Luke and his family were sound asleep when disaster struck
Luke Hanan, 45, Tauranga, NZ
Dipping my brush into the bucket of white paint, I applied a final coat to the living room wall. Taking a step back, I looked around at all our hard work – a whopping two years of house renovations.
‘We’re finally finished!’ I beamed to my partner Teressa, then 34.
I’d purchased the four-bedroom house located at the bottom of a hill in Tauranga, NZ, a few years earlier in 2019.
It needed a lot of work, but we planned to transform it into our dream home for our blended family, including my kids, Natalie, then 14, Morgan, 12, and Mason, nine, and Teressa’s children, Blake, 12, and Bailie, nine.
Aside from painting, we’d also…
