Maungatapere lies 11km east of Whangārei and is home to Jock and Jane's renovated 110-year-old villa.

When Jock bought the property, there was a Skyline shed and an old villa sitting in the middle of a paddock. “There were no fences,” he says. “The lawns were a metre high and there were lots of weeds, and lots of things to do.” Initially he and his father planned to do the house up as a project and move it on, but over time the place grew on him. “I was like, no, let’s do it up to stay.”

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