Building the White House

Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home.

Builder Meetings

So this week, we’re finally going to start meeting with builders to find out the cost of actually building the house. I met with Monica last week to get working copies of the building plans. We’re very excited to see where this leads us. I think it may actually be a very good time to [...]

On Priorities

We’ve been asked by our designer to rank the importance of a number of factors and how much they play into our decision making process. We decided that rather than rank them from most to least importance that we would instead group them into one of three categories. Must Have, Want to Have and Nice [...]

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 [...]

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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