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Purchased in 2018, the former Sacred Heart Church was renovated with reclaimed materials, gained complete residential structure, and ended up sold in Canada in 2021
On the outside, the Sacred Heart Church, in Princeton, Ontario, Canada, maintains the appearance of a temple, but was transformed into a church-house with over 330 square meters after renovations led by Jonathon Harmer and Lynn Perreault, purchased in 2018 and completed in stages until 2020.
Purchase and project
Built in 1888, the church was acquired by the couple from Harper and Co. in 2018. The internal renovation began in the spring of 2019 and ended in December of the same year, totaling 8 months of work.
Jean-Marc Perreault, Lynn’s brother, acted as the general contractor and executed the couple’s ideas for the church-house.
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Works and pause
After the owners moved in, the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted part of the schedule. In 2020, an additional two months were needed to finalize the exterior, including the workshop and porch.
Even with the pause, Lynn stated that the project had a positive outcome.
Investment and sale
According to Lynn, the renovation consumed over 700 thousand Canadian dollars, equivalent to over R$ 3.4 million.
In the fall of 2021, the property was sold by Brian Ellis for 1.2 million Canadian dollars, nearly R$ 4.3 million.
The buyer of the church-house was the couple David and Julie Carswell.
Structure and materials
The project’s proposal was to save an empty church that could be demolished or abandoned.
To achieve this, reclaimed materials were used, such as wood and beams from a local barn, a store counter, and doors from a century-old house.
Interior and memory of the Church-house
The church-house has three bedrooms, bathrooms, a ceiling height of nearly eight meters, a kitchen with a four-meter island, granite countertops, custom Mennonite cabinets, a basement, laundry room, and a craft bar area.
With the support of a historian, the couple researched the history of the church and gathered details and photographs about the property.
With information from CNN.
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