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How Kiwi Live: professional skateboarder Elissa's board and plant-riddled Christchurch cottage
When not competitively skating around the world she’s sunbathing in her plant jungle with partner Miles and cat Mango.
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Downhill Skateboarding World Champion Elissa Mah shares her Christchurch cottage, a home she describes as a "cottagecore skate jungle". She lives in the Spreydon weatherboard house with her partner and cat, purchased in 2021 after a successful crypto investment funded her deposit.
Elissa’s favourite parts of her home are the sprawling garden oasis and the sunny, plant-filled dining area. A sentimental, handmade first skateboard is her most irreplaceable item. Future plans may include a renovation.
Her home style in three words
The meaning of home
On financing the house
On choosing the house
On flatting as an adult
Original photo from the property listing
Favourite memory in this home
Favourite part of the home
What she’d save in a fire
On ending the day
On entertaining
On long term renovations
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