The votes have been tallied and the winners of the Raymond Barry People’s Choice Awards for the 2009 BIA Parade of Homes have been decided.
Winners in the Favorite House division:
1. New England Homes/Garth’s Auctioneers
Winners in the Favorite Decor division:
2. New England Homes/Garth’s Auctioneers
Thanks to all who voted as well as to all who attended this year’s Parade. Congratulations to these People’s Choice winners!
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.)
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!
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!
For families with active and school-aged children, there’s a constant challenge to organize the myriad of papers, sports gear and other items that flow in and out of the house. The folks at Romanelli & Hughes put their heads together and pulled from their own practical experience to create the “Family Management Center”. See what Sarah Schnulo, Design Center Manager for Romanelli & Hughes, has to say about the ingenious idea. (editor’s note: the video segment does not include the full, walk-in pantry that is adjacent to this space, which completes the concept).
Idea Video – Romanelli and Hughes from Parade of Homes on Vimeo.
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.)
This year’s parade builders are giving BUILT-IN some new meaning. From the ‘family management center’ to the key garage and reading/hiding nook to the elaborate closets, wine cellars, kitchen pantries, recessed wall for family photos, traditional book shelves and window seats, this year’s parade has kept the woodworkers hopping. Oh, and not to mention, gives professional organizers some new dreams.
In this year’s parade homes entertaining will be a priority, if the real estate devoted to wine cellars and pubs is any indication (and lots of open spaces not pictured here). Below are a few of the spaces we found dedicated to those highly social moments in life.
Romanelli & Hughes Lower Level Pub
Romanelli & Hughes Wine Vault
New England Homes Pub
Kevin Knight in the wine cellar
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.
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.
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