Monthly Archives: February 2010
Sourcing Materials
When sourcing materials my design will seek to utilise renewable and / or local materials as far as possible. This gives me a check-list that will help in the selection of materials. Materials that answer the earliest questions on the list should be selected – subject to as ever costs. Is there a renewable or [...]
Dogtrot house
A dogtrot house is a small house design that originated and developed in the southern United States. Its basic form is two rooms or sets of rooms separated by a covered porch. This provides two distinct areas for domestic purposes – for example, living in one end and sleeping in the other. The covered porch [...]
Design Inspiration ~ My ‘straw-man’ shed design #1
I thought that the best way to start on a detailed design (or at least to make a start on what I’d expect to be one of many) was to come up with a title for the shed, after some thought (not much) this seemed like a good one: Zero carbon renewable shed. What’s that…? [...]
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The opposite of inspiration #1
As I can’t find a suitable word of the antonym of inspiration (disincentive seems to be the accepted opposite but doesn’t really do it in this context) I’ll stick with the opposite of inspiration for the title of this post. [Edit: April 2011 - having given this some more thought, I don't think there is [...]
The Primitive Hut