An old house was not what Sandi and Russ Henderson were looking for. After several renovations, including two villas, the couple wanted something more straightforward. “There’s a lot of work with a villa,” says Sandi. “Everything needs a lot of love, a lot more detail.”
But after viewing a landmark character home in the seaside suburb of Strandon in New Plymouth one morning, they snapped it up in the afternoon.
“We fell in love with its quirks and could see through the living and flow issues,” says Sandi who explains there was also a more practical factor in the decision. “We had sold our home and were rather desperate to find another.”
That was late in 2015, and slowly but surely, the couple has transformed the 370sqm (440sqm including the basement) property to accommodate modern life, while paying
