Caralyn’s Place – House Sold no longer able to open for SHD
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House Notes – Caralyn’s Place – House Sold no longer able to open for SHD
A Garden Path house and productive garden/hobby farm has been developed so that we are as sustainable and self-sufficient as possible. We have our own firewood for heating, harvest all our water for house and garden and have 5kw electricity generation. We also produce much of our own food (honey, eggs, poultry meat, fruit, herbs and vegetables) and our animal’s food without artificial fertilizers or sprays (including organic ones). Rated Perth’s Best Waterwise Environmental Project Garden 2009.
Architect: Alan Davies
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Efficient lighting
Draught proofing
Efficient appliances
- Energy efficiency:
- Household routines of opening up and closing up curtains, doors, windows; using wood fueled fires for cooking as well as heating,
- Passive heating cooling:
- Shading
Cross ventilation
- Passive heating cooling:
- Evergreen trees for natural evaporative cooling
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
- Water heating:
- Solar hot water (flat panel)
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Above ground storage
Greywater system
Stormwater management
Low flow shower heads
Drip irrigation
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- water tanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 150 000 L
- Water harvesting and saving
- Water catchment butts, 3 grey-water recycling systems, slow forms to reduce sheet erosion, reusing water from animal 'baths' for garden, converted swimming pool into aquaculture systemwater
- Recycled and reused materials:
- 100 year old Jarah timber beams, re-cycled stained glass windows, old Homesteader wood stove,
- Sustainable materials:
- ?
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Timber
Windows
- Insulation Type:
- Ceiling
Internal and external walls
Floor
- Ceiling Type:
- Wool, batts, other
- Floor Type:
- Wool with silver insulation placed under carpet (2 storey floor)
- Internal / External Walls Type:
- Wool
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV grid connect
- Cost estimate of sustainable home/features:
- $30 000
- Estimate of annual savings:
- $10 000 pa
- House Size
- Two story large house
- Universal Design Features
- Disability access
Multi-generational
- Number of bedrooms
- 5
- Number of bathrooms
- 3
- Garden / Outdoors
- Aquaculture fish pond/ex swimming pool circulating through to water tubs for water loving edibles, massive amounts of shade to reduce water loss to evaporation
- Garden / Outdoors
- Drip irrigation
Water wise plants
Edible garden
Organic
Permaculture
Composting
Community garden
Native plants
Bee keeping
Chickens
- Healthy home features
- Non toxic paint, non toxic floor coverings, solid wood furniture and timber features
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- Continual Improvement
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