It’s a question we’re often asked, and the best answer is in the form of another question; ‘how long is a piece of string’? To begin with, an architecturally designed Passive House sits at the far end of a spectrum of building options. It represents a set of standards being...
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Even the most luxurious and beautiful homes will age and either need some serious renovation work or need to be knocked down and rebuilt completely. If your Perth home no longer hits the mark and you’ve decided it’s time to start fresh, let’s discuss the very popular, knockdown and rebuild...
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The demand for luxury prefabricated and modular homes is on a meteoric rise in line with the awareness that prefab homes don’t have to be sub-par to conventional homes. As written by the Wall Street Journal, “manufactured homes are getting a luxe update, as more homeowners embrace prefabricated properties for their...
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For most of the population, we spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, and the overwhelming majority of that is inside our own homes. We think of our homes as a sanctuary so it might come as a shock to know that some of us are living in...
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Passive House (or PassivHaus) is essentially about high performance design that can be summarised by 5 principles or performance criteria. The system ensures a design delivers very high performance and comfort for the lifetime of the building, pluging the “Performance Gap” often experienced in building operations. It relies on building physics...
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Originally posted on Stiebel Eltron here Stiebel Eltron ventilation turned lifesaver for one Sydney family. In an all-too-common story of hidden damp, humidity and mould, the home space had become a concern for health, comfort, and quality of life. A wet subfloor and minimal airflow meant areas of the home had become...
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Winston Churchill beautifully quotes, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us,”. For hundreds, if not, thousands of years, builders and architects instinctively understood that our spaces have the ability to influence us. Historically, there wasn’t really a word for it but over the last few decades, a cutting edge field,...
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We hope you enjoy the new FORM Homes website design which is more visual, more interactive and has more information for you to learn about. The FORM Homes website enhancements include New Home Designs and Projects Section A Cost Calculator for you to get a quick idea of how much it will cost to build...
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You’re going to change and adapt over the course of your lifetime: people will come and go, your needs will shift and vary, and your preferences will transform along the way. Have you ever imagined a home that could stay right with you through all of life’s changes? Well, we...
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A documentary exposing the trend toward more compact and sustainable living options. As people are tending toward uncluttered and more affordable lifestyles, there are those who are experimenting with what may have once been considered alternative. Though now this movement is opening our eyes fresh to the possibilities. The documentary features some...
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