Your Home and Garden

Room to grow

MEET + GREET

Shaye Woolford, 33 (owner of On My Hand floral design studio), Blair Woolford, 39 (general manager of sales), Hunter, 10, and George, 8, plus Benoit the dog and Willow the cat.

Shaye and Blair Woolford didn’t have to venture far to find the perfect site to build their family home on. In 2016, on an evening stroll around their Pyes Pa, Tauranga, neighbourhood, they stumbled across a newly released section that was a step up from the one they’d just built on.

“The section was bigger and north-facing, it had a playground and reserve directly across the road and – with a growing family – it gave us the opportunity

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