When Hannah and Tim first set eyes on, what was at the time, the worst house on one of Wellington’s most well-known streets, they knew they could restore it to its former glory. “We immediately fell in love with the historic suburb,” says Hannah. With other character-filled homes dotting the neighbourhood, she had an ambitious vision: “I wanted us to be known as ‘the beautiful villa with the red door’.” And now, after years of hard work and a sophisticated Resene colour palette invigorated with a splash of bold red Resene Poppy, Hannah’s vision has been realised.
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Thanks to a host of renovations over the decades, it had lost many of it's charming character details. |