Mt eden villa

Our studio loves heritage renovation projects. This project even more special in that it was for one of our own team. When they were searching for a new family home, Pac Studio director Aaron and wife Kate were looking for a housing type rather than a suburb. A villa built close to the ground, with wide hallways and generous doorways would provide Kate, a wheelchair user, with better flow and manoeuvrability. The search led them to Maungawhau Mount Eden, a 1910 transitional villa on a flat site, with a large verandah and elegant proportions. The downsides, while few, included a small kitchen in the middle of the house and a complicated arrangement of doors, the result of the house being split into flats at some stage in its past. Captio... More