Love, actually: This house on Auckland's North Shore is the scenes of a long-distance love story

摘要

The interior of Cassandra Ellis' Northcote Point cottage has more than a touch of English romance about it. Her thoughtfully chosen combination of velvets, silks, chintzy florals, mismatched chairs, pine cabinets and battered antique chests is a serendipitous, not to say deliciously apt, decorating style since, for the past fifteen months, Cassandra's home has been the backdrop to her own English romance with London-based Ed Prichard. In January last year Cassandra was strolling along a suburban GreyLynn street, minding her own business, when a holidaying patron enjoying a tipple in the Gypsy Tea Room took one look at her and was smitten. That patron was Ed and he and Cassandra have been conducting a long-distance love affair ever since. Evidentlyhe is now a commuter, travelling frequently between Auckland and London, where he works in advertising as a creative director.