The costings are in – kind of. The architect’s given us the raw costings but some info is missing and he wants to do his own analysis before we meet again. It’s a bit too early for us to sway either way too, we need to have a good look …
Delays are driving me mad! As expected, the re-costings aren’t ready yet, so I’m needing to find other ways of amusing myself. So I’ve subscribed to bunch of threads on the forums, and am doing lots of house cleaning! We got a wardrobe installed this week, it’s so nice to …
Design Development 1 resulted in a number of variations that needed recosting by the builder. A couple of the items we threw in just to see what they’d come back like, such as AWS windows and concrete to the alfresco. What we didn’t expect to get back was a bunch …
I’ve been offline for a while, while we’ve been moving house. It’s nice that they gave me an awesome heatwave to top it off, isn’t it? At least it’s cooled down a bit now. We still have a lot of stuff to move from the old place, but hopefully we …
Over the weekend, we watched the videos of Josh Byrnes’ sustainable house being built. They were short (less than 10 mins each) but quite interesting. Most of the stuff we were already familiar with, as we’d done quite a bit of reading around and we’re using the same architect, but there …
We’ve decided to build with Nulook Homes. It was a tough decision, as both builders appeared to be quite good. We spent the last two weeks interviewing the builders themselves, interviewing their previous clients, and viewing houses currently being built. Both builders got rave reviews from their previous clients, but …
We met with the architect today to talk about next steps and deciding on a builder. He stressed that the key difference between builders lies in their processes, and this is what we should centre our questions around. These are the key points/questions we should ask: 1. Don’t underestimate the …
We got the preliminary costing back last week, and have been mulling over them. We didn’t actually get to see the spec before it was sent out, and needless to say we’ll need to change a lot of things so the total cost will end up being higher than what …
So we’ve finally settled on the floor plan (more or less) and are sending it off for costing by two builders: Middleton Homes and Nu Look. Other names were thrown around but those were the ones we decided to look at, for reasons of build quality, cost, and flexibility. Both …
The design process is taking a lot longer than expected. We’re on our third iteration, and should get the 4th by the end of next week. The last meeting with the architect took about 4 hours! He talks a lot. We weren’t happy with the bathroom, so completely redesigned it, …
Eco Home Style is a blog about building a sustainable and stylish passive solar house in the inner city fringe of Perth, Western Australia.
It's my hope that by sharing this experience, you have some insight into the building process. As the build comes to an end, my focus will shift to what it's like to live in a passive solar house.
