Project Confidence, Interior Selections and Build Lessons: Update with Jan and Landon

About this episode

In this episode, Amelia continues her conversation with Jan and Landon about their home building journey, focusing on their confidence and the lessons learned during the process.

Hello! This is Episode 399, and in it, I’m continuing my conversation with HOME Method members Jan and Landon, who are building a new home and granny flat as a Passive House in Sydney’s north. As a reminder: Jan and Landon are building on a site that has been in Landon’s family for over 70 years.  Their new build project has been driven by clear goals around ageing in place, sustainability and lifestyle alignment, and they’ve worked collaboratively with their architect and builder throughout their project, involving their builder during pre-construction as well. [For all resources mentioned in this podcast and a free, downloadable PDF transcript, head to www.undercoverarchitect.com/399 ] This is Part 2 of the conversation you heard in Episode 398, so if you haven’t listened, you’ll find it at www.undercoverarchitect.com/398 . And if you’re new to their story, I’d really encourage you to start at the beginning, because following their journey from the very first episode makes this one even more meaningful. We’ll pop all the links you need in the resources for this episode. In the last episode, we heard all about their…

People in this episode

Host: Amelia Lee

Guests: Jan, Landon

Topics covered

• home building
• sustainability
• interior design
• construction progress
• aging in place

Keywords

• home building
• Passive House
• sustainability
• interior selections
• construction lessons

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HOME Method, Passive House

Places: Sydney

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