My goals were to construct a small, easy to maintain, energy efficient summer lake house. I was living in France and I wanted to build a lake home in BC, Canada. I needed the house to be built in phases since we only spent 3-4 months a year on location. The house construction began in 2002 and was finshed in 2005.
I worked on the plans while in France with the designer in Canada, I sourced the clad, low e windows and the Geothermal system as well while in France. The long distance aspect was a problem due to the time difference. Finding quality help and materials was also very difficult. Did you know that while great lumber is harvested in BC it all goes to Japan and the US? I needed to source locally milled lumber.