Category: custom homes

  In this video, passive home experts John Suppes and Sean Misskelley discuss the Clarum Homes mission and vision of building comfortable high-performance passive homes. If you look at the average home, it's being built in the same way as homes were built 40 years ago. Nothing has really changed. In contrast, Clarum Homes is unique because we are continuously working to lead and innovate the way homes are built. Our entire team focuses on the following: sustainability in building materials thermal envelope so that the homes use less energy to heat and cool indoor air quality making...


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Clarum Homes Owner John Suppes and Director of Construction Sean Misskelley discuss building and living in passive homes. We build passive homes for their sound ethics, aesthetic beauty, internal comfort and interior air quality. A passive home is simply a building that employs a set of advanced building technologies to achieve extreme energy efficiency. Energy consumption is reduced by 90% or more compared to that of conventional homes. And these efficiency gains aren't due to some weird, boxy, ugly building design. Passive homes are elegant, comfortable living spaces with beauty that can rival...


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We finished up the construction of our Menlo Passive custom home a few weeks ago and just had our photographer come out to capture the home for us. Check out these beautiful photos – showcasing the exterior, the great room, kitchen, master suite and bathrooms. Menlo Passive proves that green can be gorgeous! Not only does Menlo Passive provide energy efficiency, comfort, health and durability, and up to 90% in energy savings coupled with construction techniques that exceeded the passive house air tightness standards by 65%, but it looks beautiful too. Passive house standards can be integrated...


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Back in April, we wrote about this contemporary high performance custom home we’re building in the Sonoma wine country.   It’s really unbelievable.  Now that the framing is completed, you can see the incredible views that our client is going to enjoy from this beautiful multi-level home that they designed with architect Stuart Welte at Environmental Innovations in Design. The original architectural design included large steel “I” beams. To reduce the carbon footprint of this home, we worked with the engineers to use more sustainable engineered wood products. Clarum’s client also...


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You are invited!  Please join us next week at one of our upcoming passive home events at Menlo Park and San Mateo County’s first passive home – Menlo Passive. We'll have expert passive house consultants to answer your questions about passive homes and show you how Clarum Homes is reinventing green building.     Passive House Consultants & Designers Tour Wednesday, June 1st 5pm – 8pm Menlo Passive Event includes refreshments and a passive house presentation.     Passive Home Event Thursday, June 2nd 12pm – 2pm Menlo Passive Event...


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  Clarum is several months in on the construction of an exquisite custom home in Los Altos Hills. When finished, the home will be approximately 5,800 square feet with five bedrooms over basement living area and a beautiful pool, fountain, and landscaped outdoor living areas. The home is being constructed with a host of amazing custom details and craftsmanship on the stucco, iron, pebble and stone work and will also feature reclaimed clay roof tiles. Looking to build a dream house like this for yourself? Call us and let us show you how we can help: 650.322.7069.


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Also happening this year is the construction of an incredible custom home in the Sonoma wine country. Designed by Stuart Welte of Environmental Innovations in Design, this contemporary high performance custom home features three story home four bedroom home with elevated pool, gourmet kitchen, wine cellar, sauna, and outdoor entertaining area. The home includes ultra high performance heating and cooling systems, solar power system, and heat recovery ventilation. We’re just finishing up the foundation and will begin framing soon. Check back for progress photos and more information...


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First Certified Passive Home in San Mateo County & Menlo Park, California We are well under way on our first custom Passive Home in Menlo Park. The house is scheduled to be finished in late May. You may be wondering….what exactly is a passive house? A Passive Home is an extremely comfortable, healthy, economical and sustainable home, designed and constructed to use up to 90% less energy than a traditional home. This is achieved by enhanced insulation, greatly reduced thermal bridging, a virtually air tight building envelope, high performance windows and a heat recovery ventilation...


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 Custom Luxury Home in Monterey Bay, CA Clarum Homesbuilt a beautiful Carmel mission-style custom home on the fairway of the Bayonet & Black Horse Golf Courses in Monterey Bay, California. This single-story three bedroom 2,600 square-foot home was constructed with cutting-edge, energy-efficient features. The house is filled with elegant, rustic finishes – not to mention, that it’s surrounded by the Monterey Cypress trees and the open space of the golf course. Click here to see more of our California custom luxury homes. Talk to Clarum Homes about building your custom luxury home....


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