THE SALAMANDER COMPANY

The Salamander Co. LLC. ha s been building beautiful custom homes in the Taos area since 1998. We began specializing in Straw Bale building and have evolved to incorporate other technologies from Adobe to Frame, Pumice-Crete, SIPS panels and more. We are focusing and learning more from the developing Building Sciences arena and are incorporating many Passive House inspired methods and procedures into our builds as a matter of course. Paying close attention to air and water mangement systems while applying the appropriate levels of insulation into our projects allow them to be very comfortable and energy effiecient. As we have grown in our experience, we have come to believe that building in a sustainable way is as much about the aesthetics of a home as it is the materials used. By using regionally produced materials from straw bales and adobe bricks, to small scale forested Douglas Fir we are able to strike a healthy balance between sustainable building materials and mainstream..

Primary location: Taos United States