Designing your home in a recession
Across the world people are blaming the housing boom for the global recession. Unfortunately those who are bearing the brunt of the recklesness of otheres are the ordinary folk like you who just want somewhere to live in relative comfort and security.
The situation is not as bleak as it seems, there are solutions. The first important step is to take control early on in the process of designing your own home. If you do this, you can maintain all aspects of owning your own home.
It is possible to design and build your own home without a mortgage! One of the trends we will see in coming years is the move to construction of homes in modules. This process will enable people building their first homes to build their homes to suit their present needs. You create your design for your dream home, you get planning permission and then you build the house to meet you present need. A young couple for example may complete the part of the living areas of their homes with just one or two bedrooms and one bathroom. As their family grows they can ad on extra living space and bedrooms.
With conventional building systems this option was expensive. It involved demolishing part of the original house and trying to ‘marry in’ the new extension. The process is simpler with natural materials especially if the extension is planned in advance.
The Passive House System is particularly suitable to modular construction. Wall panels or windows can be simple designed to slide out to facilitate an extension. The panel or window which is removed can then simply be moved and used in the new section.
