NEW LEASE ON LIFE
WHEN GAYLE LAMB and Trevor Finlayson chanced upon a rundown stone cottage on the edge of Maldon, a goldfields town about 140km north-west of Melbourne, they knew that they’d struck it lucky. Originally constructed about 160 years ago, the structure was in a state of disrepair, but it presented a challenge the seasoned renovators were happy to take on.
“Oh, it was rugged all right,” says Gayle. “I suspect a lot of people before us had looked at it and run a mile. We were looking for a
