The luxury five-bedroom, three-bathroom mountain lodge-style home on Heaton Drive, Tai Tapu, is for sale for the first time. Photo: Supplied A Canterbury couple spent an unexpected decade developing their own Grand Designs-style home where they can stand on their deck and shoot wild deer roaming in a private valley. While Jason and Megan Wood opted for their ambitious project to stay off the TV, they did enlist the expert help of builder Clive Barrington who was well used to building elaborate homes.
But due to delays with the design and build, the Woods have spent more time planning and building their Tai Tapu home than they have lived in it, OneRoof reported. They are now selling their labour of love at 4/82 Heaton Drive, Tai Tapu, which tested both their patience and budget, to be nearer to their teenage daughters’ school and activities in Christchurch. The couple first fell in love with the 4.
38ha bare section in a sun-lit valley-within-a-valley near Tai Tapu after the earthquakes in late 2010 and early 2011. It was their second time building a home and they had set ideas about how they wanted the house to look. “I had always wanted to build something cool – I don’t know if I would ever do it again.
The last house I built, it was a nice house but it wasn’t a dream house and this was,” Jason Wood told OneRoof . Photo: Supplied To realise their ambitious vision of a chalet-inspired home with large windows and high ceilings in the foothills, they first enlisted t.