Building a house

Ah look, a use for a blog.

So, I’d like to build a house.

A little house.

Like the sort that might fit on to the area of a decent-sized car bonnet.

And be made of plywood.

My intention is for it to be a space to try out smart ideas for smart homes, and green ideas

for green homes, on a tiny little scale (well, depending on the car bonnet). So I’m looking for

ideas; they can be outrageous or tempered, whatever. What do you think would be a cool

system to have in a smart home, or green home? (I know those two don’t necessarily go

together.) I’d like to have a good few ideas before I start chopping up plywood, as some of

them are likely to affect the layout.

I’ll look at the ideas and give their implementation my best shot in due course. This is also

a sort of test to see whether I have any design or creative (or fabrication, or electrical, or

programming) skills at all, and if I don’t, to get some. For green ideas I’d like to do tests of

the efficiency of the systems as well, once they’re in place.

I’ve already decided that I want it voiced by Paul Bettany, which is going to be a sound-

bite hauling labour of tedious love. Or, you know, if anyone knows Paul personally and he’s

willing to do an Ironman-sized project for free…

Types of systems that I need to give some thought to:

• Lighting
• Air-flow
• Water circulation
• Water heating
• Centralised door/window/ventilation/lighting control
• Paul Bettany sweet-nothing whispering system
• What else?

So when you wake at 3 in the morning with a random idea which sounds a bit mad (or not)

but might be kinda cool -- @kathrynrosie

Kathryn