Month: March 2021

When we decided that we would try to go the Passivhaus route, the next thing to think about was how we were actually going to build our house. The obvious route – especially given our location – seemed initially to be using panels pre-fabricated off-site. But it became clear that this wasn’t going to be…

From the moment we started looking for a plot, we were always keen to build some sort of ‘eco’ house, but I’m not sure we’d thought – or knew – very much more than that at the start. As we started discussing the house build with our architect, Peter Smith, someone mentioned the Passivhaus concept…

In Scots Gaelic, SAORSA means freedom or liberty. AITE SAORSA is ‘place of freedom’ And that’s what Ardnamurchan, and particularly our piece of land (soon to be house), means to us: a place of freedom, somewhere that we escape the stress and constraints of the way too busy lives we lead and feel completely relaxed….