Recent Recognitions

LifeStyle Homes: 2011 Aurora Award Winner

LifeStyle Homes has won the Aurora Award for Best Solar Energy House at the 2011 Southeast Builders Conference. 

Our remarkable St. Croix model Net Zero Energy Home, the first in our new line of SunSmartPV HERS 0 homes, was cited for blending state-of-the-art energy efficiency with traditional architecture to produce an extraordinary high performance home ordinary people can aspire to own.  

The Aurora competition brings together home builders and related professionals from sixteen southern states each year to recognize the best of the best in new home construction and design. Winning an Aurora Award is a genuine acknowledgement of superior achievement in the home building industry. 

Pictured here is the happy crew from LifeStyle Homes, with Larry Hufford, Founding Partner, and Jake Luhn, CEO, holding the Aurora trophy. Also pictured are Samantha Webb, Bill Webb, MIRM, Marcia Luhn, Jake’s Mom, Kim Nathan, Tom Nathan, LifeStyle’s Master Builder and Kathy Hufford. The grins say it all. This was a wonderful moment in the history of LifeStyle Homes.

“I have been attending the Southeast Builders Conference for over twenty years,” Larry Hufford said. “I never thought I would get the chance to walk across a stage to pick up an Aurora Award trophy, but that’s exactly what has happened. You can bet I was thinking about my partner, John Luhn, Jake’s Father,” Hufford added, “and wishing he could have been here to help me pick it up in true LifeStyle.”

“Coming to SEBC each year was a big deal for John and I,” Hufford said. “In the beginning, when we were just scraping by financially, John and I would treat ourselves to a stay at the Peabody Hotel, right here at the Orange County Convention Center, just to congratulate ourselves for another year of really hard work. It seems like we’ve come a long way since we started,” Hufford added, “so I want to thank our great customers, associates and trade partners who have made it all possible.”