At Trullishire Ltd we are proud of our reputation for personal service and warm relationship with our clients, designers and builders and it is only through this close co-operation that we feel sure of the perfect result: your dream Italian trullo turned into reality.

Trullishire Ltd caters for all budgets, from small renovations to larger developer projects. Our in-house architect Lucia Bruno cooperates with well established local building companies which provide a professional and personal service to our customers. Our team of builders work together with the property owner even before the purchase is concluded through free consultation and quotations to orientate the buyer to the best purchasing option for their needs and budget.

Our builders holds thirty years of experience; working according to the highest standards of traditional Italian construction. Over this time they have built up an enviable reputation in the building and renovating of high quality homes with specifications and packages tailored to suit individual requirement and budgets.

Furthermore, their wide range of experience, coupled with manufacturing flexibility, enables them to also produce environmentally-friendly and cost effective designs including solar panels, collection of rain water, swimming pools, photovoltaic systems and ecological sewage units.

We appreciate that at the initial enquiry stage most people have some idea of their own design and are looking for guidance and estimates of cost. To this end our architect and the designer team would be more than happy to offer you a free consultation on any issue related to restoring or renovating  a trullo.

The full package includes:

• appraisal of options in construction and products available
• free quotations provided with detailed breakdown of options
• site surveys and feasibility studies
• detailed drawings for full planning application
• working design for new house build or alterations
• obtaining planning permission and building regulations
• negotiations with local authorities
• project management and builders co-ordination service
• insight, reports on the building progress and advice by e-mail
• complete flexibility on all design
• floor to ceiling buildings
• renovation, alterations and extensions
• structural calculations
• ecological and environmentally friendly packages
• swimming pools
• landscaping and garden design

Ecological Renovations

Trulli are buildings particularly suited for an ecological restoration, for the following reasons:

• traditionally they were already built for the collection of water from the roof in underground cisterns,  which will just need to be modernised or repaired
• due to the hot summers, solar panels can provide you with 100% of your hot water needs between March and October and still contribute to it in the winter months (% depending on the weather)
• an under floor heating system can be run with additional solar panels or wood burning stoves
• traditional building materials, such a "calce" (limestone), local stone of different texture and hardness and cork, can entirely replace cement, industrial bricks, synthetic insulation panels and commercial paint.
• photo-voltaic panels can become your main electricity supply
• the grey waters of the buildings can be recycled and re-used for irrigation (considering that in summer the area can suffer from water shortage)
• natural swimming pools purified with aquatic plants will avoid the use of chemicals, reduce consistently the daily maintenance of your pool and substantially cut the costs involved.

Lucia Bruno , Trullishire's manager is an experienced architect with a further diploma in "Bioarchitetura" (environmentally friendly architecture) at the INBAR (Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura) in Bolzano. She can provide a professional and personal service to  customers to provide environmentally-friendly and cost effective designs including solar panels, collection of rain water, swimming pools, photovoltaic systems and ecological sewage units.

Lucia Bruno has twenty years' of experience as an architect and has been studying environmentally friendly methods of building also through seven years of experimenting  in the Findhorn Foundation's  Eco-village in the North of Scotland were she was running the first Living Machine (sewage purification system with plants and bacteria) in Europe.

For further enquiries please contact Trullishire.