We are Mike Coe and Lizzie Stoodley and this website will document the creation of our new home in Portree, which will be the first passivhaus-certified dwelling on the Isle of Skye - if no one beats us to it. This isn't our first ever building project: we moved here from Worcestershire, where we built one of the UK's most energy-efficient homes, The Cropthorne Autonomous House . For a first build, and a highly experimental one at that, it was a great success. There were no 'Grand Designs' style disasters, the house performed very well and there was nothing we felt we could have done better. It was a delightful house to live in. Despite that, we said, many times, that we would never again want to put ourselves through all the stress, hard work and uncertainty that goes with building your own home. But here we are...

To find out what motivated us to move, and why building a passivhaus was the obvious choice, watch the Video Reports (see Latest Updates below) and take a look at the Design page. You'll be able to follow the build - almost in real-time - on the Live Webcam (right) and we'll be posting updates as we go along on Twitter (see details below).