The Eco-chic Farmhouse of Fashion Designer Savannah Miller

The Eco-chic Farmhouse of Fashion Designer Savannah Miller

Designer Savannah Miller runs the fashion label Twenty8Twelve and is the sister of actress Sienna Miller who she runs the design company with. She is determined to make her Gloucestershire farmhouse as sustainable and carbon-neutral as she can so that she can sell it for a profit and then buy a plot of land. She then intends to build her own eco-home from scratch.

The land that she intends to buy needs to be big enough for wind turbines, ground source heat pumps and a small holding. She, along with her family, want to grow as much of their own food as possible so that they can become self-sufficient. In order to achieve this they need to sell the farmhouse at a large profit. They bought it in 2010 even though it needed a lot of work. They have used eco-friendly paints which she admits are expensive but her husband, who is helping with the refurbishment, is allergic to solvents so she had no choice. Her husband Nick is very good at building work and sourcing items from random places for the building work. He bought a loft's worth of insulation off eBay and fitted it himself. A wood burning stove was then fitted with a back boiler so that there was always hot water and heat in the home. She refuses to use a tumble dryer so if it is too wet to dry the clothes outside she has to hand them over the stove.

The house had horrible carpets and so those were ripped up, but there were no hard wood floors underneath simply concrete. Nick went back onto eBay and bought 2,000 worth of reclaimed floorboards from an old chapel for just 150 which he then fitted himself. They have also applied for planning permission to known down the annexe, in its place will be a triple glazed oak framed kitchen which will house an Aga. She has looked into installing wind turbines and also solar panels but feels that they are too expensive and not efficient enough. The wind turbines need to be placed 75m from the house in order to generate enough power but they do not have that amount of land so instead they will look into getting a row of smaller ones on the roof. These smaller wind turbines will power things like the washing machine.

Her neighbours are totally on her side and one has even suggested sharing some goats. Surprisingly Nick used to run a goat farm in Costa Rica so he will be a great help and the plan is to have a vegetable garden once the ground is dug. Nick has already built a wall and hopes to start this spring. Inside the four bedroom farmhouse she has used a lot of recycled furniture. She has bought a lot from eBay and stresses that this is a form of recycling too.

She is aware that being "green" is often mocked as a middle class notion for those who are well off but it is something that she is passionate about. She feels that if everyone did little things then it would all make a difference. She hopes that in five years time she will have saved enough money so that she and her family can live without spending any.

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