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Current issue: Sanctuary 19
Current Issue / Sanctuary 19
Issue 19 features:
- Sustainable homes across Australia
- Design for denser cities
- Beginner’s guide to solar PV
- Draught proofing
- Insulating tricky spaces
- Speed Date a Sustainable Designer – Brisbane and Sydney
PDF / Sanctuary issue 13 sample PDF
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 01
Features of issue 1 include:
- Shady solutions for summer
- Solar power for the home
- Top water saving tips
- Sustainable window options
- Energy saving lighting
- Plus 15 stunning sustainable homes
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 02
Features of issue 2 include:
- Water-saving apartments
- Sustainable kit homes
- Eco-friendly flooring options
- Recycle water in your garden
- Stunning sustainable homes from across Australia
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 03
Features of issue 3 include:
- Buying a sustainable home checklist
- Keeping warm without costing the earth
- Solar hot water options
- Design your home for green cleaning
- Capturing your own water supply
- Power up your home with the sun
- Plus 12 top eco-friendly homes from across Australia
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 04
Features of issue 4 include:
- Stylish sustainable home for less than $250,000
- Rainwater gardens
- Sustainable landscaping
- The low-down on downlights
- Sustainable living rebates
- Plus 12 beautiful sustainable homes from across Australia
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 05
Features of issue 5 include:
- Affordable sustainable modular home
- Solar hydronic heating
- Tank bling: Accessories for clean water
- Eco-friendly flooring options
- Healthy, green paints for your home
- Plus beautiful sustainable homes from across Australia
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 06
Features of issue 6 include:
- Natural, chemical-free pools
- Cool treatments for a hot house
- 10 top tips for sustainable design
- Gorgeous houses from Broome to Sydney, Melbourne to Townsville
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 07
Features of issue 7 include:
- Musician Xavier Rudd's symphony in straw bale
- Houses with advanced solar hydronic heating systems
- Green bathroom renovations
- Beautiful rammed earth homes
- 8 stunning sustainable homes from across Australia
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 08
Features of issue 8 include:
- 50 pages of our our favourite sustainable homes
- Style secrets: the latest in eco-homewares
- Free home health checks
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 09
Features of issue 9 include:
- Size matters! 40 pages of inspiring smaller homes
- Green rebates guide. Govt money for solar power, hot water and more
- Sustainable prefabs. Quality designs that cut no corners
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 10
Features of issue 10 include:
- Windows and double glazing guide
- Build your own sustainable home: tips from the experts
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 11
Features of issue 11 include:
- Ventilated pantries
- Recycled kitchens
- Low-carbon concrete
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 12
Features of issue 12 include:
- Green Reupholstery
- Hi-tech Blinds
- Australia's Green Building Codes
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 13
Issue 13 is a special summer issue and includes:
- Raingardens
- From cradle to grave: life cycle assessment
- Design Notes: introducing the basics of thermal mass, natural ventilation and eaves
- Heat-beating green products for summer
- Retrospective: revisiting WestWyck eco-housing development three years on
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 14
Issue 14 features:
- 45 pages of inspiring green homes, including a rebuild born from the 2009 Victorian bushfires
- Green kitchen cabinets
- Ground source heat pumps
- Design Notes: introducing the basics of insulation, earth coupling and building for bushfire resilience
- Retrospective: revisiting a Geelong house with sound ESD principles and a wintergarten
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 15
Issue 15 features:
- NEW: Design Workshop gives a reader's renovation plans some professional pointers
- Co-housing around the world
- Guide to solar water heaters
- Design Matters: introducing the basics of orientation; and compact floor plans
- Retrospective: revisiting Christie Walk, one of Australia's first eco developments
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Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 16
- Inspiring green homes from Melbourne to Darwin to Maine, USA
- The latest on Small Houses and Pocket Neighbourhoods
- Greener Paints, and LEDs demystified
- Design Workshop gives a reader's coastal WA home plans some sustainable pointers
- Design Matters: the perils of open plan living; and thermal bridging and how to avoid it
- Towards 10-star: homes that raise the bar
Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 17
Issue 17 features:
- Special 37-page feature: Australia's Greenest Kitchens
- 17 green kitchens profiled
- Kitchen design tips from the experts
- Top star rated kitchen appliances
- Inspiring sustainable homes from a Sydney beaches "treehouse" to a Finnish island retreat
- Design Workshop takes a look at a reader's Perth renovation
- Design Matters: Reverse brick veneer, and the basics of the Passive House Standard
- Retrofitting to six stars
Back Issues / Sanctuary issue 18
Issue 18 features:
- Sustainable homes from Adelaide to Melbourne to rural Tasmania
- First Light: an international award winning New Zealand "bach" house
- Building in straw bale
- Condensation and how to avoid it
- Greener finishes for timber and concrete
- Renovating in stages in Canberra with Design Workshop
- Design Matters: water tank smarts, and the lowdown on Structural Insulated Panels
