Greening Homes

Yowza! Our Caledonia-Fairbank addition and low carbon deep energy retrofit project has once again been recognized for its excellence! Today, at the , our project — entitled “Beyond Green: Urban Resilience for a Multi-generational Home”, was awarded “Best Innovative Renovation of the Year”. Kudos, once again, to our awesome clients, our deeply committed team, and the array of trades and specialists who worked collaboratively to make this project such an enormous success.

Project architect, Terrell Wong and Chris Phillips, owner/green building designer at Greening Homes, have taken this special project on tour with a speaking circuit catered to a wide range of audiences, including (December 2025), (March), with Passive Buildings Canada, and the Ontario Natural Building Coalition Conference/AGM (both in April). In June, this dynamic duo will be spreading the word out-of-province, as they have been invited to speak at the Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia!

Part 2 of 2: We plastered the whole place in a day!

We get motivated by good people trying to do good things. In celebration of our awesome clients building a super energy efficient, low environmental impact, low embodied carbon multi-generational home — now reaching its final stages of completion — we threw a party: An earthen plaster party, to be exact. On Saturday, August 16th we invited some dear friends to join us for a day of live music, food, drink and natural earthen plastering...because, why not? Some people deserve to be celebrated and our clients, who treat our team so well and were content to always make the best environmental choices even if it meant having to move into an unfinished drywall home, needed a boost to get them over the finish line. So over 20 (!) brave and incredibly generous souls answered our call and volunteered their mid-summer Saturday in the sweaty, humid heat, to take up a trowel and finish the interior walls of a complete stranger’s home with natural earthen clay plaster.

When the world sometimes feels like it’s falling apart and driven entirely by greed, a day like this — full of community and good will — is a reminder that all is not lost. With sincere gratitude to for designing and introducing us to this project, ! (See part 2) for providing us the perfect sound to accompany our work, and every one of the special people who joined us that day: YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!