Escarpment House

We drew this one as a sister to the houses we build on the coast. The same long gable and the same deep verandah, moved up onto a green ridge in the Gold Coast hinterland, where it rains twice as much and the mist comes through the paddock most mornings.

The timber goes darker up here. Spotted gum carries the trusses and the kitchen, and a stone hearth takes the edge off the winter. The bath sits in front of folding shutters, close enough to the tree ferns to get wet.

The great triangular window faces south-west across the valley. Most days it frames rainforest, and on the good ones it frames nothing but cloud and the next ridge.