Explore open houses across Nillumbik on Sustainable House Day. Hear from local homeowners about their efforts to make their homes more comfortable and less expensive to run. You’ll be inspired and gain endless information and tips to help you on your journey.

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Tickets are available through Renew's national Sustainable House Day event website: Sustainable House Day - Sunday 17 May 2026

There is a fee of $15 per adult for the day - funds contribute to Renew's costs of delivering the national event.​

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Choose from 7 different houses to tour across a range of Nillumbik locations and build your own Nillumbik Trail. A further 3 local houses have online tours where you can gain useful local knowledge.

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Open house tours – Sunday 17 May

Wattle Glen https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/wattle-home/

St Andrews https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/trevor-and-maureens-home/

Montmorency https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/the-burstall-house/

Research https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/the-resilient-ridgetop-at-research/

Hurstbridge https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/rosie-grants-house/

Eltham https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/early-alistair-knox-retrofit/

Eltham (townhouse) https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/eltham-town-treehouse/

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Online home tours

Hurstbridge https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/homepatch/

St Andrews https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/the-tardis-house/

Warrandyte https://sustainablehouseday.com/homes/the-panel-house/

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What about previous years... ?

 

Our 2024 Sustainable House Day event, The Nillumbik Trail, was a huge success thanks to the efforts of homeowners, volunteers and attendees!​

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Our 7 homes welcomed over 200 hundred people across more than 300 tours.

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Scroll down to view the 2024 participating houses below...

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You can download the full post-event report here.

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Attendees told us:

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"Hosts were very passionate, interested and great representatives for sustainable housing"

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"The homeowners were fantastic and their tours were really interesting and informative, thankyou!"

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Actions attendees plan to take with their new learnings include:

• diverting grey water and improving water tank design

• installing solar and batteries

• upgrading to double-glazed windows and adding pelmets and external blinds

• draught-proofing, including door seals and adding insulation

• installing efficient reverse-cycle heating and cooling and heat pump hot water heaters

• incorporating the information learnt into a new build design

• booking a scorecard home efficiency assessment

• switching gas cooking to induction electric

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Highlights from our homeowners and volunteers were:

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“The excellent, interested and interesting people who came to visit and the feeling of giving to the community.”

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"Very respectful and curious attendees, thirsty for knowledge and very supportive, as usual!"

 

If you'd like to be part of our next Sustainable House Day event as a volunteer or by opening up your Nillumbik home, we'd love to hear from you! Drop us a message here.

 

We're looking for all types of homes with sustainable features. Whether you've renovated, built new, restored biodiversity on your land, practise permaculture gardening or are still on the upgrade journey, we'd love you to consider sharing your experiences with our community and helping to inspire more people to take practical actions to live more sustainably.

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Scroll down to view the 2024 participating houses below...