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Battaglia Homes Completes Luxurious Custom Home

Custom home completed by Battaglia Homes in suburban Chicago! The stunning exterior showcases distinctive hand-chiseled stonework in a cream color typical of classic French design, and not commonly seen in the Midwest. Elaborate interior amenities include distressed maple plank flooring; natural marble flooring in bathrooms and foyer; custom designed cabinets and staircases; and millwork featuring White River mouldings.

The home has three finished levels with an elevator, and boasts a main gallery hall embellished with ornamental niches, a domed ceiling and LED lighting; two first floor primary bedrooms with en suite bathrooms accented with brushed nickel plumbing fixtures; and a lower level that features a golf simulator and an Irish pub-style bar.

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Established in 1992, Battaglia Homes is an award-winning custom home builder serving Hinsdale and the surrounding western suburbs of Chicago. For more information call 630-669-4280 or visit www.battagliahomes.com.

Battaglia Homes Wins 2015 Gold Key Awards

Each year the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago (HBAGC) presents one of the premier housing programs in the country: The Key Awards, which signify quality in home building and remodeling. HBAGC has been honoring the area’s best since 1972 in such categories as new home construction, architectural design, room additions, interior design, green building and more.

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For 2015, Battaglia Homes, one of the top luxury custom home builders in Chicago’s Western Suburbs, is awarded Two Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Construction.

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The first award is in the category of Excellence in Interior Design for a new custom home in Hinsdale. This elegant traditional 3 story home features an abundance of upscale interior amenities. The entry welcomes visitors into a large two story foyer and circular staircase with transitional style wainscoting. The expansive kitchen has a double island with taj mahal quartzite countertops and combination painted / walnut custom cabinetry. All the bathrooms are finished with carrara marble, the flooring throughout is wide plank hand-scraped white oak.

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The second award is in the category of Excellence in Remodeling for a complete renovation on a 13,000 SF home in Oak Brook. Some of the unique amenities of this project include converting part of the home into added garage space to fit 14 vehicles, using upscale features in garage spaces such as artistic metallic epoxy flooring and brick & stucco interior garage walls. The home itself was upgraded with many beautiful amenities including ornate millwork, tongue & groove plank ceilings, coffered ceilings, limestone fireplaces, marble in bathrooms and upscale custom cabinetry.

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“You can tell when you walk into these homes and communities, that the people involved set out to make a difference in the quality of life for their residents,” said Gail Payonk, past co-chair of the Key Awards Committee. “The Key Awards winners are those who are building exemplary homes. Anyone who buys a home from a Key Award winner can be assured that their builder is among those who care to bring their best to the table every single day.”

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Contact Battaglia Homes today at 630-669-4280 to discuss ideas for building your dream home.

Benefits of Expert Landscape Designs by Battaglia Homes

As a luxury custom home builder and general contractor we understand the importance of having a well planned landscape design for your home. An appealing landscape not only compliments your home’s architecture and makes a great first impression but it can also provide many other benefits as well.

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Lower Utility Bills. Protect your home from winter wind and summer sun. With carefully positioned trees and shrubs you can dramatically cut energy consumption. In the winter months a good landscape design can maximize solar heating while deflecting winds away from your home, in the summer season by maximizing shading while funneling breezes toward your home.

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Proper Drainage. Properly planned and properly installed landscape can address proper drainage, conserve water and even lower the rate and volume of water runoff.

Security. Landscaping techniques can also provide home security by deterring burglar break-ins. Consider using outdoor lighting such as pathway lights and landscape lighting to reduce hiding areas and brighten darker areas of your property. Keep plantings around your home trimmed and pruned so as not to obscure entrance ways. Use thorny shrubs, like roses and hollies, and plantings with abrasive foliage under first floor windows.

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Wise Investment. Real estate experts agree that landscaping substantially adds to property value and even increases the speed of home sales.

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By combining the right plant materials and designing them in harmony for your space you create a beautiful and natural looking landscape. Battaglia Homes employs experienced and expert landscape architects. For more information about landscape designs contact the home building and renovation experts at Battaglia Homes at 630-669-4280 or email us at info@battagliahomes.com. We’d love to hear from you – tell us what you think about the benefits of landscape designs, leave your comments below.

Battaglia Homes is Featured in the Spring 2013 Issue of LUXE Magazine

Battaglia Homes proudly features one of its beautifully crafted custom built homes in the Spring 2013 issue of LUXE magazine. Located in Hinsdale IL this home boasts attractive stone, brick, cedar and stucco exterior with a brick paver driveway and covered front porch with bluestone flooring.

Interior features include wainscoting in the dining room and study, coffered ceiling in the family room, three piece crown molding throughout the first floor, and stunning custom cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms with american cherry hardwood floors throughout.

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For more information about building your custom dream home, contact the home building and renovations experts at Battaglia Homes today at 630-669-4280 or email us at info@battagliahomes.com. We’d love to hear from you – leave your comments below.

Chicago Sun-Times “Battaglia Homes wins Gold Key Awards three straight years”

The article below was featured on the cover of Today’s Homes section of the Chicago Sun-Times near west edition on January 24th and far west edition on January 31st, 2013.

Battaglia Homes wins Gold Key Awards three straight years

The Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago presented Battaglia Homes with two 2012 Gold Key Awards for custom built homes in Hinsdale. What’s distinctive is that the awards were the latest in a string of three years of top honors for the custom builder.

Each year the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago (HBAGC) presents one of the premier housing programs in the country: “The Key Awards,” which signify quality in home building and remodeling. HBAGC has been honoring the area’s best since 1972 in such categories as new home construction, architectural design, room additions, interior design, green building and more.

In 2012, Battaglia Homes, one of the premier luxury custom home builders in Hinsdale and the western suburbs of Chicago, was awarded two Gold Key Awards for excellence in new custom home construction for homes built in Hinsdale.

“It’s an honor to win Gold Key Awards three years in a row now,” said Carlo Battaglia, president of Battaglia Homes. “It’s exciting to know that our luxury home designs and rigorous attention to detail are being recognized with such high esteem.”

The builder has won six Gold Key Awards in the last three years.

“We work relentlessly at giving clients significant reasons to trust us with their custom home,” said Battaglia. “It’s very important to us that we meet or exceed every single client’s expectation. We have a passion for quality and each of our homes is built with the highest level of detailed craftsmanship with all construction phases supervised by me personally.”

Battaglia has decades of experience in residential construction, starting his career in 1983 as a successful and talented carpenter, and opening Battaglia Homes for business in 1992.

Battaglia takes pride in building strong relationships with all of his clients. With his approachable demeanor and can-do attitude Battaglia adds that “a relationship with Battaglia Homes begins well before construction and extends long past the completion of the home, making sure that we show appreciation and take great care of our clients.”

For more information, visit www.battagliahomes.com.

The article can be found online at the Chicago Sun-Times homes section.

Battaglia Homes Wins 2012 Gold Key Awards for Two Hinsdale Homes

This year, Battaglia Homes, one of the premier luxury custom home builders in Hinsdale, was awarded Two Gold Key Awards for excellence in new custom home construction for two homes built in Hinsdale.

The first is a gorgeous French-inspired home distinguished by a flared hip roof and rounded dormer. The home’s exterior boasts an elegant limestone entry, intricate brick-work on the facade and chimneys, and finely detailed copper features on the dormer, gutters and down spouts. The interior shows off a gourmet French style kitchen with luxurious custom cabinets complete with integrated appliances and beautiful marble and granite countertops. Additional features include wide-planked walnut flooring, elaborate three piece crown molding, coffered ceilings and wainscoting.

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View additional pictures of this award-winning Battaglia custom built home.

The second home is a traditional stone and stucco on South Washington Street in Hinsdale. The home’s first level floor plan is designed around a dramatic free-standing three-sided stone fireplace as the focal point. The home features exceptional amenities including custom designed cabinets, granite countertops, white birch hardwood flooring, white birch custom milled staircase, three piece crown molding, coffered ceilings and travertine stone tile. The home offers a spacious floor plan including six above-grade bedrooms, six full-baths and three half-baths. The lower level invites visitors to an extra large entertainment area complete with a stone fireplace and radiant heat flooring.

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View additional pictures of this award-winng Battaglia custom built home.

Choosing a highly experienced, hands-on builder, like Carlo Battaglia, will ensure you get the very best in quality craftsmanship and a great custom home building experience. Contact Battaglia Homes today at 630-669-4280 to discuss ideas for building your dream home.

Natural Stone Fireplace Designs by Battaglia Homes

Add warmth to your home with a natural stone fireplace. Natural stone fireplaces never go out of style and will surely enhance your home’s style. Fireplaces give otherwise ordinary rooms a focal point of interest and evoke beauty, warmth and comfort.

Battaglia Homes’ fireplaces begin with stone arrangement designs that are stylish and visually interesting. Each stone is meticulously hand chiseled to create a unique look and each fireplace contains attractive design elements such as, soldier courses, keystone around radius openings and wide bases with tapered tops.

Here are just a few floor-to-ceiling natural stone fireplaces designed and built by Battaglia Homes.

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For more information about natural stone fireplaces contact the home building experts at Battaglia Homes at 630-669-4280 or email us at info@battagliahomes.com. We’d love to hear from you – leave your comments below.

Autumn Home Maintenance Tips

Autumn is a beautiful time of the year, it’s also a reminder that old man winter is right around the corner. Here are some maintenance tips to help prepare your home for the winter months ahead.

-Check caulking around the exterior of windows and doors. If caulk is cracking or has broken away it should be replaced. You should also check the inside of your home for drafts around window and door seams. An inexpensive solution to prevent drafts and save on heating bills is to apply weather stripping around these areas. Weather stripping can be purchased at local home improvement centers.

-Clean and inspect gutters and downspouts, this is especially important to do in the fall due to autumn leaves. Clearing leaves and debris will keep water flowing properly and help prevent clogged gutters and ice dams.

-Inspect exterior flashing for gaps and separation, these may need to be caulked and sealed.

-Detach garden hoses from spigots, this will prevent water from freezing and cracking spigots.

-Have your heating system inspected, ducts should be cleaned, air filters and humidifier water panels should be replaced. A properly running heating system improves efficiency and ensures your home stays warm through those cold winter months. Consider installing programmable thermostats for greater efficiency.

-Change the direction of your ceiling fan’s rotation in the winter so that the blades force cooler air towards the ceiling – this will displace warm air that naturally rises forcing it down to your living areas.

-Have your fireplace, chimney and dryer vent professionally inspected and cleaned at least once a year.

-Change batteries on smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors at least every six months.

Performing maintenance on your home will help protect your home for the winter, help avoid costly emergency repairs and will save you energy and money.

For more information about home maintenance issues contact the experts at Battaglia Homes at 630-669-4280 or email us at info@battagliahomes.com. We’d love to hear from you – leave your comments below.

The Natural Beauty of Granite Countertops

With its near endless variety of colors, vein, speck and swirl patterns, granite countertops will undoubtedly beautify your home. Granite is durable, attractive and easy to clean and can nicely compliment your kitchen cabinets and appliances.

Granite is a dense, coarse-grained natural stone and is one of the hardest materials on earth. As an igneous rock, it was once molten deep within the earth, and was formed as it gradually cooled.

When choosing a granite color for your kitchen countertops it’s important that you view a full slab, not just a small sample. Granite colors, patterns and vein distribution can vary significantly within the same slab, so a small sample may not be a good representation of what the countertop will look like when it’s installed in your kitchen.

Another choice to make when using granite countertops is the type of edge profile you will use. Like granite color, choosing an edge profile is a personal preference, but some of the more popular edge profiles include bull-nose, straight, cove, waterfall, quarter-round and ogee.

Here are just some of the advantages of using Granite Countertops:

Easy Maintenance
Durability
Heat Proof
Scratch Resistant
Stain Resistant
Protects against mold and mildew

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Battaglia Homes builds award-winning custom homes in Hinsdale and Chicago’s western suburbs, many contain elegant granite countertops. For more information about Battaglia Homes visit our gallery of homes page on our website or contact us at 630-669-4280.

Inspirational Screened-in Porches by Battaglia Homes

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Start enjoying the outdoors in the comfort of your home without being annoyed by those pesky bugs. Screened-in porches can add beauty and value to your home if done correctly. Porches can be built on wooden flooring or hardscapes (cement, brick pavers, blue stone etc).

Extra amenities to consider for even more comfort include:

Infrared heating elements for those chilly evenings
Ceiling Fans
Can lights
Skylights
Speakers
Granite counters

Battaglia Homes uses cedar materials to construct our screened-in porches which have an attractive appearance and hold up very well in sun, heat, cold and rain. Some of the methods and techniques used to construct our great looking porches include the following:

Arched detail consisting of 2 piece 1 x 12s with routed edges between 8 x 12 cedar timbers.
Top of columns wrapped with 1 x 12, 4 ¼ crown and cap detail with routed edges and nose detail.
Base consists of 1 x 8, cap detail and shoe molding.
Screens built with solid 2 x 4s with cove inside and out, routed edges and screen molding.
Ceilings – tongue and groove 1 x 6 v-groove.

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For more information about screened-in porches contact the experts at Battaglia Homes at 630-669-4280 or email us at info@battagliahomes.com. We’d love to hear back from you – leave your comments below.