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notice immediately that the designer has
tried to provide for a continuation of the
welcoming look and one must admit,
succeeded admirably in doing so. The
living and dining rooms are on split levels,
the former on the lower level while the
latter is right next to the well planned
kitchen. On the opposite side is a guest
room with inbuilt wall cabinets. Here it
must be mentioned that all the bedrooms
have inbuilt cabinets, which some would
say is quite the norm nowadays. But hold
on, in the case of Southern Height homes,
thought has been given to make them
reassuringly capacious. Consideration has
also been given to making them into special
features of the rooms, this being assured
by use of refined materials. When talking about refinement
(and in fact one word to describe these houses could well
be - ‘refined’) the architect has given much attention to
the use of elegant but sturdy fittings
throughout. For instance, the doors are
something that are to be admired, made
as they are of polished timber; the
windows have been made all the more
graceful due to use of glossy aluminium
fittings. The windows are also provided
with mesh shutters thus ensuring anti-fly
screen provision. The main gate is of metal
and 10 feet wide while the boundary wall
is a combination of masonry wall and
decorative plaster and metallic fence. As
far as flooring is concerned, the living and
dining rooms have wooden parquet floors
while the bedrooms have IPS flooring
(with the option of extra flooring left to
the owner’s choice). It should be noted that
the model home interiors have been done
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