Taste
In the beginning, there was a little bi-cultural French/New Zealand family. They lived 5 minutes from the centre of Auckland in a 1920s wooden bungalow that they would present for sale like this:
Here we can see suggestions of what they might look for in their dream French farmhouse when they finally made the move. The key things they would look for would be space, light, lush greenery and warm, wood-toned colours (having dearly loved their matai flooring). The challenge would be to find these things in a densely populated country (to kiwis) where the old stone based houses have tiny windows to help retain the heat in winters that sub-tropical Aucklanders can only imagine…
16 November, 2004 — 10h12 (Paris) | about us
