Courtyard dreams

The front door to this square-front villa in Grey Lynn, Auckland, might look typical but it’s a portal to another time and place.

CLAIRE MCCALL

When Nick and Clare McIntosh and their two primary-school-aged children moved in to their new home in the Auckland neighbourhood of Grey Lynn, they already knew the house. “We had lived [two doors down],” says Clare. They also knew what changes they wanted to make. UK-born Clare was inspired by the work of designer John Pawson – the consummate minimalist – whose ideas she came across as a child. “My grandfather and father were both builders,” she explains, “so we had lots of architecture books around the house.” Later, when she worked at the BBC, she produced a documentary on Pawson – and, later still, while working on a travel programme about New Zealand, she fell in love with the country and relocated. Then she met Nicholas, a builder. Her…

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