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Sign up for eletters today and get the latest how-to from Fine Homebuilding, plus special offers. As Reid Highley wrote in the pages of Fine Homebuilding in 2012 , at its best, an entry door is a condensed reflection of a home’s design, projecting the outward attitude of a house to visitors and passersby. A door can convey an image of formality or playfulness, solidity or lightness, privacy or hospitality. The choices you make about door size, placement, and materials define a personality that sums up the character of the home. For this reason, entry doors are often placeholders in an architect’s drawings until late in the design process, when the character of the home is more fully developed. The first design decisions for a new door include careful consideration of its size and its location in plan. These choices establish the door’s impact on views, privacy, traffic patterns through the house, and the transition from outdoors to indoors. With that in mind, please click the slides...

The two- story Phase III Fenwick plan at Naples Square offers 3 ,238 square feet under air. Phase III purchase agreements are being accepted. (Photo: Picasa) The Ronto Group announced Phase III purchase agreements worth nearly $32 million have been processed at Naples Square . Construction of the Phase III building is expected to start in fourth quarter. Just two residences in the completed Phase II building remain available for purchase and feature Ronto ’s Franklin and Denison floor plans . The two- story Franklin residence offers 3 ,378 square feet, including 2,857 square feet under air, a 196-square- foot private balcony , and a private oversized one- car garage accessed from the residence. Priced at $1,425,422, the Franklin showcases upgraded features and finishes. The plan presents three bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a living room with a two-story ceiling and double-stacked windows, a dining room, an island kitchen, and a second floor with a 330-square- foot flex room , the owner’s...

If you’d love to choose a Blue Ridge, GA cabin rental for your next vacation but need an extra-large place to accommodate your big family or group of friends, your search is over! Riverbend Lodge is a beautiful 6 bedroom, 5 ½ bath mansion that sleeps 15 guests and has an in-ground pool, a magnificent 7500+ square foot showplace with a river right outside the door. Located in McCaysville on Fightingtown Creek , and surrounded by views of rushing water on three sides, it’s your own private paradise in the woods. You can hike, fish or go whitewater rafting without leaving the property, and go horseback riding, just minutes away. It’s less than 11 miles to downtown Blue Ridge and its wonderful dining and shopping.  After a day of exploring, you can relax, watch TV (the cabin has eight flat screens, two with DVD players), play billiards, foosball, ping-pong, or take a dip in the pool. There are two fire pits, a gas grill on the deck off the kitchen for barbecues and plenty of seating, an...

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Deerbrook Farm is a love story, straight out of the True Romance series . It’s about a young girl named Betsy Skillin , born in New York City and raised in Europe, who met Tom O’Connell, an American soldier, on a train traveling from Frankfurt to Paris. She was 14, and he was 20. Their chance meeting led to several years of friendly correspondence. Somewhere along the way, Tom met another woman and married. Betsy married Nolan Welmaker . Tom developed a successful career in advertising sales, and Betsy became known in San Antonio as a successful mother, community volunteer and entrepreneur, opening Violet Talk Gifts in Alamo Heights. I ran into Tom at a business function after he was married and had a daughter,” Betsy says. “I wrote my phone number on the back of his business card and gave it to him.” She invited him to visit San Antonio and then went on with her life. “In 1980, my phone rang,” Betsy continues. “A deep voice said, ‘This is a voice from your past,’ and it turned out...

Design May 31, 2017   Share To create a winning master bath with limited square footage , assess the space, identify the client’s functional, aesthetic and stylistic preferences, and focus on incorporating unique and spectacular design details . authors Ellen Cheever   All too often, designers across the country tell me that, when offered a master bathroom project , the clients’ dream of an adult oasis is limited by the existing bathroom space and their unrealistic budget. While this may be the reality we all face with our “post Great Recession” clientele, let me suggest you not spend your energy complaining…but be energized by the challenge presented to you. Several strategies can help you create an exciting solution for a master bath space that must be completed within the confines of the available square footage . And, while they may not all fit within the client’s budget, these strategies will at least help you justify a recommendation to increase the initial budget! While the...