HomeMade™ Custom Build

Dwelle

Dwelle is for those that demand, and value, something better - greater quality, careful design and the latest innovation. It’s for those that appreciate the details.
They have a produced a range of award-winning buildings that can be customised to create a very personal home. They are flexible, adaptable and modular.
High levels of sustainability and low-energy consumption is standard, but with optional extras clearly priced, they can be self-sufficient and zero-carbon. They also provide very healthy internal spaces - maximising natural light with air quality that is totally free from solvents and harmful emissions, with intelligent heating and controlled humidity.
The main element of the building system comprises of prefabricated engineered timber panels. Airtight yet breathable and insulated with both sheep’s wool and wood fibre, these panels create very high performing walls and roof.
There’s a subtle palette of natural cladding materials offered. The upper part of the house can be clad in timber (larch or western red cedar), zinc or lightweight cladding panels, whilst the base can be clad in a tile, brick or stone. The roof can incorporate optional roof lights and integrated (flush) solar PV panels.
An extremely efficient project process has allowed them to refine the whole client experience from selecting one of the homes to handing over the keys. Customisation is clear. Ordering is simple. Assembly is fast.
Technical sophistication coincides with aesthetic elegance, creating a truly comfortable space to call home.

The Lightbox House

The twists are what make the difference. Lightbox house is shaped to draw in the light, providing open plan living with big windows at front and back. There’s lots of space for living in, and lots more for storing clutter.

The biggest twist, though, is that the Lightbox House is customized by you, adapting and responding to suit your lifestyle and your budget. You can choose to have two, three or four bedrooms. As the household expands, so can the house, with a dual facing double terraced roof pod addition providing an extra bedroom or workspace.

The Lightbox House reaches out into the street; a Cornish style stoop in the form of a built in bench allows you to catch the sun and catch up with your neighbours. The deep wooden ‘shop front’ window is easily transformed into a display of homemade sculpture or a vertical landscape of cacti. The house adapts to suit the mood of its inhabitants; expansive when you want to host your friends and neighbours for a birthday party or a weekend barbecue and when it’s time to retreat, shut the door and the Lightbox House is the perfect place to be intensely private with your garden, books and kids.

Welcome to low energy bills and fresh air. Thick walls and high performance windows are well insulated against summer heat and winter chills. You can enhance its performance and reduce bills right up to Passive House standards.

The Lightbox House invites you to make it the kind of home you’ve always wanted.

MyHouse

MyHouse is a cool modern eco-house tailored to meet customer needs and budgets. MyHouse is the perfect answer to the requirements of modern life because it is a house that is focused on sustainable and intelligent construction. Precision manufactured in our factory in Slovenia, it comes with a 10 year warranty giving customers the comfort that it is not only built to look beautiful but built to last.

MyHouse offers a range of options and the first thing will be for customers to decide between a standard or a super house, 2,3 or 4 bedrooms, open plan or cellular, timber cladding or render, as well as a wide range of internal finishes. We offer different interior packages to suit different tastes and budgets. You can choose a clean modern look or beautiful timber beams and rafters. Different kitchen and bathroom fittings and choice of floor coverings.

When a customer’s order is confirmed and approvals received we manufacture each MyHouse in our factory, deliver and construct it and fit it out. We carry out all the building works making it hassle free to get the customised home of your dreams.

Potton

Potton is the UK’s leading self-build company and has helped over 6,500 families build their dream home. We have 6 permanent show houses to inspire those looking to engage with the design and construction of their new home and have been in business for over 50 years. Our homes for the Heartlands project have been developed with our partners at HTA Design and have been created to enable every family to create something completely bespoke; whatever their lifestyle, budget and level of ambition. R G Kellow, our builder for Heartlands, is based less than a mile from the site.

Our houses will be constructed using energy efficient building systems manufactured in our own UK factory. Customers will be able to select different levels of performance and specification dependent upon their budget expectations and performance requirements.

Every home is designed around a ‘stiff and strong’ external shell, meaning that the structure is in the external walls and stairs, allowing complete flexibility of the internal space. Once a customer has chosen the size of property they want, they will meet up with our local designer (Sean) who will help them configure the interior space so that it meets their requirements. Sean has helped hundreds of families design their own home and will support and guide customers through the exciting process of selecting the kitchens, bathroom, stairs and doors that they want, enabling them to create a home that is truly bespoke and beautifully tailored to meet their needs.

littleBIG House

‘From the outside it looks little, a typical English house. But when I open the door it feels so big. It always takes my breath away. My littleBIG house.’ littleBIG house is about giving you spaces in your home which feel big and special. We have developed three different designs for putting a double height space into your home. Your first decision is to choose the design that most suits how you want to live:

•  Outward bound, a supersized hall at the front, with space to hang your kayak, dry your waterproofs and park your bikes 
• Home comforts, a sky-lit room at the heart of the home, for the kitchen table and a lazy sofa
• Green fingers, a tall room overlooking the garden, for growing tomatoes, drying laundry and a pair of comfy chairs You can then choose the layout – rooms or open plan - and arrangement – live downstairs or up

The ‘essential’ littleBIG house provides a custom built two storey home which you can add to and upgrade. Add a loft space to create an extra bedroom, home office or living room with roof terrace. Enhance the garden by adding a patio, verandah or garden room. Upgrade the front of the house, choosing from a range of locally sourced materials.

Reduce your energy use and bills by upgrading to superinsulation and adding photovoltaic panels to the roof. littleBIG house is designed by AOC to be built anywhere, using the skills and experience of local craftspeople and locally available materials. This minimises costs, maximises the benefits of local experience and ensures the house makes a positive contribution to the local economy.

Designed by AOC. Customised by you. Built by local craftspeople.

BaleHaus

BaleHaus is an entirely renewable home, made from beautiful, affordable and sustainable natural materials. BaleHaus is a living, breathing home that is cool in summer and warm in winter. It is intelligent in design as well as operation and, at every turn, simply and effectively helps you reduce their CO2 emissions without compromising how they choose to live their lives. The designs are fully customisable, including options for external treatments, internal layouts and fittings, pitched or terraced roof spaces. We also offer a range of renewable and energy saving technologies to save you money on your bills.

Our homes are built from sustainable, responsibly-sourced materials. Straw and timber can provide a continuous natural supply of building material, reducing the dependancy on energy or CO2 intensive materials. This reduced carbon footprint is achieved because, as straw and timber grow they absorb CO2 through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis splits the CO2 into carbon andcoxygen atoms. They use the carbon atoms to make cellulose, the building blocks of plants, and sends the oxygen atoms back to the atmosphere. This is how we “bank” the carbon into the structure and fabric of each BaleHaus. We build with carbon.

BaleHaus is an enabler of 21st century living, dispelling the myth that one’s lifestyle must be compromised in order to be low carbon. Welcome to the world of low carbon chic! We can help you build a lasting beautiful home that protects the environment, reduces carbon emissions through lower energy use and creates beautiful flexible homes and cohesive communities.