Concluding the Parade of Homes in a big way

Two levels of comfort. Five houses to look over outside and in is the perfect amount, my dear wife Karen and I decided as we finished our stroll of this year’s Parade of Homes at Baldwinsville’s Timber Banks neighborhood. Your own bottle service. The open main room included a very snazzy, double-sided wine fridge. Outside…

Back to bigger

Two stories of everything. Some people have big families and a lot of friends, my dear wife Karen and I surmised as we looked over the fourth house in the Parade of Homes. Not really a basement. All the levels impressed us. We could fit independently in each. Game time! As staged, the lowest level…

Still more with less

Wide less than tall. My dear wife Karen and I appreciated house three on our Parade of Homes stroll, thinking its size was about right, too. Great backsplash. The lighting in the open main room and the size or the island impressed me. Hand it over. A big pass-through to a covered porch with a…

Smaller makes us smile

Beautiful to us. Let’s go left-to-right down the block for House Two in our Parade of Homes march, my dear wife Karen decided. Less bedroom, less baths, plenty of smiles for us. You betcha, And it wasn’t just a cheeky sense of humor in the wall decor. We liked the layout on this one, too.…

Appreciating the Parade of Homes

Plenty of room. My dear wife Karen and I picked a lovely early fall day in Central New York to visit the annual Parade of Homes event, a tradition that allows builders to construct a new pocket of their best work in an attractive new block in hopes of prospective buyers to like the work…

Big interior ideas

Cozy in the primary. These builders know they must go all out on the interiors and enlist smart designers, too, to make their <em>Parade of Homes</em> houses memorable. So I took out my iPhone to capture some of their good ideas. This main bedroom window seat made me smile. In a great light. The wall…

Dreaming about the new builds

House No. 1 My dear wife Karen and I thought this was a good year to return to Central New York’s see-it-and-dream event, <em>Parade of Homes</em>. We’d given the stroll-and-admire opportunity a break since the first big virus year, but with she taking a half day from work, we figured a weekday afternoon was a…