Your Home and Garden

Talk of the Townhouse

ON THE OUTSIDE

When homeowners Mark Maiden and Sally Davidson first viewed this townhouse it was clad in monolithic plaster, which they’ve since replaced with timber ply, battens and wraparound windows.

LIVING

The white leather suite is from Corniche Interiors, Sally’s leather swivel chair is from The Vintage Shop, small coffee table with books on top from a French importer, and the glass pieces are op-shop finds.

e careful what you wish for. When Mark Maiden and Sally Davidson decided to replace the turned-timber staircase railing in their mid-’90s central-suburbs house in Auckland, the move triggered something much

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