Finished house pictures
Our builder sent a photographer to take some pictures of the finished house. They may appear in some advertisements and lifestyle magazines soon. It was…
Category: Building a house
Roadworks – Part 2
I never thought that asphalt works could have such aestethical beauty. ;)
Roadworks – Part 1
There is a digger in the garden – again! Sealing the driveway turned out to be a much bigger job than expected. “We’ll just level…
Registered Master Builders House of the Year Awards 2016
Our builder submitted our house to this year’s House of the Year Awards and it seems the judges liked it. We have won the “Lifestyle Award…
Progress around the house
Look, how winter in New Zealand looks like! 15-20° during the day, occasional frosts at night. June in Motueka.
The pump shed
This project stretched over a couple of months, as there was always ‘something’ missing to continue. Originally I planned to only use leftover timber from…
Designing an eco home that works
The section In January 2014, ten months before we actually arrived in New Zealand, we found an interesting piece of land that was for sale online.…
You’re building your first house for your enemy, your second one for your friend and your third one for yourself
In the German-speaking area, the title of this blog post is a well-known Confucius quote, but since I couldn’t find any references in the English part…