For Richelle Cooper and her brother Errol Sanders, growing up in the big blue house opposite Kohimarama Primary School was the best. They were the envy of other kids because they could "nip home across the road for lunch and later on, jump on our bikes and be at Selwyn College in under 10 minutes", says Richelle.
Their dad Brian Sanders started the Ponderosa dairy and tea rooms in Kohimarama and when he sold it in the 1960s, he and his wife Joan spent the money on "their lovely big dream home".
That's when Brian began a new window-cleaning business. And in the late 1970s he employed Richelle's future husband, who later took over the business with Errol.
Like Kohi school and many homes in this area, theirs was built in the 1930s. Except, back then it was a maternity home, which explains the extra-wide entry and the porte cochere in the drive-through.
It was the waiting room for pregnant mothers. Over the years, several people have dropped by to say they knew somebody who had been born here, including a friend of Max Cryer who told them Max was one such baby.
