Sun Plans Inc

My husband and I have been in the general contracting business for 12 years together. We specialize in high performance homes, which includes passive solar designs. We have built two of Sun Plans designs. Our customers absolutely love them. They are extremely efficient. The sun room is by far the most favorite room. A short story, one of our customers came to us with a plan they had drawn up. They were not excited about it. I felt that was not good. So we gave them our Sun Plan book and they finally decided on one they felt was close to what they wanted. I contacted Debbie and we went through the process of making the changes. It was so smooth and easy, plus very reasonable to accomplish. They are so happy with their home. We love Sun Plans and are so grateful for the source of passive solar homes! We will be building our third Sun Plan home this year. Rachel & Mark Bighley Mark Bighley Construction Silver City, NM

My husband and I are living in a passive solar home designed by Debbie Coleman of SunPlans, and we love it. Debbie was a joy to work with, and is an expert in passive solar design...I chose to work with her because of her expertise, and I am thankful that I did. The SunPlans website is well-designed for exploring options prior to finalizing a decision, and we were able to incorporate ideas from several other plans as we designed Moorhaus Cottage 4. I am in Virginia, and Debbie is in Alabama, so we talked by phone and sent emails throughout the process of adapting one of her earlier Moorhaus designs to our needs and preferences. We moved into our house on the day before Thanksgiving and have recently received our first power bill. The house has over 3,000 square feet of living space, and our bill for the first month was $104. The orientation of the home, the location of the windows, the tight insulation system, and a geothermal heat pump combined to make the house work as we hoped it would. Another reason that I chose to work with Debbie is that her designs have personality - nooks and crannies and angles that make every interior view pleasant and interesting. During the design process, she asked me questions that helped me define and then convey my thoughts and ideas to her clearly. As I visited the house during construction, I watched my dreams become reality. I would highly recommend Debbie and SunPlans to anyone wanting the rewards of hiring an architect to design a home...and by working through SunPlans, our cost for that service was much lower than standard architectural fees would have been. Check out Debbie's designs at SunPlans.com.

A few years ago my wife and I decided to build a custom passive solar house. A quick Google search on internet has connected us with architect Debbie from Sun Plans that specializes in such designs. Thank you Google! It was such a great experience to work with Debbie - she was able to take all or our ideas and requirements and design a lovely, sun-inspired home. We've build our house 4 years ago according to Debbie's plans and still enjoy every single day in it. It's worth mentioning that we live in Chicago area (yes..cold and long winters) and we've put the house to test last year when it was a record -43F outside with the wind chill. With the heat turned off inside the house, on that Sunny, cold day, the temperature inside the house dropped from 73F at 8AM dropped only to 70F at 4.30PM. In the standard house, the water pipes would be already frozen. Good job Debbie!

Sun Plans, Inc and Architect, Debbie Coleman were fabulous to work with in the design of RISE - our passive solar home. Sean and I wanted to build a passive solar, sustainable green design home for years. We searched for the perfect lot, and once found, we searched for the perfect home design. We quickly found Sun Plans, as 100% of their focus is passive solar. We bought Debbie's book, The Sun Inspired House, and found elements of houses that we loved - open floor plans, lofts, atriums, towers, airlock entry ways, and more. You can buy a plan, adapt a plan or work with Debbie on a new design. We thought we could adapt, but soon learned that we had some customized aspects that would lead to the creation of RISE - primarily the clerestory. The design process took about a year from beginning to end, and was done 100% through email and phone calls. Debbie was wonderfully responsive, not only to us as clients, but to our builder, structural engineer, energy analysts, and more. We stay in touch to this day and we do hope to meet in person at some point! Because of Debbie' s design, we were selected to be featured in Home Power magazine - more info and more pictures - Http://www.homepower.com/articles/solar-electricity/project-profiles/mountain-solar Favorite elements: Finding reclaimed lumber from the 1800's for the loft; floor design, my rock - bit of Frank Lloyd Wright; kitchen; patio design and fire pit.