At some point the original wooden house was roughcast, and when Lala and Ian Frazer bought it in 1977, after Mrs. Evans died, it had become a permanent family home. Mr Evans was a plumber and used tin for the ceilings and stainless steel for the kitchen benchtop and the wood was largely recycled. There was also an indoor bathroom, although the toilet still used a septic tank and all water was collected from rainwater. The wood under the roughcast cladding was rotting at the corners. The bottom level was only a narrow storeroom directly on the ground with one small room at one end and there wasn't a staircase