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In small-town Brighton, 30 minutes from downtown, you can find some of the lowest prices for new single-family homes in the entire metro area – but only one builder that delivers the energy performance that Meritage Homes will, even in a home priced just over $300,000.
The place to see that is at Meritage’s new Indigo Trails — south of Bromley Lane on Chambers Road in Brighton — where you can tour a new Meritage ranch model, and see where some spacious family homes are set to deliver late this spring at prices way below what their size and features would run further south or west of here. “People are drawn to Brighton by the affordable prices and the close commutes to DIA, downtown and Boulder County,” says Sharon Staley, who with Liane Wahl has already sold eight homes here, well before the first move-ins are scheduled. “But when we show them the quality the Meritage builds, particularly the energy package, they end up choosing us over other builders in the Brighton area.” Today, Wahl and Staley will show you where Meritage has one of its big ‘Telluride’ designs underway, set for a June delivery. It has around 2,696 square feet of finished space; three bedrooms plus a loft served by an upstairs laundry, and a main-floor study. The home site backs to open space; and Meritage is including an option for a 4-car garage – possible on many of these larger sites at Indigo Trails. The price is $436,213 – including a kitchen appointed with slab granite counters, stainless appliances including gas range, maple flat-panel cabinets and hardwood 5-inch plank floors; and a full basement with 9-foot ceilings. Along with the goodies you CAN see are energy features that you CAN’T, including special polyurethane foam insulation that not only insulates better, but keeps a home less drafty and cleaner, too. That insulation, along with a 92 percent-efficient dual-zoned furnace, and low-E2 windows filled with argon gas, routinely earn Meritage’s homes a HERS score as low as 61 (the lower the score the better); well beyond Energy Star standards. Those features are in addition to front yard landscaping with wing fencing, and a weather-sensing irrigation system. Buy that Telluride now and Meritage will provide up to $5,000 on your closing costs, providing you arrange your financing with MTH Mortgage. Staley and Wahl will point out the convenience Indigo Trails has to U.S. 85 and I-76, as well as to new shopping at Prairie Center Mall and to Brighton’s old town Main Street.Indigo Trails is tucked behind an existing neighborhood. From Thornton, take 120th Avenue east to U.S. 85, turn north four miles to Bromley Lane, then east a mile to Chambers and south to Wildflower. Or if coming from I-76, take the exit at 136th, head west to 27th near Prairie Center, then north to Bromley and west to Chambers, then south. WHERE: Indigo Trails in Brighton by Meritage, family-sized, affordable homes with super energy performance; 4-car garage option; small town feel. 1579 Honeysuckle Ct, Brighton; from Thornton take 120th Ave east to U.S. 85, north 4 mi to Bromley Lane, east 1 mi to Chambers, south ½ mi. to Wildflower Dr. Or from I-76 exit 136th, west to 27th near Prairie Center, north 2 mi. to Bromley, west to Chambers PRICE: From $300s