KITCHEN
Homeowner Jane Allerton-Browne, pictured with her children Max and Chloe, designed the kitchen island. “I took inspiration from a lot of the big American homesteads and the Hamptons look,” she says. The paint colour is Dulux Mayor Island.
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MEET & GREET
Jane Allerton-Browne (sales and marketing specialist for Stonebaths), her children, Chloe, 12, and Max, 10, cats Chad and Lady Maumau, pet lamb Sunshine, calf Woops, and chickens Henrietta, Ginger and Lady Clucksalot.
THE PROPERTY
Renovated 1940s farmhouse in Urenui, northern Taranaki.
or a self-confessed city girl like Jane Allerton-Browne, swapping red traffic lights for Red Bands and starry skies was not without its challenges. But, she says, she wouldn’t ever trade her family’s years in this rural corner of Taranaki. “I’ve lived in Urenui for nine years and love living out here. It’s the most beautiful community and a beautiful lifestyle for the kids,” she says. The farmhouse cottage shared by Jane and her two children, Chloe and Max, captures an idyllic vision of a rural Kiwi lifestyle – harvesting home-grown vegetables from the garden, children running barefoot in the paddocks, and the occasional chicken
