Special design of the LIFEhouse. If you want to live in a lake house and live there for a long time, you might take a look at the LIFEhouse. This special concept house has just opened in Newport Cove, a waterfront community on the Chain O’ Lakes. The LIFEhouse is a home for all ages, [...]
LIFEhouse Highlights Advantages of Universal Design
In our last post, we described some of the more common ways in which many Americans face daily physical difficulties. Now we’ll show you a few of the aspects of Universal Design that can make home living much easier for millions of people. Newport Cove’s LIFEhouse, located on our waterfront development on the Chain O’ Lakes and [...]
Warren Buffett Bets on Housing Rebound
Famed investor Warren Buffett is betting on housing… literally. Perhaps replaying a scene from a classic movie, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO has made a Trading-Places-esque $1 bet with former Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag that unemployment will fall below 8 percent before the next presidential election due to a strong housing rebound that will breathe [...]
Test Drive a Dream Boat
Picture this: a lake, an open boat, a full-throttle ride. You can be in this picture Saturday, June 11, when Cobalt Boats hosts a demo day at Newport Cove’s private marina, located on Bluff Lake on the Chain O’ Lakes near Antioch, IL. This is your chance to test drive some of the best power [...]
Benjamin Moore “Affinity” Color: A Shade of Genius
Hve you ever spent hours trying to coordinate point colors? We have! But now, Benjami Moore has come up with a great idea: the Affinity Color Collectives. It is a sophisticated palette of 144 harmonius hues. Every color in this full rainbow of colors, harmonizes with every other color. So, you can paintthe kitchen “terra bella” and [...]
We Have What Consumers Want
What do consumers want in a new home? According to a recent survey by Better Homes and Gardens, high-efficiency heating and cooling systems top the list of features consumers say they would like in their next home, with 89 percent of those polled making this a priority. Eighty-five percent want high-efficiency appliances; 84 percent, a deck or patio; 79 percent, [...]
Housing’s Short Sale “Game” – Sham or Opportunity?
Is the listing price of a home always the price? Not if it’s a “short sale” situation. A new sales strategy, born of the short sale phenomenon, has been rocking the real estate industry, creating false hope for potential buyers, confusing appraisers and generally wreaking havoc with what should – for the common good - be [...]
To Get the “Look,” Avoid These Mistakes
Want a fresh look for your home, and want to do it yourself? Here are some decorating mistakes to avoid:1. Too many colors. Try to keep the paint colors in your home to a minimum – two or three at most. And, if possible, use one carpet throughout the entire house. A plethora of colors will make your [...]
Housing Prices WILL Go Up
Despite the endless doom and gloom about housing on television business news programs, we have been contending that the economic fundamentals soon will reassert themselves, that the cost of homes will rise to meet the cost to produce them, that supply and demand will be equalized. And, when that happens, the price of housing will rise rapidly [...]
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. . .
This is a good article about how mirrors can make a smaller home feel larger. We’ve used many of these ideas in our cottage homes atNewport Cove, our waterfront community on Bluff Lake in unincorporated Antioch, IL. http://freshome.com/2010/11/03/how-to-enlarge-your-space-using-mirrors/
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