The Art Of The Perfect Porch
Nothing beckons to the heart like a great screen porch. The Southern Living Showcase Home has accomplished the art of the perfect porch with its gorgeous outdoor living room, open for visits select days…
Wasting Water and Flushing Dollars
Most “green building” conversations emphasize energy efficiency. By contrast, the issue of water — its scarcity, purity, and significance to sustainability — is often overlooked or discounted. That’s because in North America, we take…
Interior Design · Kitchen & Dining · Living Room · Media Room · Show Houses · Southern Living Showcase Home
Mixing Upholstered Pieces For Comforable, Everyday Eating Areas
Does your kitchen table look magazine great but your family flees as soon as possible? If the answer is yes, then maybe you haven’t made it comfortable, ‘key to those precious lingering family meals’…
Repurposing Craigslist Cast-offs To French Country Treasures
Nashville’s Southern Living Showcase Home, opening in Dorset Park this October, is all about green innovation and nothing is more innovative than successful furniture repurposing. Have you tried to find a great furniture piece…
Transitional Decorating For Tweens
Kids are heading off to school, happy sigh! If you are now thinking about redecorating your tween’s room, designer Kristen Finney has several great tips she’s using in her girl’s bedroom at Nashville’s Southern…
Encouraging Conversation Through Design
A southern home should be all things hospitable and the trend of incorporating round tables into entertaining spaces is just one of the many inspiring design elements of Nashville’s Southern Living Showcase Home open…
Old World Texture Transforms Southern Living Showcase Home
Old World texture is transforming the exterior of Nashville’s Southern Living Showcase Home in Dorset Park this week making it the first home in the region to use Sherwin William’s UltraCrete Acrylic Texture Coating….
When Cheap is Expensive in Homebuilding
Choosing a builder based on the lowest cost per square foot or the lowest sales price is likely not getting the best value. It’s buying the cheapest home. No doubt about it, there is…
Sumptuously Southern Supports Local Economy
There is a lot of goodwill being poured into Nashville’s Southern Living Showcase Home at Dorset Park opening October 21 in southern Davidson County. From Ronald McDonald House Charities Nashville as the benefiting charity to…
What is an Organized Home Builder?
Investing in the design and construction of a new home is a daunting task, something most people do once or maybe twice in a lifetime. The last thing you need is a builder who…
Achieving Southern Livability
Livability for all ages is one of the first considerations when trying to bring southern living charm into your own home. When designing the Southern Living Showcase Home, open for tour October 21-November 6 in Green Hill’s Dorset…
Insulation: A Critical Piece Of The Science Of Home Building
Insulation is something many of us take for granted when building a home, but it is a critical part of the science of building when chosen wisely and installed correctly. In the Southern Living…
Developing Your Home Building Team: Earlier is Better
Historically and traditionally, people have been conditioned to follow a certain, linear path to building a new home. That is, hire an architect or designer to create the plans, select a builder and then…
Keeping A Lid On Air Conditioning Costs: LP TechShield
Combining the new GAF Camelot lifetime designer shingles with LP TechShield Radiant Barrier is giving the Southern Living Showcase Home, being built in Nashville’s Dorset Park, a great one-two punch in combating home heating…
Superb Roof: Recognizing Castle Quality In The Southern Living Showcase Home
Drive by a Middle Tennessee area neighborhood where Castle Homes is building, and roofing expert Bob Patterson says, you can immediately identify the Castle home from the road thanks in part to their use…
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