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The best renovation-ready homes on the market across South Australia

Mahendra, 26/03/2025

There are plenty of great renovation projects on the market. Pic: realestate.com.au

Always wanted to buy a fixer-upper but never quite had the cash to throw at it?

There has never been a better time to do it, with the Federal Government’s HomeBuilder scheme offering eligible homeowners a $25,000 grant to help cover the costs of a major renovation.

The property needs to be valued at less than the national price cap of $1.5 million and you have to spend more than $150,000 on the renovation to qualify for the grant.

So if you haven’t already got a property you

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Smith College: News

Mahendra, 19/03/2025

Haven House Renovation: Best of Old and New

Much has changed in home construction since Smith College dedicated Haven House as a student residence in the early 1900s. Builders no longer insulate walls by filling them with bricks. And the design of windows and furnaces has progressed dramatically to improve energy efficiency.

Some changes, however, are not as welcome – the old-growth yellow pine that was once used as flooring is no longer available for that purpose.

So in planning the $5 million renovation of Haven House, a three-story student residence on Elm Street, designers made sure that the best

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‘Built for good’: Ramsdell House renovation unearths historic discoveries | News

Mahendra, 10/03/2025

CEREDO Little did Debbie Wolfe know when she began a renovation at the ZD Ramsdell House she would crack open a trove of Civil War treasures revealing more fully the significance of the house to American history.

Wolfe was asked to oversee the rehabilitation of the house, built in 1858 by Zophar Ramsdell, a New England abolitionist recruited to the area to establish an anti-slavery colony. She began the process in January 2019; a dedication ceremony took place in September.

“As we got into renovating, I was thinking it was just going to be patching holes in the walls and

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