Building the White House

Designing and building an environmentally-sustainable home.

Our lot at 60 Three Brooks Drive is up for sale

You can view our listing with Wayne Cochrane, our Exit Optimum realtor, right here.
It’s with a heavy heart that I post this, but we’ve decided to put our lot up for sale. This isn’t what we wanted to do. But, the options weren’t really working in our favour and it seems like the best choice [...]

Reality Check.

Wow, what an eye opener this project is turning into. In total, I think we approached five builders to ask them about looking into our project. One turned us down via email before even looking at it (maybe this site scared him off? I dunno). One turned us down after spending an hour meeting with [...]

Buying the lot

Few things strike fear into the hearts of people quite like buying real estate. I’d say that it’s probably worse than buying a car, simply because of the huge cost involved, the people who need to be consulted and the running around you have to do. 
Once we made our decision to buy the lot, we [...]

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