PHOTO: Tysen Kay says they were ‘gutted’ when the bank refused the loan, but the family is putting the loss behind them. From left, Tysen, Jethro (5), Ryker (5), Bear (2) and Mel Kay.
Tysen and Mel Kay of Auckland found the perfect house for their young family – in Nelson.
It was a three-bedroom 1930s character bungalow that they could relocate 900km and pop up on their 8000 square-metre building site in the middle of a forest at Makarau, north of Kaukapakapa.
They knew they could put the house on the site. “When we came to buy a site, I searched TradeMe under ‘no covenants’,” says Tysen Kay. “We were prepared to look anywhere, and this site, on a hill surrounded by forest, was perfect. And I just love Victorian and traditional houses, so it seemed a great way to get our home.”
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