It seems The Block’s Sarah-Jane and Tom have moved on from their heartbreaking win on auction night as they have finished renovating not a luxury country home but rather a wholesome caravan home.
After finishing only $20,000.99 over the reserve in The Block finale, the couple was forced to sell their $80,000 Ford Ranger after admitting to Nine they had spent “more than $20,000 of our savings” to participate in the renovation series.
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The couple bought the caravan in 2017.
(Image: Instagram)The couple took to Instagram to share their renovation journey of the caravan they purchased roughly five years ago.
“Welcome to our caravan! We haven’t redecorated in over 5 years but we just love it (yes everything is from Kmart) we were saving to go to Europe in 2017 when we saw this old van and thought f-ck Europe let’s have our own piece of paradise,” Sarah-Jane wrote.
Sarah-Jane revealed the couple bought the “home away from home” for $12,000 and slowly began making changes. She noted Tom was a “work horse” as he built the roof and deck within separate weekends.
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“Some simple and cheap changes made quite the difference from carpet squares Tom laid to lino timber look flooring…..he also laid.
“Curtains I made some what effectively and a new tap to subway tiles in the kitchen and fake marble lino bench tops and of course in 2019 I told Tom I am no longer walking to the toilet blocks please build me a bathroom and after telling me I was dreaming…. he did it.
“We love our home away from home.”
The couple have since hit back at publications that have insisted they were ‘forced’ to live out of a caravan following their massive loss on The Block.
They reshared a screenshot of an article, and said: “Just letting you all know we are not living in a caravan, though if we were retired we totally would! Also how’s that dig at the Kmart furniture.”
The new move could be a well needed fresh start for the couple! Despite claiming they had “zero regrets” after the result on auction night, Tom and Sarah-Jane could use some positive news, especially after Sarah-Jane recently underwent a double mastectomy.
In an Instagram announcement, Sarah-Jane revealed she had waited five years for the preventative surgery after discovering she was a BRCA1 gene carrier which means she has an increased risk of developing breast cancer.
During the recovery process she said: “I’ve got some bruising, but all is going pretty well to be honest. And I do have nipples, for people asking! They were able to save my nipples; not everybody’s nipples are salvageable.”