Tony Caciolo and his wife, Penny, love New Orleans’ French Quarter so much that they have recreated a piece of it in their Upper Saucon Township home. They have built a room that looks as though it is the quarter’s famous Bourbon Street. “It’s an indoor room but it looks like you’re outdoors,” Tony says…
Read More Two builders of upscale homes in the Lehigh Valley, Tony Caciolo of Monogram Custom Homes Ltd. in Coopersburg and Myron R. Haydt of Haydt Development Inc. in Salisbury Township, say they, too, have built safe rooms for clients…
Read More For 2007, Lehigh Valley real estate agents and homebuilders predict what will be hot – and what not – with homeowners. What’s in: Sustainable design. Sustainable design focuses on energy conservation, indoor air quality and resource conservation…
Read More More than half of the designers surveyed by the National Association of Home Builders earlier this year said they expect the demand for two master bedroom suites in high-end homes to increase significantly by 2015. According to the NAHB, the demand for two master suites is being fueled by baby boomers…
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Tina and John Dowd do a fair amount of entertaining. Two years ago, when they built a 17,000-square-foot home in Franklin Township, they wanted a driveway that would do several things: make a grand entrance, provide space for guest parking, and allow for cars to get around those dropping off guests…
Read More Sometimes, what you see really is what you get, which is the philosophy of Anthony “Tony” Caciolo and Lewis “Chip” Shupe IV. Caciolo, the 31-year-old co-owner and president of Monogram Custom Homes, Upper Saucon Township, espouses a philosophy of sticking with good materials as standard…
Read More Tony Caciolo, a Lehigh Valley native, and Lewis “Chip” Shupe of Wilmington, Del., met when they attended Lehigh University. Today, they build upscale custom houses together as Monogram Custom Homes in Upper Saucon Township…
Read More Scott and Ruth Rice’s stone and stucco home in Upper Macungie Township has cathedral ceilings, palladium windows and nearly 4,300 square feet of living space, including the finished basement. Yet the first year they lived in the dwelling, they spent only about $700 for heat and hot water…
Read More Lori and Denis Esslinger waited until they had lived in their Salisbury Township ranch a few years and until the kids — and their toy collection — had grown some before they finished their home’s basement. “We were crowding out with the toys up here,” Lori Esslinger recalled…
Read More Tony Caciolo of Monogram Custom Homes in Coopersburg is building three upscale houses in Hickory Hill in Upper Macungie Township, a stone’s throw from where Beazer Homes USA, a national builder, is building Morningside, an enclave of 31 luxury dwellings…
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