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The dark, cedar-clad home on Christchurch’s Cashmere Hills didn’t always look like a contemporary beauty. Once upon a time it was a plasterclad house with an orangetiled roof and cream windows.
“It was an ugly duckling according to Tania,” says Dominic Manera about his