Sustainable buildings: passivhaus, low carbon design and NABERS | Pablo Gugel, Director of Sustainability

The sign is cut from plywood, with a smooth painted low VOC finish on the front and the raw wood on the back.

It’s a bad situation, but it’s working!.This is after a couple of go-overs with the chemical.

Sustainable buildings: passivhaus, low carbon design and NABERS | Pablo Gugel, Director of Sustainability

You can see there’s still a bit of glue with some dirt and cat fur in it, but it’s starting to look a lot better!.Here’s how it started out waaay back in October.. Now you can even see a bit of shine!Through all the dirt and cat fur, I mean.. Now don’t get me wrong.

Sustainable buildings: passivhaus, low carbon design and NABERS | Pablo Gugel, Director of Sustainability

I don’t want these floors to look all perfect and new.Just maybe a little less filthy dirty.

Sustainable buildings: passivhaus, low carbon design and NABERS | Pablo Gugel, Director of Sustainability

Everyone always asks us if we’ll be refinishing the floors.

Ideally, if I could get them to look decent but still maintain all the been-here-forever-ness, that’s what I would do.Start with a block of Parmesan cheese..

When it comes to cheese and food garnishes in our house, the last few years have definitely been mostly about speed and convenience.That means there’s been a whole lot of “shaky cheese” in a can on pasta night around these parts.

🙂 Something in the grocery store spoke to me though the other day and said “Courtenay, the time has come for you to return to real cheese again.You can find the time!