Imagine walking through the woods, enjoying the wildlife, the natural environment, when suddenly you stumble onto an airplane in the clearing. That’s right – an airplane. Your first thought might be that there was a plane crash; that this plane fell from the sky as a tragic occurrence. Or it might even cross your mind that this is some sort of plane renovation scrap-yard. However, if this happens to you while wandering through the woods in Hillsboro, Oregon, then you have just come across Bruce Campbell’s home.
Man Buys Old Airplane & Turns It Into Home
So we are all familiar with other modes of transport being used as homes; cars and boats being the most obvious two. Sometimes these cars and boats are even made into quite lavish living quarters, so we can suppose that Campbell is not the first person to have transformed something from its original purpose into a home.
People live in all types of environments and often accommodate the building of their homes to their environment. There are cultures that build their homes in trees, and across the world, houses are created from a numerous variety of materials: straw, stone, bricks, mud, even ice! But this is the first time we have encountered someone who decided to make that thing that is meant to carry people airborne from place to place, into a comfortable and fixed home.
You don’t have to think too hard about it to imagine that the task Bruce Campbell took upon himself – taking and converting an airplane into a home – is not going to be an easy mission to accomplish. Before we even consider legal issues surrounding such a job, or the fact that a plane is not exactly shaped like a standard home with the regular square spaces, walls, a kitchen or a functional bathroom, what about just getting the Boeing 727 aircraft into his backyard? So I think it is safe to say that our Mr. Campbell is a talented kind of guy with a vision!
Bruce Campbell is a retired electrical engineer. He has long held onto his vision of using airplanes for much more than their original intended use, upcycling old planes into wonderful transformed masterpieces. With his extensive imagination, he has succeeded in taking these old airplanes from being destined for the scrap heap and renovated them into a unique and not-so-humble abode. Let’s take a sneaky peek inside!
Creative Vision
Bruce Campbell is 64 years old now, but being a retired electrical engineer and always a creative visionary, he has always been innovative and creative, seeing beyond the intended purposes of things, giving them new meaning and uses. It all began when he was in his 20s and bought a 10-acre piece of land deep in the forest, in Hillsboro, Oregon, for $23,000. Even then, he already knew what he wanted to do with it.
Creative Vision
