The one time sanctuary is now the cozy living room complete with a newly added fireplace and lowered timber ceiling.(Photo: Frank Espich/The Star)

The obvious thing would have been to convert the baptismal into a hot tub all their friends suggested it but Joel and Lauren Hope Harsin figured they needed a pantry more than they needed a hot tub, so the baptismal became a pantry.

Plus, said Lauren, "We might have had a problem with humidity." And on top of that: "When we have kids, we'd worry about safety."

Such practicality would seem at odds with the 30-something couple's earlier decision to pay $85,000 for a raccoon-infested, century-old church building that had sat vacant since the early '90s then put some $400,000 more into it.

"Well, we both like projects," explained Joel, "and we both had experience."

In fact when Joel and Lauren met, in 2009 on Match.com, it was renovation that brought them close. He, a firefighter with the Indianapolis Fire Department, was fixing up a 1918 house in Irvington. She, an interior designer, was doing the same to an old house in the Kennedy-King neighborhood.

They married in 2011 and soon after bought the old Second Christian Church building on West 9th Street in the Ransom Place neighborhood. The seller was the preservation group Indiana Landmarks.

Landmarks had acquired the African-American landmark in 2007, saving it from court-ordered demolition by agreeing to stabilize it to the tune of $200,000. It then put the church up for sale.

For four years the property sat. "Not everyone sees residential potential in a historic church," Landmarks' Mark Dollase said. "The Harsins have imagination and a creative approach."

The project naturally has dominated the Harsins' spare time. They left the framing and the drywall to others but did about everything else themselves. She ran new electrical wiring, an electrician checking her work. He painted and assembled a faux stone fireplace. She installed toilets and faucets. Her father made stair railings. She found antique objects an organ, closet doors with help from her mother, who owns the home furnishings shop Chatham Home.

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Without a doubt, turmeric has the most potent yellow color in the world of food, so potent that the yellow can easily stain fingers, clothing andcountertops.

Powdered turmeric is the main component in curry spice. Fresh turmeric is livelier and packs more savory goodness than the dried counterpart. It can bring ethnic-style food tolife.

Common to Asian cooking, turmeric comes from the rhizome or root of Curcuma longa, a plant closely related to ginger. The rhizomes are quite similar in appearance to ginger root, just smaller and morecolorful.

Peeled and sliced, raw fresh turmeric has a deep

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Fresh turmeric root offers bright, bold flavors when added to savory dishes, fruit smoothies and other recipes. Shown in the background are two dishes from Taste of India featuring turmeric, one with okra and tomato, and the other has cauliflower andpotato. (Full-size photo)

Without a doubt, turmeric has the most potent yellow color in the world of food, so potent that the yellow can easily stain fingers, clothing andcountertops.

Powdered turmeric is the main component in curry spice. Fresh turmeric is livelier and packs more savory goodness than the dried counterpart. It can bring ethnic-style food tolife.

Common to Asian cooking, turmeric comes from the rhizome or root of Curcuma longa, a plant closely related to ginger. The rhizomes are quite similar in appearance to ginger root, just smaller and morecolorful.

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On the rooftop deck above the new Ruby Suites apartments sits a massive, 10-foot-long concrete table with a fire feature down the middle. In one of the adjoining first-floor restaurants is an 4- by 8-foot firepit.

Both were created by Concrete Habitat, a local company launched by Jim Spider Brown. Several years ago, Brown partnered with Willie Wilson, a former landdeveloper.

Spraying concrete into custom molds, the pair turn out projects ranging from simple coffee tables to elaborate countertops with seamless built-insinks.

Glass fibers embedded in the concrete permit architectural elements to be cast as thin as

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While mother Lidia Flores (left) answers questions about her new apartment, her son Christian Ulloa and daughter Fatima Ulloa share a quiet moment reflected in a mirror. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee welcomed the first occupants of the new Broadway Sansome family housing development in North Beach Wednesday April 1, 2015.

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Mayor Ed Lee handed over the keys to Lidia Flores for her new apartment although she has been moved in for two weeks. Her daughter Fatima Ulloa is at right. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee welcomed the first occupants of the new Broadway Sansome family housing development in North Beach Wednesday April 1, 2015.

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