Dave Zellar and Robin Curtis, proud founders of Zellar Homes, Ltd. are pleased to present The Chaplin, our smart design for the 2011 Parade of Homes at Inverness Gardens.

Zellar Homes is known for beautifully built homes, each one custom designed for our clients. Since 2004, Zellar Homes has stayed passionately committed to our clients by offering timeless custom designs, high quality construction, energy efficiency (Every Zellar Home is an Energy Star home) and enduring client satisfaction. To achieve these goals, Zellar Homes enlists the best professionals to design, build, finance and decorate your home.

When you build with Zellar Homes, you’ll sit down with our design team and a plan will be uniquely created to fulfill your family’s lifestyle, budget and desired location. The ZH interview process is fun; we’ll engage you in every step and ultimately, the ZH creative team takes your ideas and makes them sing.

Dave and Robin will help you find the right site for your home. Zellar Homes builds in a variety of areas and has a flair for the off-site construction experience. The way a home sits on the earth is just as important as its components or its interior design.

Zellar Homes also offers you a variety of financing options. Our mortgage consultant is an expert in new construction and will find the right product to make building a new home work for you.

Dave instinctively understands the totality of a home and he’ll help you edit your choices so that the whole of your home sets the stage for your family’s daily lives. You, your family and guests will appreciate his imperceptible attention to detail throughout your home and be able to relax, enjoy life and perhaps, even be inspired.

Zellar Homes’ 2011 Parade Model, The Chaplin, is no exception to this thoughtful approach.

To learn more about Zellar Homes, feel free to browse our website.

Our testimonial:

"Building a new Zellar home…wow! What an amazing journey and wonderful experience. I would build another house with you in a heartbeat."

Proudly, a new Zellar Home owner, Mary Anthony

Zellar Homes proudly presents The Chaplin, 2,100 square feet of restrained opulence in a custom one level home aptly named after the beloved entertainer, Charlie Chaplin for the home’s genius and timelessness.



Why is The Chaplin by Zellar Homes in Inverness Gardens the smart choice?

The Chaplin incorporates multi-purpose spaces, storage and smaller rooms (where less is sufficient) into their clever design.

The covered veranda (so popular in The Hepburn last year) returns for a curtain call in The Chaplin, giving their client a smart, year-round benefit to their semi-private outdoor space.

Zellar Homes celebrates the smart approach to smaller parcels (less to maintain) in Inverness Gardens and designed The Chaplin for optimal privacy from all sides.

Zellar Homes offers an affordable home in Inverness Gardens because of its smart location: close to airport, highways, Wegmans and North Medical Center.

Every Zellar Home is a smartly constructed Energy Star certified home.

To achieve just the right blend of nostalgia and current trend while maintaining the smart approach of new construction, ZH had some fun with The Chaplin. For instance, The Chaplin incorporates your treadmill into the laundry room and your stainless steel refrigerator and wine cooler into the scullery.

Edward Peterson Design helped set the stage for the client who appreciates state of the art new construction while embracing the character and tradition of the past by selecting cool, clean gray, linen, pewter and barely blue hues to compliment his choices in classic and familiar pieces reinterpreted for today. “I kept imagining that person or couple who is scaling down, thinking new, thinking updated while holding onto a few good pieces from the past.” Throughout the home, Ed harmoniously mixes the comforting patina of treasured antiques with the trendy textures of rattan and etched glass. He draped the tall windows in flowing, soft fabrics with sheer leaf and bird motifs to accent the height of the ceilings and the beauty of the hardwoods.

The floor to cathedral ceiling stacked stone fireplace dramatically holds the focus of the great room while the flat screen slyly hides behind attractive cabinetry on either side. The convenient built-in home office space - richly appointed with maple cabinetry and granite desk top is separated from the great room by an architectural arched transom, half wall and plantation shutters. A gourmet kitchen and casual dining space offer ideal flow for relaxed entertaining and feature: a massive center island, bar seating, stainless double oven and cook-top and captivating wall of framed memories. The owner suite features a king-sized bedroom bathed in natural light with two walls of southern facing windows, a grand walk-in closet and a spa-like mud shower with bamboo style dual shower heads and textured tile and for a little wow factor: three magnificent sheets of frosted glass. When guests come to stay in this smartly designed retreat, they’ll have separate accommodations, bedroom and bath, at the front of the home and a small courtyard to view through the window. The side load garage with attractive carriage doors leads to the mud hall entrance and charming built in seat, ample storage and pet stop.

With Zellar Homes, The Chaplin and Inverness Gardens, you’ll know you’ve got that magic equation: Smart builder + Smart design = Smart living.