\nIt\u2019s just fantastic that other builders are saying to themselves: \u201cIn 2015, we will become a more energy efficient builder\u201d It made me think:\u00a0 What about today?
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No More Living Rooms<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>The Kingfisher home plan features large open spaces and combined living and dining areas<\/p><\/div>
\nThe article also points out that homes in 2015 will not include a living room. A living room? I don\u2019t know about you, but that\u2019s the one room in my house that only gets the weekly dusting visits. The article explains that living rooms will eventually (in 2015, mind you) \u201cmerge\u201d into the Great Room and other areas, allowing for a decrease in square footage. Possibly a den\/study option?
\nAgain, I couldn\u2019t point out more that this article is right on the money:\u00a0 in 2015, builders will eventually begin to merge their living rooms into other areas of the home. But what about today?<\/p>\n
More Spaces in Other Places<\/h3>\n
Lastly, the Yahoo poll taken from nationwide builders suggests that in 2015, they expect building to change to accommodate spacious laundry rooms, walk-in closets, porches, eat in kitchens, two car garages, and ceiling fans. They also suggest that we’ll see fewer formal dining rooms and 4+ bedrooms.
\nAgain, I couldn\u2019t agree more with these suggestions about what consumers will need in the future.\u00a0 What about today?<\/p>\n
Schell Brothers Offers the Future, Today<\/h3>\n
Today, in the year 2011, I am proud to say that Schell Brothers has already listened to the needs of our customers and we’ve built the so-called 2015 innovations into our current homes. Refrigerators that talk, motorized floors,and programmable robots that take care of household chores: this was what we all imagined for the future of new home construction, right? Well, the future is nearing, and, based on a recent Yahoo article, the home we all remember from the Jetsons cartoons may miss the mark.\u00a0 In fact, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[289,406,547,582,870],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunset-harbour","tag-courtyard-series","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-high-performance-2","tag-homebuilding","tag-open-floor-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schellbrothers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe’ve adopted High Performance standards<\/a> that allow us to provide impressive energy ratings and HERS scores that mean lower utility bill and healthier living for our customers.
\nOur designs have brought 2015 ideas into the present tense, with open floorplans, merged areas, walk in closets, two car garages, large utility rooms and the minimization of formal dining rooms.\u00a0 We recently released Courtyard series<\/a> floorplans in response to direct customer input, with unique designs that focus on the most important areas of the home, while merging indoor and outdoor spaces.
\nAlthough the Jetsons’ world doesn\u2019t look promising for the future of new homes, it seems that today, Schell Brothers already has the high performance home of the future firmly in our grasp.
\nRead the Yahoo article “New Homes of 2015: Yahoo”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"