A couple finds their midcentury dream home
Inside a sensitively renovated circa-1965 house in New Zealand For some, looking at houses online is a leisure activity. But when you?re really on the hunt, you have a deadline looming, and your target location is nearly 9,000 miles away, it can be serious business.
In 2015, Tara Morton and Nick Walbridge?both public servants in New Zealand?s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade?were nearing the end of several years in New York when they began looking for a house to settle in when they returned to Wellington.
As the couple searched, Morton stumbled upon an a listing for a circa-1965 house with a California modernist sensibility and Japanese influence.
The house?s facade features native Hinuera stone, reminiscent of limestone.
It had an elegant facade of native Hinuera stone and the interiors got plenty of natural light through broad windows and sliding glass doors. Much of the interior was lined with native Rimu wood, which lent the spaces warmth. Its small pond, tennis court, and pool were surrounded by lush gardens dotted with Japanese maples, cherry trees, and magnolia trees.
Technically a three-bedroom, two-bath and a little over 4,000 square feet in size, the home was divided into what Walbridge and Morton refer to now as three ?wings?: one for living and dining, one for the bedrooms, and one for a studio. (The couple has heard from neighbors that the owner might have gotten his plans from a California design.) They were smitten.
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