New HGTV Green Home Section!
Good afternoon HGTV Dream Home fans! There hasn’t been anything new to report in a few weeks, but the summer’s about to get a lot more interesting.
We just added an HGTV Green Home section, the place to go to look for the latest updates on the very first HGTV Green Home Giveaway. Check it out now, and be sure to read HGTV Dream Home designer Linda Woodrum’s tips on choosing items that are earth-friendly when decorating your home. And remember, we’re going to give it all away next year! You’ll be able to enter for a chance to win the home in 2008.
And look for more updates on the HGTV Dream Home 2008, currently being built in Islamorada, Fla. We’ll have the first images and videos from the construction site coming soon. And you’ll be able to enter for a chance to win this fabulous custom home in the Florida Keys starting Jan. 1, 2008.
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To LEILIA and LARKIN: Came across an article in one of my magazines that said a couple (can’t remember their names) was having the DIY home built in Orlando, Florida, and was having a kitchen design prfessional help them plan their dream kitchen. Lucky people. Congratulations to them! I will keep dreaming about the HGTV homes in 2008. I know my fellow blogger friends will be happy for whoever wins one of them. But wouldn’t it be wonderful if it was one of us? Good fortune can come in many ways. Keep the faith and pass on the love.
I live in the Tallahassee, FL area. I know that a lot of you out-of-staters think that Florida is all beaches and ’round-the-year summer, but it is a lot more than that. There are beautiful old growth pine woods and hundred-year-old Live Oaks. Rolling hills and crystal clear springs. Historic small towns and lazy pastures. Farms, plantations, and roadside fruit and vegetable stands. Canopy roads and stately historic homes-turned museums. Festivals of all kinds from watermelon festivals to oysters festivals. Someday I would love to see a home (most definitely a green home!) built in this area. The one built in the Panama City area doesn’t count (it is in one of the top ‘spring break’ capitols). Folks, unless there is a hurricane about to hit here or a tornado, most people forget this area even exists. Even the Weather Channel thinks that Florida begins somewhere just north of Orlando! Ask most schoolchildren what the capitol of Florida is and most will say “Miami”! I know I sound bitter, but I didn’t move here for retirement, I live here. I raised my children here, and they are now raising their own children here. Anyway, a Green Home would be wonderful for this area. Or, how about a ‘Hometown Dream Home’ that is built in or near the winner’s hometown? Just a thought…
GRAYSAND: You sound like a true believer in what the State of Florida has to offer besides beaches and you don’t sound bitter to me at all. Just a lot of worthwhile information about your home state. I love your idea of a “Hometown Dream Home”. Don’t know how HGTV could pull this off, but wouldn’t it make a great sweepstake? And, of course it would be a “Green Home” making it even better. We know the current Green Home is being built now, but we don’t know where. How long is fcole going to keep us wondering, without any clues at all. Maybe not until 2008. Bummer.
LISA B: Where are you? This give-away could be just what you need. We are all praying for you. Please post a reply. Love to all dreamers, no matter what color you are. Just be green at heart to keep our precious earth healthy.
Thanks katydid, I just got your msg. Good luck to you also.
I would love to see this new green home. I’m am more interested than ever in learning more about this type of home. I wish there were more home plans that I could look at for a passive solar home in the northeast. I would love to build one on my 4 acre lot in NY.
Cannot wait to see this great green house.
Awesome view! Just make sure there’s at least one bedroom downstairs. I’ve participated in 05’06’07′no luck! This time the luck will be mine. Remember I said it! Hoping to meet you all,so you can walk me through my new home. Anticipated thank you for building my Dream
Home. Smile! I feel optimistic.
I would like my Dream Home built in Ocean City, New Jersey, right on the beach, so I can open the door and step in the ocean. It would have to have an outdoor pool and an indoor pool. It must have an elevator because I can’t walk up a lot of steps. Another must is a large large window to look at the ocean all day.
I would guess it is on Hilton Head Island in the Sea Pines area. NICE.
I just love these things. They make you want to keep up on what goes on with the sweepstakes give aways. For the past couple of years I watched on tv all these neat things, but never realized that there was a site to come to to sign up. Well, now there is and I try to enter everyday if possible. I’m wishing upon a star in hopes that one day I’ll get that call saying I’ve won an awesome house in a location where I can drull over. lol I will say one thing, all of HDTV and DIYNETWORK sites are the most informative and has helped me insulate and fix things I never knew was possible for one woman to do. It has given me faith to believe that women are just as good as the men and yet at the same time we have much more patience than most men. lol I love you all. Keep up the good works. I love staying educated on home repairs and maintainance. Thank You
I’m hesitant about trying to even try for this new DH. The location makes me want to ask the question…How will this home stand up to Hurricanes?? As we all know, hurricanes are getting bigger and more violent. Being right on the Keys seems a little scary. What do you think??
I have always been interested in a green home, my ideal dream home is a home built inground. I did research them for a while but due to finances we ended up with a habitat for humanity house. I have become very disapointed with my areas group,my furnace is high in cost and after only 10 years it should be replaced. Some seconds should not be used in homes and volenter “proffecionals” should be checked out better.Sorry off subject, anyway an inground solar home should be the next GREEN HOME.
Just to be Green is to be happy, I’d love the chance to be green, and to live in the south again in N.C would be a dream come true, Goodluck to all and I hope you become Green.
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Any “green” home ANYWHERE would be fine for me and my pets! I was born in Alaska, but I think not Alaska for one of your magic homes! I am an environmentalist (not a tree-hugger) and I try hard to recycle and plant plants for the birds, which I love to watch. I make bird houses, put out nesting material, and extra feed for them. I have a green thumb as well! My humble abode is decorated with plants; so you might say I bring green with me! I am obsessed with HGTV on the weekends! I find your shows full of advice and simple fixes which are genius to me. Your people are so imaginative it is captivating! If I only had my own house to work with. But, if I won your home, I wouldn’t have to, would I?
I have a suggestion to make about next year’s dream home.
After the plans for the dream home have been finalized, the drawing could be set forth and whomever wins, would be able to pick out a piece of property and the home could be built there.
The places where the dream homes have been, are wonderful, but the majority of the population would not be able to travel to the home more than once a year, let alone pay the property taxes, etc.
That way the family who won would be able to truely enjoy the home the way it was meant to be enjoyed!
Just a thought!
What is the square footage of the green home? Can the plans for this house be purchased????
Please write back as I would like to have those plans. Thank You
Does anyone ever find out how many of the winners of the dream homes actually stay in the house? Or actually live in them? I tried to find out what the tax rate was in one of the state’s the dream home was located in, but had a very hard time doing so. Some homes will be out of range for real estate taxes, but you will still be able to make a profit if you sell it. TShreve
Why would you want to sale it? Why not injoy the home for a vacation home.. And why would the home be out of range for ‘real estate’ taxes? I would contact the tax accsesors office for that state and county. They should be able to give you the info that you seem to be looking for.