Canada Geese Provide Morning Entertainment

April 7, 2012

Fringe Benefit Of Quad City Acreage There are many benefits to living in a beautiful custom home on a large acreage, this one being south of the Quad Cities in Western Illinois. This morning I awoke to the sound of some honking geese out in the backyard. It was fun to watch them gyrate with […]

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Want To Park Your Truck In The Garage For Once?

March 13, 2012

Oversize Garage Doors and Large Garage Fit Pickup Trucks Are you sick of seeing “3 Car Garages” with what amounts to 1 large single vehicle door masquerading as a 2 car garage door and a 1 large walk-in overhead door being palmed off as a single car garage? In the former, two medium size cars […]

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Here Is What’s Wrong With This House – And Why It Doesn’t Matter

March 8, 2012

If It Weren’t For These “Flaws”, You Wouldn’t Want It I once read a story of a real estate developer who had a nice new subdivision with all of the homes sold except for a few along the back of the development. The problem? There was a railroad track on the other side of the […]

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This Is What It Looks Like Now

March 8, 2012

Pine Trees Assure A Gorgeous View Year-Round I wrote the other day how beautiful it is on our Illinois acreage south of the Quad Cities, and north of Galesburg if that helps anyone, when it snows. Well, it’s March and sometimes those snow falls don’t last very long. Within a couple of days we are […]

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Do You Rejoice When It Snows? You Would If You Lived Here!

March 5, 2012

Home and Land For Sale – Quad Cities, Illinois We first fell in love with this property when it was blanketed by a March snowfall, like we just got yesterday. Within a year we had built a beautiful custom home with quality construction and space like you have probably never seen before. Morton Buildings put […]

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Photos of Deer (Bucks) in Backyard of Home With Acreage For Sale Quad Cities Illinois

March 1, 2012

We are not deer hunters but we do enjoy antler hunting on our 87 acre wildlife paradise and it’s just about that time of year again. What I saw today was encouraging but also a hint that it’s not quite time to go hiking through the woods yet, at least not expecting to find discarded […]

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See Why This Isn’t Just Any Garage

March 1, 2012

When was the last time you broke a mirror on your car pulling in our out of your “standard” size garage with “standard” sized garage doors? Or do you park so close to the other car in the 2 car garage that one of you has to climb out through the passenger door? That gets […]

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Here Is The Quad Cities House For Sale With Acreage You Want

February 29, 2012

When looking for houses with acreage for sale in the Illinois Quad Cities area you need look no further than this beautiful custom home with 3000 square feet upstairs and superbly appointed three-fourths finished lower level on 87 acres. Want good schools? Got them. Want easy access to highways? Got them, just a couple of […]

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Does Your View Look Like This When You Wake Up To Snow?

February 25, 2012

It doesn’t take much to turn this home with property into a one big gorgeous winter snowscape. Many people wake up to snow and think “uggh!”. But when you live on this beautiful western Illinois acreage you think “quick! grab the camera!”. The only danger here is that you will run out of hard drive […]

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Skylights Provide Free Light In Day, Moonbeams At Night

January 26, 2012

The advantage to your new custom home is that the skylights sizes and locations were picked while the home was under construction. When the roof trusses were set into place and sheathing going on it became clear which areas of the home would benefit most from having natural light provided by skylights. The original plan […]

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