Parade of Homes | Spring 2017

Foxridge Homes — 6 Camira Way

Celebrating 80 Years Cont’d from page 6

‘It was really interesting watching people walk through the house. All of a sudden they’d pause and you could see that they were counting rooms and going, ‘Where’s the living room?’’

Vassallo says that show home was also among the first with laminate hard wood flooring. “We were laughed at as a custom builder, but people would come back,” he says. Huntington Homes president Rob Swan recalls that the company’s first Pa rade entry, in 1993, won a gold award with a new feature that’s now ubiqui tous in show homes — the great room. “It was really interesting watching people walk through the house,” he says. “All of a sudden they’d pause and you could see that they were counting rooms and going, ‘Where’s the living room?’ ” Open to the kitchen and typically located at the rear of the house, a great room is, essentially, an oversized combination of family and living room.

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