I’ve used outback colors in my website because I was brought up on a red dirt farm and I’ve traveled extensively in the outback so to me, Australia will always be red dirt.

Mainland Australia is only a little smaller than the 48 adjoining U.S. states but the inside is mostly desert. In the real outback you have to carry your own fuel because there is no petrol station (gas station) for hundreds of miles.

Australia has six states plus the Northern Territory.  In the map, the lines are the borders of South Australia. The circle pinpoints Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. 

South Australia is bigger than Texas and more than twice the size of Germany but most people live near the coast where things grow.

In fact, most people in South Australia live in Adelaide, the capital city.

There are 1.3 million people living in Adelaide. The next biggest city is Mount Gambier with 26,000 people. Which goes to show how little liveable area there is in the state.

In the map, the glow represents Adelaide.

It may seem strange I am writing about the heavily treed Adelaide Hills after explaining South Australia is mostly outback.

In the series, Venus Allman-Dare has gone to film in the outback but her son Ange Dare has a TV studio in the Adelaide Hills close to the city.

The people in the Hills live above the city where the air is clean and the grass doesn't get burned off in the summer (much). 

Now we walk into a land of fiction.

There are a surprising number of magnificent mansions in the Adelaide Hills, so inventing another one is not a great stretch of the truth.

Old Australian driveways are generally long and lined with trees.  This is what the driveway looked like before Sam parked his office beside it and helped build the gatehouse.

This gate is unusual in that it has an arch above it. The arch has to be very high because in the past, carts were piled enormously high with wool bales, but the property is no longer a working farm and even the stables are empty.

I made the walls nine feet high to begin with, but Sam needs to throw someone over them later on so they are now eight feet (2.4 metres) high.

Note there is no flag on the letterbox because in Australia, letterboxes are only for receiving mail, not sending it.

I bought a model of a fictional large ornate building where ten actors could be sequestered away for weeks.  The ornate fountain in front is the sort of thing they have in the Adelaide Hills.

I placed a gum tree to the side with a nice thick branch for Psyche to escape to every day.  It is tantalizingly able to be glimpsed from the front gate. 

The New House is a complete contrast to The Grand House.

It is blocky and made of modern materials.  The roof is covered in solar panels.

Reception can be very poor in the Adelaide Hills so the studio has added more and more satellite dishes.

The inside is filled with cables and electrical equipment in the first two floors and luxury bedrooms with beautiful views on the top floor.