Sunlight Homes | Home Design What is a Sunlight Home? Our Design Process Designing With The Sun Passive Solar Design A Pattern Language Not So Big Homes Cheap Space Empty Nesters, Aging In Place & Universal Design Integrated Design Design Tips Design Details Projects for You Construction Our Component Package Building a Sunlight Home SIPs Building Science Choosing a Builder The Builder’s Fee + Accounting Building Tips Information for Builders Pricing Sunlight’s Pricing Cost Estimate Worksheet Your Budget About Us About Us New Mexico Local Latest News Testimonials Resources Portfolio FAQ Contact Us Close Share | Project description | What is a Sunlight Home? A Sunlight home is a state-of-the-art, attractive, energy efficient, superior quality, green custom home. Sunlight homes are thoughtfully designed to fit the way you live, your building site and your budget. We carefully balance the art and science of residential architecture to create homes that are as beautiful as they are scientifically advanced. We combine a deep understanding of timeless residential design philosophies with the latest proven building technologies and practices to create custom homes in almost any architectural style that are wonderfully comfortable and energy efficient. Sunlight homes can be found across the country from California to Virginia and most states in between. Sunlight homes are designed and built according to the latest evidence-based building science to be as durable, low maintenance, comfortable, and energy efficient as possible while ensuring a healthy, non-toxic living environment for its occupants. Every Sunlight home is… Keep Reading Our Component Package Sunlight Homes has been on the leading edge of high performance, custom home design and construction since 1975. In order to better control quality, predictability, cost, comfort and energy efficiency, we created our Component Package of services and materials. Our Component Package includes comprehensive architectural and structural design services tailored for the super insulating, pre-fabricated components that create the insulated exterior shell of the home. This insulated shell consists of polyurethane structural insulated panels (SIPs) manufactured by The Murus Company, and Pella’s high performance triple pane windows. We specialize in designing homes that take full advantage of the materials we supply and are therefore able to offer our clients a higher level of predictably and quality control. The design and shell of a home are the most critical components to… Keep Reading McDonald Residence 8 likes 209 Cornell 12 likes Greenhill Residence 9 likes Davis Residence 7 likes Our Design Process Passive solar residential design is a methodology for designing a home that takes full advantage of the sun to reduce heating loads in the cold parts of the year. By simply orienting some of the home’s windows to the south and providing the windows with properly sized overhangs, a passive solar home will be shaded in the warm summer months and get full sun in the cold winter months… Keep Reading Sunlight’s Pricing A fundamental component of our business and design philosophy is being upfront and clear about our prices and your budget. By addressing budget early and directly we are able to ensure that we design a home that our clients can afford. By specializing in the design of homes based on the systems and materials provided in our Component Package, we are able to estimate the cost of construction more accurately. We use our sophisticated Cost Estimate Worksheet to generate… Keep Reading Passive Solar Design Completion of the design process with Sunlight Homes results in a comprehensive set of construction drawings that contain information needed by your builder to obtain a building permit and build the home. Our clients choose a local builder to work with, but we are happy to be part of the process. We typically encourage our clients to start looking for a builder soon after the design process starts… Keep Reading What Are SIPs? Every Sunlight home is custom designed to perfectly fit our clients’ needs, building site, and budget. In order to kick off the design process we begin by meeting with our clients at their building site. This two day site visit gives us the opportunity to get familiar with the property and help our clients choose the most ideal building location and orientation. These early design meetings also give us a chance to get to know our clients… Keep Reading Sunlight Homes | 3100 San Joaquin Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 | 505.492.0753 | © 2016 | All Rights Reserved | Our Search Engine Optimization Company CLOSE