Palm Harbor and Nationwide Custom Homes Showcase Great Home Building

The theme for Show Village 2005 is based on the combined elements of technology, quality and an increasingly more sophisticated consumer.

You'll see examples of all of this at Show Village '05: technology, quality and examples of the features consumers want most. In the Palm Harbor home, you'll be impressed by the quality and the design. Walk through the house and you'll see fixtures and materials that you won't see anywhere else, because Palm Harbor's designer works with companies like Interceramic tile, Whirlpool appliances, LG-HIMACS surface materials and Shaw carpet to develop and test-market new products. This gives Palm Harbor the ability to include features in their homes up to a year before they're available anywhere else.

In Nationwide Custom Homes' PATH Tutorial Townhouses, you'll get an inside peek at the latest technologies and sustainable building materials, which are both growing trends in the home-buying marketplace. The same consumers who embrace iPods and Wi-Fi are also looking for technological advances in their homes. They want intelligent lighting and energy-efficient appliances. Check out Nationwide's townhouse for a first-hand look at how these elements come together in a home that's not only technologically advanced and energy-efficient, but designed and decorated for comfort and style.

If you live or build anywhere on the East Coast where hurricanes are an annual reality, you'll appreciate how solidly Palm Harbor Homes are built. ( See our story about Palm Harbor and hurricane codes. ) During Hurricane Andrew, residents of the Gateway West community in Florida's South Dade County saw dozens of homes destroyed by 175-mile-per-hour winds and flying debris. Of the ten Palm Harbor homes in the development, eight came through the disaster with only minor damage - broken windows and lost shingles. In the ninth home, a neighbor's flying refrigerator caused a partial collapse of one exterior wall. The tenth took a direct tornado hit. Both the Palm Harbor home and Nationwide Custom Homes' PATH Tutorial Townhouses are systems-built, manufactured homes, which provide solutions for both builder and homeowner. For the builder, systems-built manufactured homes allow you to more accurately project and control your costs. When compared to site-built homes, both construction time and crew are reduced. The latest advances in CAD allow for nearly unlimited customization options, as well as enhanced curb appeal. As one builder says, "It used to be you could drive by a house and tell it if was systems-built or site-built. You can't do that anymore." Builders who are faced with the demand for reduced cycle time, more efficient construction, and unlimited customization are switching from traditional site-built homes to manufactured systems.

Reed Building Group is proud to be a part of this year's IBS and to bring you the opportunity to experience quality, technological innovations and design elements firsthand.