Sky House at the Dunes
The Sky house at The Dunes on Monterey Bay is part of a master planned community that blends coastal elegance with contemporary living. Featuring expansive windows, and seamless indoor-outdoor transitions, vanderToolen Associates has complemented the plan type with designed landscaping that embraces native and drought-tolerant plant palettes. Outdoor living spaces include private patios, ornamental grasses, and site features that echo the surrounding coastal environment, while sustainable irrigation and low-maintenance design add lasting value.
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Vista Dorado
Located among the rolling hills of Contra Costa County, these stunning single and two story single-family homes are ideal for families looking for more space and style. This private enclave is surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and majestic views of Mount Diablo. Featuring 82 semi-custom homes on approximately third to half-acre lots in a serene gated community, Vista Dorado is unlike any new home community Brentwood has ever seen.
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WaterPointe, River Island
Located within the master planned community of River Islands in Lathrop, California, the upscale model home complex representing Van Daele Homes included extra-large lot square footage with a steep back slope and California room extensions of the interior living spaces. Landscape amenities included a Bocce court, fire pit, Bar-B-ques, Horseshoe court and a Tuscan raised lounge area.
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Kensington and Stratford
Upscale Model homes representing two differing product types within a master planned community in Brentwood, California. Integrated into the landscape design are California rooms that provide transition area to the outdoors, as well as extend the living space of the homes.
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The Dunes Models
Part of the former Fort Ord, The Dunes on Monterey Bay is a 420 acre, master-planned community, receiving top honors as the 2016 “Community of the Year” at the Building Industry Association (BIA) Bay Area Excellence in Home Building Awards. The community includes 1,237 new homes, a retail center, Veterans Center, parks, a hospital and office space. The site is adjacent to the coast offering unique design opportunities due to its demanding environment. The models…
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The Reserve at Browns Valley
As winner of the 2015 Community of the Year award, The Reserve at Browns Valley single family community features a landscape design that articulates the natural surrounding landscape and reflects the character of the architectural themes. Employing a combination of ornamental, drought tolerant and California native plant materials the landscape design creates a unique outdoor living space for each residences exterior style while unifying the community aesthetic that represents the integration of rural foothill living with suburban tree-lined streets.
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Ironwood at Whitney Ranch
The Ironwood Model Homes are situated at the top of the sloped community to take full advantage of the open views to the surrounding landscape and community. The front yard landscape demonstrates to home buyers a naturalized landscape design that utilizes a low water-use and drought tolerant planting scheme interconnected with meandering dry stream beds and framed with evergreen street trees. As home buyers explore four of the energy-efficient open floor plans they will experience the European Country, Spanish, Craftsman and Adobe Ranch elevations through the front yard landscapes that coordinate the variations in cobble & boulder colors/textures of the dry stream beds with the exterior elevations. The sales office entry features an enhanced entry patio with alternating bands of concrete paving and natural slate that leads to the street and the specimen olive tree that creates the backdrop for the home buyer accesses. The enhanced paving details are continued at the model tour experience providing natural slate paved nodes where home buyers can view the front elevations.
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