BrightBuilt Home

After living in our BrightBuilt home for a few years we find it easy to talk about the process of first designing and then building an "high performance home" and then actually living in the home and taking advantage of all the home has to offer. We enjoy the benefit of increased light space due to the abundance and placement of windows along with the use of heat pumps and Energy Recovery Ventilation which leads to a reduction in utility costs. At the outset our designer Audrey Rolio began by asking us what was most important to us in our new home and led us through the design process so we could in fact realize those goals with her help. Audrey suggested the moving of one wall just three inches so our powder room could have a functioning window. Also with Audrey's design experience we were able to delete a very small and almost useless "office" space and reduce our home by two feet and actually increase our useable living space. We can recommend BrightBuilt without any reservation. Marie and Gerald Berlin

I had spent some time researching and comparing green builders before I decided to move forward with BrightBuilt Homes. They not only offered a wide selection of designs and floor plans to choose from, but also offered the flexibility to make changes to suit the site and my needs. The design process was easy and exciting working with my architect making selections and changes that were required. My home is open and airy, quiet and quite comfortable, and energy efficient as well. The house fits the site beautifully.

I have been living in my BrightBuilt home now for a year and am so very happy with it. The house quality is amazing - the thick walls and triple pane glass windows make it easy to heat and cool with heat pumps. And it is beautiful, exactly what I wanted. Working with BrightBuilt on the design, starting from one of their standard ones, was so much fun - a true collaboration. The stock finishing options offered were great as well, and a good way to keep costs down. I bought custom fixtures where it was important to me and used standard options for the rest. The builder they connected me with for finishing the house was amazing as well. I really couldn’t have asked for more and highly recommend them.

We were one of the early BrightBuilt customers — our Great Diamond was built in 2014, and we've been very happily living in it for a decade now. When my husband and I were shopping around for architects and builders, we were prioritizing two types of efficiency: energy and construction time. Of course, affordability was important too. BrightBuilt checked all the necessary boxes. We were able to customize the floorplan to suit our needs as two remote workers, and that process was a lot of fun — Parlin, our primary architect and project contact, was proactive and communicative at every step. Phil Kaplan, one of the firm's principal architects, even spoke to our town's zoning board on our behalf to [successfully] obtain a variance for our project. Our house is warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and much less expensive to run than our previous, older, home had been. I love the deep windowsills that come as part of the thick, super insulated walls — they're perfect for potted plants — and I still think our house is attractive and fits well into our neighborhood. I hope to not have to move any time soon, but if I had to for some reason, I'd love to build another BrightBuilt home!

As a builder very much focused on issues of sustainability, I am convinced that the future of sustainable housing belongs to modular construction. It is fast, efficient and cuts way down on waste. I have built two BrightBuilt houses in the last four years. Like all modulars, they went up fast--our most recent: from delivery to move-in in five months. BrightBuild stands apart, because that speed is matched by a consistent quality of design and assembly that allows for consistent air-tightness levels of around 1 ACH--the most important yet most difficult ingredient in a NZE-capable home. I love their base model designs and working with their smart and creative in-house architects and designers to modify those designs to meet the individual client's needs and tastes. My clients have been thrilled with the results.