If you’ve ever dreamed of living in the forest, you may be closer to realizing that dream than you know. Camelot Forest is a beautiful community nestled in the Camelot Forest Conservation area of the Poconos that offers outstanding single family living in a quiet, peaceful location surrounded by natural scenery! 

Most people planning on building a new home aren’t looking for a short-term solution to their housing needs. They plan to stay in their new home for a while. But how can you plan a new home that will meet your current needs and lifestyle while ensuring you’ll be comfortable and safe in the years to come?

In the summertime, a lot of people “head for the hills” (or in this area, they head for the Poconos Mountains). And while the Poconos do provide some relief from the heat that hits parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, there are still plenty of days when it can get a little warmer than is comfortable. The average high temperatures in the summer are around 80 degrees—but those “non-average” days can be a sticky mess. 

When it comes to designing the Master Bathroom in your new home, one question you’ll probably face is whether or not you should include a tub. Over the last few years, the debate on this has varied widely. Not all that long ago, the sense was that if you wanted a really nice “spa-like” bathroom, it meant including a large soaking tub (most likely with water jets). 

There once was a time when the kitchen was more or less “off limits” to anyone except immediate family. It was a working room, and it often looked like it. If you had company, they didn’t venture into that space. If you were really lucky, you might have doors that closed off the kitchen from the dining room so you could enjoy your meal without having to look at dirty dishes. 

Just a few weeks ago, Tesla’s Elon Musk made headlines again, but not with his electric car or one of his SpaceX rockets. The attention was on a new home battery, the Powerwall Home Battery that can power your entire home. Not long ago, that would have been viewed as an “interesting” idea that was kind of on the fringe. But what’s really interesting is that mere days after the announcement, Musk shared that his company had 38,000 reservations for the Powerwall. According to curbed.com that means the game-changing home battery is sold out until 2016. And while the batteries won’t ship until later this summer, Tesla may be looking at $800 million in revenue! 

As soon as you start thinking about building a custom home—and begin digging around for information—you start noticing articles, blogs, and whole websites devoted to the latest trends in homebuilding. 

When Kalahari Resorts & Conventions open their new Poconos resort this summer, it will be the largest indoor waterpark in the country. And while bigger is nice, they don’t plan to stop there. The resort is already working on the second phase of construction, which they say will make it “the best indoor waterpark in the world.” Bigger and better is a nice combination!

Here’s some of what the new resort will have to offer:

Starting out with a great kitchen floor plan is essential if you want a kitchen where you’ll enjoy working and entertaining. What makes it a great floor plan is if it fits your specific lifestyle and the flow of traffic in your house. Our floor plans offer you a wide variety of options when it comes to kitchens: from “eat-in” kitchens to kitchens that flow into your dining room or Great Room. You can see them for yourself here. 

Technology for the home continues to develop at an amazing pace. What’s interesting (at least in our mind) is that the trends have moved beyond “gadgets” that are interesting and maybe kind of fun to play with, to things that really make our lives easier and more comfortable on a daily basis.