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Design of Smaller Homes
Yet the number of people per house has decreased by 21%. The average Australian home is 265m2 and houses 2.6 occupants. Put another way, in 1970, each person had 40m2 of floor space per home. Today they have 85m2. Do we need this extra space? Does it really make us happier? Larger homes cost more to build and they use more materials. They take up more ground space in an increasingly crowded world. Are such homes necessary or environmentally responsible? We're not expecting you to live in a gnome home! Green Door Design are adept at designing homes that are resource and space efficient that you will love In our well designed smaller homes, occupants do not notice the reduced space. This is achieved by careful attention to:
Increasingly, in a climate-change world, large homes will become less attractive to buyers. As energy prices rise, large homes will be very costly to run. They are alredy becoming off-trend and associated with dated, wasteful practices. Smaller homes are trend-setters and increasingly desireable. They show the owners to be responsible consumers in a climate-change world. " ... many families float around in dwellings with far more space than they can use - spare space that must still be filled with furnishings, appliances, carpets and curtains. They must be heated, cooled and cleaned to maintain the home. In other words, buying a bigger house means embarking on an extended binge of shopping in order to fill it up . . ." 1 1 Dr Clive Hamilton, Affluenza in Australia, http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=EC126p16.pdf.
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In the last three decades, house sizes have doubled1. 