Living off Grid – Home Design Features Part 2

Reader Contribution by Ed Essex
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Our off grid home has many design features you don’t normally find in most houses. Many people come here to see what some of these features look like or how they operate. 

This is the second installment of features. Part 1 was published last week. See Part 1

Insulated cold frames – on the south side of the house we put in raised bed insulated cold frames. We have grown fresh cold weather type vegetables as cold as 18F with nothing to heat them but the sun. They are attached to the side of the house which never freezes.

Plug in switches – we have more wall switches than most homes. The extra switches turn our phantom power off when an appliance isn’t being used. Phantom power consists of things like the stereo and microwave clocks or anything else that shows lit up on a screen even though the appliance is turned off.

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