Working for YOU!

People often ask me what I enjoy most about working for a local award winning home builder, so I thought I would take a few minutes and share with you some of my experiences.

I have been a part of the Parkview Homes team now, in the capacity of Director of Sales and Marketing, for about eight years. There are many aspects of my job which I find enjoyable and rewarding. From a marketing and demographic perspective, it is always interesting to see how people find us, as they make their way into our Model Homes/Sales Centres.

With the worldwide web at everybody's fingertips, we now understand that most people walking into our Model Homes/Sales Centres have already been to our website, and have done some initial online shopping or research.

Also, over the last few years, many people walking into the Model Homes/Sales Centres and meeting me for the first time, have already been on our website and have watched some of our videos on YouTube. We film and share our videos to give our potential customers a sneak preview of many of the homes we offer. These videos are a great chance to have a look at the interior and exterior features, the layout and the unique design features of our home designs. We create these videos to be helpful, we are certainly not a professional filming company, but I really enjoy creating these videos. I like providing our online customers with the tools that will help enhance their online shopping experience.

Most people coming into the Model Homes/Sale Centres, have come in because of very specific needs or reasons. Examples of clients I work with on a weekly basis include:

• Relocation - New Employment or Job Transfer
• Size of Home  - Upsizing or Downsizing
• Practicality - They are tired of fixing and putting money into an older home
• New vs Re-sale - The beauty and convenience of a brand-new home versus a resale/used home
• Energy Savings - Efficiency of a brand-new home and the overall cost savings
• Design – Our new homes have very practical, functional and inspiring floor plans
• Customization - Parkview Homes customers have the ability to customize and personalize their floor plan and alter their living spaces to meet their specific living or lifestyle requirements.

From my perspective I thoroughly enjoy meeting new people, finding out what is not working well in their current home and quickly being able to offer many helpful new home solutions. I especially love sitting down with my clients and visually walking through the floor plan with them and pointing out many of the great design attributes and features.

It's amazing how much you can accomplish in as little as 30 minutes, in terms of listening to the customer, offering helpful solutions, and putting some initial thoughts and plans together. It is a very rewarding experience for me to meet individuals, couples or families for the first time and be able to work with them to identify a suitable home to match their budget and lifestyle needs.


I recently relocated my office to our brand-new luxury executive community of Lyons Gate III, located adjacent to the desirable College Park neighbourhood, in the West End of Peterborough. I am very excited about selling this new community, as well as continuing to sell homes in all of our other remarkable communities. 

A little more information about Lyons Gate III:

The final phase of Lyons Gate III is a new executive community located in the heart of the Kawartha’s, in one of Peterborough’s most prestigious and sought after neighbourhoods. This exclusive community is offering a carefully selected line-up of luxury executive bungalow, bungaloft and two storey home designs. Each home has been meticulously designed with you you in mind;

• All brick exteriors with premium stone accents
• Gourmet kitchens featuring granite countertops and maple cabinetry
• 9 ft. ceilings on the main floor
• Oak hardwood flooring in the great room
• Cabinet style gas fireplace
• Open concept floor plans

and so many more fine details which come together to give you the home and extravagant lifestyle that you deserve.*

If you are considering purchasing a brand-new single detached home, executive townhome or condominium suite, it would be my pleasure to spend some time with you and your family to point out many exciting options and find your next dream home.

I invite you to give me a call or drop by my Sales Centre at 1633 Lansdowne Street West, just west of Spillsbury Drive, and discover the many joys and benefits of owning a brand-new Parkview home. For your convenience, I am also available after hours by appointment.

I look forward to meeting you.

Warm Regards,
Rick Phillips
Parkview Homes • Director of Sales and Marketing
Sales Centre • 705.748.4663
Cell • 705.868.6441




*See Sales Representative for details. Please note that some features listed may not apply to all Parkview home designs.

Lyon's Gate III by Parkview Homes

Location, Location, Location!

Ask any real estate professional and they will tell you how important location is when making the biggest investment of your life, which of course is purchasing a new home.

At Parkview Homes we recently released the third and final phase of our executive Lyon's Gate community, which is located in the prestigious West End Peterborough.

The Balsam Executive

Our new Lyons Gate III Sales Centre is now open at 1633 Lansdowne Street West. We invite you to drop in and discuss with us how you can become a resident of this brand new and exclusive community. Featuring twenty-eight 40 & 50 ft. premium lots, Lyon's Gate III offers the new luxury executive home you are looking for. With a wide selection of bungalow, bungaloft and two story designs to choose from, we are sure to make your dream of a luxurious new home a reality.

The Charlesworth Executive

Our design team has meticulously designed each of the homes available in this new community to provide you with the features you should expect in a brand new luxury executive home. Including but not limited to:

• All brick exterior with premium stone accents
• Coloured exterior window sashes with coordinating grilles between the panes of glass
• Elegant front door entry with designer glass window and contemporary door hardware
• Soaring 9' ceilings on the main floor
• Gourmet kitchen with maple cabinetry, granite countertops, taller uppers, pot and pan drawers, upgraded Moen© faucet, undermount sink, under cabinet light valance and crown molding.
• Hardwood floor in the great room
• Oversized trim and door package featuring captivating 7'-8" extra height doors and archways on the main level
• Cabinet style gas fireplace
• High-efficiency gas furnace 

The Waddell Executive

If you're thinking of downsizing, up-sizing or upgrading and you are looking for the perfect location, then look no further! Within minutes of Lyon's Gate III you will find all the amenities you could ever need; easy access to Highway 115, Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), Fleming College, Peterborough Sport and Wellness Center, Mapleridge Recreation Center, great elementary and secondary schools, retail shopping, a wide assortment of restaurants, golf courses and so much more!

We are quite excited about this new community and the opportunity it will provide us to meet many new individuals and families looking for their ideal place to live, play, relax and grow within one of the best neighborhoods in Peterborough.

The Chester Executive

 For your convenience our Lyon's Gate Sales Centre is open five days a week. For more information I invite you to kindly contact me at anytime to set up an appointment, to discuss how easy it is to own a brand new home in Lyons Gate III.

I look forward to working together to find you the perfect new home!

Sincerely,
Rick






Rick Phillips
Director of sales and marketing
705 748-4663 (Sales Centre)
705 868-6443 (Cell)
rphillips@parkviewhomes.ca

A great start to 2015 for Jackson Creek Meadows!

The 2015 building season has started with a bang in our Jackson Creek Meadows Community! Sales of single detached homes and townhomes have been brisk since the middle of January, despite the frigid temperatures. However, the perfect storm of historically low interest rates, limited inventory in the resale market and a desirable West End Peterborough location has made Jackson Creek Meadows the smart choice for many families, first time homeowners and retirees.

Surprisingly we still have a small handful of premium lots ranging from 40’ to 60’ in width, backing onto a heavily treed green belt, adjacent to the Trans Canada Trail. These lots probably won’t last through the spring market, so don’t hesitate and miss out on the opportunity to live in this family friendly conservation community!

We are also pleased to announce that we will be opening a brand new model home this spring! The exciting grand opening of The Charlesworth Executive Model Home is tentatively scheduled to open in the middle of May. A completely new creation from our design department, The Charlesworth Executive showcases an open concept eat in kitchen/great room across the back of the home, with soaring vaulted ceilings and a covered deck.  The plan also features a popular loft master bedroom, two main floor bedrooms, full double car garage and a well-appointed finished lower level.

The Charlesworth Executive

Our design team has also just put the finishing touches on a new fully furnished townhome model, The Berkley. The Berkley townhome boasts 1890 sq. ft. of living space featuring 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, open concept main floor with eat in kitchen, great room and separate living/dining room. The unspoiled lower level offers a full walkout and three piece plumbing rough-in, ready to go for a fourth bathroom.

Executive Townhome Collection

The Jackson Creek Meadows Model Home is temporarily located at 343 Florence Drive.

Model Home Hours:

• Monday - 2pm to 7pm
• Tuesday to Friday - 11am to 7pm
• Saturday & Sunday - 10am to 6pm

Our new Charlesworth Executive Model Home will be located at 105 Chandler Crescent. We invite you to come in and visit us and see our full selection of available lots and home designs.

We look forward to making your new home dream come true in Jackson Creek Meadows!

See you soon!
Paul


Paul Davidson
New Home Specialist
705.748.4665
pauldavidson@parkviewhomes.ca

The First Time Home Buyer Blog: Summer Building Progress!

Hello again! It’s been awhile! I apologize for the delay, if you have been following along! It has been an extremely busy summer and I just never found the time! But now that fall is unfortunately here I will try and give updates more often.

If this is the first time you are checking in with me, here are the links to the previous blogs you have missed:

• First Time Home Buyer Blog
• First Time Home Buyer Blog – Personalizing My Floor Plan!
• First Time Home Buyer Blog – Design Studio – Part 1
• First Time Home Buyer Blog – Design Studio – Part 2
• First Time Home Buyer Blog – Visiting the Kitchen Designer

While I was off being busy with work and summer activities a lot has been happening with my new home! So I thought for this blog I would let you relive the summer of building activity in pictures!

ENJOY!

EXCITING NEWS!!

I will be officially a First Time Home OWNER on Friday, February 6, 2015! I am super excited and can’t wait to start using all the fun home accessories I have been buying :)

Stay tuned for my next blog; I will be talking about my plan review!

Talk to you soon,

Alyssa :)

PS. If you want to be my neighbour, check out Jackson Creek Meadows!

The First Time Home Buyer Blog: Design Studio - Part 2

Hey! I am back with Part 2 of my Design Studio Blog! If you haven’t had a chance to read Part 1 or any of the blogs in my First Time Home Buyer Blog Series here are the links:

•  First Time Home Buyer Blog
•  First Time Home Buyer Blog – Personalizing My Floor Plan!
•  First Time Home Buyer Blog – Design Studio - Part 1

In Part 1 of my Design Studio blog I really wanted to give you some insight on what the Design Studio is and provide some tips for making the Design Studio Selections process easier. In Part Two (this blog), I want to talk to you about my experience once I got into the Design Studio with Susan (Design Studio Manager and Interior Designer).

Like I said before I had LOTS of time between when I purchase my new townhome and actually having to do my Design Studio Selections. With a closing date in October of this year I got lots of time! Typically you only have about a week from going firm on your agreement to get your Design Studio Selections done.

For my home I spent a lot of time researching, looking at pictures and contemplating what finishes I wanted in my new home. I wanted a very fresh and modern look, nothing crazy and nothing I couldn’t match accessories to. But I also wanted to keep on budget with the Design Dollars I was given as a bonus when I purchased and I wanted to try to not spend too much more. For a girl with expensive taste this got challenging ;)

When I got to the Design Studio, Susan started with the kitchen cabinets. This was a pretty easy decision for me because I had already decided on what style of door I was looking for and the stain colour. I want my kitchen to have a transitional design so I went with a door with clean simple lines in a colour called Java. I love dark kitchens; they show less of the mess I create ;). After selecting my cabinet style it was onto countertops, I wasn’t 100% sure on what colour I wanted for my countertop, light or dark. The Design Studio has a fantastic selection and I decided on a pattern/colour called Perlato Granite. It is a beautiful mid range colour between light and dark and has awesome tones of greys and an almost purple in it. I just love it! (The countertop is laminate, because well real granite was not in the budget, but it’s going to look awesome regardless!)

After selecting my kitchen cabinetry and countertops I moved onto selecting my bathroom cabinetry and countertops. I have this thing where I think it’s weird when the bathroom and kitchen have the exact same cabinets and countertops – like my powder room was going to be an extension of my kitchen. Weird! So I wanted to look into options of having white cabinets in my main floor powder room. With this in mind, I booked an appointment with our Kitchen Designer. When you are looking to upgrade your kitchen and/or bathroom cabinetry or countertops we offer the fantastic opportunity to meet with our Kitchen Designer – I will give you more insight on experience with her later. So back to my bathrooms… I knew I definitely wanted them to have a different colour countertop than my kitchen and thought a light colour would be best. I picked White Tigris, from the many options! It’s a nice light grey with a subtle pattern, which I am sure will help hide any bathroom mishaps that I am sure are on their way in my homeownership adventure! For my second floor bathrooms I picked the same dark java cabinets as my kitchen. With the light countertops I am convinced no one will get confused on whether they are in the kitchen or the bathroom :).

After the cabinetry for my home was picked, it was time for floor tile. I knew one of the upgrades that I wanted to do for my home was upgrading from vinyl to tile; one because I have a tendency to drop knives in the kitchen and I didn’t want to somehow slice my flooring and two because I wanted the look and durability of tile. Going with my overall theme of modern and fresh I found an awesome 13x13 grey tile amongst the many floor tile samples. It has an awesome texture, variation of tones and overall fits me and my style perfectly. Oh and it matches my cabinets and both countertops I have selected perfectly!

I will keep you in my bathroom just for a moment longer, to tell you about the wall tile that I selected for both my showers. I went through the wall tile samples multiple times, I wanted something that went with the floor tile and countertops I had already selected, but also wanted to make sure I picked a pattern with longevity, no cream undertones and that it wasn’t to white or to dark. The Design Studio offers many wall tile samples to choose from. After pulling MANY different options, I was able to find a light tile with beautiful grey undertones that matched my floor tile and countertop nicely with NO hint of cream. Can you tell I don’t like cream? ;)

The last selection I needed to make at the Design Studio was my trim and door package. I wanted something modern, something that was different from normal trim packages, clean lines and I didn’t want traditional details. I chose an upgraded package that I think is just beautiful! It is called Modern 1, so I think it was meant to be :).  I have attached a picture of it in one of our homes to show you, because it is difficult to describe its beauty!

That pretty much sums up my Design Studio Selection Process. There were some items that I stayed standard on because they worked for me – such as faucets, plumbing fixtures, interior and exterior door hardware, railings and spindles, etc. Also, with choosing to buy a townhome, my exterior colours and finishes were pre-selected for me. If you buy a single detached home you get the excitement of picking your exterior colour package as well. All Parkview Home Buyers have the opportunity to upgrade almost everything in their home, should their budget allow for it. If not there are so many awesome standard options, your home will looks fantastic no matter what!

You might be thinking I forget to go back and talk about my visit with our Kitchen Designer… I haven’t it was just such an awesome experience I want to give it it’s own blog so nothing is missed.

So until next time I hope this was helpful and I look forward to talking to you soon!

- Alyssa

Click here for more information about the Parkview Homes Design Studio!

(Also, there are fantastic videos on this page that will show you the Design Studio and explain the Design Studio (Colour) Selection process!)