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Easy Up, Easy Down: Spring Festival Association Home has two master suites

By Cindy Hodnett
HomePlace Writer

The 2008 Spring Festival of Homes is still a few weeks away, but the 2008 Spring Festival Home Builders Association home is already attracting a lot of attention. Built by Harvey Schneider of Glory Builders, the amenities-loaded two-story traditional is on a quiet street in Clemmons’ Barrington Oaks, and residents will enjoy the popular location along with the property’s many “bells and whistles.”

“Barrington Oaks is a very convenient neighborhood to hospitals and shopping, both the mall and groceries,” said Coldwell Banker Triad, Realtors’ Todd Hutchins of the Hutchins Team. “Prices range from the mid-$300,000s to the low $400,000s, and there will be three phases of 25 homes in each phase. There are eight custom builders, and lot sizes range from one-quarter to one-third acre.

“The Spring Festival Association Home is a great family home with two masters, one on the main floor and the other on the second level,” Hutchins said. “There is a loft with wonderful built-ins for books and school materials that would be great for a homeschooling family, and the master on the second would be great if you had small kids or babies in the other bedrooms. The basement is unfinished, but would be a great game room or playroom.”

Although work is still under way on the Association home, several special features are already in place. Extraordinary tile work around the family-room fireplace and on the kitchen backsplash are beautiful focal points, and a coffered ceiling in the dining room and granite countertops in the kitchen enhance the classic decor.

“In all the building I do, whether a spec home or a custom, I try to inject classical touches,” Schneider said. “There are a lot of architectural features in this house, and we put our colors and paint together to create a warm, comfortable design that enhances those features.”

Schneider has been building homes in the Triad for more than 14 years, and he said that he started his construction company as a second career after working in design for nearly three decades. He is currently building homes in Barrington Oaks, Riverway on the Yadkin and Bermuda Run West, and he said that the Association home offers unprecedented value.

“Because a lot of vendors and suppliers help us out with discounts, we are able to put quite a few extra features in the Association home,” Schneider said. “Buyers get a lot for their money.”