Back in 2013, Simon and Lauren purchased a 1.5-acre riverfront property that housed a 60sqm derelict sandstone chapel and cemetery. Labelled a “high-risk ruin” by the bank and warned against it by family and friends, the couple found the opportunity was “too seductive to refuse”, and over 16 months, they single-handedly turned the abandoned chapel into a modern, two-bedroom home. However, six years and two children later, Simon and Lauren had outgrown the chapel and had come to the “realisation that we would either have to think creatively about extension or sell. Selling
