Top 10 Home Trends for the 55+ Market

Top 10 Home Trends for the 55+ Market by Kelly Godbey   1. Open Floor Plan This is not a new trend by any stretch, but it’s one that is now found everywhere. The kitchen opens into the great room. 2. Disappearing Formal Dining Home size is not necessarily changing. But, formal dining space is…

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Cutting Edge Florida Home Design

Re-posted from March 26, 2015 Minto on the Cutting Edge of Home Design By Nancy Gross Minto Communities is one of North America’s leading builders offering a wide array of award-winning new homes and resort-style master-planned communities in warm, sunny Florida. It’s no surprise that Minto is at the vanguard of building homes with the…

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Eco-Friendly Design with a Contemporary Edge

Eco-Friendly Design with a Contemporary Edge Unspoiled Costa Rica… Featuring Renowned Architect, Amnon Dahan “I started seeing unbelievable, contemporary designs that are integrated into the beautiful terrain and into the nature of Costa Rica. That’s when I started seeing people living in harmony with nature, literally allowing the nature outside in, with homes melded into…

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Custom, Semi-Custom, or Production Homes? Which is right for you?

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Custom, Semi-Custom, or Production Homes? Which is right for you? Home Builders Are Abuzz with Spring Activity By Scott Kauffman Despite a temperamental U.S. economy, America’s residential construction professionals are busily building once again in 2016. Case in point is U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data released February 17th that shows privately-owned housing…

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Four Ideal Homes In One Ideal Community

Four Ideal Homes In One Ideal Community Bay Creek, Cape Charles, VA Pictured above – Edgewater Bay Creek, Cape Charles, VA By Kelly Godbey Ideal-LIVING magazine is proud to announce four magnificent homes are under construction at Bay Creek in Cape Charles, VA, as the 2016 ideal-LIVING Ideal Homes. This is the first time we…

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Today’s Energy-Efficient Home

By Andy Sinclair. Previously published in the 2016 Winter Issue. Whether Tudor, Colonial, log cabin, Cape Cod, bungalow, Craftsman, A-frame, ranch, Pueblo, bi-level, split level, farmhouse, townhouse, cottage, Adirondack, rammed earth, or geodesic, today’s home can (must) be energy-efficient. In today’s economy, you literally cannot afford to have an energy-inefficient home. What exactly is an…

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Hot Trends in Master-Planned Communities & Home Design

Hot Trends in Master-Planned Communities & Home Design From Multi-generational Vacation Homes to What Women Want in a Home By Scott Kauffman and Kelly Godbey. Previously published in the 2016 Winter Issue. [metaslider id=1294733262] Catering to the various demands, attitudes and tastes of today’s retirement and vacation home buyers has become so much more complex.…

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Unplugged, Not Disconnected – Modern Lifestyles on Two Carolina Islands

By JG Walker. Previously published in the 2015 Summer Issue. Most of the developed islands along the American Atlantic coastline have bridges that connect them with the mainland. So that we and a few hundred (or thousand) of our new anonymous neighbors can “get away from it all” by driving straight to paradise—and immediately recreating…

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