This is a brand new, boutique home, designed and built with so much love and care, and with the ultimate comfort of our guests in mind. Ahara House is the result of a beautiful collaboration between Lou Projects and Luke Farrugia Architect. This wonderful team has a focus on building healthy, high quality and high performing homes. And Ahara House is your opportunity to experience and feel the difference. 

To create a healthy home, the biggest thing in our eyes is for it to be mould free. Most people are unaware of how dangerous mould can be to their health - with even short term exposure having the potential to cause asthma attacks, allergies, and respiratory infections, and long term exposure having even more detrimental effects. It’s estimated that mould is present in up to 50 per cent of homes in Australia. This is largely due to poor building practices that lead to lack of ventilation and moisture build up behind structural walls, floors, ceilings and plasterboard. When water gets trapped in these areas, it creates a breeding ground for mould, most of which you can’t see. We’re proud to say Ahara House is a mould free home. This is because it’s been built to a much higher standard than your typical home, starting with a completely waterproof and airtight building envelope that works to keep outside elements, such as moisture and humidity, from entering and causing major damage. 

Another major part of mould prevention is proper ventilation. Ventilation should allow dry, fresh air to enter your home while getting rid of moist, stale air - which builds up in your home from bodies, cooking, showers etc. To ensure proper ventilation at Ahara House, we’ve installed a state of the art HRV system, or ‘heat recovery ventilation’ system. This whole house HRV system works 24/7 to remove moist, stale air from inside, and replace it with filtered, fresh air from outside. The filters remove many pollutants from the air before it enters the home, such as pollen, bacteria, smoke, smog and mould spores. We also have the ability to set the temperature of the air entering the home based on the season, for example having it set to 25 degrees in winter and 21 degrees in summer. The HRV system will then extract warmer air from either inside or outside, and pass it through the heat exchanger, so the air being brought into the home is as close to that desired set temperature as possible. The result? Clean, fresh, filtered air, at a comfortable temperature, all year round. 

For a high performing home, and the ultimate feeling of comfort, one of the most important considerations is proper insulation. The entire structure of Ahara House is built out of SIPs - structural insulated panels. Once installed, SIP panels deliver a highly insulated, airtight frame that’s extremely strong and energy efficient. Ahara House is also fitted with timber framed double glazed windows and doors. Timber is a naturally insulating material, meaning it doesn’t easily allow hot or cold air to pass through. When you pair a timber frame with double glazing, you have a high performing window or door that helps keep the home warmer in winter and cooler in summer. This level of insulation is very uncommon in any sort of conventional build in Australia, and you’ll surely feel the difference when you come and stay.