Show 04 toft Lak Tr1bmV—rt Th product by tho Advortiaino tupplomont 2004 Stunto)f March Mom in 9 Mom Over-fhe-to-p Buyers can choose from nine Perry floor plans including ramy blers homes and split ' 1 Mowtpspor Agency Corporation excess returns two-stor- By ChaHyne Varkonyi Schaub Florida Sun Sentinel Sou of America Consider it the p The name may be pure new millennium but the excess we are seeing appears amazingly like the mind-se 1980s of the It's as if a time machine has transported us back to those high-glit- z days when the Reagans were in the White House Gordon the nighttime soap Dallas was No I and real-lif- e Gekkos believed greed was good Roll out the red carpet Luxury is back — in everything from fashion to home design And it's spelled with a capital bling-blingi- over-the-to- et look-at-m- 0 7 'L 1 W?P — Tm- - fc HHP'"'' - - - — - - — — - — inside look at the rich and famous Like the old days he sheets Sharon Osbourne showed us butlers bragging about her $350000 plastic surgery and Donald condo Trump showing off his 'gilt"-ridde- n And last month the buzz words at fall Fashion Week in New York were luxury and opulence Fashion designers who typically set the tone for home furnishings featured show-of- f details such as beading lace trim and embroidery — were de Shimmery metals — gold bronze and platinum rigueur Luxury certainly was the theme at South Florida designer show houses last year Two of the three celebrated "Castle Chic" Furniture was dark and ornately carved Mirrors were large and gilded Window treatments were elaborate d silk draperies with p including hand-tie- d trim and designs Despite the fact that this trend started at the designer level it is starting to trickle down to the masses The folks in the zero-lo- t line houses may not be able to afford the ultimate in quality — a $ 000 French tieback from Houles — but they can afford a $1 5 version from Pier 1 or one for S6750 from Boca Bargoons Even designers who cater to wealthy clients are noticing a demand for luxury design from the middle class "Today's buyer is more sophisticated" says Theresa Bartolo of Theresa Russell Interiors in Boca Raton Fla "They are not afraid to copy the rich They say 'We can afford it too' A method that designers use is to ask clients to cut out what they like from magazines 1 no longer have to tell them to do this They have a pile of pictures They expect you to give them as close as possible to what they want and stay within a respectable budget" Are all these things an aberration or are the '80s really back? "Yes they're back and they are going to get back more before the decade is out" says Robert Thompson professor of popular culture at Syracuse University "We could have seen it from a mile away or better yet 20 years away America has settled into a nostalgia recycling You knew that when the millennium turned that Mr T Alf and Air Supply records wouldn't be far behind" Although some aspects of the '80s may be back they are part of a bigger mix These days we love to pick from a menu of nostalgic items Thompson says the 1970s was the last decade that could be defined by a definite style We certainly have a melange of styles in home design but trend trackers say they are seeing a definite return to a "more is more" philosophy "I think it's pretty peculiar" says Michelle Lamb publisher of The Trend Curw "As bad as the economy has been it also spawned a return of tradition and formality We have been involved with minimalism for so long that there's nothing more to strip out When you take something as far as it can go how can you freshen it?" You freshen it with detailing You freshen it with color You go from silver back to gold You add furniture with carved details You dress windows like they were going out for a night on the town Whew Can you say opulence? Lamb says we are moving back to this look because we can The McMansion owners don't flinch at paying $10000' for an ornately carved bed but now average folks can get hand-warmi- 2m —— Perry's homes are cream of the crop at Canyon View Town 's historical 1 flavor takes owners back to 20th century By BeMy Schoeffler 'I LCI II — Utah's sixth oldest town Lchi was considered the "cream of the country" according to William Fothcringham a carpenter who settled there shortly after the first group of Mormon pioneers established a town just south of the "near the r—l N tjy y ' - - ' - T ' ! - - j-- Ja 20-ye- ar main-travel- road" in 1850 Bunch grass covered the land from Utah Lake to the top of the mountain wrote Fotheringham and he was able to find plenty of wood for Homebuilding along the cottonwood-linc- d creeks not Agriculture surprisingly was a mainstay of the community well into the 20th century Lehi Roller Mills still a town landmark just off the freeway exit has been processing the wheat oats and barley grown by area farmers since 1900 The surrounding mountains and canyons also sustained a thriving Lehi Stone Marble nnd Granite Works from 1897 to 1930 Perry I lomes has just opened a 34-lsubdivision in this "cream of the country" It hacks up to an open field and situated as it is in the heart of the valley feels quite sheltered and at home beneflavor as fiting from the area's still-rurwell as from its proximity to an historic part of town At the same time it's just five minutes and Saratoga Crossaway from both ing with its abundant commercial ot al hand-painte- over-the-to- rural NAC Senior Project Editor " In December Robin Leach returned to TV with Luxury an subdivision in Perry Homes is developing Canyon View Estates a 34-lLehi The homes all on quarter-acr- e lots start in the $1 50000s ot though and "where we're soils the are fine for basements" building She adds that the basements "finish off very well "They're not all cut up so the owners have lots of flexibility in the way they finish them Wherever they want bedrooms for instance that's where we can put them" There's plenty of space for bathrooms too she adds and higher ceilings make the basements very livable One of Perry's most popular styles the Hamilton rambler is on display at Canyon View Estates as the model home "It's popular for a couple of reasons" Mangum explains "It makes excellent use of the 1520 square feet of finished space and there's almost as much room in the unfinished basement" amenities and its connection via Redwood Road to Bangerter Highway a few miles north The homes all on quarter-acr- e lots start in the SI 50000s and the incredible incentives Perry Homes is offering makes them an even greater value Buyers receive 4000 square feet of sod and a $1450 landscaping allowance plus $4000 toward closing costs (which pretty much covers what it costs to close) if you use Perry's preferred lenders Buyers can choose from nine Perry floor y plans including ramblers homes and split levels All provide alternate ways to configure some of the space says Perry Realty sales agent Stacie Mangum and all include basements "That's unusual for this part of Lehi because of the high water table" Mangum says Perry Homes conducted soil tests on the property two-stor- See PERRY Page G 1 See EXCESS Page 3 Comfortably 1 priced from $114000 to $225000 Read Build Live tutor1 j The lasting leck and t::'-ty Turn Jhis Call of fresh lnto Thls! 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