A House Tour with Sustainable Architect and Designer Oliver Heath

Oliver Heath will be familiar to many from his stint on the first mainstream interiors show Changing Rooms in the 1990s, but while the other designers have continued to makeover rooms and design various products for the high street, he has gone in a different direction turning towards eco design, sustainability and biophilia and has built a global practice teaching and researching ways to make our houses support our lives while not taking resources from the planet.

Oliver Heath at home with his dog Zev I first interviewed him about 12 years ago, the week before he moved into this Brighton house which he planned to turn into an eco-house. Last month Sophie Robinson and I visited to record an episode of the podcast in his home and to learn how he has put what he preaches into practice. You can listen to the full episode while below are pictures of his house, useful links and the interview in full. It’s a fairly classic 1960s house with large windows and low-ish ceilings in a quiet Brigh…