if this building is an exemplar, it isn’t so much just about sustainable construction as, perhaps, an example of how we all should be living." Kevin McCloud, Channel 4 February 2009
(PRWEB) July 31, 2010
This is a globally unique and luxurious 3 to 4 bedroom solar eco house for sale in Brittany. It was featured in the 2009 Grand Designs series and Kevin McCloud placed it in his top five Grand Designs over 10 years of the programme (Sunday Times, 25.1.09). It also featured on France 5 during 2010 as part of the Echo-Logis Programme. Each room has a complete opening trifold front face onto the outside terrace. Set in its own 1.5 acres of organic garden, surrounded by oaks, but open to the south, the Groundhouse is an eco home that benefits from all rooms being light and warm all year round. Comfort and style go hand in hand with the salvage designer kitchen and luxury bath and shower. Ecotechnology and building design deliver solar power, solar hot water, rainwater for washing, and a steady comfortable interior temperature, unique to this sustainable home. A lean burn woodburners provide extra warmth and ambience when necessary. The house is easy and very economical to run and live in - being based on a unique enhanced passive solar design and years of development in earthship homes.
The design incorporates best practice in sustainable homes and also benefits from the simple beauty of the many natural building techniques used in construction.
The heart of the house is the open plan lounge and kitchen, the fire room, from where the roundroom, as well as the 3 bedrooms can be directly accessed. The roundroom is a stunning and versatile space, over 6 metres across with vaulted ceiling rising up to a wooden hub that opens to the sky. It provides studio space for use as an office, workshop space, additional master bedroom or living room.
The designer kitchen combines modern efficiency with salvaged oak work surfaces and is equipped with a stainless steel cooker, double butlers sink and designer eco lighting. The kitchen is 7m by 5m and looks out over the reedbeds and gardens. The hwam woodstove provides a beautiful focal point and ambience to the open plan room, further enhanced by the views over the gardens.
The bathroom combines natural luxury with Swedish dry toilet technology. It has rounded walls and polished fossil rich limestone floors. A large luxury stone resin bath is complemented by a dual shower. The basin is carved from a solid piece of granite and is seated on sea salvaged hardwoods and limestone.
Each of the three bedrooms are finished in a lime cob plaster, with poured earth cement floors. The doorways are decorated with coloured glass inlays and all bedrooms fully open to the limestone terrace. For further information on the construction and background to the Brittany Groundhouse please look at the project website http://www.groundhouse.com
The Groundhouse is situated in a larger site, containing the ancient village of Kernombre. Due to changing circumstances, the whole ecological property is also available for sale alongside the Groundhouse. It contains a beautiful woodland cottage, another ancient longhouse with planning permission for renovation, and a total of around 6 acres of ancient woodland, bordering a stream. The whole site has historic significance with neolithic workings and the remains of the medieval chateau. Kernombre can provide a home with adjacent established rental income, or a place to develop retreats. For further information on buying this eco house in brittany please look at http://www.groundhouse.info For rental information please visit http://www.greengite.com
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