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Comito Building & Design Eco-Friendly innovations offer quality and longevity to custom homes in Cedar Heights by Tara Imperatore Look out one window and catch a glimpse of the Front Range Mountains; glance out another and see the twinkling city lights. Residents in Cedar Heights are doing just that with the recent help of Comito Building and Design. The company has just completed a 7,231-square-foot home in the exclusive gated Colorado Springs community. Custom built from the ground up, the expansive property was finished with only the most innovative features, including various eco-friendly components that include closed cell foam insulation. “There aren’t a lot of people who walk in the door and say they want to build a ‘green’ house but they understand their utility bills,” Claude Comito, owner of Comito Building and Design says.
Comito Building and Design is a third generation custom home building firm with over 28 years of experience. Comito was inspired by his father’s trade as a contractor in New York, and after working with him as a young man, decided to study business and real estate to cultivate his craft. Soon after marrying his wife Debbie, the two moved to Colorado Springs in 1983 and started building luxurious custom homes in the area. Their daughter Lauren recently joined the family business as the operations and marketing manager. Together, they have consistently produced award-winning homes with their “designbuild concept” that combines the collaborative ideas and goals of both the expert architects
The Cedar Heights Residence The newly completed Cedar Heights property from Comito Building and Design showcases advanced technological features and energy efficient construction, all enveloped in breathtaking mountain and city views. With the outdoors being their clients’ passion, the four bedroom, seven-bathroom home contains open air cooking and entertaining spaces, while the interiors reflect its natural surroundings through rich wood, stone and granite throughout. The home’s Outback locale is just 15 minutes from the bustling city but offers serene vistas of Pikes Peak and the Front Range Mountains. “It’s a real blend of suburbia and mountain and park-like environment,” Comito says.
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Along with the more common use of low E glass, low flow toilets and showerheads, Comito has paved the way toward the use of a new environmentallyconscious basic home necessity. “We were the ones to pioneer the use of foam insulation in the Pikes Peak region,” Comito says. “In my mind it’s
a revolutionary thing.” The product works to even out temperature fluctuations in the house, and though slightly more expensive, is a smart investment. “There are not many things you can invest in in terms of energy efficiency and get the pay back,” Comito says.
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