Back in November last year, I was nominated by the lovely Sheilzy for a Leibster award. I was busy at the time so put it aside for later, then subsequently forgot about it until now! Sheilzy is building her own dream home with Metricon, and it’s going to be a beauty! …
Look what Mr T. did next, an interior flythrough! Ask and you shall receive! Some of the textures have been added too!
For a long time I’ve been hanging out to finalise our tile and colour selections. Working in the vicinity of so many tile shops was great as it meant that I could go browse during my lunch hours. I think my face became familiar to a few places! There were …
FINALLY! We have – wait for it – a slab! They started the footings on Wednesday, and Thursday was the day of the Big Pour. I got up unreasonably early (which happens to be Mr T’s normal wakeup time) and hot-footed it down to the block both days. Wednesday was …
I love Mr T so much!!! Check out what he did for me – an exterior flythrough of the house in Sketchup: I’m so impressed, that was a LOT of work! Even though some of the design decisions are subject to change, he’s been pretty exacting in his measurements so …
This post is for House By The Water, who managed to remind me that I hadn’t posted about our intended coffee station, without being at all obvious about it. Mr. T and I are big coffee drinkers and we’ve purposely included a coffee station in our plans. Until you start buying coffee …
Now that we’re finally in construction, I’ve been looking at our post-handover to-do list and trying to figure out when I’ll need to schedule the trades in for. Don’t want to drag out the moving in fun any longer than I have to! Our contract states the builder has 280 …
It certainly did for us, this week is earthmoving week! The week began rather ominously with thunderstorms and lightning (very very frightening!), and I was beginning to doubt they’d get any work done at all, but we were pleasantly surprised when we drove past on Wednesday morning to see …
We finally have some work happening on the block! I feel like I should be more excited, but it’s only the retaining wall. Oh well. Summary: We’re replacing the fence on one side and putting it on top of the retaining wall. This requires the existing fence to be removed, …
Our prestart meeting yesterday meant that we had to make our first lot of selections, which meant committing to enough stuff so that the builder could start ordering construction materials. We struggled a bit with the facade colours. We wanted light colours for thermal reasons, but we didn’t want the …
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.
