SURFERS SHACK STAYS IN SAFE HANDS

IT’S UP TO US

ryan.keen@news.com.au Monday, January 9, 2017 $300,000 transforming the distinctive 1950s-era slice of paradise, totally gutting the interior and turning it into a modern three-bedroom home with a study and two bathrooms.

They paid $870,000, buying it from a family who had passed it down the generations for more than 40 years.

Mr Weber said they had rented it to a couple for six months and plan to install a pool before putting it on Airbnb at the end of the year for Christmas holidays.

Leigh Weber and Julia Clare are keeping their 1950s Surfers Paradise shack to stop it from falling into developers’ hands. Picture: JERAD WILLIAMS