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Susan Weil

IT WAS SO NAFF INSIDE – THERE WERE JUST A COUPLE OF BUNKS AND ROTTEN SOFAS. IT WAS JUST A SHELL REALLY; IT HAD A DIRT FLOOR WITH GRASS GROWING OUT OF IT, AND THAT WAS ABOUT IT.

SOME PEOPLE TAKE ONE LOOK at a place and that’s it. However, Susan Weil definitely didn’t fall in love at first sight when she saw photographs online of a shed at Hernani, not far from Dorrigo in New South Wales. “Of all the sheds out there, this was the ugliest one I could have bought,” she says. “It was 1980s daggy – definitely not cool.”

But Susan, apart from being handy with a set of tools, also seems ridiculously imaginative – she can look at

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