Proud house change winners

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 566, 13 December 1994, Page 10

Proud house change winners

Peter and Margaret Berry missed the programme which announced them as winners of a home renovation contest but it seemed half the North Island hadn't when the phone rang red hot afterwards. Mrs Berry told the Bulletin they heard the news of their win of the Open Home

'Before and After' renovation contest success the day after the programme went to air recently. They won a set of crockery for their efforts. Their house on Valley Road was built in 1918 as the mill manager's house for Wilson's Mill. It was bought by Peter' s father

David in 1927 and was home to three Berry men and their brides — David and Lurline, Bruce and Lynda and now Peter and Margaret. A small lean-to was added early on and the windows up-datedin the 1940s. The major alterations that led to the transformation

were started by Peter and Margaret in 1979. They chose to keep the early style with casement wooden windows, 10 foot ceiling stud, and added verandahs. The lean-to was taken down and a new gable roof added onto the back of the original house. Peter gives a big plug to local tradesmen who did the work: the alterations were done by Home Brothers carpenters Peter Geraghty, Karney Herewini and Ian Home, the joinery by Graham Murdie. Peter and Margaret' s own design sketches were drawn up by Neil Fraser.