A Concrete Reminder

Well it was a fairly mad time in Perth but it felt good to get stuff done and meet more of the people that will be responsible for the build. Nor did it take long to reacquaint myself with Osborne Park and its amazing compliment of absolutelynecessaryshopstovisitifyouarebuildingahouse. I mean really…what isn’t there? Within a camel’s [...]

3/30 The Recycled Chair

I’m addicted to this chair.
I found it in the Townsville tip some 10 years ago and it has wandered around continents with me since. Most of the colour has come off on my bottom and it has been retied to stop collapsing at inopportune moments. A most characterful chair.
Have you got one?

Choosing A Water Tank

It’s our great debate. Underground or overground? How big? What material? How much?
Costs and Rebates
Starting with finance…you are looking at anything from $500 (around 600 litres) to $15,000 (10,000 litres) installed. All states have some kind of rebate for installing water tanks though the specifics are constantly changing. In WA you get a rebate of $50 [...]

House Design Priorities- My Top Five

 
We are just about to pay out our first big wad of cash. This is mainly for the drawings needed to go to council for approval. We have worked with the designer for several months fine-tuning our house design and the time has come when we have given the thumbs-up and we’re on to STEP [...]

How to Demolish your House

There’s more to demolishing than meets the eye…
Before you demolish
Have a good think about what is really going to happen to your house.
It will probably be totally destroyed with nothing to show for x years of contented (?) hassle-free(?) living. Is there anything you can do to lessen the blow to yourselves and the environment and [...]

Thinking about your House Design

Most of you reading this probably have designs coming out of your ears…When we were renovating we started a file with magazine cut-outs.  It was nice to thumb through to gain inspiration   and it included technical aspects such as pics and info about hot water systems, dishwashers etc.
When you are building I think you suddenly [...]

Trying not to Demolish - the Sustainable Factor

Demolishing is pretty final and it’s a big shame to demolish a house that could be someone’s home.
Upon deciding to build we also decided to try to give our beach shack away. If anybody wanted it…
We put an ad in the Quokka online.
Weatherboard house going free if you take it away
We had about 8 emails [...]

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