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sh a boy I used to make mud houses and
we used to dig my poor mother's Garden
up in places and put planks over and
sort of have caves and we we'd play in
that so I've always enjoyed making
something that accommodates one you
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know we were flying Europe and I
suddenly play an idea for the house and
sketched it and I had such a lot of
confidence in the sketch that when we
did the working drawings we we actually
referred to the sketch quite
of this chimney is is ridiculously overs
scaled but that's that's what came on
the first
sketch we started building the house in
1964 we had very very little money at
the time so that's why we built
ourselves we felt that the children
should help us to build this house so
that they could feel part of the
creation of something very
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special the name of the house of course
is the S the
house so the house is actually named
after the fireplace
the first thing if if you're designing
in camps Bay is of course to cope with
the wind it can be vicious and
continuous
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every single tree here went put
in site was virtually
empty she loves swimming I built a
swimming Bo down here
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the front door I used a few old hot
water cylinders cut those up copper ones
it's a very very substantial heavy door
if you shut that door you'd hear it goes
with a real
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clunk we've been living in this house
since 1965
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life it's quite amazing how the house
has adapted itself to different
requirements as we have lived in
it I'm
91 I do go to the office every
day we're very happily married thank
goodness after 65 years and uh fact that
I can live here with Gwen is what makes
it nice for me
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