DESIGN GALLERY HOMES by DREES - Certified Builder
$899,900 - 4,693 square feet

This wonderful Colonial Revival style home’s exterior features brick painted in Lincoln Home beige and a fantastic wraparound front porch with a gazebo. Enter the Foyer with intricate walnut border flooring and detailed wall paneling. The coffered Study features a leather desk chair and a three piece book case lining the back wall. A small wine bar adds style and sophistication to the room. Move into the Dining Room with its trey ceiling and dual weathered bronze chandeliers overhead. An oval hardwood table is surrounded by six side chairs and two host/hostess Viennese tufted dining chairs. The Powder Bath has a furniture vanity sink and a continuation of the foyer’s detailed paneling. The Foyer Extension features a large ornate chandelier and a secretary furniture piece. Enter the Family Room with arched triple windows lining the accented back wall. A double stack mantle over the fireplace with a granite surround serves as the focal point between two arched niches. A painted box beam ceiling is overhead.

The Builder:
MIKE CAREY
Design Gallery Homes by Drees 

Design Gallery Homes by Drees is the custom building division of The Drees Company, one of the nation's top homebuilders. Celebrating over 75 years of creating superior homes and communities, the company has received numerous industry honors and is one of the few builders honored as a Triple Crown Award winner, having been named “America's Best Builder” by Builder Magazine in 1998, “National Builder of the Year” by Professional Builder Magazine in 1991 and earning the “National Housing Quality Award,” awarded by Professional Builder Magazine and the National Association of Homebuilders Research Center in 1994. Design Gallery Homes builds finely crafted homes on any site within the Greater Nashville area. For more information, call (615) 371-9750 or visit www.dreeshomes.com.

The Designer:
CHRISSY KEHELEY
Design Environments, Inc.

First time Parade of Homes™ designer Chrissy Keheley with Design Environments, Inc. (DEI), an Atlanta-based interior design firm, has teamed up with Design Gallery Homes by Drees to create a fantastic Colonial Revival home. Having worked for DEI for over three years, Keheley has been the recipient of several awards for her design work, including the Silver Key Award in Chicago and the 2007 MAME and NCHBA Star Awards for Best Model Merchandising for the ‘Hartwicke’ model in Drees’ Raleigh, North Carolina community, Lakes of Rolesville. For more information, contact Design Environments, Inc. at (770) 429-3200.

*For more details about the house, builder and designer, be sure to check out the online Parade of Homes Planbook coming Friday, October 12.