PHOTO: KIA DIRKSON – The home has plenty of space for Dean and his two sons, plus his extensive art collection.
Dean Harrison wasn’t holding his breath as he drove to Halswell to look at yet another house.
“I had done three or four months of open homes and couldn’t find a thing,” he says.
The journey with the agent got even gloomier when he realised they weren’t heading for the hills but to a subdivision on the flat.
“I call this Wigram. But when we got there I thought ‘this is quite a nice little cul de sac so I may as well have a look’.”
One look at the huge sleepers over the entranceway and the house was his.
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