PHOTO: LOWE & CO There are several terraces to soak up the sun.
Houses designed by the late Sir Ian Athfield and his company continue to make an impact many decades after they were built.
This five-bedroom house for sale in Southgate, Wellington, has many of the signature features – it steps down the hill and is comprised of numerous linked volumes that give it a feel of a village. But a five-year makeover has also given this house the look of a Santorini villa, which was precisely what Athfield had intended back in 1980.
Owners Nick Rowney and Lorraine Rowlands bought the house in a rundown state seven years ago, but they knew it well: “We’d been aware of the house for many years and a friend ended up buying it, so we went to a couple of parties here,” says Rowney.
“I remember one perfect day where the sun was blistering hot; everyone was partying on the deck, eating and drinking. And we were so taken by the view, we thought ‘this is something very special’.”
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