Learning curve: Building a house pa a near-vertical coastal section has been ai welcome new challenge fora Wellington c'oupte

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BUYING A WINDSWEPT, near-vertical section and building a new house isn't top of the to-do list for most people in their 70s. Everyone said the Perrys were mad to do it. "Brand new section, brand new house, new garden. They were partly right," concedesAlan Perry. Especially when his wife, Luba, fell over on the steep, rocky site they had owned for just weeks and broke her leg. But today all that is forgotten as the couple survey their partially tamed section and Kapiti's orange evening sky from their wide, low-slung living area.