R5Realty News and Notes

Market Snapshots and Commentary on Value and Quality of life along the former Main Line of the Pennsylvania Rail Road, up until recently called the R5 Line, and now officially known as the Paoli /Thorndale line. R5Realty runs from Center City Philadelphia through the walkable, Westward outlying Towns & Townships.

Friday, January 13, 2012

New Narberth Home: Thinking Outside the Box





 At Left: Garage & In-Law Suite, Center is Main House. Right is Retained Element of Original Farm House.

   
  This brand new modular, pre-fab home is in rapid progress of being completed on a gorgeous 1.1 acre lot at 233 Righters Mill Rd in Narberth/Penn Valley. New owners are relocating from Art Museum area and plan to enjoy the wonderful Elementary school just down the street. R5Realty plans to post updates photos but rest-assured, this is no glorified trailer park.  Extensive planning and consideration went into the $500,000 purchase of the property and the well-worn and now razed 75-year-old farmhouse. 
 Neighbors are fotunate to welcome new owners, who are constructing just their own custom-planned 5,000+ sq ft., single-family dwelling, progressively designed and sensibly situated to retain the distinctive quality of the neighborhood and bucolic landscape. Scranton's Simplex Industries and Orion General Contracting began assembling the prefabricated modular sections on January 11. 

The project is expected to take about two months to complete, but you would never know it given the alacrity with which  a huge crane hoisted and swung modules into place on the pre-poured foundation. In addition to the main structure, the home will have a garage and mother-in-law suite attached via breezeway. A small portion of the original farmhouse has been salvaged and owner plan to creatively incorporate it into/onto the main home. This sensitivity and vision is representative of the project as a whole, which utilizes a variety of green concepts efficiencies.
 Lots More R5 Realty Photos of the Project

Cranes lift and place modules forming the Main House. Plans for incorporating original remnant are TBD.

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