We’ve Been Counting Up Energy Efficiency
Melbourne, FL – May 06, 2012 – We’re getting ready to introduce a new feature on our LifeStyle Homes website that will display up to date numbers for guaranteed HERS 60 SunSmart(SM) homes and Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV homes built to date. Every time we complete another of these remarkable homes, we’ll update the numbers [...]
Keep reading We’ve Been Counting Up Energy EfficiencyMove Ahead Smartly by Focusing Your Mind
Melbourne, FL – April 29, 2012 – At LifeStyle Homes, we genuinely care about your quality of life. Our principal contribution toward that is most likely made through building our guaranteed HERS 60 SunSmart(SM) energy efficient homes and our truly remarkable Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) homes, which over a year’s time generate as much electricity [...]
Keep reading Move Ahead Smartly by Focusing Your MindEarly In The Morning 100 Years Ago Today
Melbourne, FL – April 15, 2012 – Few events in history resonate with so many people around the world as the tragic loss of RMS Titanic, the pride of the White Star Line, which occurred 100 years ago today. Some of us at LifeStyle Homes will pause a moment today, and maybe say a small [...]
Keep reading Early In The Morning 100 Years Ago TodayFaith + Knowledge + Guts Bring Success!
Melbourne, FL – April 08, 2012 – This is a blog about the significance of the coming dawn. On this Easter Sunday, Christians around the world celebrate the risen Christ, many at sunrise services. The parallel is obvious, isn’t it? But in our secular business world, we can at last say with conviction that the [...]
Keep reading Faith + Knowledge + Guts Bring Success!Brighter Days Just Ahead for Housing
Melbourne, FL – April 01, 2012 – It is becoming clearer day by day that the national economic recovery is gathering momentum, and many of us would say, “It’s about time.” Understand two things please. Number 1: This is NO April Fools joke. Number 2: We at LifeStyle Homes have nothing to complain about. Sales [...]
Keep reading Brighter Days Just Ahead for HousingDramatic Monterey I Design Plan Unveiled
Melbourne, FL – March 25, 2012 – We think it’s high time to let you in on a great secret. LifeStyle Homes has completed a brand new model home in the exclusive Levanto neighborhood of the new town of Viera, FL. This very special home combines the best ideas we have learned from our many [...]
Keep reading Dramatic Monterey I Design Plan UnveiledMarch Madness, or is it March Magic?
Melbourne, FL – March 11, 2012 – All of us at LifeStyle Homes are excited for our friend and leader, Jake Luhn, that his beloved Bonnies, from the St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball team, won the Atlantic 10 Conference championship today and will be goin’ dancin’ next week in the NCAA Division I Tournament. Jake, [...]
Keep reading March Madness, or is it March Magic?LifeStyle Homes Energy Efficiency Policy
Melbourne, FL – March 04, 2012 – The buzz has been building for several months now about new and more demanding targets for high performance homes coming from the federal government. There are draft proposals out there, and final decisions are expected at most any time now. At LifeStyle Homes, we are grateful to all [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes Energy Efficiency PolicySpend a Moment With OUR TEAM
Melbourne, FL – February 19, 2012 – At LifeStyle Homes, we pride ourselves on being all about our customers. We live by the idea that as long as we focus on satisfying them, our needs will be taken care of, both as a company, and as a professional family of individuals. It takes an extraordinary [...]
Keep reading Spend a Moment With OUR TEAMA Better Alternative to Value Engineering
Melbourne, FL – February 12, 2012 – At LifeStyle Homes, we pride ourselves on building beautiful homes that are extremely efficient; not only in providing significant energy cost savings, but also in providing maximum useable space with minimum waste. Larry Hufford, our founding partner and continuing design guide, is almost rabid about not including any [...]
Keep reading A Better Alternative to Value EngineeringRemembering Elvis, and Other Lightbulb Matters
Melbourne, FL – So what do Elvis and light bulbs have to do with one another? Probably nothing unless you believe Elvis Presley brought a whole new idea to Rock ‘n Roll music, and light bulbs have long symbolized bright new ideas. Yet, we the people of LifeStyle Homes cannot let January 8th pass without [...]
Keep reading Remembering Elvis, and Other Lightbulb MattersFLASH! Breaking News on Lightbulb Changes
Melbourne, FL – Over this past weekend both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the massive spending bill that will prevent government shutdown, with a measure added which would suspend the ban on manufacture of 100 watt incandescent lightbulbs presently slated to take effect January 1, 2012. We first reported on this issue on our LifeStyle Homes Blog [...]
Keep reading FLASH! Breaking News on Lightbulb ChangesLifeStyle Homes Family Enjoys a Party!
Melbourne, FL – Last evening, we renewed a longstanding tradition that is very important to the LifeStyle Homes family. We got together for our annual Christmas party at the home of our late founding partner, John Luhn. Our employees and spouses enjoyed too much fabulous Italian cuisine, lots of adult beverages and our annual exchange of funny gifts. Needless to say, [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes Family Enjoys a Party!Consumers Say Housing Market to Recover
Melbourne, FL – In a national survey, an overwhelming 72 percent of people say now is a very good time to buy a home. Bargain pricing on new and used homes and historically low mortgage interest rates are making people anxious to grab their piece of the recovering real estate market before it’s too late. At LifeStyle Homes, [...]
Keep reading Consumers Say Housing Market to RecoverWe Know What We Are Thankful For!
Melbourne, FL – We have more to be thankful for at LifeStyle Homes than we could ever mention in a Blog post, but let’s start by saying we are thankful for you. Since you are reading this, you have an interest of some sort in the homes we build and maybe in our company itself. If it [...]
Keep reading We Know What We Are Thankful For!Major Lightbulb Changes Coming: Oh My!
LifeStyle Homes, Melbourne, FL – It seems that effective January 1, 2012, lightbulb manufacturers will no longer be allowed to produce 100 watt incandescent lightbulbs – the number one favorite kind and wattage of lightbulbs consumers have preferred for generations. If we’re correct on this, as soon as stocks of these bulbs run through the distribution chain [...]
Keep reading Major Lightbulb Changes Coming: Oh My!LifeStyle Homes: WOW! We Win Again!
Melbourne, FL – We interrupt your regularly scheduled Blog to bring you this FLASH BULLETIN. We have just received word that LifeStyle Homes has won the North American Net Zero Energy Production Home of the Year Award from the Net Zero Energy Home Coalition based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We can’t tell you how wonderful this is [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: WOW! We Win Again!LifeStyle Homes: A Fourth Helping of Nature's Greens
Melbourne, FL – No, guys, we aren’t offering the greens you eat with pork chops when you’re in the south, although that sounds pretty good right about now. What we’re doing this week is continuing our brief exploration of national programs encouraging home builders to increase the performance of the homes they build in terms of [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Fourth Helping of Nature's GreensLifeStyle Homes: Third Serving of Alphabet Soup
Melbourne, FL – This is our third serving of information concerning the efforts being made to bring home building into the rising energy efficiency economy. A lot of hard work is being done by a lot of good people to bring this about, but it has generated a lot of confusing program names and measurement standards as the [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Third Serving of Alphabet SoupLifeStyle Homes: Alphabet Soup – Part Two
Melbourne, FL – It is becoming ever more clear that the new economy in the U.S., when we get a new economy, will be based on clean-renewable-sustainable energy. A lot of work is going on at a feverish pace to get the CRS Energy movement started and remarkable progress has been made already. The media [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Alphabet Soup – Part TwoLifeStyle Homes: Alphabet Soup of Green
Melbourne, FL – If you have been following this blog at all, you know LifeStyle Homes is very proud to have been the first home building company in Brevard County and only the 41st in the nation to qualify as a Builders Challenge Partner in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building America program. Confused already? [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Alphabet Soup of GreenLifeStyle Homes: Labor Day Special
Melbourne, FL – This is the weekend of the year when we pause to honor the contributions made by American workers to our collective well being. This year, our attention will no doubt be drawn to our need to create jobs to fuel much needed economic recovery. We will hear all sorts of pronouncements from political candidates about their wonderful [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Labor Day SpecialLifeStyle Homes: Badge of Honor
Melbourne, FL - Every one of the SunSmartSM HERS 60 homes built by LifeStyle Homes, and every one of our remarkable Net Zero Energy HERS 0 SunSmartPVSM homes proudly displays a special badge of honor awarded to it by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is known as an EnergySmart Home Scale placard, and it displays that home’s independently-tested and [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Badge of HonorLifeStyle Homes: A Way Forward – Chapter Two
Melbourne, FL – Two weeks ago, this Blog recounted the decision made three years ago at LifeStyle Homes to build energy efficient homes as a way to preserve the company in what was predicted to be tough economic times ahead. That prediction surely turned out to be correct! The success of our SunSmartSM HERS 60 Homes and now our SunSmartPVSM [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Way Forward – Chapter TwoLifeStyle Homes: Some Excellent Photos for You
Melbourne, FL – For the last several weeks we have been reporting on LifeStyle Homes winning the Aurora Award for Best Solar Energy Home at the recent Southeast Builders Conference in Orlando. In the best traditions of Ed McMahon, I have been filling time using words to describe what happened at the Award ceremony until some [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Some Excellent Photos for YouLifeStyle Homes: A Beautiful Award Ceremony
Melbourne, FL – It was a gala affair for a happy butserious occasion: The annual Aurora Awards banquet held Saturday night as part of the Southeast Builders Conference in Orlando. Including home builders and building-related professionals, the Aurora Awards honor the best of the best in residential construction and design in 16 southeastern states. We [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Beautiful Award CeremonyLifeStyle Homes: In Green Builder Magazine
Melbourne, FL – This week we received advance copies of the latest issue of Green Builder Magazine which will hit the stands soon. It is devoted to a review of Net-Zero energy homes across the nation, and we’re proud to say it highlights our St. Croix Model Net-Zero energy home in Tralee Bay Estates, right here in Melbourne. [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: In Green Builder MagazineLifeStyle Homes: Proud, Humble and Grateful
Melbourne, FL: It is an axiom in new home marketing that WIIFM rules, which is to say that from the customer’s point of view, ”What’s In It For Me” is the only thing that counts. It’s no secret to anyone that the new home market in Florida is challenged and that it has beenso for three [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Proud, Humble and GratefulLifeStyle Homes: More on Green Lightbulbs
Melbourne, FL – No sooner did we we put out information on how to find the best new CFL lightbulbs for your home in last week’s Blog from LifeStyle Homes than our friends at USA Today published a killer article on “Mobile apps that make it easier to go green”. Included in the article is Adam Borut’s Light Bulb Finder app [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: More on Green LightbulbsLifeStyle Homes: Moving Toward CFL Lighting
Melbourne, FL – One of the important ways LifeStyle Homes is able to achieve the remarkable energy savings we can guarantee you in our SunSmartSM and SunSmartPVSM homes is by using state-of-the-art CFL lamps exclusively. CFL stands for Compact Flourescent Lamp. You may know them as the spiral tubed bulbs available most everywhere lightbulbs are sold. [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Moving Toward CFL Lighting