As August has now finished we have closed the competition for the book of house plans and have drawn the winner. But before I announce the winner I'd like to explain that we have also drawn a runner up and a second runner up in case the winner is not …
As prize in our first ever competition, we are giving away the book of house plans by Peter Lees (pictured on the left). This book contains a large number design sketches but does not contain finished plans. Nevertheless there is enough information to help you work out what you'd like …
Rosalba
picked the book titled "Built Like A Woman" by Sandra
Broman when we were looking at books to
get more information about building a house. I have to admit that at
first I thought that this book would not be very interesting for me.
Having just finished reading it …
Rosalba and I have purchased a number of books recently covering sustainable homes to look for inspirations on what we would like in our future home. Most of these books we purchased from "The Good Life Book Club" that, I think, is run by Earth Garden.
The "Natural Home Builder …
Our architect recommended that we read the book "Building Your Straw Bale Home" by Brian Hodge, especially if we would like to do some things ourselves in the process of building our house. Brian Hodge is a builder with over 30 years experience in a large variety of building projects …
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 …