Urban Comforts in a Rural Setting - By Sean Kavangh
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Singletary Lane Home for Sale
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Neighborhood Burywood!
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(Editor's note: The housing market is picking up steam. People are buying, selling and upgrading. Today and every Sunday for the next four weeks, we'll have stories keyed to various facets of the resurgence.)

After a few shaky years following the2007-08 economic downturn, the Quad-CitiesBuilders & Remodelers Association is pleased to have 29 homes inthis year's Spring Parade of Homes.

"All in all, building is going well," said Julie Awkerman, the executive officer of the nonprofit trade organization that represents the area's building industry. "Everyone seems to be staying busy."

The parade began Saturday and will continue today, Wednesday and next weekend, May 3-4. The event is an open house in which you can check out the latest in new home construction. Homes do not have to be finished to be in the parade, but no matter what stage of construction they are in, the houses are safe to walk through.

Of the homes, 26 are on the Iowa side and three are in Illinois Coal Valley, Colona and Rock Island. Of the Iowa homes, six are in Davenport, one is in LeClaire and the remainder are in Bettendorf, primarily north of 53rd Avenue and east of Devils Glen Road.

The prices of the homes range from a low of $228,900 for a "twin home," or duplex, in Davenport to an $824,500, 4,900-square-foot home in Bettendorf that is featured on this page.

The high-water mark for the builders' spring parade was in 2006 when there were 91 entries.

With the downturn beginning the next year, builders and bankers both became more cautious, and builders virtually abandoned"spec" homes, or those built on the speculation of finding a buyer, in favor of those that were pre-sold, Awkerman said.

Because the event features onlyunsold homes, there were a couple of yearswhen it was difficult to find enough toeven have a spring parade, said Dave Prochaska, a longtime area builder.

Overall, builders interviewed for this story said they are happy with the currentuptick.

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A sunroom will allow you to bring the outdoors inside. Just think of enjoying the spring flowers and leave the allergies outside. The summer beauty and weather, the light of the sun but not the heat or harmful UV rays. The leaves changing for the fall season and the bad rainstorms are a marvel to look at and experience in a SRA Sunroom. The snowy winters in a sunroom while sitting with a mug of coco or a glass of wine looking a fire while the snow falls. All of the nuances of life, weather, sun, and bugs will melt away in your SRA Sunroom. SRA has been designing and building in your area for well over a decade. SRA has many different styles to fit every ones budget. You can even upgrade your screen room to any of our many styles of sunrooms that we offer. There is a Style that will fit your budget and your dream at the same time. One company, One product installed by family.

Weve partnered with Temo Sunrooms, the premier manufacturer of outdoor living products, to bring you exceptional, cost-effective Sunroom. Just take a look at some of the styles of Sunrooms or just call our design staff and we will bring our showroom to you. Our designers will ask questions to ensure that your project is exactly what you been dreaming of while keeping it with in your budget.

Vinyl View- (2wall system) This is our first upgrade from a screen room. This style includes a Thermal core roof system with the window sashes made with a vinyl wind and weather break. This style can be upgraded to a glass window system with just a phone call

Value View- (2wall system) This is our base 3 season sunroom. This style includes all of the benefits of a vinyl view however with our single HPG200 glass (spf58), it gives you the added protection for 3 season use. The Value View is the most economical of all our 3 season sunrooms.

206 3Season- (3 5/8wall system) This style is upgraded from our Value View. The wall system is nearly twice as thick. The insulation factor is much higher as well.

306 3 Season extended- (3 5/8wall system) This style is upgraded from the 206. With Double Pane HGP2000 glass (spf85). This system will allow you to use the sunroom for most of the year with temporary heat source.

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Hilton Head, South Carolina (PRWEB) April 17, 2014

Real Estate Scorecard encourages Baby Boomers looking to relocate to discover the center of the universe in the Lowcountry on Calhoun Street in Bluffton, South Carolina in the month of May. Originally named Mayfest, the 36th Annual Bluffton Village Festival kicks off the festival season on Saturday May 10, 2014 from 10:00am - 5:00pm and is the place to explore local art and dance like its 1964. Classic Motors is sponsoring the event. Over 200 arts and crafts vendors will be there! Visitors and residents living in the surrounding Lowcountry real estate developments can enjoy free admission, parking and shuttle service. Heres the entertainment line up:

MAIN STAGE:

10am - Sun City Cloggers 11am - Bluffton Dancers 11:30am - Pie Eating Contest 1pm - Ugly Dog Contest 2-3pm - Sun City Strummers

NORTH STAGE:

10am - Bulldog Blues Band 12pm - Willie Cohen 2pm - Howard Duff

SOUTH STAGE:

10am - Chilly Willy Band 12:00pm - Bill Dupont 2pm - Jim Davidson

The surrounding Bluffton gated communities like Hilton Head Lakes are excited about the new spring season and want all their friends to know about what is coming up in the next few weeks in addition to the 36th Annual Bluffton Village Festival.

The weekends start off bright and early for health conscious Baby Boomers living in the Bluffton area. On Thursdays, the fun begins with the weekly Bluffton Farmers Market. Retirees living in the lowcountry real estate developments can get a real taste of what local vendors offer residents in the area. From 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., fresh vegetables, sweet treats, herbal soaps, traditional lemonade stands and beautiful blooms line the historic downtown at Calhoun Street. More than 20 vendors bring their goodies to the Bluffton Farmers Market each week. Shopping at local farmers markets has become the new boomer craze and Blufftons is a charmer. Baby Boomers living in Hilton Head Lakes have the perfect opportunity to stock up on fresh produce, one of a kind gifts and have fun excuse to enjoy downtown Bluffton with their Lowcountry neighbors.

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Last year, Bruno Bornsztein and Alicia Lacy did something controversial: They painted the dark-stained woodwork in their century-old Dutch Colonial a crisp white.

That might not sound like a radical act, but Bornsztein and Lacy arent just any couple. They publish the DIY and home decor websites Curbly.com and ManmadeDIY.com, and their own home improvements are shared with thousands of readers, many of whom werent thrilled when Bornsztein revealed their plans for their woodwork online.

Our readers are purists when it comes to woodwork and think its a sin to paint it, Bornsztein said. But its our house, and well be living here for 30 years.

The couples home makeover has been a labor of love. When they bought the 1907-built St. Paul, Minn., house, it offered a wealth of DIY potential. It had been vacant and neglected, with visible water damage. But it also offered a good floor plan, a beautiful coffered ceiling and a fireplace with a Mission-style Craftsman mantel. Four bedrooms upstairs offered plenty of room for the family, which, at the time, included a toddler and a baby on the way.

We love old, unloved houses and want to fix them up, Lacy said. Were the crazy cat people of old houses. We went into it so blind, but we were optimistic and driven by the potential it had.

With Bornsztein as general contractor, they demolished and gutted the main floor and part of the upstairs, put in a new furnace, and rewired and replumbed the whole house. It was backbreaking, painstaking work, he recalled. We had to take down each one of the trim pieces of the coffered ceiling, number them, and put it all back together.

Then they made the controversial decision to paint the woodwork, to make the space brighter, younger and modern, Lacy said.

With the main living spaces updated, the couple focused on the dinky kitchen tucked into a back corner. The cupboards and walls were lemon yellow, and counter space was minimal. To expand the kitchen and create a Minnesota must-have mudroom, they built a 600-square-foot, two-story addition on the back of the home. Upstairs, the extra space gave them a spacious master suite with a walk-in closet and bathroom. At the last minute, the couple decided to vault the ceiling in the bedroom. The raised roof and window added some cost, but makes a big impact, Bornsztein said. The room feels bigger and more special, Lacy added.

Being a DIY guy, Bornsztein pitched in on every project, hiring some out and enlisting friends to help with others. He stripped, sanded and painted woodwork, hung wallboard, laid tile and did demolition.

Im handy to a point, but Im not comfortable with building a whole new structure, he said.

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