Since Childhood
Since childhood, Bruce has enjoyed fiddling with different materials and old discarded things and renovating them into new objects with new meanings. Initially, when he bought the land in Hillsboro he wanted to renovate a few freight vans into a new home for himself, that was until he heard about a different kind of home someone else had already built. He just had some stunning plans for the incredible feat of engineering.
A More Compelling Idea
Just under twenty years later, Campbell discovered that Joanne Ussery, a hairdresser originally from Mississippi, had bought a Boeing 727 plane and renovated it into a home. Prior to this innovative conversion, Ussery had lived in a regular bricks-and-mortar type of house which had burned down, leading to her decision to create a functional home within an old airplane, situated by a tranquil lakeside. This was the ideal place to start a revolutionary project.