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Services : Home Innovators, Inc. is a Colorado Corporation providing complete Design and Construction Management services for residential customers in the Denver Metro & Douglas County areas with particular expertise in developing practical, cost effective and environmentally sensitive home designs. The principal has an architectural degree, a millwork background and twenty-seven years experience in the design and construction fields. Recent building experience keeps us up-to-date with current costs. Initial consultation without cost; $35 per hour after that or per agreement.
- Contact Information : Phones 303-916-3575 c., 303-971-0338 o/f.
- Email ithinc@earthlink.net
- Activity Areas : (including but not limited to) Douglas County, Jefferson County (Jefco or Jeffco), Arapahoe County, Elbert County, Denver, Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Castlewood, Roxborough, Perry Park, Sedalia, Greenland, Keene Ranch, Parker, Pinery, Franktown, Littleton, Grant Ranch, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Ken Caryl, Evergreen, Elizabeth, Daniels Park, Golden, Colorado.
Design Issues: We design for Real People for Real Reasons. Home Innovators offers sensitivity to a wide variety of viewpoints to explore during design efforts. For instance our portfolio represents more the variety of the people we have worked for, than any singular emphasis of our own. The design goal of any particular effort should implement the unique wishes of the client. The following is a list of choices or starting points which you may wish to pursue: lifestyle needs not met by standard issue housing; natural or low-allergen interiors; integration of biological elements into building interiors; healthy vs. sick building practices and materials; mitigation of undesirable conditions such as radon, fire, noise or wildfire; stylistic preferences; authentic vs. simulated ambiance; use of sustainable practices and materials; alternative structural or mechanical systems such as: foam panels and blocks, geothermal heat pumps, alternative foundations, natural and passive cooling, earth-sheltered and high-thermal-mass concepts, natural or recycled content and reused materials; low or no maintenance exteriors; and other issues such as building green, promoting permaculture, living off-grid, using low-embodied-energy materials or participating in experimental or low-income housing.
Helpful Sites/Sources: For low cost Gel Fire Protection visit the site barricadegel.com. For Radon mitigation see the publication Protecting Your Home From Radon, A Step-By-Step Manual For Radon Reduction, available at the library, (#628.535.) For smaller-better design concepts see books by Sarah Susanka and the notsobighouse.com site. For an overview of alternative and natural building methods see The Natural House by Daniel Chiras, (#690.837.) For Home Inspection Services in the Denver Metro Area use buseyinspect.com at (303)797-2193. And lastly, Weather-Wise Gardening, Ortho Books, 1974, (#635.wea) an oldie but goodie if you can find it, about mulches, micro-climates, and a compost load of other information.