Meet the Best Friends Who Opened an Instagram-Famous Motel During the Pandemic
August 24, 2021 at 05:09PM When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, April Brown and Sarah Sklash were elbow-deep in their renovation of a rundown 1970s motel. Facing strict time constraints, a dwindling budget and an ominous uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, the Canadian entrepreneurs had a turbulent journey ahead of them — and it was all filmed for a Netflix original show, Motel Makeover. The six-episode docuseries takes viewers alongside Brown and Sklash’s process of gutting, renovating and launching The June Motel in Sauble Beach, Ontario during the thick of the pandemic. Luckily, the best-friends-turned-business-partners don’t shy away from a challenge. In 2016, they both quit their desk jobs in Toronto to follow their entrepreneurial aspirations and open their first motel property, The June Motel in Prince Edward County. But for their second motel renovation, things were more complicated,…
