WOW! Check Out The View From This Solar Powered Home!

Posted on Jun 19 in Featured Properties, Solar Homesby JoannePrint

Insulated adobe construction with Solar Power and back up generator. There is a casita bedroom, fabulous views, wrap around porch and much more. On 11.5 acres with option to purchase 10-acre adjacent parcel.

View from the back patio

4008 E Mulberry Drive, Douglas, AZ

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Read more about this property on Agent Carl Krall’s Blog, he’s been caretaking and writing about living in the house. Call him at 520-678-1837 if you have questions.

3 Beds/1.5 Baths. Extra room for study/den. Detached 1 car garage and patios both covered and uncovered.Workshops located inside and outside. Laundry room also in interior of home. It has a wood stove with a rack for wood on south porch.Vaulted ceilings with exposed beams. Kitchen has breakfast bar, island and walk-in pantry. Walk-in closets and ceiling fans throughout. Massive open plan flows from kitchen to dining area to living area, while keeping bedrooms and storage private.

The house is built in a u-shape, and the roof shaped somewhat like an airfoil, presenting a low side to the prevailing southerly winds and high on the patio side, which is sheltered by the u-shaped floor plan and accessible from the bedrooms or from the main living area via sliding doors. The height on the bedroom end allows for high ventilation windows and for light to travel across the open plan, which minimizes the need for turning lights on.

This home was designed by engineers, with the adobe block exposed on the inside for texture and the insulation on the outside, covered with a stucco finish. 16 Trojan batteries, a solar array with passive tracker and backup propane generator means that you can use power without worrying. The well pump is solar and fills a tank with its own little house, so that water comes out of the tap cooler than the outside temperature. There is an irrigation system, which may need some sorting.

The large garage is currently being used as a shop, outfitted with a built-in workbench and also the home of the batteries and inverter. It has a half-bath and shelving, and a storage building next to it.

The casita is the perfect place to put a guest who wants to “camp out” in the desert without being too far from civilised comforts, but far enough away for privacy. It has it’s own little porch where they can watch the stars and listen to the coyotes stir up the neighborhood dogs.

INCLUDED EXTRAS:

• Staber horizontal axis washer,  propane dryer, water heater, and range
• Side-by-side refrigerator, microwave
• all window coverings stay

EVAP cooling/Propane gas water heater/SOLAR electric
FAGH heat/private well/conventional septic

$259,000

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3 Comments

• Helmut blockheizkraftwerk says:

  August 21, 2010 at 2:16 am

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