LETTER FROM THE BUILDER As a custom home builder and real estate development company, I am constantly challenged by the impressive designs my clients and designers create. It is my philosophy that, at the end of the day, I make it my mission to put in the hard work by building with quality and attention to detail. This mentality yields a product that is guaranteed to impress as well as satisfy the needs and desires of my clients as they create their dream home. While most people see only the finished product, it is what is beneath the surface in which I take equal pride. Today’s building methods and materials have become more complex and when done right, things like energy efficiency, building strength, and reliability are the important features that, though go on “behind the scenes”, are the true building blocks of a great home. I look forward to helping you build your dream home!
Evan Topilow Topilow Development
ABOUT THE BUILDER Evan Topilow, custom home builder and real estate developer in Westfield New Jersey, specializing in new construction, additions and renovations. In addition to custom home building and renovations we purchase and upgrade distressed properties for resale and acquire properties for the development of new construction homes.
Features Include: • New kitchens • Luxurious bathrooms • New and refinished hardwood floors • Custom carpentry and millwork • New doors and windows • New garage doors and openers • New roofs, gutters and siding • Replace overgrown landscaping • Repaved driveways
SERVICES PROVIDED Custom Homes, Garage Building, Historic Building Conservation, Home Additions, Home Extensions, Home Remodeling, New Home Construction, Deck Building
AREAS SERVED Berkeley Heights, Clark, Cranford, Edison, Fanwood, Livingston, Madison, Maplewood, Millburn, Mountainside, New Providence, North Plainfield, Scotch Plains, South Orange, Springfield, Summit, Warren Township, Westfield
THE WESTFIELD Custom home built for an amazing homeowner who has a real eye for fashion in her personal life and design in her home life. This 3,600 Sq. Ft. home in Westfield was designed by local architect Kenneth Abrams to fit with the style of the period homes in the neighborhood using premium building materials including Weyerhaeuser engineered framing products, Andersen 400 series windows, James Hardie exterior siding, Azek exterior trim, GAF Timberline roofing and myriad upgrades on the interior finishings. Features include radiant heated master bath floors, custom built-ins, wide plank white oak floors, climate controlled wine cellar, basement bedroom suite, master bedroom balcony, whole house generator, central vacuum, integrated home audiovideo system, security system, surveillance cameras and more.
Project Year: 2015 Project Cost: $1,000,001 - $1,500,000 Country: United States Zip Code: 07090
THE WINCHESTER Custom home built for an amazing homeowner who has a real eye for fashion in her personal life and design in her home life. This 3,600 Sq. Ft. home in Westfield was designed by local architect Kenneth Abrams to fit with the style of the period homes in the neighborhood using premium building materials including Weyerhaeuser engineered framing products, Andersen 400 series windows, James Hardie exterior siding, Azek exterior trim, GAF Timberline roofing and myriad upgrades on the interior finishings. Features include radiant heated master bath floors, custom built-ins, wide plank white oak riffed and quartered floors, climate controlled wine cellar, basement bedroom suite, master bedroom balcony, whole house generator, central vacuum, integrated home audio-video system, security system, surveillance cameras and more.
THE BOULEVARD Fabulous home with four floors of living space. Built with Weyerhaeuser engineered framing materials on a Superior Walls foundation and steel I-beams span the no-column basement. Exterior features include Andersen 400 series windows, James Hardie siding, Azek exterior trim and GAF Timberline roofing. Interior finishes include custom applied trim work, chef’s kitchen with a Bertazzoni 36� range, Hansgrohe and Kohler bath hardware, frameless glass master shower, finished basement with surround sound in-wall speakers, home audio system with integrated security cameras, built-in wi-fi and a finished attic with full a bathroom.
Project Year: 2016 Project Cost: $750,001 - $1,000,000 Country: United States Zip Code: 07090
ORENDA CIRCLE Custom build home in the Indian Forest section of Westfield, NJ. Complete with energy efficient 2x6 construction, Andersen 400 series windows, James Hardie exterior siding, and Azek exterior trim. Gas lamps and a porch swing complete the wrap around front porch.
Interior features include a custom kitchen with hidden walk-in pantry, carrara marble master bath with WarmUp heated floor, finished attic, finished basement, large mudroom, and a continuous open stair tower from the basement to the attic.
The smart home components include an 8-zone Sonos audio system, Lutron app-enabled wall switches, Nest thermostats, Nest Protect smoke detectors, IP based security cameras and Ring video doorbell.
Project Year: 2017 Project Cost: $1,000,001 - $1,500,000 Country: United States Zip Code: 07090
PEARL PLACE • Custom home designed by architect Kenneth Abrams. • Amazing kitchen with Bertazzoni range • Spacious mudroom • Second floor laundry room • Marble master bath with platform tub and frameless shower • Finished basement • Walk-up attic
Project Year: 2015 Project Cost: $750,001 - $1,000,000 Country: United States Zip Code: 07076
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SPECIFICATIONS ENGINEERING • Standard engineering for building a single family home including survey, mark-out for foundation, corner pinning foundation, foundation location, final as-built with ridge height • Removal of trees affected by foundation and backfill area only
siding and trim • Optional Upgrade: James Hardie vented soffits • Optional Upgrade: Stone veneer around perimeter at grade
• Optional Upgrade: Additional ceiling fan boxes
TECHNOLOGY • Optional Upgrades: Smart home technology - Lutron Caséta smart lighting control OUTDOOR & LANDSCAPING • Optional Upgrades: Multi• Asphalt driveway and apron zone home audio system • Belgian block driveway Sonos, RussSound, Denon border • Optional Upgrades: Home • Front yard graded, soiled, theater wiring & speakers, FOUNDATION and sod Exterior speakers • Superior Walls® foundation - • Rear yard graded, soiled, and • Optional Upgrades: Media Poured PreCast Concrete seeded closet, server rack for servers, • Basement tilt-open windows • Rain Bird™ sprinkler system audio and security with screens with Wi-Fi connect • Optional Upgrades: • Window well drains • Mulch with tree and bush Additional Cat5e wiring and/ connected to perimeter landscaping design (see or phone jacks drains allowances) • Optional Upgrades: Ubiquiti • Exterior and interior fabric • Paver walkway from driveway Networks® Wi-Fi access covered perimeter drains to front steps points around footings connecting • Paver rear patio • Optional Upgrades: Central to sump pit • Leaders drained to the street Vacuum System • Optional Upgrade: Belgian • Optional Upgrades: Security FRAMING MATERIAL block apron camera video surveillance • To be constructed according • Optional Upgrade: Bluestone system to architect’s plans with walkway from driveway to • Optional Upgrades: engineered and dimensional front steps Security/ Alarm System – lumber • Optional Upgrade: Sod in Motion Detectors, Hard Wired • 2 x 6 Douglas fir framing for rear yard or entire property Windows and Doors, Chimed, exterior walls • Optional Upgrade: and Door Bell • 2 x 6’s, 8’s, 10’s and 12’s used Landscape Lighting where needed according • Optional Upgrade: Additional PLUMBING to plan retaining walls • One 75-Gallon power vented • Engineered building materials hot water heater such as Weyerhaeuser ELECTRIC • PEX supply lines, PVC drains Trus Joist® TJI floor • 200-Amp electric service • New 1-inch water line into joists, Parallam® beams, • Recessed lights with LED trim house connected to curb box Microllam® LVL beams, steel kits according to plan • New sewer line connecting flitch plates or steel I-beams • Hard wired smoke and to existing line near street (no per architectural plans. carbon monoxide detectors street Cutting) • 3/4” Weyerhaeuser with battery back up • Rough and set fixtures (see Diamond™ subfloor • House pre-wired for HDTV, allowances) • OSB wall and plywood roof ready for HDMI cable inputs • Kitchen - 1 Sink, 1 faucet, and sheathing in family room, master 1 water line to fridge bedroom, basement • Powder Room – 1 Toilet, 1 EXTERIOR • RG6 Coax cable and Cat5e sink, 1 faucet • Lifetime Ultra GAF® pre-wired in all bedrooms, • Hall Bath – 1 Toilet, 1 sink, 1 Timberline Roof with ridge attic, basement, and family faucet, 1 tub, 1 tub/shower venting room. trim • Pella windows, rear sliding • Under cabinet LED lighting • Jack and Jill - 1 toilet, 2 sinks, door & screens • Hampton Bay quiet bathroom 2 faucets, 1 stall shower • Front entry door (see exhaust fans (0.5 sones) • Master – 1 toilet, 2 sinks, allowances) • 3 outdoor outlets 2 faucets, 1 stall shower – • HardiePlank® siding with • Lights in walk in closets roughed for rain head, and a Tyvek® house wrap • Ceiling fan heavy box in hand held • AZEK® Exterior trim corner master bedroom and two • Basement Bath - 1 Toilet, 1 boards, AZEK® Exterior trim other locations Sink, 1 faucet, 1 stall shower around windows and doors • Decora switches and outlets • Laundry Room - rough • Vinyl vented soffits • Wired doorbell connections for washing • Aluminum facias • Optional Upgrade: Nest machine box, gas dryer, dryer • Attached 2 – Car garage Protect® smoke and CO vent and laundry sink with Lift Master® automatic Alarms • Two – Sump Pumps door openers with MyQ • Optional Upgrade: Dimmer • Three exterior hose bibs technology switches • Optional Upgrade: Attic Bath • (Steel Insulated Door • Optional Upgrade: Generac - 1 Toilet, 1 Sink, 1 faucet, 1 Colonial Style) with aluminum whole house natural gas back stall shower trim up generator • Optional Upgrade: Exterior • 5-inch Seamless aluminum • Optional Upgrade: Battery gas lamps gutters and leaders backup for sump pump • Optional Upgrade: Pot filler • Cultured stone veneer • Optional Upgrade: in kitchen chimney Chandelier lift for foyer fixture • Optional Upgrade: Master • Front and rear porches • Optional Upgrade: Radiant bath body sprays poured concrete with heat floor in master bath • Optional Upgrade: Cast Iron limestone cap and treads • Optional Upgrade: Additional Stack • Optional Upgrades: Boral in-cabinet lighting • Optional Upgrade: One Gas
Line – Stubbed out back for grill • Optional Upgrade: Instant Hot Water in Kitchen • Optional Upgrade: Whole house hot water return line(s) with pump • Optional Upgrade: Steam shower • Optional Upgrade: Linear shower drain
TRIM • Interior doors to be selected by homeowner (Up to $130/ pre-hung interior door) • 5-inch Crown Molding Throughout 1st floor and hallways of 2nd floor • 5-inch baseboard molding throughout • Chair rail & applied molding in foyer, dining room, up the stairs HVAC • Mudroom built-in cubbies • Forced air ductwork with fiber • Door hardware (handles or reinforced mastic at joints knobs) $20 each • Direct vent exhaust piping, • Tray ceiling in master PVC condensate lines and bedroom line-set piping for each zone • Coffered dining room ceiling • Supply and install air filters • Trimmed openings as per • Low voltage wiring plan and Honeywell® • Optional Upgrade: Arched 7-Day programmable or trimmed openings on the thermostats for each zone. first floor • Oak floor registers (first floor), • Optional Upgrade: White registers and grills Additional coffered ceilings throughout. and custom trim details • Zone 1: Basement and first • Optional Upgrade: Custom floor – One 3-Ton 100,000 made built-ins (like around BTU 92% furnace, One - 14.5 fireplaces, TVs, bars, etc.) Seer A/C Unit • Zone 2: Second floor and FLOORS attic – One 3.5-Ton 120,000 • Hardwood floors - 4¼” Red BTU 92% furnace, One - 14.5 Oak Number 1 hardwood Seer A/C Unit floors throughout first floor • Optional Upgrade: and 2nd floor. Stain color Additional zones provided by owner. 3-coats • Optional Upgrade: Zone water based polyurethane damper systems between with satin finish. floors • Basement floor – TBD • Optional Upgrade: Nest - carpet, laminate, or thermostats (or comparable engineered - See allowances smartphone enabled units) • Optional Upgrade: Custom • Optional Upgrade: inlays, special patterns, white Humidifiers oak, exotic species • Optional Upgrade: Bona® INSULATION Traffic HD finish • All insulation and caulking, fire and draft stopping, STAIRS window installation etc; will • Main Staircase - Red oak be done according to UCC treads, poplar painted risers, building codes. stringers, and balusters. Standard rails and balusters, • Exterior Walls – R -15 stained oak banister • Garage Walls – R - 15 • Attic staircase – Red oak • Garage Ceiling – R - 30 treads, poplar painted risers, • Interior Ceilings – R - 30 stringers, railings, balusters/ • Basement Walls – R - 12.5 spindles. Stained oak banister • Caulking of all windows, • Basement staircase – Pine doors, floor to floor treads, pine stringers, pine penetrations risers • Optional Upgrade: Spray • Optional Upgrade: Custom foam insulation newel posts, railings and • Optional Upgrade: Roxul® balusters insulation • Optional Upgrade: Oak • Optional Upgrade: Sound treads on basement stairs proofing PAINTING SHEETROCK • Benjamin Moore Paint for • All interior sheetrock to be ½ interior up to 3-colors inch screwed and glued • All walls to be in flat finish, all • Triple spackled and sanded ceilings and closets white flat • Mold resistant “Green Board” • All trim caulked and sanded. in bathrooms Painted in semi-gloss white • Cement board in showers • Optional Upgrade: and baths Additional colors • Garage ceiling double 5/8” • Optional Upgrade: Prime inch sheetrock and paint garage, Paint/
epoxy garage floor FINISHINGS • Glass shower doors in all stall showers (frameless in Master bath) • Family room with gas fireplace with granite/marble surround and wood mantle • Mantle for fireplace to be selected by owner • Built-in’s in family room (site built) • Built-in’s in the mudroom (site built) • Bathroom floors tiles to be selected by owners (Porcelain/Ceramic) • Tub showers tiled up to ceiling, stall showers tiled floor and walls up to ceiling • Master bedroom closets will include EasyClosets (white) built-in closet organizing system • Walk-in bedroom closets to include shelves and built-ins • Other closets will include shelf and pole • Mirrors will be custom cut and installed in master and hall bath walls above sink vanities • Optional Upgrade: Tile on walls and/or ceiling in bathrooms • Optional Upgrade: Custom built-in closet system • Optional Upgrade: Wallpaper • Optional Upgrade: Stepped sheetrock ceilings • Optional Upgrade: Wine cellar, bar, home theater room, sauna, safe room, ballet bar ALLOWANCES • $25,000 Cabinetry allowance for kitchen (including all knobs and handles) • $17,000 Appliance allowance • $10,000 Vanities • $10,000 Tile allowance • $8,000 Shower glass • $7,000 Landscaping • $3,000 Gas fireplace and surround • $2,500 Front door allowance (including front door Knob) • $2,000 Exterior Doors • $2,000 Interior and exterior light fixture allowance • $8,000 Plumbing Fixture Allowance • $5,000 Basement floor covering • $3,000 Attic floors • $10,000 Countertops (kitchen and vanities) • Door hardware $20 each • Interior doors $130 each