Great Green Homes

Great Green Homes is an occasional series featured in the Green News Section of Homebuilding & Renovating. If you've seen a house in this section and would like to find out more, you can find it below.

 

Is This Britain's Best Green Home?
If you thought that green houses equalled bad design, think again — Tom and Sally Beevor’s self-built house not only holds some impressive eco credentials, but it looks fantastic too. Read more... 

Is this Britain's best green home?

A Cottage Style Eco Home
Eco homes don’t need to break the bank — as Nicky and Robin van der Bij proved when they designed and built their stunning coastal cottage for just £115,000. Even better, it costs just £270 a year to heat. Read more...

 

 A Cottage Style Eco Home

The Grass is Greener
Rory and Sylvie Robinson have succeeded in building a family-friendly eco home without blowing their budget. The house includes a natural turf roof and sits high upon the sloping site of an Inverness-shire woodland. Read more...

 

 An Eco Home in the Highlands

A Riverside Eco Home
This SIPs (structural insulated panel) house is inherently efficient, and contains maximum glazing to optimise passive solar gain. But that alone wasn’t enough for this house’s builders, who are now utilising the neighbouring river to include a micro-hydro system. Read more...

A SIPs house with passive solar gain and a micro-hydro system

Low Cost, High Design
Andrew and Louise James have built an attractive chalet style home on a modest budget which incorporates many energy-saving features. Read more...

An eco home built on a budget

An Upside Down Eco House
Sisters Claire and Tessa have self-built an environmentally friendly contemporary style home in Cornwall. The two storey, six bedroom property was built on the sloping site of a former holiday home and traditional structure has been turned on its head, with the first floor housing the living areas and the ground floor housing the bedrooms. Read more...

An Upside Down Eco House on the Cornish Coast

A Super-Insulated Self-build
This highly insulated timber frame home only requires a single high-efficiency wood stove by way of heating. The south-facing conservatory maximises passive solar gain, and roof-mounted sun slates generate 25% of electricity used. The house also boasts rainwater harvesting and a ground-source heat pump. Read more...

A super-insulated new eco-friendly timber frame house that doesn't require central heating

 

Check back for new green homes each month. To find out more about how to make your self-build eco friendly, visit Homebuilding's Green Advice section.

 

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