Residential

Passive design that’s energy-efficient, healthy, and comfortable.

 
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Georgian Bay Bunkies

When thinking about building bunkies at their cottage on Georgian Bay, Sustainable’s clients understood that they’d need to optimize every square inch of space in the maximum 540sf bunkies.

 
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Six Points Residence

A family in the Six Points neighbourhood of Etobicoke chose to build better instead of bigger for their new-build home, allowing Sustainable to focus on incredible reductions to the family’s energy use.

 
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Ninth Street Home

This full-gut renovation and addition near Lake Ontario proves that beauty isn’t skin deep – we achieved contemporary interiors, while the exterior maintained its place in the local neighbourhood fabric.

 
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Brooklyn Avenue

In our own neighbourhood of Leslieville, this traditional home got a contemporary renovation, resulting in some exceptionally special moments where old meets new.

 
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West Lynn

This extensive Ravine property renovation and addition preserved that which the clients already loved, and celebrated its unique site looking out over Small’s Creek.

 
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Cabbagetown Cottage

A modern heritage addition in Cabbagetown

 
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Jones Avenue Laneway House

A sustainable laneway house renovation and addition

 
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Woodfield Road

This renovation and addition added space and increased comfort for a family in Leslieville, while balancing modern-looking Galvalume with traditional shou-sugi ban cedar cladding.

 
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Sawyer Road

A contemporary new build in Oakville

 
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Willowdale Passive Solar House

LEED Gold Certification, CMHC Healthy Housing Award

 
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West Five

Proposal for an energy efficient townhome community

 
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Danforth Home

Sustainable renovation and addition

 
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Logan Avenue

Interior re-configuration and exterior re-cladding

 
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Kingston Road

Deep green renovation of a century-old family home in the beaches

 
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Rosedale Residence

A modern renovation and addition

 
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Daniels Residence

South Hill deep green heritage restoration

 
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Monkton Avenue

Residential construction method for a Toronto climate

 
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East York Passive Home

Bungalow addition and renovation

 
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Hunter House

A straw-bale off-grid passive solar house

 
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Spring Garden Avenue

North York passive solar eco-home

 
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Risebrough Residence

High-performance, multi-generational home

 
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New Orleans V1

A modern, low-cost, low-energy passive solar house for the Lower 9th Ward

 
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New Orleans V2

Post-Katrina traditional passive house for central city

 
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Resilient House

Post-hurricane Sandy low-cost passive solar house for New York

 
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Churchill Avenue

A contemporary four-bedroom home in North York

 
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Boothroyd Avenue

Third-floor addition and full interior renovation

 
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Joplin House

Tornado-resistant house for Missouri

 
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Millwood Residence

Deep energy retrofit and second floor addition of a brick bungalow

 
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Norden Crescent

Don Mills addition and renovation

 
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Queen Victoria Street

Net-positive cost of energy

 
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Wellington Country Farmhouse

Fully-accessible, energy-efficient addition and renovation

 
 
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Habitat for Humanity: Cambodia

Cambodian sustainable housing

 
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Crawford Street

Full renovation, basement suite, rear addition, and third-floor top-up

 
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Beaches Heritage

Sustainable addition and renovation to Queen Anne historic home

 
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Davisville Phased Addition

Sustainable renovation and addition to existing masonry home

 
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Gardenvale Residence

Home renovation for future generations

 
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Indian Valley Cresent

Interior renovations for a High Park century home

 
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Frog’s Hollow

Reclaimed barn to off-grid, passive solar residence