One of the most exciting parts of the build for me is happening right now. When you get your cabinets and tiling done, that’s when you start to get a real sense of how the decisions and selections you made all those months ago come together, and you hope it …
Adrian and Peta Dixon opened their lovely home in Karrinyup for Sustainable House Day. This was one of my favourite houses as it was quite similar in concept to ours. I loved how they’d styled the house, and what they did with the garden was fantastic. The Dixon home was …
I may have mentioned Josh’s House before on this blog. The house was completed around about the time we started our building journey, and, using the same architect and having similar aims, I’ve been a keen follower. I’ve devoured most of his website and have downloaded pretty much every fact …
Yesterday was Sustainable House Day, and what a day! As I’ve said before, this year I was able to join the Solar Dwellings Sustainable House Day Bus Tour. It was a long day, but well organised and worth the effort. Well done to Griff, Jodi, Leanne, and all the others …
Last weekend I went bushwalking at Paruna Sanctuary, and it got me thinking about our landscaping plans. Long-time readers may remember an earlier post where I dreamed about a garden reminiscent of the forest moon of Endor. Typically fickle as I am, I’m now dreaming about an all-native garden filled with …
The title of this post might give away my feelings about our new marri floorboards. I think they’re beauuutiful! Here’s the scoop: we decided on Standard and Better grade, with the boards 130mm wide and 13mm thick. Why marri, you ask? I’ll be brutally honest with you – I don’t …
Some days, you just have to laugh. Thursday was one of those days. Nothing went remarkably wrong, mind you, just a few little missteps that make you at once groan and chuckle at the stupidity of life in general. We decided to get our marri floorboards from Chelsea Flooring, and since …
The lovely Jo at House By The Water has been stalking following my building progress remotely from Brazil, and has been sending me updates of my own progress using Nearmap aerial photography. Isn’t she a champ? I’ve been secretly hoarding these images so that I could do a time lapse of sorts, a …
This is what every home builder dreams of – the day you are locked out of your own home! Ordinarily, I’d try and write something meaningful, but today I’ll let the pictures do the talking… OK that didn’t last long, I can’t keep quiet any longer. This is the …
One of my biggest building neuroses centres around ceilings, and this came to a head when we started talking about built-in pelmets and curtains. I nearly had a meltdown over this trying to explain what I wanted, because I simply did not know the right terminology. I tried to find pictures, …
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.
