Church home

In creating a dream home, sometimes you have to think outside the box and see potential in run-down fixer uppers or strangely laid out homes. And sometimes, you have to think really far outside of the box, like Suzy Batiz did in renovating her home, which started its life in the early 1900s as a Methodist church.

A Victorian seminary chapel has been reborn as an 8,000 sq ft home in the capital's Mill Hill, complete with spa, sauna and soaring ceilings...

Image 3 of 29 from gallery of Tas's Church / Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos. Photograph by Carlos Garmendia Fernández

Churches can be converted into beautiful spaces. Small churches or big churches they can be converted into modern homes, hotels, restaurants of even a skate park.

For Sale By Owner: Converted Church to Residential title. AS IS. Cash sale preferred. So you will have some basic code work to do before you can move in. Much of that will depend on your design requirements in lighting heating etc. 6000 ft.² two levels 10,000 square-foot lot. Opposite the Carnegie Free library in McKeesport (which is just south of Pittsburgh)

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