• Hardwood flooring throughout
• Office with custom built-in wood shelving and paneling
• Gorgeous trim details throughout
• Granite countertops in kitchen with breakfast bar island
• Custom home design offers open living areas and built-in shelving around fireplace
• Oversized windows
• Custom finished paver patio with firepit and pergola on wooded homesite
• and MUCH MORE!

In May, we introduced three new home designs to the Meridian Collection in many Estridge new home neighborhoods. These 2-story homes all boast incredible architectural details and custom features, as they were designed by Greg Cradick, Estridge Custom Galleries Architect. 10’ ceilings throughout the main level, art and furniture niches, open designs, varied window sizing and distinctive window placement and much more combine with Estridge quality construction to create custom home designs with great investment value.

Distinctive architectural details make this home stand out from other new home construction. A sight line from the guest foyer through to the back door creates the illusion of even greater space, as does the close proximity of the two corner windows in the great room. Furniture niches, arches and distinctively sized windows provide design variation and smart placement of furniture. Great flexibility in this new home design also adds to the custom feel of this home - it provides opportunity for at least six bedrooms, as well as a large bonus room, master retreat area, and much more.

One of these new home designs, The Concord in Rock Bridge, is currently under construction and scheduled to be ready for move in September. As a home built for sale, this home offers custom design features such as building a main level guest suite as opposed to an office. As it is being constructed, the Concord available home in Zionsville offers:

3805 Hearthstone Drive, Zionsville 46077
Reserve at Rock Bridge in Zionsville
5 bedrooms, 4 baths

$414,500

• Finished lower level + large unfinished storage area
• 10’ Main level ceilings
• Elegant guest foyer with furniture niche
• Gorgeous gourmet kitchen with granite countertop, including kitchen island with overlooking sink, stainless steel appliances including double ovens
• Upper level loft
• Unfinished storage space on upper level
• Tray ceiling in master suite
• Jack and Jill Bath
• Much more!

View more photos of this home on MyEstridgeHome.com or visit the Rock Bridge model for a tour of this new Estridge home under construction in Zionsville.

Building on Matt Borushko’s 6 Tips for Buying a New Home Builder, we provided 4 additional tips that will help you confidently build your dream home.

1.)               Have Representation

2.)               Don’t Overbuild

3.)               Prioritize Your Choices

4.)               Choose Location Wisely

5.)               Financing

6.)               Have Proper Expectations

7.)              Understand how your current house fits or doesn’t fit your lifestyle.

8.)              Know your comfortable investment range, not only your pre-approval amount.

9.)              Identify components of a quality new home and new home neighborhood.

10.)         Feel comfortable.

Tip #7, understand how your current house fits or doesn’t fit your lifestyle, is provided in greater detail below.

With a new home, you have the unique opportunity to design it to truly fit your family’s lifestyle, as well as include the features and style you desire. Taking the time to think through what you like and don’t like in your current house is a crucial step in determining the right design for your new home.

What do you enjoy about your current house? Is there an outdoor living area that you will especially miss when you make your move? Does your family cozy up to a fireplace in the winter? Is there a person in your household who would benefit from a private bath? Are you looking for private space through a main level master suite?  These are features and spaces you will want to include in the design of your new home in Indianapolis.

Consider each room, the popular traffic flow, areas you wish you utilized more often and what keeps you from doing so. Are there features that would help to keep you organized that are missing, like a family foyer with storage cubes and coat hooks? If you were able to interact with your family while you were cooking, would you do more of it?

Take the time to do your research. Review floorplans online. Walk a variety of resale homes and new homes from Indianapolis builders to see how homeowners use the space in their home and consider what would be helpful in yours. Most likely, there are ways in which space is being utilized or designed that you haven’t seen, but would find helpful (for example, the PDA Pantry in many Estridge new home designs).

Create a list of your new home design priorities (not only the style of the home) and reference these as you are shopping online or visiting a builder and reviewing home designs. Browse Estridge new home designs at www.estridge.com or visit Estridge model homes for ideas.

Matt Borushko of Keller Williams in Indianapolis, recently posted “Tips for Buying a New Home from a Builder" on his Matt Sells Indy Blog. He provides 6 tips to ensure that building your new home is everything you dreamed, and not a nightmare.

Matt’s 6 tips for buying an Indianapolis new home are:

1. Have Representation
2. Don’t Overbuild
3. Prioritize Your Choices
4. Choose Location Wisely
5. Financing
6. Have Proper Expectations

Read Matt's full article here.

As a new home builder in Indianapolis for over 40 years, we see that the more prepared our new homeowners are, the more smoothly the process of choosing a new home design, personalizing the home, construction and closing on the home are. There are 4 additional hints that help new home buyers choose and build the home of their dreams.

1. Understand how your current house fits or doesn’t fit your lifestyle.
2. Know your comfortable investment range, not only your pre-approval amount.
3. Identify components of a quality new home and new home neighborhood.
4. Feel comfortable.

New Estridge Ranch Home in Westfield, Indiana

1343 Somerville

Westfield, IN 46074

Price: $325,000
www.tourfactory.com/515624

Estridge Community: Centennial in Westfield – decorated model located off of Ditch Road, north of 146^th Street.

Learn more about the Irvington Collection of ranch homes at Centennial

View the 940 Irvington Collection home design

Featured Estridge Home Highlights:

• 2 bedrooms, 2 baths
• Finished lower level
• Lots of light with vaulted ceilings and oversized windows
• Gorgeous kitchen – designer staggered cabinets, black appliances, granite island
• Open great room features fireplace with custom crafted mantel
• Hardwood flooring throughout living space and master bedroom
• Luxurious master bath offers garden tub, ceramic tile and spacious walk-in closet
• Screened porch off breakfast nook
• Incredible neighborhood amenities: bark park, community garden, miles of walking trails, swimming pool, tennis and volleyball courts, sledding hill and much more!

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• News from the Indianapolis Extreme Makeover project, led by Estridge
• New Estridge Home Designs
• Recipe from the Tuscan Romance Cooking Class at HOMExperience
• Summer Home Maintenance Hints
• Tips on How to Hang Artwork in your Home
• News from Wood Wind Golf Club
• Upcoming Estridge Events
• Much More!

View all Estridge New Homes for Sale on Estridge.com.

7847 Whiting Bay Drive
Brownsburg, IN 46112
$424,000
http://www.tourfactory.com/503305

Estridge Community: Reserve at Highland Green in Brownsburg – decorated model located off of SR267, 2 miles north of I-74.

Learn more about the Meridian Collection of ranch homes at Centennial

View the 760 Meridian Collection home design

Featured Estridge Home Highlights:

• Ranch Home with 10’ ceilings and open design
• 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths
• Lower level
• Gorgeous kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances
• Large breakfast bar island with kitchen sink overlooking hearth room
• Dual-sided fireplace
• Crown molding throughout living area
• 3-car side-load garage

View Photo Tour of this luxury new home

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We are proud to announce the introduction of three (3) new Meridian Collection home designs in Estridge neighborhoods, including one main level master home design. Enjoy unique architectural stylings and custom home design details throughout. Designed by Greg Cradick, Estridge Custom Galleries Senior Architect, these new luxury homes draw on our background as an Indiana custom home builder and feature open designs, elegance and floorplan flexibility.

To learn more about these new homes and view the full design and personalization opportunities, schedule an appointment with an Estridge New Home Consultant in Centennial at 146th Street, Lincolnshire, The Reserve at Rock Bridge, Manor at Anderson Hall or The Reserve at Highland Green.

Or visit Estridge.com to learn more about the NEW Meridian Collection homes.

1385 Trescott Drive

Westfield, IN 46074

Price: $349,900
www.tourfactory.com/480334

Estridge Community: Centennial in Westfield – decorated model located off of Ditch Road, north of 146^th Street.

Learn more about Irvington Collection homes in Centennial

View the 941 Irvington Collection home design

Featured Estridge Home Highlights:

• 4 bedrooms, 3 baths + private office
• Finished lower level includes full bath and 2 bedrooms
• Lots of light with 10’ ceilings and oversized windows
• Gorgeous kitchen – designer staggered cabinets, stainless steel appliances, granite island
• Open great room features fireplace with custom crafted mantel
• Skylights in entry and dining room
• Luxurious master with tray ceiling, garden bath and spacious organized walk-in closet
• Screened porch off breakfast nook
• Incredible neighborhood amenities: bark park, community garden, miles of walking trails, swimming pool, tennis and volleyball courts, sledding hill and much more!

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1275 Balsam Fir Pass
Avon, IN 46123

$315,000

BLC#2905108
www.tourfactory.com/471710

Estridge Community: Whispering Pines in Avon, located off of CR625, 2 miles south of Rockville Road.

Featured Estridge Home Highlights:

• 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths + loft
• Finished lower level with 9’ ceilings
• Over 3700 square feet of finished living space
• Designer kitchen with staggered height cabinets and solid surface countertops
• Open great room features fireplace with custom crafted mantel
• Hardwood flooring
• Luxurious master suite with cathedral ceiling and garden bath
• 3-car tandem garage
• Large treated wood deck provides great outdoor living space! 

Learn more about this Estridge 627 Whispering Pines Collection home design

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At Estridge, our philosophy of Building a Better Life isn’t exclusive to building a quality home. It also includes designing community-driven neighborhoods, ensuring that your design is well-thought out and your home is personalized like you’ve always imagined. But, it doesn’t end there. Helping you build a better life includes helping you care for the home, decorate your home, even sharing recipes and more.

Estridge Dot.Home, the new monthly Estridge newsletter, is designed to provide the pieces outside of the actual construction to help you build a better life – whether it is in an Estridge home or elsewhere.

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Carmel, IN, Jan. 29, 09 – HOMExperience by Estridge, at Clay Terrace in Carmel, Indiana, has opened its doors after transforming into a design studio prominently highlighting Estridge Interiors custom design services and the Estridge Homes & Neighborhoods library and services.

Estridge Interiors, the custom interior design team at HOMExperience, has prominently taken its place at the heart of the HOMExperience décor store. Estridge Interiors offers customers complimentary interior design services from completely designing a home’s décor to completing a room with window treatments or a missing piece of furniture. HOMExperience, opened by The Estridge Companies in 2006, has offered custom interior design as an auxiliary service since the beginning of 2008, and presents a wide range of décor and furnishing lines – such as Kincaid, Rowe Fine Furniture, Pearson, Hooker Furniture, Timothy’s Fine Art, Surya Rugs and dozens of others.

The Estridge Interiors team is led by Tom Korecki, Senior Designer. Tom has designed the décor for Estridge model homes for over 12 years and has provided this service to HOMExperience customers for the past year. Of the transition, Korecki says, “The growth of our interior design services in 2008 led us in the direction of expanding Estridge Interiors to be the central source of services at HOMExperience. We are looking forward to providing greater design services to our HOMExperience customers and Estridge homeowners.”

HOMExperience hours are Tuesday–Saturday, 11am to 6pm, open by appointment only on Monday and closed Sunday. 317.669.8600.

Learn more about the Estridge Interiors Team.

View photos of Estridge model homes, designed by Estridge Interiors.

New 2-story Estridge Home in Anderson Hall

13714 Heatherfield Drive

Fishers, Indiana 46038

$315,000

BLC: 2903048

www.tourfactory.com/477981

New Estridge Orchard Collection Home Features:

-          4 bedrooms, 2 baths, unfinished lower level

-          Gorgeous brick front home with pillars and two dormers

-          Open main level with large harvest room, generous great room with distinctive stone fireplace and arched opening

-          Designer kitchen features stainless steel appliances, solid surface countertops, walk-in pantry, breakfast bar island

-          Organized family foyer with storage cubes, boot bench, coat hooks and PDA Pantry

-          Tray ceiling highlights luxurious master suite

-          Computer niche and built-in bookshelves on upper level landing

-          Unfinished lower level has 9’ ceilings and bath rough-in

View Ramsey home design and floorplan.

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The new Estridge home designs released in June of 2008 have been extremely popular with new Estridge homeowners in Estridge neighborhoods all around Indianapolis over the past six months. A new Centennial Collection Tremont home design, by Estridge - luxury home builder, was recently completed in Centennial at 146^th Street.

The 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath Tremont offers an open home design features a main level master suite and many custom details. The Tremont offers homeowners many custom design details throughout, such as the arched entries and tray ceilings. Visitors are welcomed at the Guest Foyer and walk through an elegant tray-ceiling vestibule to the open main living space. 

This luxury home features an abundance of smartly-designed formal, casual and recreational space. The open living space includes the kitchen with a generously sized breakfast bar island and lots of cabinet and counter space, the sunny breakfast nook opening to the back patio, and the spacious great room highlighted with a fireplace featuring a custom crafted mantel.  Oversized windows across the back wall and 10’ ceilings create an open air, sunny space. Homeowners enjoy formal dining space off the guest foyer highlighted with an arched entry. Additionally, the included unfinished lower level offers many possibilities for recreation and storage space as well as finishing for additional living space.

The master suite offers a luxurious retreat with an arched entry, gorgeous tray ceiling, and well-appointed bath including a garden tub, separate shower, double vanities and private water closet.

One of the most popular features of this home is the organized family foyer off of the garage. The foyer provides storage cubes for shoes, coat hooks, a cabinet for purses and other items, as well as a PDA Pantry complete with hidden, but accessible electrical outlets and shelves for phones, iPods, MP3 players, cameras and more.

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1326 Middlebury Drive

Westfield, IN 46074

Price: $189,900

BLC: 2869167
www.tourfactory.com/409258

Estridge Community: Centennial in Westfield – decorated model located off of Ditch Road, south of 156^th Street.

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Learn more about Lockerbie Townhomes at Centennial

Featured Estridge Townhome Highlights:

• 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
• Elegant 2-story entry
• Private back patio off of family room
• Large dining room
• Gas fireplace in living room
• Upper level laundry
• 9’ ceilings on both levels
• Oversized windows
• Incredible neighborhood amenities: bark park, community garden, miles of walking trails, swimming pool, tennis and volleyball courts, sledding hill and much more!

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Featured Estridge Available Home - Jan. 14, 2009

8518 Seafield Drive

Brownsburg, IN 46112

Price: $289,900

BLC: 2864266
www.tourfactory.com/403643

Estridge Community: Highland Green in Brownsburg, located off of SR267, 2 miles north of I-74.

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Learn more about Highland Green Collection homes

Featured Estridge Home Highlights:

• 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
• Over 2600 square feet of finished living space + unfinished lower level
• Private homesite with mature trees
• Gorgeous kitchen with granite countertops, hardwood floors and quality Whirlpool® appliances
• Breakfast nook opens to sunny family room with fireplace
• Elegant formal living and dining rooms with arched entries and detailed columns
• Luxurious master suite with garden tub, separate shower and walk-in closet organized with laminate wood shelving
• 2-story foyer welcomes guests

View More Photos of this luxury home: http://www.tourfactory.com/403643

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