AMERICAN BEAUTY
It’s the barns that give it away. The first, a towering gambrel-roofed machinery shed complete with an Amish star in white, symbolising purity, the power of the moon and allowing energy to flow. Which is appropriate, given that this is also the storage room for the solar gel batteries and inverters that allow Ele and Bruce Fraser to live off the grid. The second is a towering double-storeyed structure with a workshop downstairs and an apartment above, where they lived for a year while they built their “main” house. This cluster of imposing buildings
