I promised to follow up on a recent post featuring a home that was to have a ThyssenKrupp residential elevator installed. The elevator is up (and down) and running like a charm.

The elevator installation was delayed about a month but the finishing touches were being taken care of today.

We just got back from a trip to central Florida and I noticed that RV sales are HUGE in Florida. We saw RV sales lot after RV sales lot everywhere we went.

This lead me to think back regarding the article about RV garage house plans that I posted previously and that maybe...just maybe...there might be some homes in the area to accommodate these behemoth RV's that (mostly) retired folks are buying.

Well, I was right.

If you are in the planning stages of a new home and have considered different ceiling style options, I would like to offer some ideas for you regarding coffered ceilings.

Here are some pictures of the coffered ceilings that I have come across in my tour of homes being built. Some of them are in the construction/painting phase and others are "consumer ready".

It's time to publish some more of my pictures of a beautiful, new English cottage built here in America. I'll mainly focus on the windows and doors for this post.

Extraordinary attention to English cottage architectural details and landscaping was the driving force behind The Bonner's new home. Some of these details are not always apparent. You need to look carefully and realize that you will not find homes of this caliber very often. The builder definitely kicked things up a notch for this fine homebuilding project!

My pictures probably don't do it justice but at least I tried. Judge for yourself.

Basement egress window wells were the latest feature, amongst many others, that we saw in place in some very attractive homes in Brown's Park near downtown Marietta, GA. It seems to be rare to find new homes these days built with fully enclosed basements with stairs from inside of the house to be the only way to enter/exit the basement.

Basement egress window wells are, by far, probably the most boring feature of these homes but a necessity, nonetheless. I'll be posting an article, or two, very soon on some other great features found in these feature laden home plans.

If you are considering building your own home, searching for a new or existing home or remodeling your basement into livable space, then you need to know your local egress codes.

Here's why...

If you are selling your home soon, you would be well advised to pay attention to home buying market trends and what consumers want/don't want in their homes. There is a wealth of information to absorb if you know where to look.

Read below if you want to hone your home buying market trend knowledge.