Finders keepers: Niel and Jette de Jong found a passion for preservation when they bought their Auckland art deco home

摘要

When Niel and Jette de Jong bought their art deco home in the Auckland suburb of Three Kings in 1991, they had no idea quite how much it would influence the direction of their lives - it even led to a change of career. After buying, they launched straight into a six-month project to remove all inauthentic fittings from the 1930s home, which had been built for a civil servant to a Government Drawing Office plan. In fact, some state houses of the period were built to the same plan.