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Building & Maintenance | Building Products | Design, Decorating & Interiors | Gardening & Outdoors | Organizations | Prefabricated
Building Companies | Real Estate & Finance | Sustainability | Technology | Timberframe
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This "links" page is in the process of becoming a "mini-portal" that leads to other places on the web that provide information about house plans and home design. We've selected these links because we believe they will be valuable to people who want to create beautiful and sustainable homes. We'll continue to develop this collection of links, so check back from time to time to see what we've added.
Building & Maintenance
Fine Homebuilding Online Tools,
Techniques, Materials, and Design
ImproveNet Everything you
need to succeed with home improvement.
Sunlight Homes This Southwest
US-based design-build company offers complete custom
home packages with an emphasis on comfort, functionality,
design aesthetics, and lots of natural light. See
their great section on A Pattern Language by
Christopher Alexander et al, an excellent source book
for ideas on house design.
Radiant Direct Radiant Heat made
easy and affordable for the "do-it-yourself"
person.
The Radiant Design Institute Information
about radiant heat used in a variety of contexts.
Building Green Inc. Environmental
Building News: A subscription based resource for energy-efficient,
resource-efficient, and healthy building practices
Oikos The Green Building Source
ToolBase
Services The housing industry's resource
for technical information on building products, materials,
new technologies, business management, and housing
systems.
HometimeThis
site has a great “how-to” section on basic home repairs.
Building Products
Good Shepherd Wool A site discussing the benefits of wool insulation.
Bonded Logic Natural insulation materials. LEED certified.
The Tile Doctor Lots of information about installing tile.
Building Technology
NOVA Independent Resources Ltd.
This British Columbia-based company provides a wide range of products
for remote living including renewable (solar and wind) energy systems,
micro hydro, composting toilets and more.
Solar Max Heating Systems Manufacturers of environmentally friendly supplementary solar hot-air heating systems for residential and commercial applications.
Design, Decorating & Interiors
Designs in Tile Many images and useful information
about traditional and creative uses of tile.
Novica National Geographic's site of carefully selected hand crafted home furnishings and gifts.
Gardening & Outdoors
Online Garden Service Landscape
designer Viktorie Hladik, owner of Bloom Garden Design,
provides an online garden design service "tailor-made
to your property and your expectations".
Natural Home and Garden A site exploring native plants, and sustainable gardening techniques. Although this site contains information related to Oregon, it pertains to gardening in the Pacific Northwest, and contains a lot of information useful to sustainable gardeners everywhere.
Bullfrog Spas and Hot Tubs
Allscapes Horticultural Services
Organizations
The Small House Society A cooperatively managed and sustained global organization
dedicated to the promotion of tiny houses and small
house solutions that are affordable and ecologically
responsible.
A Pattern Language.com
Information on Christopher Alexander and his books, A Pattern
Language and The Nature of Order, among others.
The Arts & Crafts Society
Prefabricated Building Companies
AJIA Canadian Building Systems Inc. DESIGN→SUPPLY→DELIVER→SET-UP, AJIA offers
Canadian-made prefabricated house packages shipped to anywhere in the world.
Chateau Building Products Ltd. Chateau Building Products Ltd
is a manufacturer and exporter of Canadian building technology,
panelized homes and building materials, using BC species in all of their products.
Fiscus Homes Ltd. Fiscus Homes has more than 40 years experience creating pre-fab home packages
for clients throughout North America and Asia. 604 986 7670
Pacific Homes This Vancouver-Island based company is a division of Pacific Building Systems and
benefits from an in-house truss plant, panel shop and building supply store.Packages can be shipped anywhere on the Coast or throughout Western Canada.
Insulspan For over 30 years, Insulspan has been an industry
leader in the development and manufacture of structural insulated panels.
Real Estate & Finance
Reals.com "The Most
Comprehensive Real Estate Directory On The Web!"
Sustainability & Green Building
Oasis Design Applies ecological
principles to the design of everyday hardware and systems to make them
more efficient and elegant. They publish a number of useful books on
the topic of grey water use and offer design consulting services with a
focus on integrated water, wastewater, energy and landscaping systems
in interesting, extreme sites.
Metropolis Mag Online Has a section
on urban sustainability and lots of interesting articles
on home design.
Rocky
Mountain Institute A series of useful reference
articles on sustainable home design and sustainable
living.
Renewable Choice Energy A good reference page on wind power in the United States.
Canadian Wind Energy Association
Timber Frame Companies
Hamill Creek Timberwrights Inc A full service timber frame supplier based in the beautiful Lardeau Valley of BC's West Kootenay.
Island Timber Frame
Innovative Timber
Work & Design - based in Cumberland, in the Comox
Valley, on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Purcell Timber Frames Full
timber frame home packages, barns and carports, roff systems, components
and architectural details. "The Art and Craft of
Structure"
Spearhead Timberworks Spearhead Timberworks is a multi-faceted design, project management
and value added wood manufacturing company based in Nelson, B.C.
Directories & Portals
Sustainable Building Sourcebook Energy
and water conservation, green building materials, waste reduction.
The Not So Big House A site
devoted to promotion of the ideas in the popular book by the same name.
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