• If ever there was a house and a tenant made for each other, it’s the Dunedin home you see here, and vintage obsessive Tannia Lee.

In fact, the manner in which the house came into the lives of Tannia, her husband Dylan and baby daughter Nova suggests some god of retro might have been watching over them, pulling strings.

“It’s sort of a funny story,” begins Tannia, a fashion stylist who owned Wellington clothing store Most Wanted Vintage before the family moved south three years ago (she still runs her website mostwantedvintage.co.nz).

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JANE USSHER
Tannia went through a phase of buying furniture specifically for the house because, she says, “you just don’t get an opportunity like this”