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Do your New Year’s plans include looking for a new home? Napolitano Homes has several beautiful communities in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Suffolk, and Moyock to choose from. After picking the perfect model for your dream home, it’s time to start thinking about interior design. What colors should the walls be? What decor should you use as accent colors? Here is a helpful list of color palettes that are trending for 2013 according to Benjamin Moore. Get creative!

ARTISAN

A rich and inviting palette evocative of treasured antiques, eclectic finds and distant journeys.

URBANITE

This palette of chic, crisp hues and unexpected contrasts conveys a cool, cosmopolitan vibe.

NEW TRADITIONAL

A fresh interpretation of classic elegance showcases bold colors and patterns that create a warm, inviting retreat.

COASTAL

This refreshing, nature-inspired palette is infused with a contemporary sensibility that transcends the expected.

COLOR OF THE YEAR 2013

Wyeth Blue (HC-143)
Much more versatile than you may think, blue is truly a classic color. It has universal appeal, never goes out of style, and is overwhelmingly chosen as a color favorite across North America. It evokes the sea and sky, physically calms us, and symbolizes trust and commitment.Because of the influence that blue has in our world today, we have chosen wyeth blue (HC-143) as Benjamin Moore’s 2012 Color of the Year. It’s a beautiful, calming hue that has an element of heritage and offers grounding rootedness, providing comfort and stability.

Would you leave your bedroom window open all winter? How about tacking on EXTRA money to your Dominion power bill, just for the heck of it? Not winterizing your home and preparing for the upcoming cold season is the equivalent of doing just that.

So while you’re digging sweaters, jackets, and mittens out of the bottom of the closet for yourself, remember to give your home its own button-up to save on energy and potentially expensive future repair bills. Just follow these simple steps!

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The look of an all brick home is very traditional and beautiful, this enduring substance has certainly not lost it’s appeal. So, what is it with this building material that has made it stick around so long? A brick is described as a block or single unit of ceramic material used in masonry construction. When it comes to maintenance of these nifty little ceramic blocks there really isn’t any. It will never need painting and you will never Read the rest of this entry »

We all remember the days of bad wallpaper. Some of those are not gone, but we must say that there are some amazing choices and advancements out there today when you’re looking for something to slap up there on that empty wall. More and more we are seeing wallpaper not used only to cover a whole room but to replace paint on an accent wall. The above image is Read the rest of this entry »

There is something new coming to our Suffolk, Va New Home community,  The Vineyards at Bennett’s Creek Square. Our Nouveau Sales Office will be open for business the second weekend of June, 2012. These homes will be priced in the high $190′s and will be prefect for the first time home buyer who is tired of renting. These Attached Quad Homes will feature 9 foot first floor ceilings, a private patio for each home, gas fireplace, 1 car garage and 4 different model types to choose from. The Atwood Model shown below with The Laurent Model next door, will be a 2 bedroom home and The Laurent, a 3 Bedroom. This series will bring a new dynamic to The Vineyards. Giving the buyer a choice between our current 1 level product,  The Signature Series and The Nouveau Series which will offer 2 floors.

We are also running a very exciting opening incentive for our first 5 Home Buyers that purchase a Nouveau Series home. We will being them a choice of a Free Fridge or Washer & Dryer AND a brand new Apple iPad.*  This will only be for the first 5 sales so make sure you don’t miss out!

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Today, people are on their smart phones and tablets looking for their next home before they ever actually step foot in it. They visit sites like Trulia, Yelp, Facebook and other favorites every day. So you need to have some strategies to help get them off their phones and into your open house. You can have a huge Social Media following and list every home you’re selling online but if your efforts are not getting actual buyers to the house what good is it doing you? Here are a few ways to get them off their phones and into your homes!

1. Invite Away
You are going to want to invite your followers on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and so on. It is very easy to create an event on Facebook for any open house you are setting up. Head to Facebook.com/events and you’re ready to roll. Is just sending an invite really enough though? Take this idea farther, make it fun and help convert your Likers into visitors. Use your Social Media and post a coupon on your Facebook page instructing people to print it out, bring it with them and they will get a $10 Gift Card to Home Depot. Or tell them to share the post and they will be entered into a drawing that will take place at the open house and they must be present to win. You get the idea. Read the rest of this entry »

After such a great response from our recent blog, The Best Apps for Your Home, we thought a post highlighting Apps that no home buyer should meet their Realtor without would be helpful and interesting for you. So here are 4 great Apps to put on your smart phones and tablets that can help you organize your thoughts and search for a new home.

House Hunter ($3.99 for iPhone)
This useful App will help you get all your ducks in a row. Or homes, in this case. Organize your notes, photos and what’s important to you in each house that you look at during your purchasing process. You can easily see what features were in each home you looked at. You don’t want to forget after the 7th house you walk into what the first one looked like. With features like a mortgage calculator, photo center and a great tool that lets you share notes with your Realtor, you won’t want to look for a home without this House Hunter.  Read the rest of this entry »

Standing out from the the crowd is something you hear a lot about these days with the housing market the way it is. Whether you’re a new home builder or Realtor, there’s certainly a lot of pressure to “Be Different.” But here’s the million dollar question. How? What can you do to stand out over everyone else selling homes in your area? Here are a few helpful tips and ideas that might help you get started on the road to differentiation and more homes sold!

1. Know where you are.
You need to take a step back and look at what the market is doing in your area. Don’t pay attention to what they’re saying on the national news. Narrow down the specific communities you’re selling in and the area you’re around the most. What do buyers and people in your market think is important when it comes to buying a home, or even real estate in general. But most importantly you want to find out what other Realtors are not doing and do it. Find a hole that no one else is filling and be that plug! There are so many Realtors that are online but you won’t remember half of them. Why? No one is going to remember something that looks like everything else. Read the rest of this entry »

We know, we know, it’s still a few months till spring and this post may be jumping the gun a bit or maybe we’re rushing the warmer weather. Either way, here are a few of our Home Care Tips to help get your home it tip top shape and ready for the spring. 

Don’t be Afraid to Get Dirty!

Everyone loves to see all the new flowers that pop out in the spring, so make sure your yard is ready for them. Get that rake out and rid your beds of leaves and other leftover winter debris that could prevent those little flowers from making their grand entrance. Use a hoe to work up and loosen the soil, and mix in compost for nutrients. These steps will ensure healthy new beautiful flowers that would make any neighbor jealous! Take a look at some spring flower options for your garden HERE.

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Meet The Vineyards at Bennett’s Creek Square. 1 of 5 Napolitano Homes Communities located in Suffolk, Virginia. These homes are very conveniently positioned right off of Shoulders Hill Rd. and around the corner from Route 17. This community currently consists of attached single level homes starting in the mid $200′s. But Napolitano will be unveiling a new product line later this year. (We’ll save that for another blog). These homes boast open and spacious floorplans, with a private patio area and a 2 car garage for each unit.
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