When custom builders Bob and Nick Nettleton were picked by House Beautiful last spring to build the magazine’s 2020 ‘Whole Home Concept House,’ they never imagined how well that design would be resonating with home buyers after experiencing the pandemic.
You can come tour the House Beautiful Concept House today (Saturday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) just south of Parker, and see the features that many buyers of custom homes are wanting now.
If you like what you see, the home is on the market now following the magazine feature—$2.995 million—on a view-swept 2-acre site thatap about 30 minutes from the Denver Tech Center.
Or you can chat with Nick Nettleton about your own ideas for a post-Covid custom home. (Nicholas Custom Homes is ranked by the website Houzz as having one of the highest visitor rankings for a custom builder in the Denver metro area.)
Aside from the 2-acre site—elbow room that many buyers are wanting now—the home’s layout reaches for three areas that are in high demand after the virus experience—starting with wellness.
Nicholas’s design is certified by the national organization Wellness Within Your Walls for having a natural, sustainable approach to a healthier environment, centered around tech innovations. The Concept House is located in Fox Hill, a community created from a historic farm that has been re-designed for farm-to-table living, where residents can pick up fresh eggs and other produce grown on-site, using new agricultural technology.
You’ll also see a contemporary styled ‘We Shed’ accessory unit, part of the home’s big complement of outdoor living space, that can be a work-from-home space. Itap among a number of locations in the 5,424-sq.-foot home that will work for WFH—another feature, Nettleton says, that buyers are overwhelmingly wanting now in the wake of Covid.
The 4-bedroom/6-bath home also has a ‘boomer suite’ thatap designed as a space to accommodate older parents moving back to be close to the family—an idea thatap very popular with buyers at Denver area custom home areas now, Nettleton says.
Nicholas is also showing new energy and water conservation technology.
To visit today, take Parker Road south past downtown Parker, eight miles to Bayou Gulch Road, turn east five miles, then turn south on Flintwood Road a mile to Red Kit Road. The home is two blocks west.
Building since 1988, Nicholas also builds in Cherry Creek, Greenwood Village, Cherry Hills Village, Castle Pines, and in Columbine Country Club with its rebuilt clubhouse and top-rated schools, west of downtown Littleton’s dining district—particularly popular now, says Nettleton.
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