His and hers

A resourceful couple with complementary strengths transformed a run-down rural Waihi property into a quaint country retreat for two.

PHOTOGRAPHY ALICE VEYSEY

Kay Burne has learnt to eat her words. When her husband Ken found the Waihi property they now happily call home, she declared in horror: “I am not going to live there.” Back then the section, which lies on the main highway just north of the Hauraki District town, featured a little characterless house in a barren paddock, surrounded by barbed wire and old tin fencing. True to her word, she didn’t live there – at first. They bought two houses and tidied up both properties, and only then did Kay join Ken at the one that had initially horrified her. “All that has changed now,” she says of the home base where they’ve laboured together to transform both the house and its 2900sqm site. Bird feeders and old bedheads feature within flourishing…

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Haven (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2022

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