After almost three decades of renovations, Darren and Sue Turner have returned their 111-year-old home to what it once was.
For Darren Turner, there are no shortcuts in life. “You lay one brick on top of the other until you get a wall,” he says. And although he may be speaking metaphorically, this pretty much became his reality when he and his wife, Tess, bought their current family home in South Australia’s Naracoorte, a rural town 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide.
Built in 1911, the house, dubbed Rothiemay, belonged to the Humphries family right up until the…