Its time to vote for Cabinets at LetsDesignAHouse.com!  (Vote #2)

Its time to vote on your cabinet choice at LetsDesignAHouse.com.  Custom Woods Products (CWP) of St Marys, KS was chosen to design this custom home kitchen. CWP is excited to bring you three beautiful custom kitchen choices. Assisting Ronnebaum Construction in this process is designer Allen Wessel who will oversee the kitchen design, cabinet construction, and installation. Each of these three kitchen options offers unique features designed exclusively for this home.  Unique features such as wood types and finishes as well as step up kitchen bars, cubbies and granite counter tops are all possible selections.

And that’s not all, if you’ve been following along at LetsDesignAHouse.com, you will see we have completed the framing stage of construction.  The framers enjoyed their work with 70 degrees temperatures in late January.  General Contractor, Terry Ronnebaum, feels that it is very important to apply house wrap to the homes that he builds.  A good house wrap helps to prevent outside water from entering the walls and helps to seal the home to keep outside air where it belongs. Homeowners enjoy reduced energy bills because homes stay cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter and most importantly dry all year round.  Another healthy house benefit of using house wrap is that harmful vapors are allowed to escape the wall cavity. This helps prevent mold and mildew and other water related damages.

Heavy equipment was used to lift the Pella windows to be easily positioned into their proper place.  Window Tape, a self-adhering, self-sealing waterproofing tape was applied around windows to prevent damage caused by water penetration.  Ray Anderson Pella Windows was chosen for this house because of their outstanding quality, energy-efficiency and warranty program.   The future homeowner will enjoy the wall of windows soaking the warmth of the sun while enjoying the views over-looking a water feature behind the home.

Carol Ronnebaum created a blog, LetsDesignAHouse.com, to inform followers of the step-by-step process of construction during which choices of décor and products may be voted on by the public.  At the end of the voting period the selection will be revealed and incorporated into the home.  This home, located at 4428 SW Shenandoah, is expected for completion Mid-Spring.   Carol, a licensed REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker Griffith and Blair American Home and co-owner of Terry Ronnebaum Construction, Inc. stated, “The Let’s Design A House program is intended to increase interest while educating the public in new home construction in our community, show home buyers the many benefits of a new home and encourage community and small business involvement.”  Ronnebaums have co-sponsored this project with more than 20 contractors and local area businesses.  Some of these co-sponsors and vendors with show rooms will have on display the pre-selected voting options that its business is providing for the construction of the home.

Terry Ronnebaum Construction, Inc. has designed and built 100’s of homes in Topeka, Shawnee County and surrounding areas over the past 30 years. Carol noted, “We feel that this is a great opportunity to not only provide Topeka with a custom-style new home but to also help to promote the building industry in our local area. “

(Photos and Additional Information may be obtained by contacting any of the contact numbers on this Release)
Additional Contact information:
Carol and Terry Ronnebaum:  785.640.2685
REALTOR® of Coldwell Banker Griffith & Blair American Home and Owner of Terry Ronnebaum Construction, Inc.
Ronnebaum Construction and Terry and Carol Ronnebaum reserve the right to coordinate choices over the selection process.

Where are home sales heading? Who’s buying today? Why are home prices struggling to find a floor?

We talked to NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun a couple of weeks ago in a video-taped session to get his views on what’s happening in the market. His take? Thanks to increased affordability, buyers are returning in big numbers in markets that have seen the most dramatic decline in prices. But we won’t see a market turnaround on a national basis in the short term without a boost to demand, he says, and that’s going to take some serious public intervention such as an interest-rate buy down.

Take a couple of minutes to watch NAR’s chief economist share his views on our new Web video platform called REALTOR® TV. Starting with this first interview we’ll be bringing you these video-taped economic updates on a regular basis.

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Robert Freedman is a senior editor of REALTOR® magazine. He can be contacted at rfreedman@realtors.org.http://www.realtor.org/realtormag

Reprinted from REALTOR® Magazine Online Nov 2008 with permission of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.

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