Despite oamaru's prevailing north-easterlies, as often as not Vicky and Roan Lee can fling open the bifold doors on two walls of their rural living room and open it up to the elements. So almost everything that lives outside the house - known to locals as the Red Tin House -seems part of the interior. Which includes the drunken woman sprawling in the backyard planter box, two old biddies - Mrs Brown and Mrs White - scratching and prodding among the hazelnut trees (more about them later) and a peacockfashioned from moss, cabbage tree leaves and silver birch twigs that surges out of the Corokia 'Silver Ghost' hedge by the front door. "What I like most about the house," says Vicky, "is feeling like you're outside when you're inside and vice versa. Wereally worked on that when we were planning it."
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