Article originally on Sarasota Magazine. Score one for historic preservation this week, as a 1936 pecky cypress cottage that stood on the Siesta Key bayfront for 82 years is being …
A Dream Home Built on a Private Water Access Only Island
DAYS OF HEAVEN Home Tour: A Dream Retreat on Jewfish Key A dream retreat on Jewfish Key provides blissful family weekends. By Ilene Denton – Originally Published in the January …
SCENE Magazine Dishes with Steve Ellis of MGB Fine Custom Homes
Sarasota’s SCENE Magazine featured Steve Ellis, co-founder of MGB Fine Custom Homes, who shared information on the Florida housing market, green home certification, and the driving philosophy he and his …
Serene West of Trail – SRQ Magazine
This article BY SHANE DONGLASAN first appeared in SRQ Magazine A Sarasota couple transforms a spec home into a customized modern gem. Your two most crucial allies when building a …
Real Exclusive Properties Writes About Granada Park
Ed Bertha wrote this article about Granada Park in REAL Exclusive Properties magazine. Granada Park, Sarasota’s Best Kept Secret. Not For Long! Located on four plus acres near the corner …
MGB Homes Takes Best of Houzz 2016 Award for Customer Service
Each year, The Best of Houzz is awarded to the top to the top home design and remodeling businesses in three categories: design, customer service and photography. In the design and photography categories, …
MGB and The Art of Corporate Philanthropy
Last week, our team had the pleasure of participating in The Art of Corporate Philanthropy, a breakfast hosted by SRQ | The Magazine. The purpose of the event was to …
Find Us in LEEDing the Way: Domestic Architecture for the Future
MGB Fine Custom Homes was recently selected to be in the book, LEEDing the Way: Domestic Architecture for the Future, a unique and engaging study of LEED houses today. Respectful of nature and its …
Giving more and Giving back – MGB recognized by Edward Lowe Foundation
Giving more — and giving back — is MGB’s blueprint for growth Green construction and luxury homes might sound like an oxymoron — but not to Stephen Ellis and …
Small Business of the Year: MyGreenBuildings, LLC
Sarasota Observer by: Maria Amodio | Observer Intern MyGreenBuildings, LLC has a new location on Orange Avenue, but nearly everything in the office, from the sliding-glass doors to the chair …
Best Green Businesses
Our seven contest winners show you can be good to the planet and successful in business. – by SUSAN BURNS (Photography by GENE POLLUX) Homes Green Homes hat started out …
Natural Awakenings Magazine – Community Spotlight
By Linda Sechrist A Passion for Green Building elatively few people on the planet lay awake at night thinking about the amount of energy imbedded in lumber. Stephen Ellis, co-owner …
Florida Homes and Lifestyle Magazine – The Goldenrod Project
Florida’s first certified “green” remodel is a prototype for sustainable design. STORY BY CANDICE MUTSCHLER PHOTOGRAPHY BY GENE POLLUX STYLING BY ANA TODD hen business partners Grant Castilow and Steve …
The Zen of Home Building
Asian influenced home is the greenest renovation in the state of Florida t was difficult to decide whether to tear the house down and start over or renovate. The Owner of the …
Welcome to the Digital Spec Home
Using 3-D modeling and Google Earth, luxury home builder MyGreenBuildings tweaks designs and gives clients virtual site tours. By Michael Pollick, Sarasota Herald-Tribune rom his desk at Michael Carlson …
A Living Roof at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens transforms the top of a cistern into an educational tool. By Pam Langan t was a labor of love for the green at Marie Selby Botanical …
The Anti-McMansion
MyGreenBuildings’ prototype “green rebuild.” ired of tear-down homes replaced by McMansions, the two-story, boxy structures that tower over more modest, older homes? Steve Ellis and Grant Castilow are. The two …
MyGreenBuildings to save older homes
We’re seeing many baby boomer consumers who are educated, monied and equipped with a social conscience. Sarasota’s Grant Castilow and Steve Ellis recently launched MyGreenBuildings to save older homes and …