Indio
Villa
Old World Spanish Villa
Hidden Away Behind The Private Gates Of One Of Indio's Few
Remaining Large Equestrian Estate Lots
This
Old World Spanish Mission Style Villa is roughly 13,000 gross
square feet. We modeled this home around the California
San Juan Capistrano Mission, incorporating
elements such as floor plan and other design details.
The long exterior arched walkways and breezeways
form a protective "H" shape exterior front and rear
courtyard. These traditional courtyards naturally
provide protection, security and shade from the outside world,
front and back.
We detailed the interior to match the
exterior giving depth and thickness to all the wall elements.
This home is warm, cozy and very livable. Even
with all the old world goodies shown, we still managed to hold
down construction costs, this by relying structurally on
open web truss designs (requiring very few laminated beams)
and colored/textured concrete that added a unique look and is more durable than
traditional clay floor
tile.
Our
Energy Efficiency Makes It Cheap To Keep
The interior dwelling space has our top of the line energy
designed system. Included are many separate high efficiency
forced air cooling systems. Each air conditioner can
be zoned into 2 or more cooling areas. This design allows
us to create up to 8 or more individually timed and thermostatically controlled
heating or cooling zones. This is state-of-the-art in
utility management.
The
owners can selectively cool only the portions of the home
their family resides in by setting the thermostats manually or by timer.
Example; during the night, they can choose to only cool the
Master Bedroom Suite and the small walk area to the Bathroom
Suite. Since no one is ever in all the rooms at
the same time. Why cool all the rooms all the
time? The thermal mass contained in the large floor
areas substantially reduces the peak energy load needed to
cool the home during the afternoon. The hidden structural open
web wood truss above the exposed big timber wood beams
ceilings allows for the use of extreme fiberglass insulated
thickness-values within the ceiling cavity. This helps reduce
energy costs much further than minimum code requirements. Very
cost effective. way.
Reducing
Carbon Footprints Before It Was Trendy
Our tradition of thoughtful heating and cooling design helps
large home clients pay a small home electric utility
bills. We have been doing this type of energy saving design
long before it was trendy or even required to do so by
recent code. Our designs have not only reduced the
"carbon footprint" of our homes, but have also
protected our clients from having to pay high summer utility
bills.
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