THEIR PLACE CATHERINE AND CASS GOODWIN

Catherine Goodwin is an architectural graduate/designer and founder of Mosaiame, a magnetic tile company. She lives in a two-bedroom cottage in central Christchurch with her husband Cass Goodwin, a structural engineer, and Nuit, their 8-year-old Burmese c

Catherine and Cass Goodwin designed the ladder to the mezzanine and had it made by local steel fabricators. The Māori king and queen artwork was given to the couple by their interior designer friend Neil McLachlan. //

CATHERINE: We moved to Christchurch from Auckland in 2013 with Cass’ job. We rented for a year before finding this place. It was previously a 55m2 worker’s cottage built around 1870. We looked at a lot of houses but loved this one because of its character – we knew whichever house we bought we’d end up playing around with, to put an expression of ourselves into it. But we didn’t want a house where all the character had been ripped out.

We also fell in love with the location – it’s a stone’s throw from Hagley Park where we ride our bikes.

We spent five years living here before we did the renovation, getting a feel for the place and how we use it. We firstly landscaped and turned a garden