From Finance To Farming: A Farmhouse Reno Introduces A New Way Of Life

It’s a classic tale: Debbie Gray left a busy life in financial services in Toronto and moved to the country to raise chickens and make honey with her company, Heritage Bee. She and her partner renovated a 30-year-old-old farmhouse in the Hills of Mulmur, Ontario, enlarging the kitchen and updating the bathrooms and mudroom to make it light and bright. The farmhouse was faithfully built to mimic century houses in the area, but Debbie swapped out the dining room for a new home office for her business. After converting an outbuilding into a chicken coop, the oversized garage was renovated to create a 1,000-square-foot apartment to accommodate Airbnb clients, and eventually her own family. See how the fairytale unfolds (with a star appearance by a chicken named Betty White!).