BRAD & LARA THE SHOW MADE US MULTIMILLIONAIRES!

MADE IN ROMANACAPELARIK GARA MADURAN WENTNER This is not a drill! Woman's Day travelled to Byron Bay to catch up with the former season five favourites

It's been 11 years since Newcastle fitter and turner Brad Cranfield and his schoolteacher wife Lara made a record-setting $506,000 profit after renovating a home in Melbourne, with the windfall changing their lives forever.

With the $100,000 prize money on top, they took home $606,000 in 2012, before Brad returned to The Block two years later with former rival Dale Vine and picked up $253,625 each, despite the pair coming last in that Fans V Faves season.

NAILED IT! 

Good fortune has shone on Brad and Lara ever since.

They bought a 25-hectare block of land at Bishops Bridge in the Hunter Valley for $510,000 with their first win and transformed a humble weatherboard house they trucked in from Newcastle into a magnificent glass and wood dream home.