PHOTO: MEDIAWORKS – Patty and Geoff Coley’s beach house comprises a collection of linked pavilions wrapped in black aluminium. But modernity gives way to tradition on the interior.
Lots of people harbour a dream of a beach house, but not so many of us spend years collecting beautiful antiques to put in it. (Do antiques even fit in a beach house?)
But that’s what Patty Coley has been doing, and in this week’s Grand Designs NZ show, she and husband Geoff get to pull it all together in their boatshed-style beach house at Mangawhai north of Auckland.
And it’s not just about small treasures. The pièce de résistance of this build is a fair chunk of the old Ferry Wharf in Wellington.
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