Sustainability in design: the future of net zero building

Stick everything in a gift bag, glue the tag on the front and you’re done.

Actually it’s been almost exactly 2 years and one month..Funny story about that: When we first got the idea to put in this wall of cabinets in the back hall off of our master bedroom, little Jack was about 3 weeks old.

Chris saw that they had a whole bunch of basic cabinetry in stock at our local Home Depot that he could just grab and toss in the back of his truck for about $100 per cabinet and I thought it was a great idea!.But.. We’d just finished working on Jack’s nursery for the last year or so and I didn’t want to start on any big projects.So I said we could do it, but we really should just put the cabinets up, power through it, and be done in like 2 weeks.

Famous last words, of course.. Chris actually got the old shelving ripped  out and the new cabinets up in about 24 hours, which was an awesome start to the project.But then it was all the little details like adding in the little wood countertop, trimming things out, and painting all the cabinets that feel like they took forever, as usual.

You’d think I would have learned by now!.

I absolutely love it now and I’ve been spending the last little while getting things all organized and super-functional in there and now I’m so glad we took this project on even thought it took just a leeeeeetle longer than I thought it would.There are probably many of those.

It makes me happy though, and it’s in the name of making our house feel a little happier too.. We have this rickety screen door leading to our mudroom, that you get to by going up a set of rickety steps on the side of our house.The whole set up isn’t rickety as in, old and charming, more just oldish and in disrepair.

And there are spiders.But that’s for another post..