Sick with stress: Sunrise star Edwina Bartholomew’s country reno takes its toll [Video]

Sunrise Presenter Edwina Bartholomew’s ambitious hotel renovation hasn’t even started and it’s already six months behind schedule.

“We have had bronchitis, pneumonia and gastro on top of the usual planning delays, it hasn’t been pretty”, Edwina told realcommercial.com.au.

“I’m joking that’s it’s a ’s***-show’ because we have been talking a lot about effluent removal and the placement of the new septic. We are only now just getting into the fun stuff like paint colours.”

Edwina and her husband, Neil sold their house in Sydney a year ago this month to buy a dilapidated guest house in Carcoar in country NSW.

“We optimistically hoped that we would be all hands on deck by now but we are well and truly still in the planing stages. We submitted the initial DA but then quickly realised there were a lot of aspects we needed to tighten up like accessibility, fire and waste removal,” …