Urban Rural Retreat

Recipient of Santa Barbara Innovative Building Design Award

In the heart of the Mission Canyon District of Santa Barbara, a naturalist modern structure.Designed with the capability to be a NetZerohome with a solar photovoltaic system, solar water heating, and a two-story solarium for passive solar heating. Maximizing light and views and dissolving barriers between inside and outside space were primary directives of the project. Built to answer to the larger environment as well as to the site it sits on, other green features include High-efficiency appliances, Magnetic induction cooktop, Icynene insulation, FSCcertified lumber, NoVOCor low-VOC finishes throughout, Finished concrete floors, Use of native SB stone, Efficient lighting and urban/rural landscaping integrating food producing plants with ornamentals. The home meets or exceeds the high fire hazard standards.DeAnn is friends with the designer/builder/owner and was one of the first to see this new re-envisioned home and had the perfect Buyer to appreciate all of the environmental thoughtfulness this home incorporates. It closed shortly after, never going into the MLS.