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A Sustainable Home Design Checklist
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This checklist walks you through the five things every homeowner should know before they meet a designer. Site, lifestyle, values, sustainability, and the numbers that matter. Work through it once, arrive at every conversation prepared.
+ Bonus questions to ask any designer when finding the right team to work with on your project.
What's Inside
Five sections that take you from raw site to a clear, confident brief — in about 20 minutes.
01
Reading Your Site
Orientation, sun, breezes, slope, drainage, views, and the constraints you need to know about before you design anything.
02
Your Life and Home
How you really live. Mornings, evenings, work, entertaining, family time, connection to nature, how you want to live in the future.
03
How You Want It To Feel
Calm, connected, grounded, light-filled - clarifying the emotional quality of your home before the floor plan exists.
04
Sustainability Priorities
Energy, materials, water, air-quality, landscape, what matters most ranked in your own words.
05
Know Your Numbers
Budget, timeline, approvals, planning questions you should already have answers to.
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Questions to Ask Any Designer
A series of guiding questions that will help you separate genuine sustainable designers from the rest, we help you to know what to listen for.
About Ecolibrium Designs
Founded in 2006, based in Eumundi, Queensland, the Ecolibrium Designs team has over 35 years experience creating award-winning sustainable homes across South East Queensland. Every project starts with a site visit and a deep conversation about how you want to live, not just what you want to build.