Ten Huber Heights homes featured in Eco-Rehabarama Showcase in May

By Ken Mosier, For Real Estate Plus Updated 2:43 PM Friday, May 4, 2012

Ten homes in Huber Heights will be featured in the Eco-Rehabarama Showcase being held in conjunction with the Dayton Home Builders Association and CountyCorps The Housing Source, which uses funds for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

These 10 homes will be unlike any Huber Home you have ever seen. All have undergone extensive rehabilitation and have features sometimes seen only in Homearama homes.

For the first time the Rehabarama is being held outside the city of Dayton.

This is the first time that weve called it an Eco-Rehabarama, which is an emphasis on green remodeling in this case, said Walt Hibner, executive director of the Dayton HBA. Its pretty unbelievable how much (the remodelers) have changed them. Some of these we have done room additions. Some of the Cape Cods, we have taken off the whole roof and put in a second story, and some houses went from three bedrooms and one bath to four bedrooms and three baths.

These arent your fathers Huber Homes, he said.

These homes in the Eco-Rehabarama are off the hook, said Adam Blake, housing development manager for CountyCorp. He explained how the showcase came about. We had already rehabbed 30 homes and we went to the contractors that were doing the Rehabarama and said, Heres your budget. We know how much this costs to do. The challenge for you is to go to your suppliers and your (subcontractors) and get them to play ball on the pricing so that you can make your home outstanding and really showcase your talents as remodelers.

We gave them the budget number for each house and gave the builders and remodelers leeway to get creative with what they wanted to do as long as it ended up being a marketable home, Hibner said. Each builder or remodeler kind of focused on a different theme.

The seven builders accepted the challenge. One added an outdoor living space covered by a pergola; one took the low-VOC/allergy-free route; another turned the top of a story-and-a-half home into a loft area; another put in a sun nook with wall windows as the kitchen was remodeled; and another used reclaimed materials from Dayton homes that had been deconstructed, including constructing custom kitchen cabinets from ash floorboards from a deconstructed home.

New windows, new roof, Hibner said, noting that the Huber 3/8-inch plywood sheeting on the roofs has been upgraded to code. New shingles, new doors. Essentially any framing that was bad inside the walls was redone.

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