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ight-year-old twins Agnes and Flora Noergaard have two homes, of a sort – right next to each other. The girls, their mum Vida Christeller and their father Kasper Noergaard live next door to Vida’s parents’ home in York Bay, Eastbourne. Architect and jeweller Fiona Christeller and her husband Nigel Oxley (a former architect) own both homes on a subdivided section. One house shares a single driveway with three other houses. For clarity’s sake, in this story about two households, let’s call Fiona and Nigel’s home the “little house” (which they built in 2011) – and Vida, Kasper and their daughters’ home the “big house” (built in the 1930s). They’re separated by what Fiona calls the “democratic space”: a lawn, vege garden and small orchard, which provides produce and privacy. This three-generational arrangement began two years ago, when Vida, Kasper, and the girls moved to New Zealand from Copenhagen, Kasper’s home town. “Vida and Kasper both have full-time jobs in the city,” Fiona
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