A Sustainable House Idea of Mine...

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A Sustainable House Idea of Mine...

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Everyone is hopefully worrying about global warming and how to limit pollution (hopefully). So I thought about trying to make a sustainable house on Floorplanner a free software for planning out a home. Also before I forget if you see some walls missing they are still there but floorplanner is glitching a little bit because of all the grass and textures of the grass and all the other textures.

Materials

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I'm going to list everything that I used and i'm not going to list anything to build this home In Real Life

  • Computer
  • Would recommend a mouse
  • pencil
  • paper
  • and hope to finish this thing

Planning

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Firstly, I got a piece of paper and sketched a home design that looks appealing to the eye. Then, I added some finishing touches to my sketch and went onto Step 2 of this Instructable.

Putting Ideas on the Computer

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After I logged into my computer I found Floorplanner and I thought i'll give it a try. I started with placing a few walls to resemble the sketch I made previously. Then came the fun part of making this sustainable home come to life! After all that I added on a garage and a bedroom along with the wall separating the kitchen from the front door.

Finishing the House

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Once I did all of Step 3 I added terrain around the house and didn't forget the sustainable aspects of the house. These sustainable aspects are

  1. Solar Panels, they will collect solar electricity an provide the house with electricity
  2. Skylights, they will provide natural light for the whole house so that we don't waste electricity on lighting
  3. LED Lights, LED lights will be used in this house to minimize heat coming off of them and to use less electricity
  4. Indoor garden, this will be used to grow your own vegetables so that you wouldn't need to go to the store as much.
  5. Electric car, This will reduce the pollution when you drive around to stores or anywhere.
  6. Water Collector,we will have a water collector thing to catch rain water to store for later use.
  7. Local Materials, we will use local materials to minimize the amount of pollution that shipping materials takes
  8. Thick Walls, These will be used for insulating the house so that it keeps heat/cool air in to reduce the amount of energy heating takes.

Thanks for reading.