Thanks for the positive feedback on our kitchen — we like it too! For those who want to see more, here are some further photos of the kitchen, providing a more complete view…
Archive for January, 2012
More photos of our eco-kitchen
Posted in Renovating the house, tagged kitchen on January 25, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Carrots: $1.45 each, compared to $3.50 for a packet 500 seeds
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged carrots, seeds, supermarkets on January 23, 2012 | 3 Comments »
We saw this sign in our local Woolworths over the weekend: carrots for $1.45 each. My goodness! A packet of seeds costs about $3.50. At that rate, it would take only 3 supermarket carrots for the seed packet to be ahead. There’s 500+ seeds in a typical packet of carrot seeds, and the seeds last [...]
Details on our eco-kitchen
Posted in Renovating the house, tagged compost bins, dishwasher, eco-ply, fridge, kauri, kitchen, LED lights, low VOC, pantry, shellac, strip lighting, tung oil, VOC, volatile organic chemicals on January 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Our kitchen has ended up a little out of the ordinary. Starting from a clear focus on low chemical use and simple materials, we’ve made a few decisions that might be interesting. The key points on our eco-kitchen: We’ve completely avoided using melamine-covered particleboard (“whiteboard“), as this emits huge amounts of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), [...]
Six types of insulation in our new house
Posted in Renovating the house, tagged air conditioning, heating, house renovation, insulation, insulation batts on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our six-month renovation process finally draws to a close, and now that I’m not working so hard on the house, I can catch up on our blogging about the key environmental details. A good starting point is a summary of the insulation that went into the house: walls, roof and floor. Our insulation choices Roof [...]
Freecycle
Posted in Useful resources on January 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Before we began our house renovations, we had to pack up half our belongings so the back of the house could be demolished. We decided to get rid of a few things such as an old desk, dishwasher, light fittings, kitchen shelving and so on that we knew we wouldn’t use in the new extension. [...]
