The $660k home that has no heating or cooling costs
Six years ago, Emily Walter and her husband wanted to upgrade their house in Canberra’s Macquarie suburb. The couple with two children, lived in an “ex-govie,” or government brick veneer house that was stock standard in the national capital in the 1960s.
The cookie-cutter rectangular house lay north-south on their block, copping the full glare of Canberra’s harsh morning and afternoon summer sun, and with just one north-facing window to let warmth into the house in winter.
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