Building the White House

Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home.

Onto the bank!

I met with Cam from A Cut Above today. They’re the local Lindal Cedar Homes dealer, based out of the old Ron’s Army Navy building in Burnside. 
Cam and his business partner met me out at our lot last week. He agrees that it’s the perfect lot for a modern, environmentally designed house. 
And today, he delivered. [...]

Lindal Cedar home or stay where we are?

So, here we are. We’ve exhausted the custom architect-designed route. Still waiting for that second quote, but I’ll give you the range of the first one:
$500-600,000. Yeah, it blew my mind too. Especially since we had given our max budget as $300,000. The quote was under $500k with HST, plus the $50k for our lot. [...]

A crazy idea

So I had a positively crazy idea the other day.
Given the housing market crisis that is likely impending, i was thinking about selling our house now, rather than waiting until we start into the construction of the new house. The theory is that if the market does tank (even a percentage of the tankage of [...]

Rebates for going green

Hi everyone, things have been crazy busy and we haven’t had much to report in terms of progress on the house. This weekend, however, we’re meeting with Monica, our designer to review the latest designs, plans and other documents, so I’ll have tons to share following that meeting.
For now, we’re spending time reading more about [...]

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