Event Recap
Sustainable House Day 2025 Panel: Sustainable Homes in Our Community
·Event Recap
A community panel for Sustainable House Day 2025 — three local homeowners shared the wins, the lessons, and the spreadsheet-honest costs of making their homes more sustainable.
Real homes, real numbers
For Sustainable House Day 2025 we hosted a panel of three local homeowners — across very different houses and budgets — to talk honestly about what they'd done, what worked, and what they'd do differently next time.
The brief was simple: no greenwashing, no hand-waving. Just numbers, photos, and the bits the brochures leave out.
Highlights
- A 1920s villa retrofit with a focus on thermal performance
- A modest 1970s home that went all-electric one appliance at a time
- A new build that used the existing trees as the starting point
Thank you
Thanks to everyone who turned up, asked questions, and stayed for tea. And especially to our panellists for opening their homes — and their spreadsheets — to the rest of us.