The House - Features and Specifications
The 'home office' end of the main dwelling
House Design
- A split-level slab on ground construction, over three levels
- Extended design orients living areas to North or North/East
- Large open-plan living area with three bedrooms (with WIRs/BIRs)
- Spacious home office (6mx5m)
- Three terraces
- Bedroom deck
- Double garage
- Below-ground cellar (20sqm)
- Separate power-generation room
The living room outlook and bedroom wing
- Raked, pine lined ceilings in all living and home office areas
- Minimum height all ceilings 2.7m
- 2.4m cyclone-proof sliding doors and windows throughout
- Sunken living room with 2.0m x 2.7m picture window
- Two bathrooms and three toilets
- Spa bath
- Flexible Design Layout - The top level could be used as a home office, guest accommodation, or granny flat or as huge master bedroom, with separate sleeping quarters for children in another wing
- Designed by local architects, Graham Osborne and Alan Logan
- Built in 1998 by an award-winning Byron Bay builder
The dining and living areas
House Construction
- Energy Efficient - Passive Solar Design NatHers* assessed as 4.5 stars
- High density mpa solid concrete slab-on-ground construction
- Clay-fired double brick walls rendered with "supacoat" and "rockcoat" internally and externally
- Rivergum colourbond metal roof
- Insulation installed against roof, ceiling and within all cavity walls
- Cross ventilation via louvre windows and breeze paths
- Thermal mass wall within living room
- Internal masonry walls
- Joint-free rafters
- Oversized deck and terrace roof support posts, cyclone proof "tie-downs" roof treatment
The living room and beyond...
Fit-out
- Architect-designed cedar front door, featuring local glass artwork
- Solid cedar doors with brass fittings to all major rooms
- 'Masport Panorama' heater adjoins living room feature wall
- Provision for gas heating of the upper level
- Free standing 4.5m x 0.750 cupboard complex serves kitchen and dining areas
- Floors: tiled or carpeted
- Kitchen fitted out in Tasmanian oak and stainless steel
- Ilve, Ariston and Kichenmaid stainless steel kitchen fittings
Tasmanian oak and stainless steel kitchen.
- Generous use of high quality tiles in all wet areas
- ‘Englefield’ shower and ‘Grohe’ bathroom fittings
- Quality bathroom furniture and heavy duty fixtures (towel rails etc)
- Recessed lighting throughout (total 57 lights)
- 28 double and five single power-points
- Ceiling fans in all bedrooms
The Infrastructure
The array of solar panels and telephone transceiver
at back.
- Fully solar powered 240v inverter system (with provision for an additional separate solar system)
- Heavy duty 9 kva diesel generator as back-up power supply
- Edwards Solar Hot Water System (with provision for a second duplicate system)
- 101,000 Lt rainwater roof-harvested water supply
- 120,000+ Lt emergency potable water supply
- Greenbelt waste-water treatment system
- Termimesh + Exterra Termite interception system
- Wired to provide TV and radio reception from Qld and NSW
- Wireless broadband internet
- Five landline telephone points
- Excellent mobile phone reception
Architect-designed front door. Fused glass artwork
by a local artist.
- Separate 240v solar powered system, plus 22,500 Lt water supply for the studio/cabin
- Inclusions negotiable. All necessary - tools and equipment (multiple water pumps, generators, chainsaw, brush cutter, cement mixer etc) plus off-road 4WD and trailer
A house designed and built for sustainability