Eco friendly home on view
Thursday, April 5th, 2007 by Nigel
The Brighton Festival is coming up. One of the highlights of the fringe are the Open Houses, where people turn their houses into open galleries for three weeks in May to sell their art.
Most visitors don’t actually go to buy art. They go to check out how they’ve done their loft conversion, or to take a look at their neighbours’ kitchen floors. Of course most exhibitors know this and spend as much time sorucing the houses as hanging the art.
I’m not at all sure how comfortable I’d be with strangers tramping round my flat for three weeks. The Yellow House is a different kind of open house. The Marshalls have created a website exclusively to show how they’ve turned their 1930s terrace into their dream eco-home.
“Our overall goal was to find ways to reduce the house’s consumption of electricity, gas and water by two-thirds compared with its average over the previous four years. In the first year of living in the house we have met that goal with water consumption, and have halved our energy use. We keep working at it and are confident of reaching the overall goal within a further year.”
The site’s been around a good while now; it doesn’t seem to get updated much these days. But what appeals to my nosey instincts is that every room is on show. What it offers is a slightly eccentric wonderland, a regular Beeton’s Book of Eco Household Management, offering miscelleaneous tips on all sorts of things, from a low energy technique for boiling an egg, to a sustainable method for raising goldfish.
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