Grand Designs Australia on ABC and ABC iview S11E10 – How do you take a tiny rundown heritage-listed workers cottage in the middle of the dense inner city Sydney suburb of Newtown and transform it into a beautiful, fully sustainable off- grid home? Surely that would be impossible.
Not according to Laura who has spent the last seven years dedicating herself to finding out ways to make it possible, and in the process eaten through hundreds of thousands of dollars on experts who have all told her it can’t be done.
Seven architects, 15 water specialists, 10 solar experts, three sustainability experts, two legal professionals and one project manager later, she found the necessary help and expertise, and with a $900,000 budget and a four-month time frame, the Impossible House was finally underway.
However just weeks into the project it becomes clear that her allowance for time and money is woefully inadequate, with challenges at every turn!
Through it all, Laura remains steadfast in her commitment to become fully self- sufficient by storing all her own water and generating all her own electricity
Production credits:
Grand Designs Australia is produced by Fremantle Australia for ABC. Head of Unscripted: Josie Mason Campbell. Supervising Executive Producer: Brooke Bayvel. Executive Producer: Michael Collett. ABC Commissioning Editor, Factual: Jo Chichester. ABC Head of Factual: Susie Jones. ABC Head of Screen Content: Jennifer Collins. International Distribution: Fremantle Distribution.
Grand Designs Australia on ABC and ABC iview – Thursday 12 December at 8.00pm
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Grand Designs Australia on ABC and ABC iview S11E10
