SFWabout the house
Touch. Assemble. Envision.
New Homebuilding Design Gallery Gives Guidance from the Ground Up By Jennifer Dumke • Photos by Hauschildt’s Photography
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ne of the key benefits to building a home is the ability to make it truly yours. Everything from cabinets to colors, carpet to countertops, is all hand-picked by the buyers. You can build it around your lifestyle, your taste and most importantly, your budget. However, many people deciding to build a home don’t realize how many decisions go into the process. But there is a solution to the overwhelming dilemmas of design decisions; it’s called the Selections Gallery, and its name says it all. “Our goal is to give customers one convenient place where they can touch, assemble and envision the products available when building their new home,” said Dean Muell, Builder/New Home Sales for Ronning Homes a nd Neighborhoods. The Selections Gallery houses nearly one-hundred “design stations” that feature hundreds of samples from local vendors and subcontractors in addition to more than 1,300 house plans. Everything from gutters to grout can be viewed and easily assembled with coordinating products to help envision the finished product. Some stations provide a puzzlelike process; you pick the cabinet door, stain color, hardware and then finish off with wall color, tile and even grout. Although on a much smaller scale, the hands-on ability to replicate a room takes the guesswork out of design decisions and saves customers time by having one convenient location to peruse. “Society has gotten much busier,” Muell said. “Most fami-
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