Flexible design/ Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

A Vancouver laneway house
Flexible house design

Flexible house design

...Designbasics forflexiblehousing: Depending on the stage you are at in your life, you might have kids, they might be gone or you might want to have some in the future.Designfloor plans that work for you right now but can be easily adapted to accommodate different family dynamics in the future.Flexible住房……

Sustainably built Prefabricated Tiny houses from FabCab
Tiny house

Tiny Houses: The FabCab prefabricated building WA

...designing highlyflexible住宅。From their website: "FabCab typicallydesignS灵活性融入到一个家,它的布局可以很容易地修改,当需要时,这减少了未来对昂贵和浪费的改造的需要。这样,这个家仍然适合多种生活……

The high performance almost ZNE Warburg house by bioi - built for under $100,00
Efficient home design

A High Performance Home on a Shoe String Budget (Almost ZNE!)

...design© bioi Zero Energy Home Kitchendesign© bioi About bioi Bioi is a smalldesignstudio based in Alberta, Canada. With a focus on innovation in architecture as well as construction, bioi seeks to further what we currently accept as typical in standard building practice. With ov...

Students at New Frontiers School Board to build LEED home to be donate
LEED Homes

Quebec carpentry students to build LEED house for Habitat for Humanity

...designphilosophy best described as 'flexiblehousing '. Over the course of its lifespan, a house will likely be altered many times, how difficult and expensive those changes will be depends largely on the initialdesign. In this case the teachers are looking to create a versatile house ready for easy transformation...

Under bed storage
Interior design and furnishing

Storage ideas for small spaces

...Designthe underside of stair cases to include shelves for books, closets or an small office space. Empty suitcases: except for the globe-trotters among us, suitcases spend most of their time dormant and using up space. They can be easily filled and labelled with rarely-used items. Of course the usefulness of this de...

Tiny Tack House living room
Tiny house

The tiny house movement: Tiny Tack House

...designprocess, characterizes the experience as a really good time saying "...we had a blast the whole way through". After tirelessly researching each stage of building, the couple finally began todesign. In a home this size, strategic use of space and creative storage is paramount. For example, a living room benc...

Mobile tiny house
Tiny house

Is Tiny House living in a cold climate good or bad for the planet?

...designand build their own dream homes. But can you really stick it out in a tiny home? When you build one, do you envision yourself staying in it forever?Design给一栋你打算住到死的房子设计时,必须考虑到随着年龄增长而减少的行动能力。你将proba……

Jenine Alexander's homemade mobile tiny house
Tiny house

DIY Tiny House for less than $3,500

Using materials found on Craigslist and salvaged from the landfill, Jenine Alexander built herself this super affordable Tiny House. Since first building this sweet little home on wheels, she has actually completed two more. If you're interested in DIY Tiny House projects, be sure to check out her blog where she write...

A sustainably built, ultra modern and affordable tiny house
Tiny house

NOMAD Micro Home fuelled by crowd funding, takes green building world by storm.

...Design, FastCoExist and well, too many other places to recount, one could say it's clear that the green building world is enamoured with this Tiny House gem, and so are we. What's not to love: NOMAD Micro Homes are sustainably manufactured, easy to assemble, affordable, and off-grid capable. Manufactured in British C...

Green Home Design - What makes a city livable
Choosing where to live

What makes a green home livable to you?

...Designfrom the inside out and outside in and extend living spaces to the outdoors. Provide access to nature with green, usable outdoor living, dining or play spaces, personal – even edible – gardens, or a simple sunny perch. Whendesigning sustainable green homes , let’s make the most of our smaller spaces and desig...

Skygarden House home renovation in Toronto, Canadian Green Building winner
Real estate

This beautiful Renovation in Toronto is a Canadian Green Building Award Winner

...designstrategies to ‘expand’ the interior space without expanding the footprint of the house. The efficient kitchen area is easy to maintain and brings light into the room Thedesignprovides outdoor living spaces on multiple levels to address the owners’ desire for a better connection to the home’s natural su...