Posts tagged 'plans'

3D Images of Our Future Home

Andrew, our architect, has sent us some 3D pictures of our future home today which I'd like to share with you.

North East

North Wast

South East

South West

The next step is to work out the size of the photo voltaic system for our electricity needs. That's going to be exciting, especially when we get a better …

Second Draft of House Plan

Second Draft Floor Plan

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 …

First Draft of House Plan

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 …

Win a Book of House Plans

Live, and Build with Elevated Efficiency

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 …

Book of House Plans

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 …

Starting House Plan for Architect

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.

Our very rough floor plan

The bottom of this floor plan is orientated towards the view. We want our master bedroom …