The White Box returns with an abundance of glass and priority on performance.
For the first time in its 28-year history, The New American Home had a homeowner attached from the start.
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This show home sits three-quarters finished, the victim of the construction financing crisis.
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The New American Home 2009 rejuvenates modern single-family living with a balance of contemporary lines and comfortable living spaces with an impressive level of environmental consciousness.
With authentic detailing and conveniences to suit the modern boomer, this stately Gulf Coast plantation home brings a fresh look to Orlando’s luxury market.
Set on a prime piece of ground on the southern edge of the Lake Eola historic district in downtown Orlando, Fla., with a view of the city's signature water feature, the three-story, 5,283-square-foot house is a legitimate and welcome addition to the neighborhood.
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Designing a house “by committee” is, as any architect or builder will tell you, a patently insane notion. Yet every year since 1984, The New American Home has done it in spectacular fashion, bringing together the world's leading suppliers and a host of consultants and valued trade partners to...
The New American Home program is a long haul for everyone involved, beginning nearly two years before the house debuts in the host city of the annual International Builders' Show.
Simply put, the house is a bunker masked as a beautiful home, built to be the neighborhood's safe haven in the next storm.
As if some of the space and amenities featured in this house already aren't luxurious enough, there's an even higher level to be found in the master bath suite and the upstairs spa room.
Get this: teens and young adults don't really like lots of fanfare in their rooms, much less a lame impression of what's cool with the kids.
There's no doubt this house has a lot of wide-open spaces, room to satisfy any size gathering.
Marveling at the pool and its inset planters or longing for the loggia and its amenities is only half of the story.
Here, there's an attractive option just upstairs: a game room with access to the upper loggia (complete with its own outdoor kitchen and bar area), as well as a nearby home theater.
Savvy architects and builders know where their bread is buttered: in the kitchen, especially in one that is connected none-too-subtly to a comfortable gathering area and to the outdoors.
The home's high-performance windows and patio doors, set along the rear elevation's northern exposure, enable large expanses of glass that allow views from every room without significant solar heat gain into the interior spaces.
The space also effectively distances the less formal rooms of the house—the kitchen, family room, and loggia behind the dining room—from the privacy of the office, library, and master suite found beyond the parlor.
Purposely narrowed to a one-room depth along most of its footprint, the floor plan of The New American Home 2006 is decidedly extroverted, taking advantage of lake views, natural light, and prevailing breezes afforded by a 149-foot lot to deliver a variety of benefits to the homeowners and the...
Set long and narrow across a lakefront lot of a budding new community west of Orlando, Fla., The New American Home 2006 looks good from any angle of approach.
The story of The New American Home 2005 is presented as an "owner's diary" that tracks its progression from a modest move-up family house to a spectacular custom home.