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Building Your Home, Building a Nest, New Home Ideas, Staying On Top

[22 Jun 2010 | No Comment ]

Ranch homes were extremely popular in the 1950s and ’60s, and recently they’ve made an extreme comeback. But don’t expect new ranch-style homes to mimic the tiny layouts of their original days. As you’ll see from the ranch floor plans available at Highland Woods, the new styles are expansive, offer great opportunity for family living and entertaining guests, and yet still offer all of the conveniences of one-floor living. Below we’ve listed ranch floor plans available at Highland Woods to suit every style and budget. Click the builder and floor …

New Home Ideas, Selling Tips, Staying On Top

[7 Jun 2010 | No Comment ]

The kitchen is often the hub of a home—whether a family sits together to eat at meals or everyone just grazes, odds are it’s a central meeting spot several times a day. In addition to family, invited guests may spend much time standing around the countertops or table, enjoying each other’s company while eating and drinking. As such an important part of a home, special care should be taken in choosing selections, designing the kitchen, or remodeling. To maximize enjoyment of the space available, we’ve put together these simple tips …

Building Your Home, Featured Builder, New Home Ideas, Selling Tips

[21 Apr 2010 | No Comment ]

The Chicago Tribune recently featured an article on Schaumburg-based William Ryan Homes, which is now part of the Highland Woods community. As such, it offers homebuyers a variety of unique features, including some special promotions.
WRH homes include low-maintenance engineered-wood or vinyl siding. Additionally, these houses include membranes under ceramic tiles to prevent water damage, sealed ductwork joints to minimize heat loss and drainage tiles under and around foundations for a 10-year guaranteed dry basement.
WRH is currently offering a “Buy 2 Floors. Get the 3rd Floor Free!” promotion*. Buyers who …

Featured Builder, New Home Ideas, Selling Tips

[19 Nov 2009 | No Comment ]

One of Highland Woods’ builders – John Hall Custom Homes – was recently featured in a Fox News Special. The broadcast points out that John Hall Custom Homes is showing improved business and increased interest in their homes, even in these tough economic conditions. The current economic climate has proven to be somewhat of a boon for small custom builders as well as for prospective buyers who are able to take advantage of incredible opportunities to purchase! Watch the Fox News segment of Highland Woods’ John Hall Custom Homes in …

Building Your Home, Featured Builder, New Home Ideas

[21 Jul 2009 | No Comment ]

For the past fourteen years, Abigail Homes has been making it incredibly easy for clients to have both the luxury home – and home building experience – of their dreams.  An Abigail home is carefully crafted with innovative products and features that assure quality, energy efficiency, long life and low maintenance.
During the building process, each home buyer is given their own private password-protected website, which provides 24 hour access to home construction details including schedules, change orders and weekly progress photos.  Abigail Homes does what other builders do plus more, …