Owner(s): Christine Stec and Brian Ausman
Region: Guelph/Kitchener/Waterloo
Municipality: Guelph

Number of bedrooms: 4
Number of bathrooms: 3
Building footprint, square feet: 5500 home and 4000 barn
Number of stories: 1 in main house and loft over garage
Occupancy date: April 2005
Cost per square foot and what that includes: $125 (maybe)

Builder arrangement: Both owner and contractor
Main contractor name: Ben Polley
Main contractor company: Harvest Homes
Designer's name: Owner
Structural engineer's name: Larry Argue
Structural engineer's firm: Argue and Associates, Burnside
Length of time to build (start to occupancy): 9 months


Other roof system info: hip and gamble, scissor cathedral

Other roofing material info: quartz coated steel tiles

Other plaster colourants: silicate paint

Mechanical systems info: ground source heat pump,
Electrical systems info: grid tied
Other green features: ground source heat pump, stone ruin incorporated into main house, passive solar house oriented to take advantage of the sun, two huge maples shade house in summer and drop leaves in winter to allow sun through to house
Anything else you'd like to share?: the house has stained cement floors (acid etched by owner) and has been a delight to live in.