Simon Farrell-Green14:25, May 11 2021
Sam Hartnett/Here
Tim Wernham spent a year building the house. With Tara Brady’s help, they built almost the entire thing themselves.
This article first appeared in Here magazine and is re-published with permission.
Tim Wernham and Tara Brady had all but given up hope of finding land in central Wellington when they came across a small section in Hataitai that seemed too good to be true.
“All the sites we were looking at were steep and covered with trees,” says Brady, of the search. Most, says Wernham, were “basically unbuildable. More than one real-estate agent told us that we could have views, access or sun – pick one.”