Australian Country

Set in STONE

As celebratory outings go it was the one that blew all the others out of the water. As Sarah Beaumont recalls her 2012 birthday, her partner, Ian Glover, hit on the idea of a trip to the country to check out a property he’d seen for sale online. Sarah’s career as an organisational development training manager and Ian’s as an air traffic control systems installation manager meant they were always on the go in opposite directions and pretty much passing each other in the hallway of their inner-Melbourne home.

“Apparently all people could see was all the work that was needed. All I could see was the potential in the house.”

“We were both living high-stress lives,” Sarah recalls. “So the idea of a tree change had

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