Dreams Magazine | #13

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ENHANCING YOUR DREAM HOME EXPERIENCE

LEHIGH VALLEY | #13

Preview: New ECO-Lifestyle Solutions Guide New Digital Format Things That Inspire Us: Opportunity

ECO 360 Beautiful Results to Building Responsively Silver Creek Construction | Center Valley, PA

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Fresh Ideas, Exciting Spaces

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An inspiring multimedia presentation of ideas, solutions, products and professionals for enhancing your home dreams, showcasing projects throughout the Lehigh Valley.

Exclusively showing at the Spring Home Show at Stabler April 3-5 | Stabler Area | Free with your show admission Hosted by: DREAMS Magazine | A BuilderMedia, Inc. Event

Walnut, Maple, Cherry Countertop | Grothouse Lumber Company | Germansville, PA | 610-767-6515 | www.glumber.com

DREAMS Magazine | Issue #13

Enhancing your Dream Home Experience

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Design | Studio 26 Homes by Baker Development Group, LLC

| Orefield, PA

| 610-391-0100 | www.studio26homes.com

Summer Solstice Imagine the sound of crickets, the cool, fresh air, the warmth and smell of the fire. June 21 marks the beginning of summer, at 1:45 AM. Not soon enough. Photography by: John Sterling Ruth 4 DREAMS

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Things that Inspire Us

Local Product Choices

Opportunity Whether you’re initiating a remodeling project, building a new home, or looking for simple ideas to freshen up an existing room, the Lehigh Valley offers plenty of local showrooms filled with products and ideas to inspire and fulfill your home dreams. A little effort to think and shop outside the big box stores will open up a new world of possibilities for completing and furnishing the home that you, your family, and friends will enjoy and admire. From the kitchen to the basement, to your outdoor spaces, explore a fresh selection of exciting product choices by visiting area showrooms. [For a quick list, visit: www.DreamsMagazine.us/showrooms.html] Featured: JACLO Outdoor Shower Weinstein Supply | Allentown, PA www.WeinsteinAllentown.com

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A Yorgey At Y Supply, you are not only buying high-quality products— like Kraftmaid® Bath Cabinetry, Jacuzzi® Whirlpools and Corian® Countertops. You are buying more than 62 years of experience, expertise and attention to detail that a big box store does not have. For the most personal spaces, let our designers plan the perfect spacee for you. Whether it is an extraordinary kitchen, a luxurious bath or a custom-crafted design, our in-house designers will make it right.

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Silver Creek Construction

ECO 360 Beautiful Results to Building Responsively The owners wanted to build a home that had all the comforts of modem life, yet was planned with eco-minded decisions. Here’s additional detail to the four goals that provided direction to the selection of all the materials that, where 1

possible, were sustainable, non-toxic, recycled, energy efďŹ cient and locally purchased.

1. During the summer months, solar panels heat an in-ground pool. 2. A view of the kitchen with the Russian Stove in the background. 3. Sycamore was utilized for the master bathroom vanities. 4 DREAMS

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All Things Local The first goal was to use as many local materials as possible. They included slate floors and countertops, PA bluestone for the patio surfaces, area fieldstone for the exterior veneer and many locally harvested wood sources for interior use. Stunning sycamore wood was utilized for the master bathroom vanities, and Moravian tile from Doylestown was installed in the powder room. Area craftsmen were employed for constructing the front door, shoji styled interior doors and transoms, iron railings, dual staircases and library cabinetry with rolling ladder. The benefits of using local materials was to reduce the energy used in shipping, but more importantly to support local businesses and people. Certified sustainable materials were implemented when local materials were not readily available.

4 Reduce, Reuse & Recycle The second goal was to use as many recycled and sustainable materials as possible. Blown cellulose (recycled newspaper) insulation, imitation slate roofing (recycled rubber tires), decking (recycled plastic), drywall (recycled material), antique lighting fixtures, recycled cypress wood from a barn in Gettysburg, and tiles made from recycled materials, highlight many of the products selected.

4. Powder room with slate countertop and Moravian tile from Doylestown. 6 DREAMS

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Energy Smart The third goal was to be as energy efficient as possible. Solar panels generate the hot water that is used to heat the home through radiant in-floor tubing. During the summer months the panels are used to heat an inground pool. The use of south facing windows and overhangs capture and control natural heat and utilize the bluestone patio to radiate the captured heat back at night. Photovoltaic panels were installed to provide much of the electrical needs. Fluorescent lights were used where appropriate. There home has no air conditioning; instead, the clerestory is used to ventilate the home in the summertime. Almost every room has cross ventilation from windows and numerous sliding doors that also add to the natural light. In the winter, a “Russian Stove” provides the kitchen and family room with additional warmth. Using very little wood, the unit is built to collect and radiate heat all day from the special tiles and baffled flue design.

Non-Toxic Last but not least, the fourth goal was for the home to be as non-toxic as possible. All the paints and wood finishes were low or no VOC and all materials were checked for off gassing agents.

5. A distinctive combination of Japanese, Classic, and Craftsman style architectures shape the design of this home. 6. Area craftsmen constructed the library cabinetry and rolling ladder. 7. The front door, the shoji styled interior doors, and transoms were also constructed by area craftsmen.

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Creative Value

Ruhmel Contracting, Inc.

610-366-0910

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Smart Use of Space In any size home, the creative and effective use of space is always a desired and appreciated feature. In this home’s design, what in many cases would of been plain and limited use wall space, was instead utilized for added storage and interior decor. In planning space within your home, take some time to think outside the box, or if that’s not your thing, bring in a professional designer or craftsmen with design/build experience. The end result will not only give you more than you initially imagined, but will bring added beauty and value to your home.

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Preview ECO-Lifestyle Solutions Guide To guide and inspire you with businesses, products, and solutions that can aid in utilizing the earth’s resources in a more sustainable manner, BuilderMedia, Inc. announces a dedicated publication recognizing leading eco-lifestyle solutions available here in the Lehigh Valley.

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As an expert in shelter focused content, this new ECO-Lifestyle Solutions Guide will provide the same high level of value and use that our other publications, guides, and events deliver, providing you with direction for making your environmental contribution. As our contribution to eco-responsibility, this guide will only be available online as a digital publication, eliminating the draw on resources of a traditional printed publication. While you can’t through it in the car to take it with you [we’re working on a mobile version], the eco contribution made by directing you to local resources, along with the products you purchase from businesses in this guide, will well out weight this small inconvenience. Look for this Guide to be available Spring 2009. You will find this new Guide and more at: www.DreamsMagazine.us

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Smart Water Use

Popular with designers, architects and homeowners alike, the stylish highefficiency Aquia toilet enables users to select the level of water used each time the toilet is flushed – 1.6 gallons for heavy or bulk waste or 0.9 gallons, for light or liquid waste. Classically modern in its design statement, the Aquia III has a pleasing circle in the square sensibility. With its squared corners, smooth flattened sides, this unit appeals those who like their a traditionalism with a modern twist. Efficient products and informed consumers, lead to smart water use – every drop counts.

Featured Aquia III Dual Flush High-Efficiency Toilet TOTO USA

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Solar Energy for Your Home

Today’s solar technology offers a new exciting world of savings on energy and utility bills for your home. Utilizing evacuated tubes to capture and transfer the suns energy, homeowners can easily reduce their dependency on processed fuels for hot water and home space heating needs. A smart option for both new construction and remodeling updates, solar energy offers a clean way to diversify your home’s energy requirements, reducing the stress and anxiety of inevitable oil, electric, and natural gas price increases.

Featured SEIDO Evacuated Solar Collector SUNDA SolarTechnik

Lande Heating & Air Conditioning The Lehigh Valley’s Alternative Home Energy Choice Allentown • Bethlehem • Easton 610.868.7771 www.LandeHeating.com

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DG Design Guide 09 Lehigh Valley

Architects Residential Designers Interior Designers & Decorators Kitchen & Cabinetry Designers Landscape Designers & Builders Home Theater Professionals Remodeling & Renovation Professionals Custom Home Builders Elements of Great Design Available exclusively at the Spring Home Show at Stabler | April 3-5 free with paid admission Rauch Fieldhouse Entrance

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DREAMS Experience

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of what drives our efforts at BuilderMedia, Inc. is the strong belief in creating enjoyable and valuable experiences. Whether it’s through outstanding, full page photographs of local projects in DREAMS Magazine, or in the energizing of home ideas and possibilities through events like our Inspiration Tour, we aim to deliver a moving and helpful experience. For 2009, we are enhancing the experience and value of DREAMS Magazine through a new and more satisfying online edition. A new format provides a greatly improved environment to take in the ideas for enhancing your home dreams, while eliminating the necessary downloads of earlier editions. We realize that many of you go to the web for information, and having a more convenient and user friendly online version of DREAMS would be more desirable. So I encourage you to use the DREAMS Magazine website for the latest editions, as well as for other inspiring content for fulfilling your home dreams. On the following page we’ve listed new content you’ll find exclusively online, reflecting the range of home ideas, local resources and area professionals available for you to explore. It’s a move to improve the experience, further enhance our earth friendly efforts, and deliver added enjoyment. I think you will agree.

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Exciting Home Events Explore, fulfill, and enhance your home dreams by attending any of the many home events taking place throughout the Lehigh Valley. Discover new ideas, fresh alternative solutions, and all the Valley has to offer for your home. From antiques to new construction, there’s an event to give you all you need to move forward.

Bold Designs Enjoy a dose of inspiration and out-of-the-box possibilities for your home finishing needs in this short, uplifting video of sharp, innovative products for the home. What you’ll see here is all available locally in the Lehigh Valley. Find this under the HomeDreams.tv tab

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Explore Your Home Interests with Free Home Show Tickets Enter a chance to win 2 of 20 free tickets to the LVBA Spring Home Show. Simply answer a few quick questions about yourself and your home interests, and you qualify to participate in the drawing. A great way to save $12 and attend a great show. Find this under the Specials tab

The Read Green Initiative To increase the consumer awareness and use of digital reading alternatives, Zinio, the global leader in digital and interactive publishing, has teamed up with leading publishers to offer up to 50 million free annual subscriptions to the digital versions of over 200 publications. Experience and enjoy the advantages of digital publications for yourself. Choose your free digital subscription from many leading magazines. Available under the Digital Editions tab

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