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Neighborhood-in-a-Box®
There is a Neighborhood™ where flags wave from front porches, children
ride bikes down tree-lined streets and neighbors stop to chat beside
their mailboxes. It’s a neighborhood that stirs memories of a simple,
peaceful time – while promising even better memories-in-the-making. And
every home in that neighborhood has its own character and its own story.
At Design Basics, we’ve created our Neighborhood series to reflect that
rich heritage and those timeless values. We’ve focused on three architectural
styles currently enjoying tremendous popularity, because they epitomize
the quality and warmth of the past.
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The
Traditional style home is most popular throughout the country.
The true test of a traditional style home is in detailing
that provides a look of enduring quality. That’s why we’ve
included double-hung windows, columns, pilasters, corner
boards and shutters.
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Craftsman
style homes have an easy, informal air. Authentic Craftsman
features used throughout our collection include roof brackets,
distinctive window framing and blocky tapered columns, along
with a variety of materials, such as split wood shingles,
shake siding, brick, stone, slate, stucco and clapboard.
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The
Country French style provides an interesting blend of Old
World elegance and casual country comfort. Stucco finishes
combined with brick or stone, simple shutters, arched openings
and varied roof lines give our homes true Country French charm.
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Country French
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Craftsman
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Traditional
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Ranging
in size from 1,195 to 2,705 square feet, every Neighborhood home
is 50 feet wide or less, easily fitting on today’s narrower lots.
Personal touches such as niches, benches, thick-cased openings
and built-in bookcases and media walls add interest in the interiors.
Open floor plans with special accommodations for technology meet
the needs of today’s lifestyles.
More than Charming Home Plans
Our Neighborhood is more than just a collection of great home plans.
It’s part of an innovative program for builders and developers called
Neighborhood-in-a-Box™ created with Al Trellis of the Home Builders Network.
By using the Neighborhood-in-a-Box, entire neighborhoods can be created
with only a handful of core designs – but without the “cookie cutter” look.
This is how it works. Builders select any four plans from the collection.
Each plan comes with three or more alternate elevations, plus different
options and details to further individualize the homes. All of the plans
in the neighborhood complement one another in architectural style. This
allows builders to build homes more efficiently and economically while
creating a varied, yet cohesive neighborhood.
On top of that, the Neighborhood-in-a-Box package includes marketing
advice and ready-to-use marketing materials to create flyers, brochures,
posters and ads. Supplied electronically, they are easily customized.
Finally, the package also provides management tools with spreadsheets
to help builders price and manage their project.
The Neighborhood-in-a-Box offers builders the same services an architect,
a management consultant and a marketing consultant would provide – at
a fraction of the cost.
For more information contact:
Joyce Brown, Editor
Design Basics Inc.
11112 John Galt Blvd.
Omaha, NE 68137
(800) 947-7526
email: jbrown@designbasics.com
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