Building the White House

Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home.

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 [...]

The House Design is Getting Very Close

We met with Monica tonight to review the latest designs. Among them, was a revised two story plan, a three story model based on the previous layout and this new gem. Basically, it takes the three story layout we loved before, and adds a half floor at the base of the ridge for easy entry [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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