Fretwork reflected

Spent today cleaning the house and feeling very proud of our quirky turn of the century weatherboard villa. It's quite a modest little place, and in need of a lot of tlc, but it has some lovely features like wooden fretwork over the verandah, and doors and windows with coloured glass.

I imagine its first owner William Thomas Grundy - a Liverpudlian, educated in Birmingham - would have been very proud of it. When he had the house built in 1906 he was the first headmaster of Clyde Quay School one of the earliest public primary schools in Wellington.