HITS THE RIGHT NOTES
Designed over three levels, the middle level’s big, open-plan kitchen/dining area is homeowner Anastasia Dailianis’ favourite space. It’s here where her “kitchen choir” drinks wine, eats cheese and sings cover songs. All the walls are painted Resene Rice Cake and the veneer patterned cork floor tiles are from Portugal Cork.
KITCHEN/DINING
A reupholstered armchair is placed in a sunny spot in this communal space, which is one of the many areas to sit back and enjoy a song. In this house that could be performed by Anastasia’s “kitchen choir” or from the songbirds in the Titirangi bush.
Labour of love doesn’t come close to describing what Anastasia Dailianis and Haydn Kerr have poured into the only home they’ve ever owned. It’s thrown up an unwelcome surprise or two and the remedying has taken more time and money than they ever envisaged. However, after corrective work and a renovation, the 250sqm house in the bush suburb of Titirangi in Auckland’s west provides everything they want and need. “We love it,” says Anastasia. And if they ever decide to sell, the new owners won’t be left with expensive revelations. It was, the Buddhist couple reasoned, the right thing to do.
Just the right notes
The house, with a distinct mid-century sensibility, works for the family
