The Sanctuary at Huntington TrailsImagine a new home designed for the way you really live. Functional, it has a place for everything your family needs. Packed with amenities, it feels like a custom home. Built so well it qualifies as an Energy Star® Home. That’s what you can count on in a Sopris Home. From the moment you step inside Sopris Homes’ award-winning model home at The Sanctuary at Huntington Trails, you see why it won the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver (HBA) Flatirons Tour of Homes 2009 Award of Excellence and the 2007 HBA Raising the Bar Award for Home of the Year. The Sanctuary at Huntington Trails is a new community in Westminster at McKay Lake. It offers easy access to the Westminster trail system and open space, plus a private community pool, clubhouse and children’s playground. All Sopris Homes come with an Owner’s Entry complete with coat closet and a bead board-backed bench with plenty of hooks and cubbies, as well as the unique and functional Home Center designed to provide a place for briefcases, mail, backpacks and more – keeping the kitchen and family room clutter-free. Spaces like this and numerous closets throughout the home make living – and entertaining – easy. Great Rooms, extended studies and libraries, hardwood floors, architectural detailing, superior HVAC systems with multi-zone engineering, and casement (crank-out) low-E windows are all Sopris features usually found only in homes well over a million dollars. 
Available homes at The Sanctuary at Huntington TrailsIn addition to the award-winning Carbondale model home, two ranch homes – The Fairplay and Vista Ranch – are at frame stage and ready for homebuyers to tour. They range from 2,142 to 2,877 square feet plus a full basement, and are priced from $560,000 to $673,900.Carbondale boasts 6,126 square feet (4,129 to 4,285 finished plus 1,997 full basement), with prices starting at $774,900.To visit these homes, please call sales manager Jen Schell at 720.224.2044, or visit the model home, open daily noon to 5 p.m.
Green mission and energy efficiencyBuilding green and building smart just make good sense, but what does this mean to your new custom home or remodel project? Boulder-based Sopris Homes has a long history of building energy-efficient and sustainable homes. It was the first builder in Colorado to include the Environments for Living comfort and energy-use guarantee in its homes; it can guarantee the maximum amount of energy it will use to keep the homes at 72 degrees year round – and the temperature won’t vary more than three degrees from room to room. Sopris Homes is one of the very first of U.S. EPA’s exclusive Energy Star® builders in the state. Sopris Homes constructs all of its homes to exceed the latest International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). Manager John Stevens is one of the few National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Certified Green Builders and NAHB Certified Graduate Builders in the Metro area.

Net Zero and Near Zero Energy: A homeowner’s experience“Sopris Homes can help guide you through the “Green Revolution” and assist you in making smart decisions with your next project,” says sales manager Jen Schell.  Sopris Homes built a Near Zero-energy home in Boulder, and the new homeowner, who has occupied the house only since January 2010, is delighted.“The PV (photovoltaics) array is online,” he wrote to builder John Stevens. “Yesterday it produced 67 kWh (kilowatt-hours), which is enough for two homes. The WEL server monitors energy usage and the geothermal system; that will be online, and I think the combination would be a useful advertisement for the quality and energy efficiency of Sopris Homes construction. You designed and built our dream home on budget and ahead of schedule and we love it. While I am biased, I find it hard to believe that there are many homes out there that are more beautiful yet as energy efficient as our home.” As of March 8, 2010, the energy produced by this homeowner’s system could power for one day: 82 homes, 2,677 computers, and 8,112 light bulbs. As to carbon offset: The system offsets the equivalent of planting 54 trees, not driving 139 cars for a day, and not consuming 236 gallons of gas. Choose Sopris for custom homes, remodeling and much moreSopris Homes also offers build-on-your-lot custom homes throughout the greater Denver-Boulder area, architectural design services, interior and exterior remodeling services, home additions, kitchen and bath remodeling, basement finishes, outdoor living spaces, flooring, custom cabinetry, and even home repair.It’s nice to know you have a reputable builder to go to for all your housing and home ownership needs. One phone call and one person, with established relationships, will manage and coordinate multiple trades and hold them accountable to an already established higher standard of building.  Sopris Homes recently won two 2009 Metro Denver Home Builders Association Raising the Bar Awards for Best Architectural Design for a Custom Home 4,000 to 5,500 square feet, and the Urban Infill Home of the Year.Everybody talks about quality. The Sopris professionals go beyond quality and focus on excellence. You get a team of perfectionists passionately committed to designing and building your dream home – with their unique, customer-focused perspective.

144th & Huron, Westminster (adjacent to McKay Lake)

Imagine a premier community featuring a private pool and clubhouse, shore fishing on McKay Lake, open space and an abundant trail system out — all out your front door. And best of all, you’ll be centrally located to just about everything.

Now imagine a new home with a custom kitchen, spacious floor plan and a home center with ingenious family functionality. Designed for the way you really live and built so well it exceeds the most recent international energy conservation codes.

Come see for yourself our unique perspective on new home construction and how affordable superior quality can be.

It’s time to turn dreams into reality.

For more information contact: Jennifer Schell at 720.224.2044 or www.soprishomes.com

Sopris Homes lives by a simple motto: Build amenity-rich, energy-efficient luxury homes in the most desirable communities.

No wonder homebuyers fall in love with Sopris homes. Offerings at The Sanctuary at Huntington Trails, a brand-new community in Westminster, are a perfect example.

Stylish Tuscan, European and Craftsman exteriors complement functional and architecturally enhanced interiors. These homes are designed for the way people really live – with Great Rooms, spacious kitchens with large islands and breakfast-bar seating, luxury master suites, inviting indoor and outdoor courtyard living spaces and rich-looking hardwood floors.

All Sopris homes come with an Owner’s Entry complete with coat closet and a beadboard-backed bench with plenty of hooks and cubbies, as well as the unique and functional Home Center with its elegant Tharp cabinetry to match your kitchen – designed as a place for briefcases, mail, backpacks, you name it. Spaces like this, plus numerous walk-in coat and linen closets, make it easy to live and entertain in every Sopris home.

In the dream kitchen, Tharp custom cabinets are staggered in height and depth, with architectural details, crown molding and deep drawers. A professional stainless steel range hood with five-burner gas cook-top and spacious islands top off a gourmet cook’s delight.

Built Green

Sopris Homes was the first builder in Colorado to build to Energy Star standards, which include energy-efficient criteria for insulation, windows, ductwork and heating and cooling systems, all set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Sopris provides superior HVAC systems with multi-zone engineering and casement (crank-out) and low-E windows on all its homes.

Sopris Homes is also the first builder in Colorado and the only builder in Boulder County to build to Environments for Living standards, which include strict guidelines for the amount of energy used to heat and cool your home.

“The goal of Environments For Living is to build a cleaner, healthier, longer-lasting and more energy-efficient home,” Sales Consultant Jen Schell says. “The bottom-line benefit for the buyer is in every home they actually guarantee what your energy usage will be to heat and cool your home at 72 degrees.”

At The Sanctuary at Huntington Trails, Sopris offers these features in four ranch-style floor plans, as well as two-story models. Home sizes range from 2,693 to 5,029 finished square feet. All have full basements.

The new community, with 204 home sites that range from the low $600,000s to more than $4 million, is situated in Westminster at McKay Lake. It offers easy access to the Westminster trail system and open space, plus a private community pool, clubhouse and children’s playground.

And now: The Redstone from Sopris Homes

The new Redstone courtyard-style home is inspired by La Maison des Vues in this year’s Parade of Homes at Solterra in Lakewood, on view July 26 to Labor Day. This award-winning residence was built by Waterstone Homes in partnership with Sopris Homes. Despite its grand appearance, the Redstone also epitomizes homeyness. Inviting courtyards blend indoor and outdoor living spaces; it’s perfect for comfortable family living and entertaining. Like all Sopris Homes, the Redstone provides plenty of functional living spaces and a place for everything from the trademark Owners Entry and Home Center to a second-floor bonus or children’s family room.

Come see La Maison des Vues, at 15291 West Warren Drive at Solterra during the Parade of Homes. It sells for $2,150,000. Or consider its cousin, the Redstone, which starts at $774,900 in The Sanctuary at Huntington Trails, or $918,650 on a one-third acre home site in Promontory, Sopris Homes’s newest community.

Promontory at McKay Shores

Promontory at McKay Shores is in Broomfield, on the northeast side of McKay Lake, at 138th and Zuni. Featured are luxury and custom home sites from one-third to more than one-half acre, walk-out and garden-level basements, and West-backing mountain-view home sites on open space. This premier community offers a private pool and clubhouse, shore fishing on McKay Lake and an abundant trail system. Promontory is near neighborhood grocery shopping, restaurants, multiple golf courses and I-25, with an easy commute to Denver, Boulder or Longmont.

Sopris Homes has first choice on premier home sites scattered throughout the community, so if a Sopris home on a larger home site with a spectacular view is what you have been waiting for at a great price, take advantage of this opportunity to select your home site. Sopris luxury homes start in the $800,000s.

How To Get To The Sanctuary and Promontory

The Sanctuary at Huntington Trail is located at West 144th Avenue and N. Huron Street in Westminster. To get there from Boulder, take US 36 to McCaslin Boulevard north, then head east on West Dillon Road, which becomes West 144th. Turn right into The Sanctuary at Huntington Trails just past McKay Lake Open Space, before you get to Huron Street.

The Sopris Homes sales office is open from noon to 5 p.m. daily, or by appointment. Call Jen Schell at 720.224.2044, or e-mail her at JenandDaltin@msn.com.

For more information or to view completed homes by Sopris, visit the model home at 144th and Huron or tour the Web site at www.soprishomes.com.

From the moment you step inside the award-winning model home, you will see why Sopris’ Carbondale Model Home at the Sanctuary at Huntington Trails was honored in the 2007 Flatirons Tour of Homes and was named the 2007 Home Builders Association Bar Awards Home of the Year.