This house on a family farm takes advantage of the beautiful views of the surrounding countryside.

The house was developed around the needs of a young family, and the desire for a bright, airy, but private home.

In Maria Semple’s book Where’d you go Bernadette, fictional architect Bernadette Fox creates the ‘Twenty Mile House’. She sets herself a challenge: to build a house where ‘every material used must come from within twenty miles of the building site’.