This spot here was an unused part of the block
there's a nice gentle undulation through to the creek, beautiful view up to the north,
just a big standing eucalypt and it's a good crash site for 107R.
My name's David I'm part of the Fewson family
we've been here about 10 years in this beautiful Bundjalung Country we love living
here and I designed this and helped build it with a lot of mates of mine and my family.
We're in Tintenbar on the North Coast of New South Wales and 15 minutes from the coast,
gentle climate, gentle people, beautiful undulating country which we love.
As you come into the property at yelborough here I've got my daughter and her husband
and the two little kids live on the left and we live up the back me and
my wife and we have another airbnb which is primarily what this place has been built for.
The Ground House, you come down a nice driveway and it sort of opens up it's meant to be a secret.
I had this vision of a spaceship crashing in here my whole idea was a Jetson sort of
a building sort of organic I met a few mates around because we're pretty new to the area
and Jimmy Steele who did all the brass work here and a good mate of mine Whalen and they did a lot
of the cabinetry with me and Benny a concrete is another local character and we had a lot of fun.
It's a very simple layout, one bedroom, a kitchen, split up with a fireplace and a
bathroom off to the side. It's pretty sparse in there there's a nice curve in the corner where I
feel as though you can sort of as you're washing yourself you can get into the back of it and sort
of rub yourself around that curve, it works for me, it's sort of like a space I'd want to be in.
The bed's meant to look like it's hovering off the wall which was a bit of a hoo haa it's got some
steel braces underneath it but for the most part it looks like it's doing what it should be doing,
defying gravity, it just seems to be about right now I reckon Warren can
sit down in front of the fire and you can relax in bed and read the paper.
The lights in general are sort of very ship like
make it up as we go along basically but it seems to work all right
most of the building makes a lot of sense but when you go into the
bathroom you look down that view to nothing it is brutalist and I
really like how harsh and yet soft it is with the garden in the middle of it.
Every time you do a build you get a gift and the gift in this place was
the light the way it dances around the bathroom and moves through the house.
The biggest challenge was these big spans which is nearly 6.3 meters of each of these
windows and designing to get them to slide and it's a big part of the build how you can
walk through, the breeze and it does pretty much everything it should do.
The cabinetry is all real there's no veneers on this build every stripe is
a bit of timber that's been cut the kitchen countertop out a brass on a timber curved
plinth is pretty much like a control panel to the spaceship well that's why I imagine
Spock sitting up there and driving this thing to the side of the earth.
So as 107R has crashed through here it's pushed up this rock and sort of spun around facing north
and the propulsion unit of the ship is broken off and landed in the front lawn which we use as a hot
tub now, it's a part of the landscape which it'll grow in eventually the whole block will settle.
Jane I've had for 40 years, my wife, who I love very much,
has created a lot of the gardens around here and worked like a trojan.
The roof was a bit of a thing I wanted to disappear it's sort of a part of the
new wild as a garden it's right for the place I think I love it
I've enjoyed the process with my mates I enjoyed the process with my family
I thank all of you it's been a lot of fun and I hope everyone who comes here has a lot of fun and
be a part of that bygone era it's not here anymore
I think we've achieved it I think we're there people enjoy it and that's what it's all about.