Blog entries from Oliver Heath

See through the keyhole of Oliver Heath's SuperHome

Oliver Heath — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

It's now been 8 months since the builders moved out and we moved back into our refurbished 1960s house in Brighton. Thankfully the exhaustion and stress of working on my own home has fully subsided and we have been enjoying the fruits of our labour. More than that - it's fantastic!

Across the harsh winter our home has proved to be warm, bright and draught-free - without any of the usual nocturnal fluctuations in temperatures that we had become so used to. In fact, now the quarteRead More...

It's a material world: part 3 from eco-designer Oliver Heath

Oliver Heath — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:15:29 +0100

If refurbishing a home wasn't complicated enough, we now have to choose our materials with greater care and attention. You could see this as a limitation, but for me it’s an opportunity to create a style that embodies the philosophies of sustainability.
Luckily, there are ever more interesting materials to choose from as I found out when designing the Eco home exhibition at the Geffrye Museum in East London. It struck me that when designing eco homes there are masculine and Read More...

Strip outs and structures: Part 2 from eco-designer Oliver Heath on his home refurbishment

Oliver Heath — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:52:38 +0100

How do you start an eco refurb? As you mean to continue of course: with lofty environmental intentions.

In my case that means stripping out my home’s old fixtures and putting in steel joists and columns to improve its efficiency and circulation, and future proof it (more on that later).

Can Eco Designer Oliver Heath bring character and sustainability to this featureless ‘60s House?

Oliver Heath — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:27:57 +0100

It's taken some time to realise that I don't like to make things easy for myself - but I do like to make things right. A year ago we moved into a detached 1960s four-bedroom house in Brighton. Hardly the designer home one might expect for a man, who enthuses about good sustainable design on TV, but it took a year and a half to find this uglyRead More...