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Food Events For Southern Living Showcase Home

Castle Homes Search for the Ultimate Southern Living Cookie

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:  Nancy McNulty September 29, 2011
McNulty Communications – 615/791-6456, ext. 1

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.—-The search for the Ultimate Southern Living Cookie is being held by the Southern Living Showcase Home team with the new KitchenAid mixer as the grand prize, currently available at Williams-Sonoma for $549.00. Get out your favorite cookie recipe and be sure it has a yummy southern flair or maybe is a little fall festive says the home’s builder, Castle Homes President Alan Looney.

Participants can now submit their favorite recipes for consideration to info@castlehomes.com.  Be sure and mark it Ultimate Southern Living Cookie in the subject line.  Recipes can be submitted through Sunday, October 16 at midnight.

Capturing the charm and beauty of Southern Living magazine, the mid-state’s top interior designers have teamed with Castle Homes and LP Building Products in presenting the Southern Living Showcase Home with the latest ideas in home design, green innovation and new building products with Ronald McDonald House Nashville as the benefiting charity. The fully furnished home, located off Granny White Pike near Old Hickory Boulevard intersection, features two adorable kid’s rooms and is packed with clever ideas from new paint and wall treatments to kitchen and bath products as well as outdoor living and game room features. Opening weekend is Friday, October 21 and then it is open Thursdays through Sunday until November 6 from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. In advance, tickets are $10 at www.castlehomes.com or available at the gate for $14.00. Children 12 and under are free.

Southern Living, published 12 times a year by the Time Inc. Lifestyle Group, is the nation’s fifth-largest monthly consumer magazine, reaching nearly 16 million readers each month. Founded in 1966, Southern Living offers today’s busy Southerners achievable ideas for cultivating their own Southern style. Each month in the magazine and on southernliving.com, readers find ideas for cooking, gardening, gracious entertaining, decorating, regional travel, and locally made products.

Showcase home sponsor, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation is a leading manufacturer of quality engineered wood building materials including OSB, structural framing products, and exterior siding for use in residential, industrial and light commercial construction. From manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada, Chile and Brazil, LP products are sold to builders and homeowners through building materials distributors and dealers and retail home centers. Founded in 1973, LP is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under LPX. For more information, visit www.lpcorp.com.

 

Southern Sophistication With Latest In Home Design, Building & Products

Southern Living Showcase Home – Oct. 21-Nov. 6 at Dorset Park

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 30, 2011
Media Contact:  Nancy McNulty
McNulty Communications – 615/791-6456, ext. 1
mcnultycom@bellsouth.net

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn—Southern sophistication with the latest in home design green innovation and new building ideas are featured in the area’s only Southern Living Showcase Home opening in the new Dorset Park neighborhood October 21 through November 6, being built by Castle Homes and presented by LP Building Products.

The Brentwood-based, award-winning custom home builder is teaming with 11 of the Middle Tennessee area’s top designers to produce a stunning, $1.2 million French Country home inspired by the pages of Southern Living magazine..

“As a member of the Southern Living Custom Builders Program, we are thrilled to be building a Southern Living Showcase Home. From new paint techniques and colors to the latest in kitchen, bath and kids’ room décor, this showcase home is the premier home tour event providing incredible design inspiration,” said Alan Looney, president of Castle Homes. “Built with the latest LP Building products for durability and performance, elements like the LP TechShield, which potentially reduces the homes heating and air conditioning costs, is helping to ensure the home is also green certified.”

Ronald McDonald House Nashville is the event’s benefiting charity and an adorable boy’s bedroom and tween girl’s room, by designers Lee Shacklock and Kristen Finney respectively, both embrace this charitable connection. Using low VOC paints, the rooms are full of whimsy and great design ideas.  In addition, the books found in each room are provided by the Books from Birth Middle Tennessee and will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Nashville after the tour.

Some of the showcase home’s don’t miss features include: Vintage Southern Glam Guest Room; Old World textured exterior paint – a new twist in the application of Sherwin Williams’ UltraCrete Acrylic Texture Coating; a NanaWall seamlessly weaving outdoor and indoor living; Kohler’s new “Whitehaven” enameled, cast-iron, farmhouse sink with an apron-front and parq chrome bridge style Kohler faucet; iPad controlled home technology; intriguing international furnishings including an exotic Indonesian teak root table; “Blue Lagos” colored quartz CaesarStone; Annie Sloan Chalk Paint; upcycling of furniture; an original wall treatment custom from Polverigi, Italy; Water Safe, home leak detection and notification system; and Outdoor Living Room with new Screen Tight mini-track door system.

The team, headed by Castle Homes’ in-house designers Caroline Weigel and Heather Looney, includes: Amanda Burdge, Allied ASID, AB HOME Interiors, INC.; Dana Goodman, ASID, Dana Goodman Interiors; Lee Shacklock, Lee Shacklock Interior Design; Kippie Leland, ASID, Leland Interiors, LLC; Jennifer Jones, Allied ASID, Jennifer Jones, Inc.; Jerome Farris, Peddler Interiors; Kristen Finney, Allied ASID, Finney Interiors; Beth Jones, ASID, The Interior Collection; Treesa Hudson, Allied ASID, Bradford’s Interiors; and decorative artisans Mojo Faux, Bella Tucker Decorative Finishes, Leigh Ann Agee and William Bell.

The Southern Living Showcase Home, 913 Dorset Drive, Brentwood, Tennessee (37027), benefits Ronald McDonald House Nashville. Opening weekend is Friday, October 21 and then Thursdays through Sunday until November 6 from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. For exact days and on-line ticket purchasing, visit www.castlehomes.com. In advance, tickets are $10 or available at the gate for $14.00. Children 12 and under are free. The After The Tour Sale is Monday, November 7 when items in the home are available for purchase 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The first house to be completed in Dorset Park, the neighborhood is located off Granny White Pike in Nashville. Developed by Landmark Realty Services Corporation. It is one of the last remaining opportunities to build in a new community in the Green Hills/Forest Hills/Oak Hill area of Nashville with only sixteen home sites.

Showcase home sponsor, Louisiana-Pacific Corporation is a leading manufacturer of quality engineered wood building materials including OSB, structural framing products, and exterior siding for use in residential, industrial and light commercial construction. From manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Canada, Chile and Brazil, LP products are sold to builders and homeowners through building materials distributors and dealers and retail home centers. Founded in 1973, LP is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under LPX. For more information, visit www.lpcorp.com.

Southern Living, published 12 times a year by the Time Inc. Lifestyle Group, is the nation’s fifth-largest monthly consumer magazine, reaching nearly 16 million readers each month. Founded in 1966, Southern Living offers today’s busy Southerners achievable ideas for cultivating their own Southern style. Each month in the magazine and on southernliving.com, readers find ideas for cooking, gardening, gracious entertaining, decorating, regional travel, and locally made products.

 

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