A new hope

well clearly this is a regularly updated Blog...and this is not a post promising change.
But I've decided to re-purpose the blog, last night Briony and I opened a bottle of bubbly to celebrate completing our move into the new digs in Vancouver.  We've left the north shore and it's readily available dry aged beef, for the westend's readily available vegan and quality noodles. But I digress, back to the bubbly.

So with an air of conviviality the discussion of house design came up and a proposal was put forward to make a concrete (excuse the pun) start. So it was time to start seeing how our ideas meshed what our requirements were etc, PAPER was drawn on arguments about scale ensued ideas were scraped toys rooms workspaces were conceptualised and things were started.

Which is a very long way of saying that this blog is now going to a place where all our house design ideas (whatever they are) are going to be digitalised. I doubt most of these posts will be of interest to anyone else but every now and then something might go here where we are looking for outside input. Enough preamble, here are the first batch of drawings.

Initial design based on current living room and expanding from there.

Modular design proposal, establish a minimum size for each room and how many rooms  then put them together into a efficient design. Workspace facing away from the equator, rectangular building double entry to work space, laundry and bike repair space?

How big does a bathroom need to be? Must have a real bath! 4m x 2m apparently. Not happy with toilet and sink arrangement though.

3D! ..... aborted/distracted by toy room and overcome by bon homie/bubbles.

Ok now we are getting somewhere, toy/laundry/paraglider maintenance/work-space, slanted ceiling, 4m wall one side adjoining rest of house standard height.

Current question, how do you get fresh/cold air into the bedroom at night without draining all the heat out of the house if the bedroom is a loft? can it be done? We are thinking not and making the (potentially upstairs) bedroom thermally isolatable from the rest of the dwelling.