Hello to everyone, reading my very first blog!

This is my first attempt to write a blog, and it has taken me a while along with a few generouse helping hands to help set me up as I am a techniphobe!!

The reason I want to do this blog is because I am very passionate about warm, energy efficient healthy homes that don't cost the earth and this blog, is my journey in building just that.... A warm, healthy home on a tight budget!

It feels like so much time, researching and learning about how to do this, it would be sacriledge not to share it with others.

Just as brief back ground how I became interested in this type of home building...

About 6 or 7 years ago my husband brought me a book on small houses in NewZealand as I loved tiny homes. This book led me to colect other books and I learnt about Passive houses, high performance houses, eco houses, energy efficient homes ect, which gave me the first introduction to wanting to build this type of home or something similar, so the seed was sown.

However it appeared to be an expensive dream and it was not till a couple of years later that I started to work on researching deeper, wanting to build a warm healthy home but actually be able to afford it.

I read books and went to seminars about wrapping homes, insulation, heating and air tight homes. Meeting like minded people was inspiring and fueled my passion to make my dream come to fruition.

We allready had a piece of land that we had built a granny flat on, so this was it, this was going to be the spot where my warm healthy, energy efficient home was to be built. Then planning, learning and more research.



One of the most important parts of the initial planning is orrientating the home for the sun and as I have been working on trying to set up this blog for far too long today, I will talk about the orrientation and more in the next blog.

I would love to hear from anyone building or thinking of building a similar home, feel free to comment.

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