Create Curb Appeal at Your New Ball Home!

Now that you've moved into your new Ball home, you're ready to add your own personal style to it. There's furniture to arrange and cupboards to fill, but don't let winter weather keep you from putting your personal touch on the outside of your home. There are things you can do right now to add curb appeal to your new home and add "you" to your new abode.

Knock, Knock

Your front door makes the first impression for your house. Make it shine with a new wreath or door mat to greet your guests, like this DIY welcome mat from bottosblog.blogspot.com. If you have a porch, add a decorative bench or rocking chairs. Create symmetry with topiaries or sconces flanking the doorway.

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Light Up the Night
Attract attention to your home even after the sun has gone down. Install decorative lighting in your landscaping or along your front walkway. The bright side (no pun intended) with installing outdoor lighting is that it provides safety and security as well as looking great. Here's an article from the designers at HGTV on working with landscape lighting.

Stop and Smell the Flowers
Plants and flowers can bring instant color to a dreary landscape. Because planting in the winter can be tricky, install ready-made planters or window boxes. Keep your shrubs trimmed and freshen up the mulch to keep your garden areas from looking overrun or tired-looking. Eventually when the weather warms, you can define your landscape with edging stones to add more color and texture to your garden beds.

New Products Added to our Design Center

At Ball Homes, we're always looking to improve our selection of upgraded products and services we offer in our new construction homes. In the past few months, we've added a variety of new features to include in our selection process. 

We have added new styles of interior doors to choose from in our selections process. These doors are added to our selection options, alongside our standard interior door, which is our two paneled arch top door with a textured finish. 

Cheyenne Two Paneled Plank Smooth Interior Door

Things to Do on a Road Trip

Do you ever feel like Clark Griswold whenever your family takes a road trip? Things don't go according to plan, you get lost, or the kids drive you crazy. As tomorrow is the busiest travel day of the year, we here at Ball Homes thought it would be appropriate to share a few ideas to keep your kids entertained (and hopefully keep your sanity intact) as you make the long car, plane, or train ride to wherever your holiday festivities may be.

Games

• "Name that Tune": a passenger in the car will hum the tune to a song and the other passengers need to gues what song it is.
• "I Spy": Use these printable cards from Prepared NOT Scared to spot different items along your route. The first person to spot all the items on their sheet wins.

Food

• Use an almost empty peanut butter jars to store apple slices or celery sticks. You'll save valuable space by using less containers.
• Use small shower caddies to contain meals for small children. Each child will get their own caddie to put their drink, sandwich and snack into, for an easy-to-hold and juggle-free organizer.

Organization

• Tie an over-the-door shoe organizer to the back of the front seats to keep small toys, crayons, and books in order and off the floor. The best part is that everything is right in front of your child, so they can reach it themselves, which means fewer distractions for the driver.

What other tips and tricks do you use to ensure a smooth road trip? Share them with us on our Facebook page!

Baldwin Expanded Recognized at Knoxville Parade of Homes

The Baldwin Expanded floor plan topped the winner's list at the 2013 Knoxville Parade of Homes. This popular plan won in the $251k-$315k category for Best Home, Best Kitchen, Best Bathroom and Best Outdoor Space.





This year's parade was held October 4-6, 11-13, and 18-20 and sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Greater Knoxville. This was our third year to participate in this free, scattered site tour of Knoxville's new construction homes. This was a wonderful event and we look forward to next year!

This home is located in our Falcon Pointe subdivision. It is open to the public Monday through Friday from 2-5pm, Saturday and Sunday from 1-5pm or anytime by appointment.

New Floorplan: The Claremont II

We here at Ball Homes are always looking to improve our collection of floor plans to meet the needs of today's homebuyer. We have recently updated our popular Claremont plan to make the new Claremont II floor plan. This beautiful ranch-style home features 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, and an array of upgrades and options to fit your lifestyle!


Claremont II is a split bedroom plan perfect for people who are ready for a more luxurious design both inside and out. All the convenience of ranch living, plus the option to add an upstairs flex area with an extra 355sf of living space.

The Master suite includes a sitting room that can be accessed from the Family Room, or by optional double French doors direct from the master suite. The master bedroom has a trey ceiling, and the master bath includes a double vanity, tub/shower combination, and linen storage, and a private commode enclosure. Upgrade bath options are also available. A large master closet is divided into dual areas.   




The kitchen offers a breakfast bar and separate breakfast area with bay window overlooking the rear yard, and a formal dining room is steps away.  


Additional convenience features include a large pantry in the kitchen and a folding counter in the utility room.  A traditionally styled front includes a covered porch and distinctive hip roof with dormer windows and shake siding accents. 

For more information on the Claremont II floor plan, visit our website or contact a Ball Homes Specialist today!