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THE PROJECT

With interior designers Material Creative and builders Origin Build, footwear designer Emma Winter and her agency co-owner husband Dane renovated this four-bedroom home in Auckland's Te Atatū for themselves and their children Nala (6), Kalani (3) and Kye (2).

Once upon a time, this abode played a role in the television series Outrageous Fortune. The rabbit warren of ‘70s rooms may have looked the part then, but when new owners Emma and Dane Winter made the home their own, they decided to rewrite the script to suit modern, multi-generational living.

“Dane found the house, and when he brought me over, my initial reaction was, ‘No way,

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