Home Bodies
Glenn and Lindy Capellie take JOHN VAN KLAVEREN on a tour of their award-winning home spliced neatly into the countryside of Inverleigh.
Pictures: Reg Ryan
It was the landscape that captured Glenn and Lindy Capelli.
“We fell in love with the land,” Lindy says simply.
“The land chose us, really.”
A chance encounter after inspecting a house for sale near Inverleigh led the pair to stumble across an estate about to be released.
“We were looking for a country place but nothing appealed,” Lindy says.
With the undulating acres calling them, the Capellis instead set about building their ideal abode.
But while the land was perfect, the first attempt at building was far from it, leading the couple to almost abandon their project.
“It was so disappointing,” Lindy admits.
“We invested a year for it to fall through, basically through a serious lack of communication.
“We felt like just selling the block but then we knew we just had to get back on the horse despite the disappointment.”
After talking to several builders, Glen and Lindy settled on Pivot Homes because of the open communication.
The association wasn’t surprising because Glenn’s business is all about communication – he’s an internationally-known public speaker, author, songwriter and radio and television presenter.
Lindy, with a television career herself, designed his book, Thinking Caps.
Read the full story in the latest Geelong Coast Magazine – out now.
