Church house

Shop recommended products from Crystal B. on www.amazon.com. Learn more about Crystal B.'s favorite products.

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...

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.

I wonder if it would be creepy to be naked in front of various religious figures every day. (But this is cool enough I probably wouldn't mind. I just have weird thoughts. Ignore me.)

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)

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

Deconsecrated churches are increasingly regarded as ripe for renovation. See how 8 former churches became stunning homes.