On our plan, we have a large walk-in robe closet. I’m thinking about this now because we’re going to visit a wardrobe place on the weekend, with a view to adding a built-in robe to the place we’re staying in while we build. Not cheap, but it should add value, …
As you’re probably all aware, we had a mother of a heatwave the other week, and we’re still feeling the effects. We don’t have air conditioning in our current residence (or the old one) and boy did we feel the heat! A few weeks ago I posted about Josh’s House. …
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 …
One of the small but important touches we’ll be including is a bar area. Nothing huge, just a small corner with a sink and display cabinet of sorts. Here is what the bar looks like on our floorplan: At this point, we’re thinking we may switch the orientation around, but …
The final instalment in the Ensuite series is the shower. Not terribly exciting, I’ll grant you that. But seeing as I’ll be in there at least once a day, and it sets the tone for my mood for the rest of the day, it’s worthy of some consideration. For a …
One of the things I’ve been talking about a lot is practicality. The first question I ask of any design nowadays is, is it easy to clean? I’m pretty sure it makes me sound like a cleaning freak, but if you’ve ever been to my house, you’ll know the opposite …
I hope you all had a good Christmas, and trust you didn’t find the Dr Who Xmas special *too* confusing. We’re taking it pretty easy – I thought we’d get lots of house things done but we kind of need a bit of a break. Having said that, we whipped into …
If you’re a colour geek, you might find this Colour Cube Kickstarter project interesting: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657220568/swatchmate-color-capturing-cube It’s a device that allows you to get the colour value of any real-world object. Kickstarter funding closes in 2 days and it ships in June (or thereabouts). I’m looking forward to hours of fun …
The ensuite is our main bathroom, so we’ve paid a lot of attention to it. Here is the floorplan: The unusual shape is a consequence of the passive solar design – it affects this room more than any other due to amount of north-facing window we wanted. North, incidentally, is …
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 …
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.
