Owner(s): Ross Elliot and Cat Williams
Region: Greater Ottawa Area
Municipality: Maberly

Number of bedrooms: guest loft bedroom
Occupancy date: spring 2006
Cost per square foot and what that includes: ~$40 / SF by the time it’s finished (400 SF main floor + 300 SF loft), most labour by owner

Builder arrangement: Owner
Main contractor name: owner / with priceless help from Paul Battle & Monica Kalistar
Designer's name: Homestead Building Solutions
Structural engineer's name: Evan Wittrup, Toronto
Length of time to build (start to occupancy): 2 years (in our “spare” time)
Volunteer participation: stitching & parging (Maureen Bostock, Kelly Lee Evans & Raul, particular thanks to Patti & Bill!)
Ease of obtaining a building permit: Very easy

Other roof system info: rubber membrane covered with cedar shingles, 2 glu-lam ridge beams with framed cathedral ceiling
Other insulation materials used: R-35 urethane spray foam cathedral ceilings, R-20 spray foam slab

Other bale wall style info: some pins as needed, Tenax mesh


Other plaster colourants: silicate paint exterior, pigmented interior, acid etch slab

Other information about windows: ow-e argon w/ lexan triple glazed, mostly custom made, three 4x4 skylights
Mechanical systems info: Heat source: Tarm wood boiler w/ oil water heater backup, radiant slab (system supplies main house heating / DHW as well), not installed yet Fuels used : wood / oil Cooling source): radiant slab cooling using well water
Anything else you'd like to share?: curved sloping walls designed around maple trees, unique roof shape There’s a 1500 square foot soap bubble-insulated & shaded year-round organic solar greenhouse here as well, only one of its kind in the world.