House Plan

Initially we had decided to go big and build into this big house 'green' things. The theory behind this was to show people that modern & invariably big houses can exist and don't have to be plugged full time into the various national grids. This would not have been particularly sensitive to a whole lot of green issues. New is not green and neither is big. Also this whole process is a complete experiment and it was a fairly risky choice to have made so we reverted to plan 'B', which was small. But there is small and there is small. The idea was to build a 250 square meter house that included a double garage and three bedrooms. A tv lounge would then double up as a guest room. But this house has a lot of women who have many needs I have since discovered they have the power of the veto. So the idea that our teenage daughter, who is currently away from home would not have a bedroom on her return and would have to stay in the tv/guest room was rapidly discarded. When the TV was relegated to the single communal space which meant the possible permanent din of poor content, I became quite inventive in trying to avoid that possibility. Of course the cars got evicted because they don't have an opinion and now the garage is the tv room come teenage hangout room. So we have gone from big to small and 'small'.

To view the plan of the house, click here. It's the latest version I have and it honestly does not date back to 2005. And there have been a few additional changes. How this will translate into an actual living space will be interesting. It will be very light and airy. But as can be expected, talk of a planted roof and rammed earth outer walls have raised quite a bit of interest. I just need to grow my hair and start talking to the plants and the scene will be set - and anything else that may appear unusual will invariably fit right in.