Want to spend more time in church?

Posted on Tue, 26 Apr 2011 by midcenturyjo

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.

Melanie says:

Oh. My. God. Gorgeous! From the doors to the sheer curtains – so many cool things!

homestilo says:

When you see pictures from the outside, it's hard to believe that it is the same place on the inside. Amazing transformation.

Bev65 says:

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!

Bev65 says:

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!

Ree says:

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

KiM says:

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.

denise says:

Would have loved to have seen this place prior to its desecration. Appalling.

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