Durango Colorado Energy Efficient Home

Durango Colorado Energy Efficient Home

Hike, bike or cross country ski out your front door!  Custom quality, craftsman style, this home sits on 13+ acres, adjoins BLM lands, yet is just minutes from town.  You will feel like you stepped into a "pottery barn" magazine when you enter this home, but you don't give up anything when it comes to energy efficiency.  There is an active solar water system with lay pex radiant in-floor heat that makes this home unbelievably energy efficient; it also heats the domestic hot water.  Combined with a Lennox  high-efficiency wood burning fireplace, the owners say the "regular heat" almost never comes on. Their propane use is mostly just for cooking!  The insulation used in the home is R-52 in the attic,  walls are R-23, and the floor is R-30.  

The home is newly completed and since March of 2011 the electric bill has averaged $27 a month with a high of $57 and a low of $17!   There are custom alder cabinets throughout the home and the kitchen contains a center island with antique-rubbed dark green finish with seating on one side and the range flanking the opposite side. The kitchen is the focal point of the home, with custom built inset cabinets and soapstone countertops including a large hand crafted soapstone farm sink.  Two large pantries stand alongside one of the kitchen walls, with pull-out drawers allowing for easy access to dishes and canned goods.  The inside of all the drawers are dove-tailed wormy-wood maple and have self-closing hinges.  All appliances are stainless KitchenAid and even includes a built-in wine fridge.  The master bedroom has lots of natural light streaming in through the generous windows.  The master bath has travertine tile, an oversized soaking tub, doorless walk-in shower and custom cabinetry.  You will live large here without paying for it!

The outside of the house is spruce board and batten, stained a contrasting dark brown with cedar shingled gables, accented with barn-red metal clad windows.  Two covered porches allow for outdoor entertaining year round.  During the winter, the sun sits low enough in the sky to make the porches sunny and warm.  In the summer, with the sun higher in the sky, the covered porches are a welcome retreat from the heat.   Once inside the home, you will enjoy a spacious sun-drenched living room with a magnificent view of Grandview Ridge.  The Horse Gulch fat tire bike trails are right out your front door.

Please give us a call for more information on this wonderful piece of Durango Colorado real estate.  We would love to have this be your new home.  For additional information including more photos, plat, etc please click on the following link: Durango Colorado Real Estate - Horse Gulch Energy Efficient Home