The efficiency, cost savings and beauty of a prefab home … Stillwater Dwellings, a leading designer and builder of sustainable, contemporary prefab homes, today announced the completion of a 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1,600 square foot prefabricated home – featuring a uniquely soaring butterfly roofline – in Santa Barbara, California. The home features a wide array of eco-friendly and energy-efficient systems, and several custom modifications unique to the owners.

Of primary importance to the homeowners, it was designed in a simple, straight-forward process, built off-site in a controlled environment, and completed for an up-front, fixed price that was a fraction of site-built alternatives.

The roughly 1,600 square foot home features a 320sf garage and a stylish ‘courtyard’ design that emphasizes indoor/outdoor living. Inside, the home is finished with eco-friendly micro-strip birch hardwood and Marmoleum flooring, low VOC paints, dual flush toilets, super-insulated wall and roof construction, and recycled content quartz slab countertops.

Outside, the home utilizes a standing seam metal “cool roof” that reflects over 30% of the sun’s rays, and large overhangs that assist with passive cooling. The 35’ wide glass window wall picture frames views under the massive oaks to the creek on the property below and the Santa Ynez mountains beyond. A clerestory window section rises above exposed wood beams to a ceiling height of over 11 feet.

The large 1 acre home-site features an incredible collection of protected oak trees and sensitive landscape areas leading to a creek. Modular offsite construction turned out to be a perfect low impact building solution.  The modules were picked up from the driveway and lifted over the trees and bushes, and then carefully lowered down onto the foundation – causing little disruption to the site’s natural beauty.