Model Home Sales Office at 1333 Rt. 315, Wilkes-Barre.  Its time to start planning your Energy Star, NAHB Green home.  Our Sales Office hours are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 1-6pm, Saturday-Sunday 1-4pm, or by appointment.

This years Home and Lifesyle Showcase will take place February 17th-19th at the Electric City Plaza.  This event is a perfect escape from the winter doldrums. What better destination to change your outlook, check out a lego competition, and enter to win a bathroom make-over?  While you are there stop by our booths, find out why building "Green" is not all about solar panels and wind-mills, check out our newest designs, what we have under-construction, and a man-cave that takes the concept to a whole new level!

 Show hours:

 Friday, February 17th --5-9pm

Saturday, February 18th --9am-7pm

Sunday, February 19th--9am- 4pm 

Hope to see you there! 

If you cannot make it to the Lackawanna Builders Home and Lifestyle Show, no worries.  Put the BIA of NEPA  Home and Remodeling Show  on your calendar, March 2nd-4th.  Of course, we'll be there and look forward to your stopping by our booths so that we can show off some of the fantastic homes and projects we completed this year.  So mark it on your calendar and start making plans for when the ice thaws.  In the meantime, stop by our model home offices and check out our latest designs and current projects. 

Our Energy Star, NAHB Green-Gold home was featured in Dreams magazine.

Feature entitled "There's Beauty in the Basics

http://dreamsmagazine.us/tag/hanover-homes-north

Striking a balance between dreams and reality too often has us walking a fine line between budgets and codes.  We've posted on Facebook some of our newest projects--completed and underway-- that have met each  Owners' living requirements and expectations.  If you like our newest designs please let us know.

Click:  www.facebook.com/hanoverhomes

If you are on the lookout for new digs or a trusty companion, then stop by the Kingston Armory this weekend. The Building Industry Association of NEPA will be holding their annual Home and Remodeling Expo. 

It’s the perfect weekend activity--on display a ’67 Malibu Antique Historic Chevy, savory Virginia Barbeque, and Make-A-Wish raffles for a hand-crafted picnic table, bridge, and other creative projects. 

Best part? No admission fees to enter if you make a non-perishable donation!

The Wilkes-Barre SPCA will be there all weekend. Their furry friends are sure to have your family begging to take one of these little guys home. And, of course, there will be a great variety of vendors with ideas to spruce up your home and with plans to build you a new home. Don’t forget to stop by the Hanover Homes booths and check out what we’ve built for your neighbors this year! 

Hope to see you there.

High-performance, energy efficient, Green, sustainable construction—call it whatever you want.  We knew all along that it was something of extreme value to our customers.  As I recently read in several national newspapers, the “Big Boys” have finally discovered the key to building technologically superior homes.  KB Home—one of the nation’s largest builders— Pulte, Meritage and other national builders have announced that they will be producing energy efficient homes beginning over the next several months. 

We are light-years ahead of these home builders since we have been building our homes for at least the past decade to the Energy Star® standards which they are now just discovering.  Recently, we decided to have our homes certified to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Star program criteria which evaluates how energy efficient our homes are as compared to their Home Energy Rating System (HERS).  The HERS score (the lower the score, the better) rates the energy efficiency and projects the utility costs.  We have consistently scored at 40 to 65 on their scale.  This is 35% to 60% more efficient than houses built to code.  Existing homes built fifteen or more years ago generally score at 130 which means that our homes are more than twice as energy efficient. 

A foreclosed home may cost less upfront; however, chances are you will pay double the utility costs forever.  Look for our “Energy Performance Guide” which we will feature on all of our new homes.

1. Don’t ask which teams are playing: All you'll get is some eye rolling and a few groans. (By the way, this year the Steelers and Packers will play in the Cowboys Stadium in Texas.)

2. Don't interrupt those watching the game unless the house is burning down.

3. Timing is everything! Attend the Lackawanna Home Builders Home and Lifestyle Show at the Scranton Ice Box. The show starts Friday night February 4th and ends on Sunday, Feb. 6th, with plenty of time to make it to a Super Bowl bash, a tailgate, or back in front of your flat screen TV. 

4. Be in the right place at the right time. Stop by the Hanover Homes North display. Check out our newest home designs, kitchens, and recently constructed niche project—a tall timbered hunting lodge whose fieldstone fireplace and beamed ceiling that will surely appeal to your inner wild side!  

Re-purposed chestnut siding was hand-crafted into a stunning 400 lb.  entry door.

Then, click your mouse and check out The Hunt Doctor, aka Dr. Bill Prebola, as he sets his sights on the ultimate man cave: a hunting lodge constructed by Hanover Homes North Corporation, designed by architect Joseph G. Slobodnik.

 Is your heart pumping yet? If not, tune back in to check out photos of the finished lodge! 

While you're at it, visit www.huntdoctor.com and make sure your heart is up for the chase!

For more details regarding news broadcast please visit:

http://www.wnep.com/videobeta/?watchId=2b68aedd-41e5-4103-ae31-3a8db8496a3b

 Beautiful new two-story completed in Luzerne County.  Passed Energy Star guidelines with flying colors.

Just prior to the Owners moving in a Blower Door test was completed by Peter Vargo of Nu Tech Energy Solutions.  Blower door tests measure the tightness of a building envelope.  A tight home results in substantial energy/utility cost savings keeping warm air in during the winter and cooler air in the summer.  The results were excellent. Mr. Vargo commented "without any formal statistics to compare to, the blower door number was in the 90th percentile of the hundreds of stick frame, batt insulated homes I have tested.  I was very pleased and impressed as there was no extraordinary effort on Hanover's part to tighten up the home beyond their standard building practice.  To have a builder achieving these numbers is very impressive to say the least."

Today's home buyers want their homes to be comfortable and energy efficient at the same time.  Seeking a retreat from the world many buyers like the timeless appeal of the farmhouse design with it's front porch charm that points to the past.  But flexible interior space planning adds a sense of discovery, of excitement to yesterday's farmhouses.

 Below find a Farmhouse design home recently constructed in Blue Heron Woods, Wayne County.