Every project begins with a free pre-design site visit, because your land’s orientation, slope, and sun exposure directly shape both your home’s energy performance and its building cost. Energy efficiency starts before a single line is drawn.
During this visit, we evaluate the best orientation for your home. One that lets you enjoy free heat from the sun in winter while staying shaded and cool in summer. We also plan the right insulation components and correctly size your HVAC system from the start. A properly built energy-efficient home isn’t magic; it’s building science, and it starts with understanding your site.
Passive solar design uses your home’s orientation and window placement to capture free heat from the sun in winter and block unwanted heat in summer, resulting in lower heating and cooling costs for decades to come.
Every home we design is planned around your property’s natural advantages. We study your lot’s orientation to maximize winter warmth and minimize summer heat gain, improving year-round comfort while keeping utility bills lower.
The ideal orientation places most windows on the south-facing side of the home. However, in the real world, not every job site allows for this, and clients’ vision may not always fit perfectly with the optimal orientation, and that’s not a problem. Even without ideal conditions, we can still design and build a highly energy-efficient home for your property.
Design complexity has the biggest impact on cost. Extensive window walls, multiple roof lines, and curved walls, just to name a few, all add expenses; so budget-smart design starts with the right choices early on.
Our team takes the time to turn your vision into a home that’s both energy savings and on budget, thorugh a clear process: preliminary design, revisions, preliminary budget and budget adjustments as needed.
For example, a client’s first prelimnary design, built around the original vision, came in above their financial plan. The second design reduce the number of windows witouth dramatically changing their vision for the home, bringing the project backs in line with their budget.
Throughout the process, we use realistic 3D modeling so you can clearly visualize your future home before construction ever begins.
Our goal is to keep communication open and transparent about financing, construction costs, and available options , guiding you through smart, cost-effective decisions that protect your investment and keep your project aligned with your goals.
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Every Stitt Home is truly one-of-a-kind. Explore our 3D design gallery and you’ll see that no two homes are the same. From modern farmhouses to craftsman cottages, our team can design in virtually any architectural style, always with performance, energy savings, comfort, and climate-resilience in mind.
Before construction begins, we’ll produce comprehensive drawings that detail dimensions and performance requirements for every component of your home.
Throughout the building process, we collaborate directly with the builder of your choice and perform quality inspections at key stages:
Join us and walk through an energy-efficient, custom-designed home built to higher standards, focused on comfort, durability, and long-term savings.
