A little back in time ...

Things are going fast ... and we are just creating this blog now.



But before going further, we would like to come back on our project to explain our approach and its development.



“Home, sweet home” is an old dream, especially for us, expatriates, who lived the last years in several housings. Rented houses or flats, each of them with a “little thing” related to the country, the culture, local way of living, the climate (sometime !…)



Two mains goals for our future home :

-          to be as much independent of “energy” as possible,

-          to live in a house comfortable, healthy, easy to live and original.

Energy independance :
Without being « catastrophist », and without being pessimistically or enthusiastically ecologist, we are realistically thinking that energy costs can only become higher and higher.
Then, we do not want to bet on what our retirement pensions will be in 15 years from now.
As we do not know how much money we will have once retired, we would like to avoid “freezing our asses” in a cold house because we will not be able to pay the energy bills.



Comfortable home :
Today, solutions exist which are well understood and valid, to make a house « comfortable ». If a living space is designed to « breath » and to avoid « cold spots », for exemple, which create condensation, molds and health problem, a large part of the inconvenients of today’s building will be prevented.
And these solutions are, incidentally, going in the direction of energy saving, which is in line with our first goal !



We will come back soon on the « solutions » (only good old “common sense”, you will see !) we selected for our house.