We received our plans! The plans are for a double garage with loft space above. The thinking is that we'll leave all our bits and bobs there and camp out in the garage whilst we save and look at building a more substantial building.
The garage can double up as a commercial "shop" if we end up making the property into a more commercial operation with a cafe and/or gift shop (home for Chocolate Koala?) and/or cabins.
The house plans were ordered from Peter Lees (http://www.cheaphomedesigns.com) on Monday 1st October 2007 and I got them today (Friday 5th October 2007. I haven't looked at them yet as it's in a big Australia Post tube and I had it sent to work... it was hard enough getting the tube out of the office and onto the bus!
I'm hoping to log our experiences for the baby steps we'll be taking to building a home in the sticks.
The ideas surrounding our efforts for the "shed":
sustainable (to a large extent)
cheap to build and maintain
easy to build
modular (to add to the "house" or share things like the sewerage treatment, solar/wind generated power)
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