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your Inspiration for Better Living • Sunday, September 21, 2014 •
A Special Advertising Section of The Billings Gazette
2014 September 21 Yellowstone Basin Construction
Parade of Homes
Ban Construction
By Brittany Cremer • bcremer@billingsgazette.com Photos by Gazette Staff
Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: This is the fourth ancestors—turning primitive into premier, and final installment of a four-part series featur- handsome housing. A caveman’s unlocked doors and windows ing the Parade of Homes. have evolved into whole-home security sysShelter and home—these two terms were tems with energy-enhanced features. In the used interchangeably by Neolithic cavemen. not-so-distant past, homesteaders had to deal A place devoid of ample light, running wa- with no running water; now we have en suite ter, paned windows or even door locks, the laundry rooms and basement wet bars. Technology has spoken, and we’re all lisearliest human dwellings were likely natural shelters like caves, overhanging rocks or thick tening closely to see what comes next. foliage. Ahead of the curve are this year’s elite Talk about your fixer-upper. group of featured builders, who will be Sixteen Billings builders have sprinted opening the doors to their respective Parade right through the Stone Age, arriving leaps homes one last day for tours. and bounds away from our humble, ancient
Wells Built Homes
Brown Builders
Trails West Homes
Classic Design Homes
Thompson homes
Cougar Construction
Rimrock Builders
Emineth Custom Homes
The Picard Company
Image Builders
McCall Homes
Island at Rock Creek, LLC
Mac Leffler Construction
Jeff Kreitzberg Homes
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