Andrew, our architect, finished the preliminary drawings a few days ago and as part of that has performed a preliminary energy assessment. The outcome was better than both Rosalba and I expected.
In Andrew's own words: "It doesn't get much better than 10 stars!"
To clarify, in Australia, houses are …
Andrew and Steve have been busy again and have already produced a second version of the preliminary plans for our new home. On the right you can see the newest iteration of the floor plan which is a very close to how Rosalba and I would like it. (For a …
On Wednesday we met our Architect, Andrew, again to discuss the fist draft version of the floor plan for our new home. I have included a scanned copy of the draft that was drawn by Steve (the Building Designer working together with Andrew) below for your enjoyment. (Click on the …
While reading through some magazines to work out how we best could get what we wanted out of our future home we came across this ad for a book of home designs. Wanting to build with straw bales we were intrigued by that book as the ad mentioned all sorts …
As you usually do, we have come up with a very rough floor plan to get an idea what we want and also to be able to communicate our dream better to the architect.
The bottom of this floor plan is orientated towards the view. We want our master bedroom …
Rosalba and I have met with Andrew form W D Architects yesterday afternoon.
Andrew was great and listened to all our dreams and wishes for our house and gave some great feedback on some of our ideas. For example we though we'd build the house using a steel frame but …
We are meeting the architect for the first time today, so both my wife and I are really excited.
As a treat for everyone, I have included a bigger picture of the view from our house site:
If you click on the image you can see a bigger version of …