just fine for its current owners, a family of five, but eventually its dark, damp, disjointed, low-ceilinged living spaces, random post in the middle of the kitchen

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