Building the White House

Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home.

Passive Solar 3D sun path studies

This morning when I got up there was a treat in my inbox. Tim Stott, who works with a local sign production company we work with sent me the following: 
… it led me to visit your website the other night and I got interested in your passive solar home blog. I wanted to see how [...]

Another house design/building project blog

Michael Downs from Think Usability turned me on to a site in Toronto where the home owner, Jeremy Bell (also a designer, as it turns out) is documenting their environmentally-conscious home design and construction process. 
360 Winnett is chronicling their process of tearing down a post-war bungalow and designing a modern, energy-efficient home in the heart of Toronto. The [...]

Photos of the lot

Yesterday, we took a trip out to the lot to think about siting the house. As expected, this is going to be a very difficult decision. We walked up on the ridge and had a look around. Even from ground level on the ridge, you can see the lake. From a second floor perspective, the [...]

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