Nadya Hutagalung’s Eco House (Female Mag March 2008 edition)

Well I guess it’s my house as well! We’re constantly looking for eco friendly technologies for the home, so if you know of or have any, please tell us!

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beautiful eco friendly house – prefab concrete!

For our Feng Shui advisors

We just collected the keys to our property from our lawyers yesterday and the family took a little trip to check out our new land. I also tried taking a reading of front facing of our land -hope I’m correct! Believe the front gate/land faces South 1 (South & slightly east). Here are some pictures which show views from little plot of land which I hope will be useful for our feng shui master.
p.s. Dear Mr. Feng Shui advisor, please note that my Kua is 9 (east type) while my wife and 2 boys share Kua 7 (west type).
p.s2. There’s also a short video at the end of this post which may also be useful

Picture of existing house which will be torn down – taken 16June2007

Compass reading taken standing at front of door (My reading shows front of house faces S1 – south & slightly east)

Facing South

Facing South-east

Facing East

Facing North-east

Facing North (back of house)

2nd floor facing South

2nd floor facing South-east

2nd floor facing North-east

2nd floor facing North (back of land)

Video Clip

Our house – original "before" pictures

Pictures of our pre-developed home which will be torn down soon. We’ll have to wait a year at least for the “after” pictures!

Who says Prefab houses don’t have the "wow" factor?

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Perhaps sooner rather than later… we’ll use more custom pre-fab/pre-constructed building techniques in Singapore. We’ll definitely reduce wastage and require less sand and concrete!

We love the feel of this balcony …

Hopefully we’ll be able to get some of this feel in our new home.

Keeping buildings cool with greenery

We’re hoping to have lots of green areas, green roofs, green walls! We’ll really know later when we get more of the plans drawn up…

Our home building adventure begins….

N and I became official home owners last week. We started looking at landed properties in February this year and were lucky enough to pick one up in 2 weeks. But those were intense two weeks – and it definitely wasn’t fun dealing with real estate agents who will say anything to make a sale. Anyway, I thought it would be good fun to share our experience from buying our property and rebuilding it. It’s our dream to build a green eco-friendly home!

We’ll be sharing pictures of homes and interiors we like, to decisions on architects, building materials etc. It should be great fun!