I got excited when I received my latest ATA newsletter and wanted to tell you all about this event they mentioned. And then I found a couple of other interesting-looking house-related events happening in the next couple of months, and I thought I’d share them with you too. So here …
I’ve spent many a pleasant hour on Pinterest perusing lovely pictures. Some of my favourites revolve around potting sheds, one of which we fully intend to have in our new garden. My thinking is that by turning this ordinary shed into something cute, I’m hoping it will inspire me to do …
You may remember my post from late last year, which summarized the ATA report “Are we still cooking with Gas?“ I sent them some feedback expressing my disappointment at WA not being included in the report. Lo and behold, they have now produced a complementary report on the WA gas …
Welcome to my new site! The good folks at my hosting company migrated the content over for me, so that was nice and easy. You’ll see that it looks a bit similar to the old one, but I might have a play around with themes and colours over the weekend …
No, the house didn’t miraculously get finished overnight, but I’ve decided to move my blog to a new domain. If you’re following via email or WordPress, you may need to sign up again (sorry) but hopefully your details will get moved across. I’ve also renamed the blog. The name I …
When bricking started, we were warned that about half way through the job our team would have to take off for a few days to work on another small job. It seems to have finally happened – when we drove past today it didn’t look like any work had been …
Truthfully, I did not expect the brickwork to start so soon after the bricks were delivered. Delivery on Saturday, bricking began on Tuesday! Quite impressed with their work so far, very tidy and quick. Here are some progress photos. And finally, in what I interpret to be a sign from …
I was pretty excited about the slab. After all, it was “concrete” evidence of our new house (pun intended, ha!). But delivery of the bricks makes it so much more real! I just had to share these photos with you all. We’ve been told that the brickwork should start some …
So I was bragging about having soakwells delivered to some of my peeps, only to be greeted with a mixture of joy at progress, and confusion about what they were. I thought it was just a thing everyone did, but apparently not. So I ended up doing a bit of …
Another thing I’ve been umming and ahhing about when considering my first world problems, is what type of tapware to get: wall-mounted or bench-mounted. My original reason for wanting wall-mounted is ease of cleaning, as water supposedly doesn’t pool on the bench as much, so you don’t get those blue-green …
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.
