Early 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 [...]
Keep reading A Better Alternative to Value EngineeringExcellence Will Build Our Bright Future
Melbourne, FL – February 05, 2012 – The LifeStyle Homes family is most likely enjoying the Super Bowl right about now; a true presentation of excellence in football. And, Madonna was pretty excellent herself in her halftime show, wasn’t she? All well and good, we say, and let’s hope everyone enjoyed both shows. But truth [...]
Keep reading Excellence Will Build Our Bright FutureRemembering 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 MattersLifeStyle 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!Recession Spikes Home Energy Costs
Melbourne, FL – New information from The Economist indicates consumer spending on home energy costs increased the most between 2007 and 2010 of any spending category tracked. Measuring annual real (corrected for inflation) consumer spending per household during the period, spending on household utilities, fuels and public services was up by 22 percent. Next in line for [...]
Keep reading Recession Spikes Home Energy CostsLifeStyle 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: 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: 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: Coming to Harmony, Florida
Melbourne, FL – We are immensely happy to announce that LifeStyle Homes has been selected to construct an idea home of innovative design and technology in Harmony, central Florida’s largest Green-Certified master planned community. Located along U.S. Highway 192 near St. Cloud in southeast Osceola County, midway between I-95 in Melbourne and I-4 in Celebration, Harmony is an award-winning, forward-thinking home [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Coming to Harmony, FloridaLifeStyle Homes: Fantastic New Design Center
Melbourne, FL – After what must seem like 5 years of moving (probably more like two weeks, really) LifeStyle Homes is excited to announce we’re up and running in our brand new corporate offices and customer design center building. We’re now located right up front on the south side of West New Haven Boulevard at #3453 [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Fantastic New Design CenterLifeStyle Homes: Excellence Is Its Own Reward
Melbourne, FL – If you have been following this blog, you know that over two years ago LifeStyle Homes embarked on a ground-breaking program to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of the homes we build. Our first public move was the launch of our SunSmartSM Energy Initiative. It reflected almost a year’s work behind the scenes to design [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes: Excellence Is Its Own RewardLifeStyle Homes – EXTREME Show Airs Tonight
Melbourne, FL – Build #817 of the hit, Emmy® Award winning reality show, EXTREME MAKEOVER: Home Edition airs tonight on ABC-TV at 8:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Central). This is our LifeStyle Homes build of a 3600 square foot EXTREMEly custom, Net Zero Energy, Photovoltaic Powered SunSmartPV home for the remarkable Hurston family, who have [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – EXTREME Show Airs TonightLifeStyle Homes – The 3-Rs of Buying a New Home
Melbourne, FL – If you’ve been following this Blog, you may be wondering when we will let go of our experience with EXTREME MAKEOVER: Home Edition; the Emmy Award-winning hit reality show from ABC Television. Well, the show featuring our Space Coast build airs next Sunday evening, February 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM Eastern. If [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – The 3-Rs of Buying a New HomeLifeStyle Homes – Warm Memories of EXTREME
Melbourne, FL – The first phone calls came in October, and by the close of business on the 22nd, we knew for sure we had the chance to do an EXTREME MAKEOVER: Home Edition build for an unknown deserving Space Coast family if we wanted to. The producers of the hit Emmy ® Award winning reality [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – Warm Memories of EXTREMELifeStyle Homes – EXTREME MAKEOVER Wraps!
Melbourne, FL – And a good time was had by all! At the EXTREME MAKEOVER: Home Edition Space Coast 2011 Wrap party held last night at the great Fish Lips waterfront restaurant in Port Canaveral. Collective fatigue was put aside in favor of laughing, cheering, some dancing and a goodly bunch of crying! Just think of it! Building an [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – EXTREME MAKEOVER Wraps!LifeStyle Homes – EXTREME Wonders Abound
Melbourne, FL – It would be hard to imagine a regular reader of this Blog not being aware of our GOING-ON-RIGHT-NOW build of an EXTREME MAKEOVER: Home Edition Net-Zero, photovoltaic-powered custom home for a deserving Space Coast family in just 106 hours. We are so proud to have been selected by the producers of this Emmy®Award-winning [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes – EXTREME Wonders AboundLifeStyle Homes EXTREME MAKEOVER Build
Melbourne, FL - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the Emmy®-award winning, hit reality show on ABC television, is coming to Florida’s Space Coast in January. Is that cool, or what? But there’s more! LifeStyle Homes has been selected to spearhead the monumental effort required to construct a brand new fully custom home in a week’s time for a [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes EXTREME MAKEOVER BuildLifeStyle Homes in Florida Paying It Forward
Melbourne, FL – Thank you Jason for your nice comment and for suggesting this week’s theme. Without the help of the building scientists at the Florida Solar Energy Center, we would not have our SunSmart℠ (sm) or SunSmartPV (sm) Energy Initiative that is helping us build energy efficient homes. We can’t pay them back, but we sure can pay [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle Homes in Florida Paying It ForwardLifeStyle SunSmartSMPV Homes – Feeding the Grid?
Melbourne, FL – Unless this is your first time reading our Blog, you know already how much the people of LifeStyle Homes are caught up in the idea that energy conservation is good for our country and our planet, and it helps us sell homes, too. Our SunSmart(sm) homes combine genuine construction advances with solar hot water heating [...]
Keep reading LifeStyle SunSmartSMPV Homes – Feeding the Grid?