Bega Energy Efficient Spec Home

LOCATION:  Bega NSW Builders  |  Project Type:  Custom Built Home, Full Design Service

This family home started out as a spec home, and began with our design build team having a vision of creating a home that integrated sustainable ideas and practices as optional inclusions.

A spec home was a perfect platform to allow us to design a home that would passively acclimatise, incorporate low maintenance design features, and ideally blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor to suit the Australian family lifestyle.

The features were a thermal chimney, geothermal heating and cooling, louvre bladed awnings, Northern aspect to all the main living areas, and double glazing. These were combined with the conventional parts of the brief such as 3 bedrooms, separate office, informal living room as part of the kitchen area and separate lounge room.

The deck was designed to be ‘cut’ back into the house, to provide a seamless transition from the kitchen/dining, to the undercover deck, and into the separate lounge and family room.

The spaces are linked by large double glazed sliding doors, and with the deck featuring a zip-track insect screen, the internal bbq area is complete.

  • Finalist (Highly Commended) ACT & Sthn NSW – Energy Efficient Home of the Year 2014
  • BUILDERRettke Builders
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  • Finalist (Highly Commended) ACT & Sthn NSW - Spec Home of the Year 2014
  • BUILDERRettke Builders
  • ARCHITECT/DESIGNERSketch Interiors & Design