Monday, March 2, 2009

Process begins!

Welcome to my house building adventure!

After many years of trying to design a house myself and a few false starts, things are finally on the go. I am very happy I hired an architect ( http://www.linebox.ca/ ) to create this amazing design.



The house is a fairly simple in layout with open living and makes good use of a small space. I'm building the smallest house that the city will let me. I would much rather have a smaller house of higher quality than one of those overgrown houses all the developers are building.





Some feature of this house are hydronic radiant heating with polished concrete floors on the main level. I'll be using a double stud wall to get at least R45 insulating values (normal house is R18-23). These features will greatly reduce the amount of heating energy I will use. We have also positioned the south facing windows to keep the hot sun out in the summer and let it in in the winter. This will help to keep the house cool in the summer and warm in winter. I have some other ideas to aid in heating but they will be down the road.
Progress last week:
- Had the guy doing the grading plan come out to the lot and start working on the drawing.


































1 comment:

hromanko said...

Still miss the straw bales, but this design looks really, really good!