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Tiny home living in a food forest comes with perk of colourful converted caravan

A Wairoa tiny home and food forest transformed with a colourful caravan mural adds creativity to simple living.

Wairoa’s Vicky White used the old caravan for storage and as a shed, but it was looking ‘a little rundown’. So she talked to a local artist. Photo: FLORENCE CHARVIN

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Unchanged since the 60s, architect’s unique home comes to market

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