Linwood Homes Kingsbury II

We will be building a modest house on our property - a Kingsbury II from Linwood Homes. Linwood has an amazing reputation with a lineup of designs from small cabins through to enormous post and beam mansions. At a little over 1,200 square feet on two levels plus 800 sq.ft. in the walkout basement, our place falls somewhere in between. We love the layout! When we were choosing plans that we liked, independently, we both chose the same house so we figure that this is the right one for us.

It will be very similar to the house shown here, but ours will have the HardiPlank siding instead of the cedar. Also, ours will have a daylight  basement with large windows matching those on the main floor and a french door entry into the basement. The floorplan shown here is the one we will be building.
Our house will be somewhat unique in that we will have 10 PV modules on the roof supplying power to a large battery bank. Our water will be gravity-fed to storage tanks from the spring a hundred metres above the homesite. Heat will come from a wood burning stove, propane fired hot water tanks, and later, a solar hot water system feeding hydronic heating tubes in the floors. We are excited about the prospect of living "off grid" and will focus a lot of effort on these systems.