This is a sustainable small house with solar-power and rainwater-collection near Melbourne, Australia that you can rent on Airbnb.
It’s a sustainable off-grid home on a secluded 20 acres with rainwater collection, solar panels, batteries, a Rota-Loo composting toilet system, and eleven cows on the property. How would you like to live in a setting like this?
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Sustainable Off-Grid Small House with Solar and Rainwater System in Victoria, Australia
Photos via Robert/Airbnb
The kitchen is so unique and awesome. There’s a farmhouse sink, corrugated metal siding, and brick… If you like funky, I think you’ll like this 🙂
The bedroom embraces the corrugated steel siding, too.
It doesn’t really get more funky than a bath tub in your living room, does it?
No worries, there’s another bedroom.
The bathroom seems pretty basic, spacious, it has a custom composting toilet, and also embraces corrugated walls. Keeping it consistent!
This small house packs a custom fireplace with nearby bathtub, in the living room.
Aerial View… (Not So Tiny At All, Is It?)
Photos via Robert/Airbnb
Built with sustainability in mind, as the home is off the grid with solar panels and batteries, backup generator, gas fridge and gas hot water system • The unique property has a cosy feel and oozes character, finished with corrugated zincalume the home blends into its natural rural environment• The ‘L Shaped’ house has cathedral ceilings throughout, with open plan kitchen, meals and large living area• The kitchen has a slow combustion stove with brick surround, timber cupboards, stone benchtops, farmhouse sink and large pantry• The meal and living area has ample natural light, exposed timber, claw foot bath in front of a two-sided open wood heater• Two large bedrooms, both with external access. Master bedroom with mezzanine floor (or room for a third bedroom) and sink, second bedroom with RCSS• Large open bathroom with walk in shower, vanity and washing machine facilities. Toilet with composting ‘Rotaloo’• Outside the property has a fenced house yard and veggie garden, carport and three rainwater tanks (2 x 23,000Lt & 1 x 500Lt)•
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This is real nice. I take it the bathtub is in the living area? Can soak and watch TV or crank some Neil Diamond up…. I like that idea. This is beautiful. Love the walls. Eye catching. Bedroom and bathroom too. To bad it is in Australia. I checked out about moving there when I was in the music biz. You had to have money in your bank account. Which I did. Than my friend talked me out of it. No regrets.
I love Australia. I’ve visited three times (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth), and found the people welcoming, the big cities vibrant, and small towns lovely and livable. Incredible Greek, Lebanese, and Italian food. Some interesting architecture down there, and it seems that every snake, spider, and many marsupials are poisonous and eager to kill you. I love my home country USA and especially the South, but my next time round I hope to be born in Australia or New Zealand. These comments respectfully submitted.
Sooooo how much is this property?
Never mind my last comment! Found the price.
A bathtub in the living?That is just weird.
Not really, just something more common in luxury or off-grid homes…
Mind, bathtubs aren’t only used for bathing but also relaxing and when used for long periods it can help to have a view, watch a movie, etc.
Mind the proximity to the fireplace as well… Makes for a good combination…
“The Sensations are the details that make up our life”
By Oscar Wilde
I add: and always tell more than many words….
I think the corrugated zincalume is used to shield the house in case of bush fires. They are fairly common in Australia.
There is this new thing call ablenook, anyone knows anything about it. They have a website with the same name? $65000, thoughts?
Hey Marcus, I checked that out, thanks for sharing. I’ll look into it!
It’s a prefab shelter kit that’s easy to assemble, originally intended for disaster relief housing, but they’re also developing it to be used for prefab housing, modular classrooms, flex office space or even military applications.
Designs are scalable/modular, consisting of aluminum pieces that can just snap together and SIP panels, all of which can also be taken apart easy as well to re-assemble it somewhere else… It has been in development since about 2011…
Like Ten Fold Engineering, which is another one to keep an eye on, they have a promising concept that has taken time to develop funding, business partners, etc. to make it a viable business and be at the point they’re finally selling units… Full production won’t start until 2020, assuming everything goes well with their early and limited production for 2019…
It’s very much still in the early adopter stage. So it may be a few years before we know how good the product is and whether the company will have a long term future…
Thanks for the info, James!
Dont understand tub in living room looks like the bathroom from pictures has enough space to put in there
from what I seen of bath
I like the use of metal for some of the walls. I expect it is cost effective and a bit better for the environment. Nice house
Going off-grid and having a self-sustaining alternatives are a trend. Not relying much on commercial but going solo does have its benefits and advantages.
Strange, humourish even, juxtaposition of words…
a Rota-Loo composting toilet system, and eleven cows on the property.
One way of getting rid of the cows business… lol