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For Immediate Release
March 20 , 2008
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Helen Todd
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SOUTHERN LIVING RETURNS TO FORT WORTH, TEXAS, FOR 2008 IDEA HOUSE IN IDLEWILD
Birmingham, Ala., and Fort Worth, Texas – Southern Living is returning to Fort Worth, and once again partnering with Village Homes for a 2008 Southern Living Idea House on the newly developed Idlewild Drive.
“We are very honored to have the opportunity to showcase our wares in Southern Living once again. The good folks from Birmingham are a class act and we had a lot of fun working with them in 2000,” said Rob Sell, a partner with Village Homes. “We’ve got a great team working on the 2008 house and look forward bringing people to Idlewild.”
“We are very excited to be back in Texas this year and working again with Village Homes,” said Southern Living Homes Program Director Kristen Payne. “They have built their business on timeless design and quality workmanship with attention to detail, which really sets them apart from everyone else.”
The home will be open for public tours June 14 – Sept. 28, Hours of operation will be Wednesday – Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased on site. The house will be closed to public tours Monday and Tuesday.
A portion of the proceeds from the tours will go to The WARM Place, www.thewarmplace.org, a grief support center for children and their families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. The WARM Place is able to offer grief support groups free of charge thanks to the generosity of many donors and foundations.
“The WARM Place staff and volunteers are so thrilled to be a part of this partnership with Southern Living and Village Homes,” said Peggy Bohme, executive director of The WARM Place. “We look forward to having the opportunity to guide visitors through this gorgeous new home and at the same time raise funds to support our mission.”
Aptly named Verona Park, the 2008 Southern Living Idea House in Idlewild draws inspiration from traditional Italian Renaissance Period homes that dot the graceful old neighborhoods of Fort Worth and many cities across the Southwest. The home has 4,100 square feet with four bedrooms and four-and-one-half baths. As the most formal of our 2008 Idea Houses this year, this plan features a master bedroom on the main level, an upstairs game room, private study, formal dining, and large family room. This home also has a three-car garage and private veranda above the porte-cochere.
The Design Team
The award winning design team for the 2008 Southern Living Idea House includes: Developers Michael Dike and Rob Sell, partners, Village Homes; Landscape Architect, Jeffrey Hunter Hallum, associate AIA, Home Architecture Interiors, LP; and Interior Designer Sally M. White, ASID, owner of SMW Designs. All of the team members are based in Ft. Worth.
Past Southern Living Idea Houses in Texas include: Fort Worth (2000), Dallas (2002), Austin (2003), San Antonio (2004), and Bryan (2006). For more information on these homes visit www.southernlivingideahouse.com.
About Idlewild
Newly developed by Village Homes, Idlewild Drive is a charmingly slender crescent shaped street grafted into the western edge of the Crestwood neighborhood in west Fort Worth. The addition is situated alongside the West Fork of the Trinity River and features large lots with scenic views down the river and south toward the mansion crested hills of Rivercrest. The addition will soon be recognized for its tastefully restrained, timeless architecture, which is already tangibly expressed in its signature element: a picturesque red brick bridge which spans a wooded ravine and creek that winds through Idlewild Park. Idlewild bridge was inspired by the arched bridges of New York’s Central Park, designed by legendary architects Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux. The 2008 Southern Living Idea House will be the first of only 18 select homes in the community.
About Village Homes
Village Homes (www.homesofcharacter.com) was established in 1996 by Jim Harris, Michael Dike and Rob Sell. They shared a single guiding principle: To build unique, inspiring homes combining timeless architectural design with modern innovation.
This concept was conceived after Rob and Michael worked in real-estate related fields following graduation from the University of Texas. They were mutually dissatisfied with the monotonous designs that builders were churning out and thought they lacked character. Rob and Michael turned to Austin's charming neighborhoods developed in the 1920s and 30s for inspiration and soon realized that if they combined the simple elegance of these timeless older homes with the benefits of a well-built new home – they would really be onto something. Since then, Village Homes has become well known in and around Fort Worth for building state of the art homes which capture the uniqueness and understated elegance of early 20th century architecture.
About Sally M. White, ASID
Sally is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin who moved to Forth Worth after graduation and worked for a local architectural firm to establish an interior design department. In 1984, she struck out on her own starting SMW Design. Her work is well-known for its impeccable design and attention to detail. Having passed the National Council of Design Qualification exam, Sally is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Design.
About Southern Living
Southern Living (www.southernliving.com), the premier lifestyle and entertaining magazine of the South and the seventh largest monthly consumer magazine in the U.S. (based on readership), reaches nearly 16 million readers each month and enjoys a circulation of about 2.8 million. Published 13 times a year, Southern Living celebrates the heart of Southern life.
A leader in lifestyle information, Birmingham, Ala.-based Southern Progress Corporation (www.southernprogress.com) publishes Southern Living, Cooking Light, Health, Coastal Living, Southern Accents, Cottage Living, and Sunset magazines, and books through Oxmoor House. It also operates a direct-selling division, Southern Living At HOME, and has a strong Web presence through branded portals, including MyRecipes.com and MyHomeIdeas.com, as well as 10 individual Web sites. Southern Progress is a subsidiary of Time Inc.
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