Archive for December, 2010

Come Home to a Boone Home in 2011 !

Friday, December 31st, 2010

Have you started writing your New Year’s Resolutions yet?  Where will you be in 2011 ? What goals have you set ?  Maybe they are the usual, lose some weight, quit smoking, eat healthier — we all have our own personal goals we want to meet in the coming year.   Maybe the changes need to start at home. Is your current home meeting all the needs of you and your family ?  Many of us are displeased with our homes and our living space, and it clutters up many areas of your lives.  A new home can give you more space you need for that exercise room, or a new home office can give you time to do those projects at home, and keep you from staying at the office so late.   A new home offers so many ways to improve your life, and your family’s.  It could be just the change you need for the New Year !

Boone Homes Roanoke is offering many new and exciting designs and floor plans, not to mention new homes with energy saving features, (save money in 2011).  Energy Efficient homes are also healthier (another resolution kept- getting healthier).  Gee – I (more…)

Would you do it again?

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

“Would you do it again?”  Simply a question.  A questions which is more a synopsis of whether the purchase or event was really worth the effort and cost.   Take sky diving for example.  If I were to actually jump out of a perfectly good airplane, you might see me after the event and ask me a few questions as to why I looked so queasy and pale.  Almost without missing a beat you would pop the real questions psychologist refer to as the “meta-question.”  The Meta-question would answer everything beyond the superfluous formalities of general small talk.

This meta-question happens in every transaction whether verbalized or not.  The sky diving experience would last a few minutes and, once the parachute opens, would give you the opportunity to go on with life and never do that again.  Home buying, unlike sky diving, has implications that last a little longer and are harder to overcome should the decision prove not worth doing again.

Boone Homes realizes the reality of the perpetuity of this meta-question and has engineered a home and a process around producing a high quality product and experience.     (more…)

Luxury Homes in Haywood Village at Charter Colony from the $400s

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

We build Richmond new homes designed with your family in mind.  Just visit The Village of Haywood in Charter Colony (click here to view neighborhood) to experience the large lots yourself. Ranging from 1/3 acre to over ½ acre, each home site  leaves you plenty of space to build a snow main, play on your swing set, shot some soccer goals or simply relax on the patio with a glass of lemonade.  Take a family walk to the neighborhood park or an evening stroll on the community sidewalks.

Convenience is also a design element for Haywood Village. The proximity of this luxury home community to the main arteries of the town is quite evident.  Need to commute into Richmond?   Several options for travel into Richmond are available.   Shopping?  Why there are plenty of great options for shopping, dining and entertaining within minutes of your new front door.    (more…)

Don’t Buy Gifts, Buy Experiences

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

The season for giving is here and I thought you might want to reconsider your list.  Recently we experienced blessed fellowship in the yard with nature and specifically with leaves.  The type of experience that creates strained backs, wobbly ladders, high gutters and IcyHot patches.  Reality tells me this experience couldn’t possibly be an enduring family memory of significant value.  This experience is more a fall ritual that has met its expiration date.  Not the type of experience that is easily replaced with that of a snow shovel.  Nor the type of experience that leads to family unity.   There is more to life than these.

More to life experiences like:

  • Opening a bottle of wine with guests over a well planned meal
  • Hide and seek with a sugar pixie who should be taking a nap
  • Orchestrating a book club meeting
  • Chasing the grand kids down the hall to bed time
  • A night at the game with the entire family

A maintained community by Boone Homes provides (more…)

Celebrate the Holidays in Your New Luxury Home in Richmond

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Okay ladies, close your eyes and imagine your perfect day. You are  shopping at the most incredible stores, you find something for everyone on your Christmas list – in their size, favorite color, and on sale. You leave the stores, and drive home smiling with happiness over your new purchases.  Holiday music plays on the radio as you drive home imagining how this Christmas is going to be one of the best you have ever had.  The scene is set in  your mind with your family around the tree in your beautiful home, opening all the great gifts you just bought.   Sounds like heaven doesn’t it?  But it isn’t a fantasy, that perfect day can be yours.  The shopping, that is at Short Pump Town Center. The mecca of the shopping experience in Richmond. The beautiful Christmas scene, that is in your new living room in your new Boone Home, the builder of the best luxury homes in Richmond.

Boone homeowners get to experience this shopping fantasy as often as they choose whether it be Christmas or any time of year  because they live just (more…)

Christmas Tradition Is Deep In Roanoke

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

When you buy a new home from Roanoke custom home builder Boone Homes in a new home in neighborhoods like Devoncroft and Hampshire, you are buying more than just a quality home in a great neighborhood within the best school districts.  You are signing up for the experience of living in charming Roanoke.  Roanoke is known as a city of festivals from Local Colors to Festival in the Park and many, many more.  December 3 marks the beginning of a nearly 30 year Roanoke festival tradition, Dickens of a Christmas.

Dickens, as it is locally known, sees the downtown historic market transform into a Victorian Christmas wonderland complete with chestnuts roasting, carolers decked out in Victorian finery, street performers and carriage rides.  Shops on the Market stay open late so visitors can do a bit of holiday shopping as well.  The festival runs each Friday in December leading up to Christmas from 6-10 pm, with special features each week.  To kick off the festival there will be a the lighting of the City Christmas tree on December (more…)

The Coach Homes of Kinloch: No Maintenance Boone Homes with 1st floor Owner’s Suite

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

luxury homes in richmond vaKinloch—the power of the name reminds you of an ancient Scottish land, and the vast power and greatness of the Highlands.  If you are looking for luxury homes in Richmond,  you love the Kinloch neighborhood. As you drive down the private lane, you feel as though you are being swept away to another realm, where stress and worries don’t exist.  What is this power that Kinloch has to make you feel so at peace?  Kinloch is apart from the ordinary; Kinloch is quiet luxury.

Located on the 70 acre Broad Branch Lake surrounded by beautiful hardwood trees, near two award winning Golf courses, both recently ranked by Golf Digest, Kinloch offers a quiet lifestyle of luxury and sophistication that is unmatched in the Richmond area.  You can be tucked away in your beautiful luxury home, at peace from the busy world, yet still not face a long commute to work, because Kinloch is minutes from Innsbrook, and just 20 (more…)

David Owen Installed as Home Builders Association of Richmond President

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Boone Homes is proud to announce the installation of David Owen as the new president of the Home Builders Association of Richmond (HBAR).   David comes to the Home Builders Association with a rich history of innovation, dedication, and service to the industry.

As the new president of Richmond Home Builders, David believes that to make progress means to work together.  Next year will be a better year and those who work together will be better poised to recover in 2011.   In the spirit of cooperation David plans on bringing back some membership meetings to encourage networking, education and mutual encouragement.  One of the first meetings for the new president and the membership will feature former Governor of Virginia, George Allen.

Boone Homes has a rich history of associates giving back to the new homes industry.   Earlier this year Ron Booth, another Boone Home (more…)

Santa buys a new luxury home in Richmond!

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Santa Claus is buying a new home in Richmond VA.  Of all the wonderful choices available, he looked at many  luxury homes in Richmond before choosing the Boone Homes neighborhood of Coach Homes of Kinloch.  I can just picture Santa sitting in his beautiful new study, feet propped up on the desk eating cookies and looking over his list – checking it twice.  With the spaciousness of  a Boone Home, there is plenty of room for the elves, and Mrs. Clause is divinely happy in her new state of the art  kitchen.  The no maintenance community means that Santa won’t even have to shovel the driveway to get the sled out for Christmas Eve. Now that thought really makes Santa smile, living at the North Pole has made Santa really appreciate No Maintenance Living.  The elves appreciate it too –  you don’t think Santa shoveled the drive alone do you?

We asked Santa what made him choose a Boone Home, and this is what he said:  “Well, we checked our list twice and saw that a lot of good little girls and boys worked at Boone Homes.  We thought if they are working that hard to (more…)