A home should be designed to fit your families lifestyle and provide a healthy indoor environment. At Castillo we believe every homeshould be energy efficient, durable, and welldesigned. Wealso believe everyfamily is entitled tobreath cleanair, and we believe every home should bebuilt utilizing sustainable building practices. We offer a variety of home designs and floor plans to inspire your home-building dreams. Choose a style that's right for your family, your lifestyle, or your location and find one with the features you need.
Now that you have purchased your property, you are ready to begin building your new energy efficient high performing green home. The next step will require close collaboration between you, the architect, interior designer, landscape professional, and your builder. In order to optimize this opportunity, Castillo Housing will make all of these resources available to you to ensure your project is designed for its maximum potential utilizing the latest in sustainability and green building practices.
One of the most exciting aspects of building a custom home or remodeling is the ability to personalize it. Many Tampa Bay home builders do not offer the convenience of a complete Home Design Center. At Castillo Housing we provide each buyer a personal home design consultant to help you define your own sense of style during the design build process. As a new home buyer you should discuss your budget prior to your appointment. On average home buyers will spend 5 to 10 percent of the base price on design options.
Green Remodeling can take the form of upgrading or adding a bathroom, redoing a kitchen, overhauling your home's exterior, or completing an addition to increase your home's square footage. Green remodeling is designed to make your home as functional as well as livable. Incorporating Sustainable and Energy Efficient features; your home will reach its fullest potential; saving you money on utilities, adding value, and enhancing your health and the environment. Time and time again, green homes prove to be safer, more efficient and less costly to operate than homes built with standard building materials.
Green homes are healthier for you and the environment. They are also much more economical to own, utilizing less energy, water, and require less maintenance. However, constructing or renovating a home in such an environmentally responsible manner requires significant planning, as well as educating and encouraging the architect and builder to prioritize greener materials and construction methods. There are hundreds of green building techniques and products one can integrate into a home. A Green home starts with a "whole system" approach that takes into account the interaction and integration of various building design and material components.
Green homes are designed to perform better by using materials and systems that assists in lowering the use of nonrenewable energy. As the cost to heat and cool a home rises, it becomes even more important to build a super energy efficient home. All major components of an energy efficient home are evaluated to determine optimal performance levels. Choosing the quantity and type of insulation are the two most important decisions that affect the comfort and energy savings of a house. A well insulated energy saving home helps reduce energy loss through air leaks and provide lower operating costs due to reduced heating and cooling requirements.
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