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The New American Home Goes Caribbean, Targets Boomers
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The New Amercian Home for 2006 | At 9,500 square feet and situated along the shore of Windemere’s Lake Burden just minutes from the Orange County Convention Center, The New American Home® at the 2006 International Builders’ Show will have a distinctive, British-Caribbean flair and squarely target baby boomers.
“It’s a baby boomer, all-about-me house,” said builder Alex Hannigan, president of Hannigan Homes, Inc. “We are trying to achieve a ‘wow’ factor everywhere you go in the house. It will be open and take advantage of the main amenity, which is going to be the lake.”
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The New American Home takes shape. | With “wow” very much in mind, architects John Orgren and Flavio Coronel, of WCI Architecture & Land Planning, Inc., designed a wide, two-story home that offers views of Lake Burden from nearly every room in the house. They also incorporated a variety of points of interest to guide the eye across the home’s front elevation, including a two-story tower with a spiral staircase.
The New American Home® has several outdoor spaces planned — including several loggias, an outdoor kitchen, two fireplaces and a boat dock. Inside, there will be a home theater, second-floor library, game room and home office. There will also be a lakefront spa room with its own massage table.
This year’s home is Energy Star-rated through the U.S. Department of Energy program “Building America” and is set to become the first certified “green” home built through the New American Home program. The design is ideal for cross ventilation when the air conditioning is turned off. Other energy and conservation features include HEPA filtration for clean indoor air, a roof gutter system that will collect rainwater to irrigate the landscaping, and mulch made from recycled construction materials.
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The two-story tower includes a spiral staircase. | The home will also have an elevator.
Tom Davis, project manager of The New American Home®, said this year’s home answers the needs of many builders for simple technology and a home environment that will provide for an active, healthy, environmentally responsible and engaged life.
The New American Home® can be toured during the 2006 International Builders’ Show, which will be held Jan. 11-14 in Orlando.
For more information, see details of The New American Home® on the builders’ show Web site, www.buildersshow.com.
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