Building Your Dream Home
Perhaps it’s a Low-country beauty overlooking a sun-kissed green or a contemporary A-frame along the fairway. Whatever and wherever your imagination goes, the dream homes sold by Griffinseshomes a Colorado Real Estate Agent demonstrate the latest trends in laying a solid foundation for your dream home.
Once plans move from daydream to drafting board to job site, it’s essential to get skilled professionals who share same dream and interest involved. Picking a competent architect to plan out your dream home is a compulsory. Getting a feeling for how willing the architect is to work within your design requests is also essential.
Building your dream home might mean incorporating your plans into a themed community – design restrictions and architectural standards.
Many of the nation’s top builders and suppliers contributed to the materials and amenities of each dream home – products you’ll want to consider using once two-by-fours start going up. Just like Golf Magazine’s dream home features paint provided by Ace Hardware, broadband phone service by AT&T, and state-of-the-art appliances and consumer electronics by Best Buy. Your builder should be able to recommend materials that are both energy-efficient and consistent with your home’s design theme. Altogether – from breaking ground to laying a welcome mat – you can expect the construction of your dream home to take a year to a year and a half.
Sometimes you need to see it to believe it. To stir would-be dream homebuilder’s imaginations, each of the 2004 dream homes spent several months open to the public.
In addition to being featured in its November 2004 issue, Golf Magazine’s dream house at Reynolds Plantation was open to the public. According to Bill Houghton, Vice President of Marketing for Reynold’s Plantation, approximately 17,000 people toured the home in six months. The Progressive Farmer Idea House and Farmstead was open for tours this summer and was featured in the August 2005 issue. HGTV’s dream home tours at Cumberland Harbour debuted in May 2007 with a Winner’s Weekend that awarded one of approximately 35 million contestants the dream house itself, worth $1.2 million. Also a giveaway event, the HGTV 2006 dream house is under construction at Grey Rock at Lake Lure, NC.
At 4,500 square feet, Golf Magazine’s dream house features a spacious, “’Hunt Club’ interior with leather as a fabric of choice, lending a ‘sense of sophistication’”, according to interior designer Jan Vorderburg. Four master bedrooms with accompanying bathrooms guarantee luxurious stay even guests will enjoy. Golf Magazine publisher Chris Whitman said, “The Golf Magazine dream house has exceeded expectations on every level…truly a dream come true for golfers.”
Recalling America’s rural past, The Progressive Farmer 3,500 square-foot dream home at McLendon Hills is “designed for people who choose the country as their place to live…with stalls and a tack room, the tiered garden, the pond and pastures. It literally sets the standard for country living,” says Jack Odle, Editor in Chief of The Progressive Farmer.
The warm breezes of coastal Georgia swayed the building of HGTV’s Cumberland Harbour dream home. The 3,000 square-foot, totally furnished home contains Victorian influences that harkens to a by-gone era. A 230-foot, screened-in boat dock allows bug-free entree to local waterways. “We want every Dream Home to have its own identity,” said Atlanta consultant Jack Thomason, who contributed to the 2004 HGTV home.
Capitalizing on its 2004 dream home success at Cumberland Harbour, Land Resource Companies (LRC) was again honored to play host to HGTV’s dream house giveaway. Presently under construction at Grey Rock resort in western, North Carolina – a mountain living community likewise forged by LRC – the 2006 HGTV dream home promises the same great quality and close attention to detail as its coastal counterpart. “I am very pleased that we had the opportunity to offer another community that is on the level of Cumberland Harbour”, said Bob Ward, President and CEO of Land Resource Companies, with respect to the 2006 dream home site.
Originally appeared in Living Southern Style Magazine, Winter 2006