This house, built in the Glasshouse Mountains area of Queensland's Sunshine Coast was also built on budget. For $120,000 (in 1997), its owners have a 3 bedroom house with spacious walk-through ensuite bathroom, a Tasmanian Oak kitchen, an office, and a billiard room with a full size table. The rear south facing verandah overlooks natural bushland and is a wonderful spot to get away from the summer heat. This dwelling is so much better than its owners last home, they haven't stopped raving about it since its completion!
Originally designed to have a slow combustion heater for those cool winter nights, Bob and Gwen have never got around to making the purchase as their home is so cosy in winter, it doesn't need any heating. The solar water heater and the composting toilet round out this environmentally sustainable home.
This budget home was built in Eaton's Hill on the outskirts of Brisbane for $76,000 in 1999. Built of polystyrene (not the stuff that disposable cups are made of, but building grade high density polystyrene), its owner calls it his ESKY house . . . and during heat waves, all his friends come to visit him because his house is so cooooooool.
With its gas boosted solar water heater, this house barely generates one third of the average Queensland house greenhouse emissions. Surrounded by environmentally disastrous brick veneereal development, this unpretentious home doesn't stand out from the suburb as an oddity.
It has 3 bedrooms, a single garage on the western end to further protect the occupants from afternoon summer heat. and a clay block 'backbone' wall under the clerestory windows to maximise thermal mass.
Another happy customer.
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