ARENA video showcases our home
Hey, our development features in a video made by ARENA! They're using it to promote the environmental and financial benefits of including sustainability principles in the design and construction new houses. Read More
Winter solar and battery experience
After the first winter in our all-electric home, it’s time to look back over the numbers and tease out useful lessons. What worked well and contributed to our objective of ... Read More
Floors and walls in second home
Finishing the walls and floors in our second home made a significant difference to the internal appearance. Polishing the reclaimed floorboards and concrete slab brought out the character of both surfaces. Plastering the walls highlighted the distinctive shapes and angles in the rooms. Read More
Backyard blitz for number 1
Landscaping the backyard of our first home with a simple, but effective, design turned the area into an inviting space. Read More
Cladding materials for number 2
Experience gained from building our first home helped to make some modifications to the cladding specifications for the second one. For example, we replaced Shadowclad with more Klip Lok steel cladding. Read More
Sustainable House Day 2019
After several years of visiting other people’s homes on Sustainable House Day, we’re excited to announce that our first home will be open for visitors on September 15. Now it’s ... Read More Living with thermal mass
Learning how to help the passive solar design features keep us warm in Winter is a useful exercise. Sunlight is all we need on clear, cold days. When it's cloudy, we use the heat pump to stop the concrete slab thermal mass cooling too much. Read More
Landscaping makes a difference
After the hot weather and other project priorities conspiring against us, it was a pleasure to finally start on landscaping the front garden of Unit 1. There are three main elements to the garden - crazy paving slate steps, a found object sculpture within a ring of railway sleepers and an indigenous bushland theme. Read More
Progress on three units
While looking around our worksite recently, I took the opportunity to pause and look at the big picture. We’ve reached that exciting point where something is happening on all three ... Read More
