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Take Two
KCH&G’s Second Annual Boulevard of Dreams Homes Tour is going to be a summer blockbuster.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

August 22-23 & 26-30

Tickets: $12 in advance;
$15 at the door

Purchase at area Hen House Markets
or Nebraska Furniture Mart

All proceeds benefit the
Fox 4 Love Fund

www.lovefundforchildren.org

With the success that followed the 2007 Boulevard of Dreams in Mills Farm, built for KCH&G’s 20th anniversary, it was only natural to organize another event of the same magnitude. KCH&G wanted to yet again bring together community members and industry professionals, showcase Cedar Creek, the home of our 2009 Boulevard of Dreams, and, most important, raise money for a very appreciative organization.

Three million-dollar-plus, single-family homes were recently completed in the scenic North Shore Estates at Cedar Creek in Olathe, Kan. They’ll soon be open to the public, featuring different floor plans and styles and numerous innovative home design ideas. The community offers tennis courts, the championship Shadow Glen Golf Course, walking trails, swimming pools and Cedar Creek’s Corporate Park. These amenities mixed with nature’s finest provide an everyday getaway.

That’s why Bryant-Ratliff Construction, B.L. Rieke and Associates, and Forner-LaVoy Builders joined KCH&G in our venture to put on a homes tour like no other in the area and to donate money from ticket sales to an organization dear to our hearts: the Fox 4 Love Fund for Children. This organization provides public awareness, and funds goods and services to children 18 and under who don’t have the ability to get what they need themselves (i.e. doctors’ and dentists’ appointments, surgery, school supplies, clothing). “The overall goal is to raise money for the Love Fund for Children,” says Len Boxler, marketing and development director for Cedar Creek. “We’ve done that and hope to do better, and we have three unique homes that have great innovation and design.”

With a crew of industry professionals, including the builders, architects, interior designers and subcontractors, working arduously to complete the homes, the 2009 Boulevard of Dreams is almost ready to be unveiled. The homes will be ready to tour  August 22-23 and 26-30. But first, here’s a hint of what’s to come.

Click on the renderings for a peek inside!

 

The Prairie Stone
Upon entering The Prairie Stone, visitors will find a front-yard water feature with a bridge that leads to the wrap-around deck — it’s a home that mimics a “Colorado lifestyle destination,” which is unique to the Kansas City area. The one-and-a-half-story home came together with teamwork from Bruce Rieke of B.L. Rieke and Associates, his wife, interior designer Toni Rieke, and Elswood Smith Carlson Architects.

Inside the three-bedroom home filled with textures and earth tones, you’ll find lots of natural materials, most impressive being the 400-pound wood trunks in the lower level that were found on Bruce’s land and hand-hewn by him and his subcontractors. Also in the basement is a wine cellar, tasting table and a bar top that shadows the shape of the soffit. The main floor features a brick archway that leads into the kitchen with knotty cherry cabinetry and handmade hood and a hearth room with a full stone fireplace and hand-hewn mantle. Other interests include custom paintings by a local artist, and an outdoor lanai with fire pit, grill and a hot tub recessed into an expansive deck that looks out over a bluff.

For more about The Prairie Stone, visit our blog.

 

The Monaco
With the team of Bryant-Ratliff Construction, Patric Tierney, AIA, and Joann Romano of Architectural Elements, this home features a reverse story-and-a-half floor plan with 7,100 square feet of finished space wrapped up in Country French style.

The blueprints brought to life a large, open hearth room and kitchen, so no matter where you’re standing in the home, there are angles where you can see all rooms. Welcoming tour-goers into the home is a cobblestone and brick path, fountain wall for sitting and an 11-foot entry with 9-foot chandelier. The Old World interior showcases distressed woodwork, heavy trim, wine cellar, theater with starry night ceiling, safe room, handicapped-accessible entryways, sky ramp from the driveway to the lanai and treetop views overlooking the bluff. For added convenience, a ‘hotel lobby’ hallway on the lower level leads to a potential future elevator shaft.

For more about The Monaco, visit our blog.

 

The Nantucket
Imagine sitting seaside, listening to the waves crash on the shore and a cool breeze coming off the water. It’s the image of the East Coast lifestyle, and James LaVoy and Rick Forner of Forner-LaVoy Builders captured that image with help from Bickford + Company and Hobson Interiors.

This 5,900-square-foot home shows that color is cool and features a pastel palette of yellow, green, blue and coral, along with geometric faux painting and bright, fun wallpaper and rugs throughout the house. White trim outlines the rooms; the kitchen sports a spearmint-hued island surrounded by a pantry, laundry room, rear foyer and friend’s entry; and the walk-out lower level has a split foundation with pool table, projection screen and a second kitchen. James describes it as very functional and unstuffy. Other unique features include the shiplap siding in the ceiling of the dining room, and concrete and glass countertops in the basement bar.

For more about The Nantucket, visit our blog.