LifeStyle Homes – Good Design Always Wins
Melbourne, FL – June 16, 2013 – Being among the leaders in building high performance homes, both our guaranteed HERS 59 SunSmart(SM) homes and our truly remarkable Sun Powered Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) homes, we at LifeStyle Homes eagerly await the arrival of each issue of GreenBuilder magazine, perhaps the leading magazine devoted to energy [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Good Design Always WinsLifeStyle Homes – Green or Energy Efficient?
Melbourne, FL – June 9, 2013 – At least two good things happened at this week’s National Association of Home Builders Spring Board of Directors meeting in Washington, DC. A whole lot of home builders from all across the nation gathered to share stories of market recoveries in their home areas. That was one activity [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Green or Energy Efficient?LifeStyle Homes – Market Rebound is Here!
Melbourne, FL – June 2, 2013 – No matter where you look, evidence of housing recovery is plain to see. The widely regarded Case Shiller Home Price Index reported historic double digit percentage price gains in the last year across the national housing market. This is astounding news and most welcome, not only for the [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Market Rebound is Here!LifeStyle Homes – Attitude Is Everything
Melbourne, FL – May 19, 2013 – It has been an interesting and exciting week at LifeStyle Homes! With the departure of our wonderful CEO, our management team has been digging into their new tasks and have vowed to take the company to new heights. Positivism rules, and there is an even higher appreciation of [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Attitude Is EverythingLifeStyle Homes – Hail and Farewell
Melbourne, FL – May 12, 2013 – Brevard County Home Builder of Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) and guaranteed HERS 59 SunSmart(SM) homes, LifeStyle Homes, is pleased to announce that our great CEO, Jake Luhn, son of company co-founder, John Luhn, is leaving us to accept a dream position as the Number One Assistant Men’s Basketball [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Hail and FarewellLifeStyle Homes: Things You Can Count On
Melbourne, FL – May 05, 2013 – In a world that sometimes seems out of control, it’s nice to gather together things you can count on. Most often, it’s people you trust, who you know will be there for you whatever. If you’ve got a couple of those, count yourself lucky. Sometimes, maybe just a [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Things You Can Count OnLifeStyle Homes: Brevard County Homes
Melbourne, FL – April 28, 2013 – Last week we discussed how the Brevard County home builder, LifeStyle Homes, has become a national leader in constructing and selling truly remarkable Net Zero Energy Homes. There magical homes, which we brand LifeStyle SunSmartPV(SM) homes, generate as much electrical power from the free power of the sun [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Brevard County HomesLifeStyle Homes: Free Electricity for LIFE!
Melbourne, FL – April 21, 2013 – Free Electricity for LIFE is what you get with a Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) home from LifeStyle Homes in Brevard County, Florida. How can that be, you ask? Actually, how it works is pretty simple. It’s also automatic, requires no moving parts and is completely silent. Best of [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Free Electricity for LIFE!LifeStyle Homes: Net Zero Energy Homes
Melbourne, FL – April 14, 2013 – Reasonably priced new homes that make as much electricity as they use are NOT a fantasy of the future. At LifeStyle Homes, we are building Net Zero Energy homes in Brevard County (Osceola County, also) today, and our wonderful customers are buying them. Those great people wouldn’t be [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Net Zero Energy HomesLifeStyle Homes: Come On, The Water’s Fine
Melbourne, FL – April 7, 2013 – If you are reading this blog post north of the Mason-Dixon Line, you may be wondering when spring will finally reach you. Not to gloat, but even with a cooler than normal spring in Florida, we’re seeing low 80′s during the day and high 60′s at night. Everything [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Come On, The Water’s FineLifeStyle Homes: Two New Communities!
Melbourne, FL – April 2, 2013 – You deserve a heads up for good news if you are a regular reader of this blog! LifeStyle Homes is excited to announce we’re on the way to building our guaranteed HERS 59 SunSmart(SM) homes and our remarkable HERS 0 (zero) Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) homes in two [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Two New Communities!LifeStyle Homes: Congratulate Yourself!
Melbourne, FL – March 28, 2013 – If you own a LifeStyle Homes Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV home, you have our permission to feel pretty proud about what you are doing for your family and for the environment also. Your home makes enough electricity from the free power of the sun to provide all you [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Congratulate Yourself!LifeStyle Homes: A Fine Start with HERS 59
Melbourne, FL – March 17, 2013 – At LifeStyle Homes we are focused on building homes that provide Free Electricity for LIFE! We can do that for you right now. Just choose one of our truly remarkable LifeStyle SunSmartPV(SM) homes. What we’re still working on is making these homes more affordable so that they could [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Fine Start with HERS 59LifeStyle Homes: A Net Zero Energy Leader
Melbourne, FL – March 12, 2013 – We reported in this blog last week that as a national leader in building Net Zero Energy homes, LifeStyle Homes has been invited to participate in a major conference focusing on getting more Net Zero Energy homes built in North America. This conference, to be held this fall [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: A Net Zero Energy LeaderLifeStyle Homes: Invited to Energy Meeting
Melbourne, FL – March 03, 2013 – We are pleased at LifeStyle Homes to have received an invitation recently from the Net-Zero Energy Home Coalition of Canada to attend a groundbreaking international energy summit in San Diego, CA, this fall focused on advancing net zero energy home construction across North America. Regular readers of this [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Invited to Energy MeetingLifeStyle Homes – Net Zero Energy for All
Melbourne, FL – February 24, 2013 – It should be no surprise to anyone that the long term strategy for LifeStyle Homes is to provide affordable Net Zero Energy for All our customers. The pursuit of that goal has led us to build our remarkable SunSmartPV(SM) line of homes which really do produce as much [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Net Zero Energy for AllLifeStyle Homes: You Are Thankful, Right?
Melbourne, FL – November 18, 2012 – Sure, there is turmoil and uncertainty, not to mention pain, but through it all most Americans have a lot to be thankful for. We sincerely wish you are among them. At LifeStyle Homes, we have so much to give thanks for and so many to thank that it [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: You Are Thankful, Right?More on LifeStyle Homes & Net Zero Energy
Melbourne, FL – November 4, 2012 – Last week we commented on an interesting article about Net Zero Energy for homes that appeared in a recent issue of U.S. News & World Report. This week we want to invite your attention to another recent article that appeared in EcoHome Magazine on the same subject, the [...]
Keep reading More on LifeStyle Homes & Net Zero EnergyThe High Touch of Net Zero Energy Homes
Melbourne, FL – October 21, 2012 – Net Zero Energy new homes are as High Tech as it gets in home building. At LifeStyle Homes we know this from actual experience. We have built more Net Zero Energy homes than almost anybody in the world and we have built them right here on Florida’s Space [...]
Keep reading The High Touch of Net Zero Energy HomesLifeStyle Homes: Net Zero Energy Today!
Melbourne, FL – October 14, 2012 – There’s an idea floating around that homes that make all the electricity they need must be science fiction dreams for the future. No so! We have built 6 of our truly remarkable Net Zero Energy SunSmartPV(SM) homes right here on the Space Coast and we promise you, earthlings [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Net Zero Energy Today!LifeStyle Homes: About Paying Forward
Melbourne, FL – August 26, 2012 – A wonderful thing happened this week to LifeStyle Homes. We received a call for help from our building science friends at the Florida Solar Energy Center in nearby Cocoa, FL. It seems that the President of the University of Central Florida (UCF being the parent organization of FSEC) [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: About Paying ForwardLifeStyle Homes: Looking Ahead
Melbourne, FL – August 19, 2012 – It’s no secret that home building in the United States has taken a huge hit in the Great Recession. Gone from the scene are many local building companies, some of them household names in Brevard County. We’ve even experienced national builders in our market closing up shop and [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Looking AheadLifeStyle Homes: Adopting a Higher Standard
Melbourne, FL – August 12, 2012 – If you have followed this blog at all, you know that LifeStyle Homes has been following the high standard of energy efficient performance set by the Department of Energy in its Builders Challenge program. This is one federal government initiative that in our opinion is brilliant – so [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Adopting a Higher StandardIt’s That Time Again for the Third Time
Melbourne, FL – June 24, 2012 – NUTS! Another storm! The third one of this very young season. Let’s hope that this time, all of you within range of significant summer storms are thoroughly prepared for whatever Mother Nature brings. Your writer could open a refreshment stand with the stock of sodas, sports drinks and [...]
Keep reading It’s That Time Again for the Third TimeEarly 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!Dramatic 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 UnveiledLifeStyle 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 [...]
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