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		<title>2009 Wrap Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the incredible lack of posting on the site we have been doing loads of work. Also because we&#8217;re completely insane and obviously don&#8217;t have enough to do in Mahakirau we bought a house in the city that needs renovating so we&#8217;ve been successfully keeping ourselves out of trouble. For the most part.
Since my last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the painting begin!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After too many months of writing about what is going on with our gorgeous little cottage in the bush I am happy to say we are finally at the stage of painting. Let the fun begin! The weather has started to change finally and we are seeing slightly warmer days and a little less rain. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With a little help from our friends&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s been a big time since we havenâ€™t updated our blog with the latest works, although most of it is in our photo section. Since then the flooring has been completed, looks amazing and is already well used and abused, we have been doing many things&#8230;
Late February we started to sleep in the house, even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahouseonthehill.com/archives/21</link>
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		<title>February 2009 &#8211; The endless completion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we last wrote, the house was starting to grow up from the ground and the framing was up. At this stage, we thought everything would go fast and our builder was confident our house would be finished (shell only) before Christmasâ€¦early December. The plans were to complete the house when we were in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahouseonthehill.com/archives/19</link>
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		<title>October&#8230;our house is growing up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow (Oh la vache) time flies. We&#8217;ve been a bit slack in the writing and photo uploading department lately but we&#8217;re catching up now. There are five, count them FIVE, fresh, new photo albums with loads of fabulous photos. Go check them out!
In the past month there&#8217;s been quite a lot of progress on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a builder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In New Zealand, the building sector has been crazy for a decade. The country was for sale, signs everywhere advertising for the best building spot, the best house to renovate, the blank canvas..It was said that finding a builder in all that building/renovating party would be a nightmare&#8230;So at an early stage, we started to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahouseonthehill.com/archives/16</link>
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		<title>The holy battle for a building consent</title>
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For any house-dreamer, the term building consent gives a chill from head to toe straight away. We were not different than others. The perspective of getting into this battle with council &#8211; hereafter named &#8216;the Devil&#8217; &#8211; impacted on our choice of a local architect and on some of design decisions. In the last months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahouseonthehill.com/archives/14</link>
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		<title>The First Mahakirau Tipi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re getting all fancy now. We&#8217;re the talk of the town. 
We have our very own tipi!
A while ago we thought it would be great to have a tipi on the land as a sleep-out. As it turns out our architect had one is his backyard when we went to visit him one day and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahouseonthehill.com/archives/13</link>
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		<title>Building the shed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seb&#8217;s been doing a lot of writing here lately so I am jumping in in between the French homework I should be doing with the laundry whizzing around behind me like a jet engine and I&#8217;ll talk about something we did this past weekend. 
We built a shed!
Well, sorta kinda. Almost. 
We had a three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahouseonthehill.com/archives/11</link>
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		<title>Choosing a house and recycled materials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we started to have this idea of a house in the bush, we wanted something genuine, not a box with plastic cladding and aluminum windows. We didnâ€™t want an &#8216;airport&#8217; as we call the outrageous black and grey concrete platforms city people tend to build on beautiful coastal slopes. We wanted to go back [...]]]></description>
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