Bright spark
Nov 10, 2019
4 minutes
Text by Sharon Stephenson.
Photography by Anna Briggs.
On a windy Wellington day, the yellow front door of Fran and Ben Storey’s Houghton Bay home is a vivid beacon amid a grey landscape. Beyond it lies a collector’s heaven: here a vintage wooden oar, there a quirky artwork… The only constant is colour.
Until recently, Fran ran a homeware styling business which mixed pre-loved items with more contemporary pieces.
“Clients would get a group of friends together and I’d take along products that I’d help them style,” says Fran, who moved to New Zealand from the UK with husband Ben in 2003.
But when this started to
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