Cool Spaces

Who we are

CoolSpaces is led by sustainable house campaigner and environmental consultant Claudia Kaltenstadler. Claudia’s daughter, Elena Kaltenstadler, is a sustainable-design evangelist who also contributes her skills as a photographer and digital native.

About our builds

Together they work with international and national architects individually selected by Claudia. These architects are chosen for their ability, imagination, integrity and alignment with a commitment to homes that optimize joy, respect the value of space and walking gently on the earth, and honor enduring and thoughtfully-scaled design. They also stand behind everything they create. There’s quite a history to the company. As a new-comer to New Zealand in 2006, Claudia was taken aback by the lack of affordable, cost effective, energy efficient homes. It was something she wanted to change and has worked very hard to achieve. CoolSpaces is the result. For clients, Claudia is also the pivot-point, the safe pair of hands and sympathetic ear providing personal, efficient and thorough project liaison and process management, that takes clients from home wishing and dreaming, through design choice and crafting, to complete home realization.

About Cool Spaces

Business operating start date: 14-05-2008

Company's NZBN: 9429032748574

Service areas: All New Zealand

Plans

You can build from our own fixed plans (with only cosmetic changes)

You can build starting with your fixed plans and customising from them (structural changes are allowed)

You can choose a complete custom designs from scratch based on your requirements

Levels

Single story: Yes
Lofts: Yes
Two story: Yes

Build completion stages

Complete build: Yes
Water tight shell, with pre wiring, pre plumbing, and walls lined: Yes
Water tight shell only: Yes

Foundations

on a fixed foundation onsite

Price range:

$150k - $250k+

Size

Width: 3.1m - 3.1m+
Length: 6m - 10m+
Height: Over 5m – up to and including 6.5m - Over 6.5m
Weight: above 3500kg

Additional features

Loft: Yes

Fire place: Yes

Heat pump: Yes

Solar system: Yes

Skylights: Yes

Decks: Yes

Sustainable: Yes

Services offered

Certificate of compliance: Yes
Building consent: Yes

Finance

Rent to own: No

Financing: No

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