Grand Designs Australia

THE MOTHER OF INVENTION

When Craig and Barbara Chalk embarked on their project — with no architect or builder enlisted to help them — it’s fair to say they rather underestimated the challenge they faced. Moving out of their “hodge podge” property in Easter 2015, little did they know it would be another four years before they’d move back in to their dream four-storey home.

The couple — owners of a pet accessory business and parents to two teenagers and a kelpie —

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