Daybreak goes Modern
If you live in Utah, you’ve probably heard of the massive planned community way out west – Daybreak. It’s suburbia gone so…right? Wrong? Old school? However you feel about it, it represents the old suburban dream of our parents and grandparents, among other things. It has that same eerie charm of a perceived perfection – Pleasantville type quality. Up to this point, I’ve mostly avoided it (it’s creepy!) and its targeted marketing. But earlier this week I received a very ‘hip looking’ mailer with a very modern looking home printed on 100% recycled paper boasting about “3 new ways to live in Utah”: Ultra-modern single family homes, row homes, and lofts – unlike anything you’ve ever seen in the Salt Lake Valley. And it was right – I’ve never seen anything like it in Utah, let alone Salt Lake. I was intrigued. (About that targeted marketing…)
So I checked out these new ways of living in the Beehive State and I liked what I saw, or at least I liked that people were starting to embrace a new kind of aesthetic in Utah. It was almost enough to buff out the “creepy” from Daybreak’s perfect patina. See it for yourself and share your thoughts. Would you live there? Why or why not?
Pictured: Style A / Style B from the Solaris Collection by Garbett Homes. Style A starting at $206,900. Style B starting at $239,900.
Award-winning builder Garbett Homes introduces the solar-powered Solaris Collection at Daybreak. These homes demonstrate that a first-time homebuyer can now afford a contemporary modern-style, solar-powered single-family home. Garbett Homes has teamed up with internationally renowned, California-based KTGY Architects to design and build Utah’s first truly affordable solar-powered home.
Go to www.daybreakutah.com/themix then click on “It’s a mod, mod world” or “Home Gallery” for more. Be sure to watch the sweet flyover video for the lofts. It’s almost enough to make me want to live there.
By Capree
2 Comments
The Solaris collection.
I have always thought of daybreak as a TGI Fridays, where dad can get his chicken fried steak and mom can plow headlong into that asian chicken salad. Suffice as to say I am a fan of really good ideas, Chuckarama is not a good idea. Having said that, I believe my predjudice towards daybreaks Stepford wives, plaster O perfect polish, was definetly showing its crow feet in hard light today, after a visit to Garbette Homes. I was pretty blown away after reading this very post that daybreak was going mod. I had to see it for myself, being an avenues resident and a modern fabricator I was hardly in the mood for some limp cookie cutter rendition of the greatest architectural style since the Swiss Family Robinson tree house. Well I’m here to tell you it was really good. Though this is merely a scratch test, they are currently taking reservations for a neighborhood of 20, yes 20 new modern homes, built all together (or so im told), completion in Nov-Dec this year! So if the thought of a full neighborhood of modern homes gives you that special kind of tickle, then do what I did and go see them.
1. Nice floor plan in both models
2. These are not small solar panels on the roof.
3. 240k for 3 bed 3 bath with with an unfinished basement all floors being the same size, 2700 total sqft.
Ok the front door royally sucks, but I have a cure for that. So after playing hooky from work, filling out some papers and putting up $1K I am on the waiting list. Thanks for the post Capree this better work out or gettin a dead horse in the mail !
I was also intrigued by the mailer. When I noted that it was part of Daybreak, I recycled it with the rest of the garbage. It’s Ikea mod; just pick your palette! Then again, I may just be overly distrustful of any home built on land deemed safe by the mine that owns it.