This 140-year-old police barracks had no running water, electricity or doors, but it wasn't enough to put Kim and Alan off transforming it into their family home.
The last thing former Sydneysiders Kim and Alan expected to happen during a weekend exploring, was to stumble upon their future family home.
After thinking about it for six months, Kim and Alan spent $207,000 to buy the property in 2019, which also included the burnt-out remains and licence to the town's pub. Along with the building's police past, the stones it's made of, and the many fossils within them, speak to a time hundreds of millions of years ago when the land was formed.And if that wasn't enough to entice Kim and Alan, the cottages sit on a plot of land with access to the Goodradigbee River.
In the stretches of bad weather or when the sun went down, Alan kept himself busy with the mammoth job of patching and rendering the interior walls."Then I’ll sponge it down and get the real nice sponge finish on it."Despite their hard work, Kim and Alan's original budget and deadline flew by and the goal to have it as a weekend project was thrown out the window.After selling their house in Sydney, the pair set up camp on-site in their caravan.
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