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Modern open-concept living space with wooden dining table and natural light
Modern farmhouse with metal roof surrounded by autumn trees
Modern white house with wooden deck and landscaped garden in autumn

A Better Way to a Better Home

BrightBuilt Home is your partner on the path to your forever home.

BROWSE BY TYPE

BROWSE BY Designs

BrightBuilt Farmhouse Home Designs

Farmhouse

Reminiscent of Maine’s iconic barns, these designs blend comfortable spaces with an efficient form and draw from their local roots for inspiration.

BrightBuilt Cape Home Designs

Cape

With their classic and charming architecture, these designs have simple, practical layouts that prioritize natural light, ventilation, and energy efficiency.

BrightBuilt Ranch Home Designs

Ranch

With open floor plans, natural light, ventilation, and sustainable materials, these long, low-profile designs offer the perfect mix of comfort and efficiency.

BrightBuilt ADU Designs

Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)

Designed for quick installation, these are a smart choice for homeowners seeking efficient living or extra space.

BrightBuilt Cottage Home Designs

Cottage

Inspired by rural and traditional designs, these homes evoke a sense of warmth, charm, and simplicity.

BrightBuilt Craftsman Home Designs

Craftsman/Bungalow

Inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century Craftsman and Bungalow homes, these designs showcase craftsmanship, natural materials, and elegant simplicity.

BrightBuilt Modern Home Designs

Modern

Featuring clean lines, geometric shapes, and open spaces with natural light, these homes are designed to complement the modern lifestyle.

BrightBuilt Colonial Home Design

Colonial

These designs embody a timeless colonial vernacular, offering ample natural light, ventilation, energy efficiency, and crafted with sustainable materials.

BrightBuilt Custom Torrey Design

Torrey

Designed for homeowners seeking extra space on demand, this ADU features a compact layout with modern elements and energy-efficient construction.

BrightBuilt Great Diamond Design

Great Diamond

Reminiscent of Maine’s iconic barns, this design blends comfort with efficiency. Its compact footprint is ideal for tight lots, wooded sites, and rolling fields.

BrightBuilt Custom Little Diamond Design

Little Diamond

This design reinvents the classic New England Cape with exposed beams and a double-height window wall, creating grand, light-filled spaces.

BrightBuilt Appledore Design

Appledore

A classic gable-end white farmhouse with a full-length porch draws inspiration from its local roots.

BrightBuilt Custom Mackworth Design

Mackworth

One of our largest designs, this spacious home draws from Maine’s vernacular, adapting to any site and accommodating families of all sizes.

BrightBuilt Drisko Design Rendering

Drisko

This compact, well-designed single-floor home features a cozy entry deck, single-car garage, and sunny side deck, inspired by Maine’s mill town homes.

BrightBuilt Custom Cushing Design

Cushing

A blend of modern and traditional, this design features banks of glass, tall ceilings, and an open first-floor living space.

BrightBuilt Jewell Design

Jewell

This design nods to Maine’s agrarian roots while embracing modern innovation, offering flexible work, leisure, and living in a compact footprint.

BrightBuilt Foxbird Design

Foxbird

Our featured ranch design offers efficient single-floor living with ample light, comfort, and space. A walkout or daylight basement nearly doubles its size.

BrightBuilt Perkins Design Rendering

Perkins

Blending Scandinavian elegance with high-performance design, this modern farmhouse offers flexible, sun-filled spaces and energy-efficient construction.

BrightBuilt Custom Frenchboro Design

Frenchboro

This adaptable single-floor design offers ample living space, an attached two-car garage, and options for a classic or sleek roof style.

Brightbuilt ADU Jordan Design Rendering

Jordan

Perfect for tight spaces or alongside existing homes, this design offers modern amenities, creative storage, and cutting-edge, energy-efficient construction.

Brightbuilt Custom Sterling ADU

Sterling

Designed for quick installation as an ADU, this home offers a compact yet functional layout with customizable rooflines, kitchen, and finishes to suit your style.

Brightbuilt Custom Highland Design

Highland

Drawing inspiration from the quintessential Maine camp, this design offers rustic charm and is the perfect vacation home or primary residence.

Modern kitchen with white chairs, wooden cabinets, and blue pendant light
Clients in their Torrey design, Boothbay, ME.
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We’re BrightBuilt Home.

We are a team of community and sustainability minded professionals who offer architectural design and project facilitation services.

As experts in high-performance and modular design, we partner with our clients, their builders, and off-site manufacturers to bring uniquely customized, net-zero ready homes to life, for life.

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Working with BrightBuilt Home

We are your partner through the design development and production of your home. Our team approach allows us to prioritize communication and project timelines, and to bring specialized skills to bear on each step of the process.

Step 01
Pick Your Base Design (or go fully custom!)

Your project team will then work with you to develop layouts and features that suit your lifestyle, your wants, and your needs. From locating the home on your site to helping you pick out your kitchen cabinets, we guide you through the whole of the design process.

By finalizing the design, programmatic needs of the home, site placement, finish selections, and any added structures, we can also help you get a long way down the road to the final all-in costs for the project. This front-end decisionmaking lends itself to price predictability, and, accordingly, alleviates the budget-anxiety often felt with custom design/build projects that can meander through a drawn-out decision process, change orders, and unpredicted delays. Our energy-efficient design approach ensures your eco-friendly home will perform optimally from day one.

Step 02
Choose Your Production Method

Depending on the specific variables related to your project, you may choose to engage in either off-site or on-site construction.

We are large proponents of off-site construction practices for the following reasons:

1) Your new home will be built in a climate-controlled environment, not a torrential downpour.

2) Your new home will be carefully measured, precision framed, and systematically  trimmed and detailed.

3) Materials will be purchased and used to maximum efficiency, and their cost will be known at the outset of the project. Building the bulk of the home off-site also means that the construction time on site will be shortened, thus reducing impact on the neighbors and the need for extensive long-term staging on your property.

However, we also know that there are instances in which off-site construction is not a viable option. We believe that each client should have the ability to choose the construction approach that makes the most sense for their project, and we are well-versed in collaborating with general contractors to support on-site construction.

Step 03
Finish Out & Celebrate!

The house is whole, the roof is on, the windows are trimmed, and plumbing and electrical is installed… It’s time for the finishing touches.

Kitchen countertops, siding and trim, decks and porches, mechanical systems, finish paint, and brand new floors come together, and in turn, your house becomes your home.

Your general contractor, whom you’ve selected on your own, out of our roster, or with our help, is your local resource — your conduit to the local deals, tradespeople, and insights that will help any project go smoother than if an outsider was dropping in for the duration.Move in and relax. You’re home.

Pioneering Net-Zero Homes Since 2013

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SEE HOW WE DO IT

Sunny & Scandinavian-Style
Home for Recent Retirees

Nestled in a three-quarter-acre lot in Yarmouth, Maine, this Little Diamond was selected and designed to be a quaint neighborhood home for a couple entering into retirement. The layout was designed to further maximize on the sun-drenched open concept of the original design, while taking advantage of added convenience and efficiencies, such as a connected mudroom, first floor office/den, and fully finished second floor spaces for visiting family. The details of this house were curated to have a Scandinavian sensibility: simple, clean-lined, and functional. When paired with the lofty Little Diamond spaces, this aesthetic comes together to make sleek and clean feel warm and inviting.

Bright, airy living room with large windows overlooking snowy winter landscape