IN the tiny community of White Cliffs, former interior designer Cree Marshall lives with her partner Lindsey White in a modernist-style dugout home that the pair have spent years building.

Ms Marshall said she first came to White Cliffs with the intention of staying a year to write a book.

“My cousin had a dugout here and I came up to stay for one year,” she said.

“That was 30 years ago.�...