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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.

Active Spring Market for Battaglia Homes

Battaglia Homes is experiencing an active spring, constructing two luxury build-to-order custom homes in Hinsdale, one at 107 E Walnut Street, the other at 131 N Grant Street, with additional renovation projects in Oak Brook, Downers Grove & Hinsdale.

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The homes will be richly appointed with elegant features throughout. Including coffered ceilings, state of the art gourmet kitchens with custom cabinets, granite and marble countertops, formal dining rooms, intricate millwork with crown molding, detailed wainscoting and custom milled staircases.

Battaglia Homes New Construction 131 N Grant St. Hinsdale

“In today’s market people are looking for homebuilding professionals who come highly recommended through word of mouth referrals from friends, family and neighbors. They’re looking for professionals who have long track records and excellent reputations,” said Carlo Battaglia, President of Battaglia Homes. “People demand professionals that offer creative solutions to the challenges that go along with building new custom homes or renovating existing homes.”

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 today or visit www.battagliahomes.com.

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.

Carlo Battaglia, President, Battaglia Homes, custom home builders - Hinsdale, IL- Luxe Magazine - Spring 2013 — Carlo Battaglia, President, Battaglia Homes, custom home builders – Hinsdale, IL- Luxe Magazine – Spring 2013

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.

Advice for choosing Bathroom Fixtures for your Custom Built Home

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If you’re having a builder construct your custom built home you will be making plenty of decisions when choosing amenities and finishes. One of these is plumbing fixtures for your bathrooms. In recent years new technologies have allowed manufacturers to produce plumbing fixtures that are not only beautiful but are also durable and long lasting. They have also added an array of countless new designs and finishes.

Bathroom Faucets

Make your bathrooms stylish by adding modern bathroom faucets that incorporate your personal style and preferences with high function. Here are a few options to consider when choosing faucets for your custom built home:

Styles. The market is rich with choices, from antique and rustic to modern and sleek and everything in between. There are plenty of choices to match just about any home décor.

Finishes. Here are just a few of the more popular finishes that we at Battaglia Homes have used recently in our custom built homes:

Oil-rubbed bronze
Nickel (polished, satin or brushed)
Chrome

Sink Faucets

Consider the design and size of your sink when choosing a sink faucet. Most plumbing fixture manufacturers categorize their products into style lines that will help you match plumbing fixtures with any type of sink, tub or shower. Use pre-matched ideas to show you what plumbing fixtures would look best in your space.

Sink faucets typically can be categorized into 4 main types as follows:

8-inch spread (also called wide-spread)
4-inch spread
Single hole (also called single control lever handle)
Wall mount

Handles -single or double handles. For double handles choose either lever handles or cross handles.

Tub Faucets

Tub and whirlpool faucets (tub fillers) come in as many designs and finishes as sink faucets. It’s recommended that your sink and tub faucets come from the same designer lines and matching finishes.

Shower Fixtures

Shower heads come in all shapes, sizes and options, they include single or multi-function units.

Single function units provide a straightforward shower and are usually easier to clean.
Multi-function shower heads come with a variety of settings (examples include wide sprays, concentrated sprays and massage sprays).

Hand held shower heads, rain heads and wall mounted body sprays also offer a wide range of innovative functions, styles and finishes.

Quality

Choose fixtures that are constructed with metal internal mechanical working parts. These will be a bit pricier than plastic parts, but will give you many more years of reliable service. The highest-quality fixtures are made with solid forged or machined brass, which will last the longest and require the least care. Cast brass is also used, but it is not quite as durable.

Installation

Proper installation is also very important and will ensure many years of dependable service. Battaglia Homes’ plumbers are licensed professionals with decades of experience.

Polished nickel sink faucet by Battaglia Homes, Hinsdale, IL

Polished nickel tub faucet by Battaglia Homes, Hinsdale, IL

Polished nickel tub faucet with lever handles and hand held

Under-mount rectangle sink and sink faucet with cross handles by Battaglia Homes, Hinsdale, IL

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For more information about plumbing fixtures 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.

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.

Stone Fireplace with Soldier Course and Keystone by Battaglia Homes - Hinsdale, IL — Stone Fireplace with Soldier Course and Keystone by Battaglia Homes – Hinsdale, IL

Stone Fireplace with Soldier Course by Battaglia Homes - Hinsdale, IL — Stone Fireplace with Soldier Course by Battaglia Homes – Hinsdale, IL

Stone Fireplace with Multi-Level Hearth by Battaglia Homes - Hinsdale, IL — Stone Fireplace with Multi-Level Hearth by Battaglia Homes – Hinsdale, IL

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.

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.

Battaglia Homes Features Hinsdale Home in Summer 2012 Issue of Luxe Magazine

Battaglia Homes proudly features one of its beautifully crafted cottage style homes in the Summer 2012 issue of LUXE magazine. Located in Hinsdale, IL the home’s exterior stays true to the classic finishes found in old English Cottages. Features include steep roof lines, slate roof, steep gables, large prominent chimneys, stone & stucco exterior, round top door, leaded glass windows and a quaint porch with large timbers.

The home’s interior boasts beautifully finished walnut hardwood floors, a custom walnut staircase, finely crafted custom cabinets, coffered ceilings, wainscoting and three piece crown molding.

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

Battaglia Homes - LUXE Magazine Summer 2012 — Battaglia Homes – LUXE Magazine Summer 2012

Great Looking Mudrooms with Style and Function

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If you’re considering building a custom home and have a busy, active family you should seriously think about including a mudroom, especially if you live in an area that gets snow, like Chicago. Your mudroom should be a buffer area between outdoor elements (dirt, mud, snow, grass, etc) and the rest of your home.

Here are some tips for designing a mudroom with function and style:

Use easy to clean tile or stone flooring
Include a seating bench for easy removal of shoes and garments
Use closed cabinetry above and below seating bench for efficient and out of sight storage
Include open locker style cubbies with hooks

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Contact Battaglia Homes today at 630-669-4280 to discuss design ideas or talk to us about building your luxury custom home. By choosing Battaglia Homes you will get well-informed expert advice through each phase of the building process and will be pleased with your custom built luxury home. We appreciate hearing from you, tell us what you think about mudroom designs – leave your comments below.