Tuesday
Apr262011
Want to spend more time in church?
Tue, 26 Apr 2011
We love a good church conversion on Desire to Inspire so when I was real estate stalking in Adelaide in South Australia I all but shouted hallelujah when I came across this 1889 bluestone church given just a little contemporary makeover. Love it! Especially the "kitchen sign" and the supersized Tretchikoff. Link here while it lasts.
Reader Comments (18)
That is so so amazing. This blog is my homepage, and I drool over so many things. This isn't necessarily my decorating style, but I would not mind being her best friend and visiting daily!
Wow. I'd love to live at church! love the high ceilings and all the entrances to the yard
This is one of the better church conversions I've seen; I really like the pop art vibe. Don't you just love how someone went to that extra effort to place the cushions on their pointy ends? I wonder if it was the owner or the real estate agent? x
unbelievable!
I DO!! xx meenal
OH WOW, I drive past this place on my way to work everyday and have always wondered what it was like inside! Now I know!!! The bright red door always catches my attention as I drive past. I live just up the road (and around the corner). Didn't realise it had come on the market for sale, but did notice the owners have been very busy working away on it the past few weekends! Thanks for showing.
love the contemporary interior..the bright interior is fabulous and fun..
love the high chroma colors with the white walls as backdrop..
maureen
Love that front door. I don't attend church often but I did this past Sunday for Easter and I found my mind wandering and admiring the architecture and imagining what it'd be like as a home. :)
Oh. My. God. Gorgeous! From the doors to the sheer curtains - so many cool things!
When you see pictures from the outside, it's hard to believe that it is the same place on the inside. Amazing transformation.
LOVE LOVE LOVE that sign outside the kitchen " I didn't want a kitchen, but it came with the house" my sentiments exactly. Too funny!
LOVE LOVE LOVE that sign outside the kitchen " I didn't want a kitchen, but it came with the house" my sentiments exactly. Too funny!
AMAZING!! I would LOVE to come home to this everyday!
Amazing, Church outside and a great place to live inside. I like everything, but "the kitchen came with the house" is fantastic! congrats
Love this!! (And we've got the same Fisher & Paykel fridge!)
Actually I find this place very sad. Church conversions work best when the new interiors capture a sense of grandeur and higher thought: not necessarily in a religious sense, but merely an appreciation of the great and the transcendant.
In this case, however, a building devoted to the most solemn, profound and devoted precepts of the people who built it is now a repository of the loud, the shallow, the kitschy and the disposable. I'm a big fan of loud, shallow, kitschy and disposable, but not in this context. The architecture underlines the ephemeral worthlessness of the interiors.
kinda scary, but way cool.
Would have loved to have seen this place prior to its desecration. Appalling.