"Flexible design"

Flexible design / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

Interior design and furnishing

Storage ideas for small spaces

...Design the underside of stair cases to include shelves for books, closets or an small office space. Empty suitcases: except for the globe-trotters among us, suitcases spend most of their time dormant and using up space. They can be easily filled and labelled with rarely-used items. Of course the usefulness of this depe...

Real estate

This beautiful Renovation in Toronto is a Canadian Green Building Award Winner

...design strategies to ‘expand’ the interior space without expanding the footprint of the house. The efficient kitchen area is easy to maintain and brings light into the room The design provides outdoor living spaces on multiple levels to address the owners’ desire for a better connection to the home’s natural surround...

Tiny house

Is Tiny House living in a cold climate good or bad for the planet?

...design and build their own dream homes. But can you really stick it out in a tiny home? When you build one, do you envision yourself staying in it forever? Designing a house that you plan to live in until you draw your last breath must take into consideration the reduced mobility that comes with aging. You will probabl...

Tiny house

DIY Tiny House for less than $3,500

Using materials found on Craigslist and salvaged from the landfill, Jenine Alexander built herself this super affordable Tiny House. Since first building this sweet little home on wheels, she has actually completed two more. If you're interested in DIY Tiny House projects, be sure to check out her blog where she writes...

Tiny house

NOMAD Micro Home fuelled by crowd funding, takes green building world by storm.

...Design, FastCoExist and well, too many other places to recount, one could say it's clear that the green building world is enamoured with this Tiny House gem, and so are we. What's not to love: NOMAD Micro Homes are sustainably manufactured, easy to assemble, affordable, and off-grid capable. Manufactured in British Col...

LEED Homes

Quebec carpentry students to build LEED house for Habitat for Humanity

...design philosophy best described as 'flexible housing'. Over the course of its lifespan, a house will likely be altered many times, how difficult and expensive those changes will be depends largely on the initial design. In this case the teachers are looking to create a versatile house ready for easy transformation, un...

Tiny house

Tiny Houses: The FabCab prefabricated building WA

...designing highly flexible dwellings. From their website: "FabCab typically designs flexibility into a home so that its layout can be easily modified when the need arises, which reduces the need for expensive and wasteful remodeling down the road. In this way, the home remains appropriate for multiple life transitio...

Tiny house

The tiny house movement: Tiny Tack House

...design process, characterizes the experience as a really good time saying "...we had a blast the whole way through". After tirelessly researching each stage of building, the couple finally began to design. In a home this size, strategic use of space and creative storage is paramount. For example, a living room bench ...

Efficient home design

A High Performance Home on a Shoe String Budget (Almost ZNE!)

...design © bioi Zero Energy Home Kitchen design © bioi About bioi Bioi is a small design studio based in Alberta, Canada. With a focus on innovation in architecture as well as construction, bioi seeks to further what we currently accept as typical in standard building practice. With over 35 years of experi...

Flexible house design

Design basics for flexible housing: Depending on the stage you are at in your life, you might have kids, they might be gone or you might want to have some in the future. Design floor plans that work for you right now but can be easily adapted to accommodate different family dynamics in the future. Flexible housing star...