More Spring Hill Enviro Cottage

This is a closer look at the kitchen joinery we created for the Spring Hill Enviro Cottage, with its doors and drawer faces made from recycled Australian hardwood floorboards, finished with a low emission, natural clear coating made by Oikos (that was an absolute joy to apply!). We also harvested a quantity of discarded low emission board panels for this kitchen that had been rejected by others because they had been scratched in transit. Instead of resigning them to pollute in landfill, we used them as a very responsible carcass material - which is the part of the kitchen that goes unseen (and often made of the cheapest, nastiest and most irresponsible board material being produced in the world).

The home, in the inner suburbs of Brisbane, will be open to tour and inspire on Sustainable House Day this year, Sunday September 12. There are certainly a host of fabulous 'green' ideas to be investigated in the house, including the beautiful little medicine cabinets we made for the bathrooms and magical laser cut screening enveloping the house that mimics the shading properties of a deciduous tree.

For more information on the Spring Hill Enviro Cottage and information on their public tour dates visit www.envirocottage.com.au

Enviro Cottage Sneak Peek...

This picture is a little sneak peak of a project we have been busy on over the past few months. We were fortunate enough to be chosen as the joinery partner to the 'Spring Hill Enviro Cottage'. It has involved the renovation of a typical Queensland inner city worker's cottage into a benchmark for an environmentally responsible modern home.

We constructed the kitchen, glimpsed in the photo above, out of some of the most exciting sustainably sourced materials we have ever used. The star of the kitchen are doors, drawer fronts and panels fashioned out of leftover recycled Australian hardwood salvaged from the demolition of a local bridge. The timber's graceful aged patina has been enhanced with the use of a natural oil to finish it. The recycled timber is a beautiful textural contrast to the shiny modern materials that surround it making it a stunning decorative element in the space.

The project will soon be open to the public to tour. Watch this space for more details and some more glimpses of our joinery....