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GOING bush

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HOUSE Clarence Container House (Hoahoa Nui)

LOCATION Clarence

INITIAL BUDGET $300,000

FINAL COST $450,000

DATE COMPLETED 2022

driving down the steep rutted mountain track and being greeted by a derelict caravan and rugged bushland might have sent some people scarpering right back to the top. But not Dennis and Karen Jones. They could see the potential and spectacular views that were ripe for the picking. The block was also in a bushfire-prone area. It was purchased in 2013, and before settlement, raging bushfires swept through.

“We returned to a vastly different

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