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Home Tour: $3 million Tudor manor in Hyde Park

Sadler Master Bedroom Four Season Sunroom Addition
A walk through of Sadler #39;s Master Bedroom, Bath, Florida Room in Owings, MD.

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Price: $182,000 Acres: 0.40 Total square feet: 2,274 Year built: 1972 Total taxes: $4240. Listing agent: Sandra Soesman Realty Executives Exceptional 404 West Harford St., Milford Office phone: 570-296-5800 Mobile: 914-443-0436 Toll free: 800-458-4855 Email: sandrasoesman@realtyexecutives.com

MILFORD Bring your kayak and use your private walkway to enjoy the water right in your backyard.

This two-story lakefront home is situated on a wooded cul-de-sac, giving you extra privacy. It could be a fabulous vacation home or a terrific year-round residence, offering a beautiful large sunroom, and a living room with a brick faced fireplace.

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You will also discover exposed wood beams, cathedral ceilings, and an open concept floor plan encompassing the kitchen, dining and living areas. The great room has sliders to the large wrap-around deck overlooking the lake. Have your morning coffee there and enjoy the view or bring your guests outside and entertain.

This home has a loft upstairs, where there is a full bath and three bedrooms. A family room with a bar area and laundry are located in the fully finished walk out basement.

In addition, the community has amenities that include a clubhouse, beach, tennis court, security, road maintenance and garbage service. The location is convenient to shopping and to the interstate.

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In a city where Craftsman bungalows are common, a value-enhancing move is to enclose the original porch or add a deck cover to extend seasonal use while increasing overall square footage of a house. This can be a simple weekend project, putting up a lattice deck roof or adding screened windows and enclosed walls for a sleeping porch.

At the other extreme, and with a contractors help, enclosing an open air porch can be much more elaborateand costly. To make sure the remodeling of a porch or deck is a cost-effective investment in an older home, its a good idea to consult building experts and discuss your space needs and budget.

Walls or Roof = Privacy

Homeowners on a budget may be motivated by a simple desire for added privacy, creating a social space around an open air porch or patio. Or, the house may have been designed without a sunroom or solarium, making the porch a simple pass-through to other living space. Curtained walls and a light-penetrating roof, of either modular plexi-glass or a lattice treatment, will answer these privacy needs economically. Nationwide experts estimate the cost of enclosing a porch, depending on amenities and intended use, at between $2,000 and $72,000, according to an informal survey of online remodeling sites.

Enclosing a porch and converting it to a full-use room can mean adding basics like an HVAC system, electrical outlets, internet access and plumbing. It also can be an opportunity to include more luxurious amenities that improve the value of the home and add to the occupants quality of life: A fireplace, hot tub, solarium, sun roof or solar panels.

Ryan Passow, of Passow Remodeling, meets with homeowners twice before beginning any substantial remodeling job, first to discuss their hopes and dreams for the house and, afterwards, to talk about specifics and establish a budget. We talk about the budget to see if its realistic in light of the improvements a homeowner wants, he said. In nine years of business, porch enclosures and deck roofing have comprised about 10 percent of his companys remodeling work, ranging from $1,000 for the simplest screened porch to more than $40,000to convert a porch into an additional finished room.

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When the choice is between retaining an open-air porch for one or two seasons of use, or enclosing it with screening or finished walls, Georgia contractor John Paulin, offers this advice:

The real difference is in how that structure feels, says Paulin, in Remodeling. With an open porch, you have an unimpeded view. You can cook there, since screens dont hold the smoke in. The floor areaminus wallsfeels bigger. If its connected to an adjoining decka project we often buildone space flows seamlessly into the next. [www.remodeling.com]

If entomology is not your hobby and a goal in remodeling is to screen out pesky warm-season insects, leaving a porch open to the air still is an optionparticularly if a budget prevents enclosing the entire porch. Instead of finished walls and screened windows, open air porches can be kept comparatively bugless with citronella candles or an electric bug zapper. Privacy screens or awnings--even canvas duck Roman Shadesalso are economic alternatives to building walls and adding screens or windows.

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WINDSOR VT (PRWEB) February 20, 2015

Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community The Village at Cedar Hill

Press Contact: Patricia Horn, (Email) phorn(at)cedarhillccc(dot)com (Phone) 802-674-6609 (Website)http://www.cedarhillccc.com

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Grand Opening for $10.64M Expansion Project at The Village at Cedar Hill

Visitors invited to tour new 40-unit wing and state-of-the art memory care center during February 22 open house celebration

Award-winning Cedar Hill Continuing Care Community invites the community to a celebrationthe opening of their expanded independent and assisted living wing and new memory care center. The open house celebration will be held on February 22, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and will include tours of the new 40,000 square-foot addition on Route 5 in Windsor. A press conference will be held prior to the open house, starting at 1:00 pm.

According to Windsor Town Manager, Tom Marsh, Cedar Hill is a very positive family care option for Windsor community members. The expansion project not only supports the local economy, with additional employment options, but also improves our quality of life.

Co-owner and founder Mary Louise Sayles and co-owner and community administrator Patricia Horn, along with the Cedar Hill staff, welcome visitors to view the new building, which will triple the space and resident capacity of the assisted living community and provide state-of-the-art care for memory care residents.

We have long seen the need to offer additional assisted living apartments and, in particular, memory care units, says Horn. We have always served the needs of memory care residents across campus but now we have an environment that will help them enjoy greater socialization, and amenities designed specifically for their needs. People have been demanding this type of service and we are excited to provide this new space.

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Four legged visitors spotted in wooded area off Crerar Park

By Mark Newman, News Staff

Julie and Pino DiNardo were enjoying a cup of coffee in the sunroom of their home around 8:30 on a weekday morning in early January when they saw them.

Four coyotes had wandered into their backyard from the adjoining wooded area off Crerar Park in the Upper Wentworth-Pescara Avenue area, just south of the Linc.

First I thought, what a beautiful animal, Julie said. They were absolutely gorgeous and they were very healthy.

Julie, who noted theyve been hearing the nighttime howling of the coyotes for several years, said they saw a coyote for the first time a couple of years ago when they found their now eight-year-old schnoodle (a mix of poodle and schnauzer) Jemma staring down from the backyard deck at a fury intruder.

It was face-to-face, said Julie, who immediately called the dog back in the house.

Julie said having coyotes so close to home is a concern.

Having something that can possibly eat my dog or harm my kids, Im very worried about this, she said, adding there the number of rabbits and squirrels in their backyard has dropped noticeably over the last few years.

The coyote sightings have prompted parents in the area to warn their children to be watchful when outside.

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Think of a sunroom, sometimes called a sunspace, as a productive living area in your home with different benefits in different seasons. In spring and summer, a sunroom provides a relaxing living space. In winter, its also a great place to grow food plants. Even better, a sunroom can help heat your home! I estimate that a well-designed sunroom addition can pay for itself in less than five years through savings on food and home heating.

To realize the full benefits from your sunroom addition, youll need to incorporate the basic elements of passive solar design: orientation, glazing, thermal mass, insulation and ventilation. If you apply these principles, you shouldnt need to heat or air-condition your sunroom you will be able to keep this living space at a comfortable temperature by using natural systems.

Would a sunroom work for your house? If your solar exposure gives you at least four hours of sunlight around midday in midwinter, the answer is probably yes! The sunroom design strategies described in this article will work in almost all U.S. climate zones and southern Canada. However, you may want to research beyond the level of detail presented here to fine-tune your design for your specific climate, especially if youre trying to optimize your heating potential.

You will want to orient your sunroom toward true south (which is usually a few degrees different than magnetic south) to best take advantage of the suns low angle in winter. There are several methods for finding true south. In general, orienting the solar window 20 degrees off true south reduces your solar gain by only 4 to 5 percent. On the other hand, if your glass is oriented 45 degrees off true south, solar gain will be 18 to 22 percent less.

There are several types of glazing you can use for your sunroom, but I recommend glass because it traps more heat energy than plastic and because its durable. Plastics do not work as well as glass for trapping long wave heat energy, polycarbonates can scratch and yellow over time, and films are just too fragile for a house.

Dual glazing should be used in all but the most temperate climates, such as southern Florida. In colder climates, including much of the Northeast and northern Great Plains, triple and sometimes even quadruple layers of glass work best. I recommend clear, uncoated glass for sunrooms. Avoid reflective glazings and the newer low-e glass because they prevent much of the solar energy from entering through the glass, and they reduce the solar spectrum. If you want to grow plants in the back area of your sunroom, I also recommend skylights to bring in overhead sunlight.

For optimum winter collection of light and heat, sunroom glazing should be tilted so its perpendicular to the suns angle at winter solstice (Dec. 21). However, for several practical reasons, Ive selected vertical glazing for my ideal sunroom design. Believe me, Ive tried the tilted glazing on sunrooms, and its not the best choice for a living space.

Here are a few of the many advantages of choosing vertical glazing instead:

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BUILDING PERMITS

PMT2014-05013 1075 Redwood Ave.; $450,000; Granary LLC; Boulder Home Builders LLC; New detached single-family home. 3,272 total square feet of conditioned space including 120 square feet of finished basement. 1,576 square feet of unfinished basement. 602 square feet of attached garage. and 279 square feet of covered deck and porch. Scope of work includes associated MEPs with a gas fireplace and stucco finishes. See TEC2012-00021 approval.

PMT2014-05128 5555 Airport Blvd.; $591,026.40; Yew Tree; CRB Builders LLC; Agilent Technologies Phase 4 interior remodel of 7,740 square feet. Second floor fitout within an existing tilt-up concrete panel and steel structure building shell. No change to the exterior shell or footprint will be made. Scope of work includes associated MEPs, a new elevator, and an engineered stairway.

PMT2014-05276 3633 21st St.; $150,000; Del Mar; Melton Construction Inc.; Minor interior remodel (250 square feet) and large new deck (1,616 square feet) for single-family dwelling. Includes electrical work.

PMT2014-05420 3141 Ninth St.; $150,000; John Moore; Defrees Design & Development; Additions to replace an existing office footprint to allow for a new crawl space and foundation for a new office and additional mudroom and larger master bedroom (472 square feet). Remodel work of 24 square feet also included. Scope of work includes associated MEPs to include a new utility sink and extension of existing hydronic heating.

PMT2014-05580 1001 Arapahoe Ave.; $15,000; City of Boulder; Interlock Construction Corp.; This is a supplemental application related to the cafe tenant finish that was originally permitted under PMT2013-06589. Scope of work beyond the original cafe approval includes additional electrical work for new appliances/equipment and additional plumbing work to accept new fixtures above and beyond what was included in PMT2013-06589.

PMT2014-05642 2865 Iliff St.; $155,200; Kenneth Jackson; Modafferi Construction Inc.; Remodel of existing house. Enclose existing entry (48 square feet). Vault ceilings under existing roof at living room and dining room. Add egress windows to basement bedrooms. Install new plumbing fixtures, upgrade electrical, relocated furnace, add evaporative cooler, install new windows and build new deck (36 square feet) at entry.

PMT2014-05660 5050 E. Euclid Ave.; $61,350; Kristine Johnson and Michael Mencimer; Faurot Construction Inc.; Upper level remodel of 811 square feet plus addition of 32 square feetinto former attic area with new dormer above. Scope of work includes associated MEPs.

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Livvie DeLuca has a love of old things, even chalkboards.

When the old school was being torn down on Fourth Street, I wanted a piece of chalkboard and John Howard was there taking pictures. He asked them for me and instead of a piece, a got a whole chalkboard, DeLuca said.

That chalkboard, she said, is now in the sunroom of the home she shares with her husband, Michael, and her daughter, Rosalia, in Penn Borough.

My husband does woodworking and he framed it. It is a lot of fun. We write to each other on it, said DeLuca. Her family home once belonged to her husband's grandfather.

After meeting Howard, who is one of the founders and longtime members of the Jeannette Historical Society, DeLuca joined the group.

I started going to the historical society meetings when they were at the library, but my daughter was very small and I didn't do much then, said DeLuca.

Now that her daughter is in fifth grade, DeLuca is part of what Howard calls the Thursday Group, a dedicated group of city historians who meet at the historical society office on Clay Avenue every week to catalog, archive and take care of any business that needs to be handled.

I come every Thursday and I work on the old photos. I scan them into the computer and organize them, said DeLuca.

In addition to her chalkboard, DeLuca, who was also a substitute teacher at Jeannette McKee Elementary, salvaged a gate across from the Dollar General when they were building the store.

I use it as an arbor in my garden, said DeLuca.

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