BIA Parade of Homes Blog » MI Homes 2009

The List.

BIA Homes — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:00:24 +0000

Here are the trade partners, subs and suppliers to the 2009 BIA Parade of Homes builders. These pages have been pulled from the official Plan Book; just toggle the full screen (upper right corner) to have the names / pages appear a bit larger. We want to officially thank each and every one of them for their amazing partnership in making the 2009 Parade a reality and success. It doesn’t happen without them! (They are categorized by the homebuilder that used them.)

Knight, Duffy and Gossing Take Top 2009 Parade Awards

BIA Homes — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:42:21 +0000

Leading the pack with 12 awards, Kevin Knight was the standout in the crowd at the annual awards ceremony that took place tonight at the 2009 BIA Parade of Homes preview party at Tartan Ridge in Dublin. Knight’s generational farm house with reclaimed wood floors, a live roof garden, an 18 foot retractable wall into a central courtyard garden, unique floor plan and overall design set the entry apart.

Duffy Homes by Michael Edwards with its French country chateau adorned with original antiques from Provence, dramatic interior stone wall, elegant first floor master suite and functional floor plan came in with eight awards.

Gossing Construction, which won best exterior architecture for its unique craftsman-style approach, also won five more awards highlighting it’s stunning entryway, greatroom and inviting arts & crafts interiors.

Below you will find a complete list of all award winners and accompanying photos for each category. We encourage you to make sure to visit the Parade to see these building, design and landscape awardees in person.

Many thanks to the nine judges (listed with the awards) who took a whole day out of their busy schedules to help with the judging on Wednesday. Touring eleven homes with a critical eye was a big job and we appreciate their service to the BIA!

2009 BIA Parade of Homes Award Winners

Parade e-Chatter, July 10.

BIA Homes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:06:10 +0000

We’ll post links when we find them (or when you share them) of good folks spreading nice words about the Parade and our builders. (of course, if someone has something not-so-nice to say, we want to hear it too!)

Organize with Sandy toured two homes this week and came away drooling for a ‘family management center’ – read her review here. She also contemplated camping out in the M/I master suite woman’s closet, there’s room for a few in there! (check out Teresa Lynn Collins describe that in her video blog post below).

And as we were working on our official photo gallery, we came across this stunning night-time photo posted this morning by a professional photographer of the Gossing home. We hope he comes back to take more!

Many real estate folks have their own blogs and have been posting alerts that the Parade is coming. Thanks to all of them! If you offer a review of the parade, we’ll be happy to post a link here as well. Let us know!

Builder Countdown with M/I Homes

BIA Homes — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:51:00 +0000

We suspect Teresa Lynn Collins from M/I Homes has a pretty nice closet at home, but we doubt she has three like they have built in this year’s Parade home. Meaning three really big ones right in the master suite. In this video, she talks about this favorite idea (And for those of us who have gotten a sneak preview of the woman’s closet all finished, we’re pretty sure the vaulted ceiling puts it in contention for the gold in the fanciest closet olympics!).

Idea Video – M/I Homes from Parade of Homes on Vimeo.

Frequently Asked Questions

BIA Homes — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:51:33 +0000

Below is a 2 page summary of everything you wanted to know about the Parade, and more. If we missed a question, please call us at 614-891-0575 or email info@biaparade.com. (To see the full screen, use the toggle button in the top right corner to enlarge the document.)

Cream or sugar?

BIA Homes — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:42:10 +0000

In an earlier post, we wondered if we needed the house with the extraordinary living options that the builders are providing outside (kitchens, pizza ovens, etc). In this post, we wonder if you will need to leave your master suite. Pictured here, nestled between the three closets, is a full service coffee bar.

M/I Homes Master Suite Coffee Bar

Calgon, are you there?

BIA Homes — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:27:10 +0000

We know that the five-year old and under crowd love a good bath. But we are curious about the other 80% of your household residents. Does anyone really use these tubs? The homebuilders seem to think it is up for debate, despite finding one in every master suite.

Here are some from Coppertree, Duffy/Michael Edwards, M/I Homes, Stafford and Compass. We didn’t get a photo of the only iron tub we saw at Romanelli & Hughes’ home – but they seem to be the only one ambitious enough to lug it upstairs to their master.

Imelda would be very comfortable here.

BIA Homes — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:24:01 +0000

After a tour this week of each house, we were wondering, who has the largest closets, especially in the master suites? We think it might be a race between Lakewood, M/I Homes and Romanelli. This one taken at Lakewood might be in the running for the gold… but it will be close.

Dreaming of a kitchen

BIA Homes — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:59:22 +0000

Putting together a kitchen can be pretty tricky, lots of details for sure. Dark cabinets or light? Wood floors or tile? What sort of back splash? And how about the appliances – stainless or black?

On a recent visit to M/I’s Home store at Easton, we walked through the selection process and got a glimpse of what might be going into their Parade home.

Dream Kitchen with M/I Homes from Parade of Homes on Vimeo.

Dublin High School Video Contest

BIA Homes — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:23 +0000

So, we want to know from only Dublin High School students (any school): What does your dream crib look like? We want to know if money or location was no object, where would and how would you build, design, landscape and/or decorate your ideal home? We know there are some wild ideas out there…let’s hear them.

The winner will receive a FLIP MINO HD Camera. If you are interested, here are the contest rules:

1. Answers to the question must be submitted via video, no more than 3 minutes.

2. Videos may be in any format, but must be original and void of profanity, violence, nudity or any sexual intonations.

3. To be placed into consideration, videos should be uploaded to YouTube and tagged ” BIA DREAM CRIB.”

4. Please email info@biaparade.com the link to your video with your name and age.

How you can win:

The top 3 videos with the most number of views on YOUTUBE by June 26 at 6pm will be posted on the BIA Parade Facebook page and the www.biaparade.com blog – where a public vote will be conducted; the video with the most votes wins one Flip Mino HD Camera. Winners will be announced on the BIA Parade Facebook page this site on July 9.

Questions should be directed to info@biaparade.com. Good luck!