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11 Auckland Villa Renovation Ideas That Keep the Character

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Originally posted on 11 Auckland Villa Renovation Ideas That Keep the Character Superior Renovations - Auckland’s Trusted Home Renovation Specialists 11 Villa Renovation Ideas That Update an Auckland Villa Without Wrecking the Character Quick answer: The best villa renovation ideas modernise the back of the house, leave the front alone, and treat original features — sash windows, kauri floors, scotia, ceiling roses — as design assets rather than problems. In Auckland’s Special Character Areas, what you do to the streetscape will likely need resource consent, so plan the modern bits at the rear and the heritage work to the front. You buy the villa for the bay window. The kauri floors hiding under the carpet. The 3-metre stud heights and the scotia detail. And then you live in it for a winter, and you realise the sash window in the front bedroom hasn’t opened since the Lange government, the fireplace was bricked over by the previous owner, and the kitchen still feels like ...
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Renovation Builders Auckland: Why Specialists Aren’t Generalists

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Originally posted on Renovation Builders Auckland: Why Specialists Aren’t Generalists Superior Renovations - Auckland’s Trusted Home Renovation Specialists Renovation Builders in Auckland: What Sets a Specialist Apart From a New-Build Builder Quick answer: Renovation builders work inside an existing house, with all its surprises, while new-build builders work from a flat section. The skills overlap, but the day-to-day job isn’t the same — and the wrong pick on an Auckland renovation can cost you weeks of time and tens of thousands of dollars. Imagine you’ve signed a fixed-price quote on a $35,000 bathroom reno in your 1925 Grey Lynn villa. Day three of demolition, the builder pulls the wall off behind the shower. The framing’s spongey. There’s a slow leak that’s been seeping into the bearer below the floor for the past decade. He looks at you and says: “I haven’t done this before. I’ll need to bring in another guy. The price need...
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