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Whole-house Green
By Patrick L. O'Toole
Susan Davis, CKBR, CGBP, of Spectrum Fine Homes, helped a client remodel and rethink their entire home using sustainable design and green building principles.
Back in 1971 when this modest, split-level home in Cupertino, Calif., was built, very few people could have envisioned the changes that technology companies would bring to the area over the following 36 years. Today Cupertino is part of the Silicon Valley.
This same house that initially sold in the neighborhood of $20,000, now exists in a zip code where the average home value is $1.14 million. So it stands to reason why the couple who owns the home felt free to invest $467,153 in a whole-house remodeling project. It is also not very surprising--considering the growing interest in sustainable design and green building--that the couple chose to embrace a green approach, and why they ultimately selected Spectrum Fine Homes Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. to design and build the project.
According to Susan Davis CKBR, CGBP, the design principal at Spectrum, the company is well known for sustainable design and green building. Green is not just something they offer as a special item. It is a way of doing business.
"We have been remodeling homes for about 20 years now, and to really make green a focus company wide--in everything that we do and everything that we think--it started about four or five years ago with a project we were... |
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