Our house is mostly passive solar --meaning we get most of our heat from the sun. It works wonderfully---on sunny days. But on cloudy days, we are quite cold. See that white unit on the wall in the picture below? That is a heat pump. It is basically an A/C unit that will also blow heat--like in a cheap motel room. It is our only source of heat for the whole house. Since it doesn't really heat the whole house, we just use it to heat the lounge--and we have doors to close off the rest of the house and keep the heat in---like they used to do in the US before they invented central heat. Welcome to the 1950s.
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| the lounge (what americans would call the den) |
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| Open living--lounge, kitchen and dining area |
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| the kitchen. all the cabinets in NZ are melamine, I have no idea why. and instead of a miniature refridgerator, we opted for a glass front chiller with a freezer in the garage. |
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the dining area--and you can see the media room through the pocket doors
the blue towel is MoMo Poodles food dropping spot |
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| With the pocket doors closed off |
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| The media room, or, as the kids call it "the big TV room" --in the table/cage are 2 guinea pigs |
Maybe you noticed all the wild print curtains? It is a Kiwi thing. The brighter and bolder, the better.
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