Here are five reasons why right now could be the best time to start your dream home.
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Home designer Dave Jenkins designed the first true production-built Net-Zero Energy Home in Florida 2009, and has been designing these “firsts” ever since. And every NZEH had to look great, perfectly suited to the neighborhood they reside in.
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Few know that WJHD owner Dave Jenkins has designed all of the new homes the Lee and Hendry County Habitat For Humanity affiliate has built since 2014.
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This Old-Florida coastal style home perfectly incorporates outdoor and indoor living, so important to the South Florida lifestyle. Designed to envelope the pool and spa courtyard. . .
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The energy-efficient villa in Biscayne Park, Miami, is perfect for an extended family. A home without an electric bill is icing on the cake!
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Designed for a wide lot with rear views this home takes full advantage with its wrap around porch and spacious rear lanai.
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This unique West Indies Coastal Cottage was designed to take in beautiful views of the Bahamas coast line. Full of charm and at every turn there are decorative details to be discovered.
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This resort-style villa cuts an imposing silhouette against its lush landscaping. Designed to take in massive views on multiple levels, this hillside home is simply a show-stopper.
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This Texas neighborhood provides narrow-lot living in an elegant Texas Hill Country Style. Outdoor living is a priority with its spacious rear balcony and Lanai.
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Sensible Net-Zero by Design This is the 6th and final blog of this Net-Zero by Design Series. By now it’s plain to understand that a Net-Zero Energy Home is not just any home covered in solar panels, with awful windows and poor insulation. I actually see homes covered in solar panels, every now and then. . .
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Net-Zero by Design – Know Your Low-E Windows SHGC – Part 5 In Part 4 of the Net-Zero Energy Home blog series, we talked about the great advancements we made in the last 10 years to dramatically lower the energy usage of the mechanical system, particularly in hot and humid climates. We also covered creating. . .
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Net-Zero by Design – Tight Envelope & Smart Insulation – Part 4 In Part 3 of the Net-Zero Energy Home blog series, I addressed the importance of reducing the energy demand of the mechanical system, particularly in hot and humid climates. Before we started designing homes with the ducts in conditioned space, heating and cooling. . .
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This beautiful cottage home is a comfortable 3-Bed, 2-Bath, with 1,945 sq ft living area, built with ICF wall construction, by Shawn Harvey of GreenCastle, Inc.
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Net-Zero by Design – HVAC Sizing – Part 3 In Part 2 of the Net-Zero Energy Home series we discussed the importance of the home’s orientation as well as the uniqueness of the effort to get to Net-Zero. Energy Smart Home Plans is very proud of the fact that we’ve designed so many Net-Zero Energy. . .
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In Part 2 of Net-Zero by Design we’ll talk about the Lot Purchase. – In Part 1 of this Net-Zero by Design series of blogs, I mentioned that virtually all of the discovery we make during a Custom Home Design process applies to creating a Net-Zero Energy Home. But there is also much more to. . .
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Net-Zero by Design Our home plans have the key energy-efficient features already designed in. Net-Zero by Design – Part 1 – In my last blog series, Custom Home Design, I revealed the interviewing process to prior to beginning Task I, Preliminary Design. Although the process of discovering our client’s evolving wish list continues even through. . .
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In our last blog, Custom Home Design – Part 4, we asked a number of questions about the proposed kitchen and owner’s suite. Throughout the upcoming Preliminary Design task, we often revisit these rooms as necessary since the client’s ideas often evolve once we begin discovering.
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What is a True Net-Zero Energy Home? The term Net-Zero is used so frequently to describe any energy-efficient home today, that the term is becoming watered down to simply mean “green whatever.” The term Net-Zero Energy, has a precise meaning, which basically is, the home produces as much energy as it consumes over a 12. . .
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In the previous Custom Home Design blog series we discussed providing the “must have” view if available from the public space, the great room, kitchen and perhaps less important, the dining room. The owner’s suite must also be included.
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