Originally, I had planned to start into the technical details of the house design in this post. Things like control layers, orientation, and heat loss. However, it occurred to me that any design needs a starting point, an inspiration.
If you ask a novelist where they get their inspiration for a book, I expect the answer would vary with each individual author. The same is probably true with people who design homes.
For me, in the beginning at least, I had some starting points. A few images, some houses seen from the road, and some mental expectations of what might suit us. From there, it has been, and continues to be, an incremental process of learning what questions to ask.
