• Fed up with living in a cold, damp, mouldy flat, university students Christoph Riedel and Anna Naygrow have spent their summer holiday building themselves a tiny house.

Tucked away on flat land behind the main building at Menzshed Waimea in Richmond, near Nelson, the couple’s first home is almost ready to be towed 400km to Christchurch for the start of the academic year at the University of Canterbury.

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Anna Naygrow and Christoph Riedel are working on the interior of their tiny house near Nelson, getting ready to move it to Christchurch in February. The couple are standing in the living room. The spare room is behind them.