Why spend $100 an hour for an interior designer (the going rate in Colorado, according to Pro Matcher) when you can download and master the latest design apps on your phone or computer? We pulled together a few of the latest and handiest digital design tools so you can see for yourself how easy they are to test drive and put to use!
If you’re looking for an unusual/clever/thoughtful gift for a graduating senior, whether you want to spend $25 or $250, we’ve got the best of the best right here! From microwave cookbooks and dorm room helps to emergency must-haves, this idea list is full of practical and fun ideas for your favorite grad!
Who doesn’t love studying the before and after of a great upcycle?
One episode of Flea Market Flip on HGTV, is enough to make you jump in the car and head over to Lafayette Collectibles and Flea Market to find a fabulous flip of your own!
The scents we’ve missed all winter long are beginning to waft through the spring air – mowed grass, grilled steaks, after-the-rain and fragrant flowers. Psychologists say that aromas are powerful, evocative triggers for fond memories and a mild sense of euphoria.
You can enjoy a future of good moods by planting an aromatherapy garden in your yard, and revel in the coming scentsational bliss! Here’s how.
One great thing about basements is the living space expansion – to add home theaters, exercise and hobby rooms, home office space and additional bedrooms – how you need it, when you need it. The options are varied – both in purpose and style — and can be added in stages or all at once.
It’s hard not to have house envy when you walk through a model home, right?
Everything is so new and clean and…well, perfect! The new Richmond American Homes models at Colliers Hill in Erie are no exception. Brand-spankin’ new with neutral colors, wide-plank wood floors and a carefully-designed use of space. The Daley and the Alcott don’t just inspire and motivate you to clean and redecorate…they make you want to move right in!
The walls are up, the roof is on, the concrete floors are polished and the final touches are being added to the new Soaring Heights PK-8 School in Erie. The building stands on a 22-acre site, with 131,000 square feet that will contain two gyms, four music rooms, an impressive stage, media center and two “maker spaces”.
Water features are beautiful and do much to enrich the look of a backyard, plus, the soothing sounds of nature round out their overall appeal. Researchers say there’s a scientific explanation why natural sounds soothe our psyche and promote relaxation and well-being. So, who wouldn’t want a water feature as the soundtrack for their summer outdoor life?!
Who doesn’t love springtime in Colliers Hill?! The only thing better than looking forward to warmer weather, is looking at your photos snapped since last spring!
We’ve seen how creative you can be, capturing the seasons of your lives with your smart phones and sharing them online. Look at these amazing pics by Colliers Hill homeowners; we think there’s a neighborhood full of serious talent out there, worthy of attention and cash prizes!
As you welcome spring and enjoy the Colliers Hill community, your home and each other, send us your memories and you could win up to $500 cash!
Whether you’re capturing a backyard BBQ, your funny family, pet-able pets, a great sunrise or sunset in Colliers Hill, an amazing scenic, the loveliest living room, the coolest kitchen, the world’s hardest working husband/wife, the prettiest porch or happiest spring holiday moments, we invite them all!
Two cash prizes will be awarded, $250 each, to the “best of” in two categories:
Best Family Moments — indoors or out; one family member or more — fur babies included!
Best Seasonal Scenes – this could be practically anything you see from your front door, or somewhere in Colliers Hill. Let your imagination soar!
Entries to the Seasons of Colliers Hill photo contest will be accepted between Monday, April 2 and midnight on Monday, April 30.
Send your photos via email to Jessica at the HOA (Professional Community Management Services) at corpoffice@pcms.net. Include your name, email address and phone number, noting when and where you took the photo and who appears in it.
All submissions must have an accompanying Colliers Hill Photo Release to be eligible for prizes. Request one from Jessica at corpoffice@pcms.net.
Entries collected by the Colliers Hill Homeowners Association will be judged during the first week of May by members of the Colliers Hill Marketing Co-Op. Prize winners will be notified by email and phone, and winning photos (plus worthy honorable mentions!) will be placed on exhibit at The Overlook, promoted in social media, and published on the Colliers Hill website!
Let the snapping begin and may the best photos win!
Join the hundreds of homeowners in the master-planned community of Colliers Hill who love living minutes away from Erie, and appreciate the neighborhoods’ sense of community and camaraderie. Tour the 12 stunning models from Shea Homes and Richmond American Homes, two of Colorado’s top home builders, then visit the sales offices to see more ranch or two-story designs. Priced from the upper $300s to the $600s.
A garage seems to be the one “room” of the house that can become a dumping ground for miscellaneous stuff that doesn’t have a (storage) place of its own. Let’s face it – for most of us piling and stacking items in a garage is easier than creating an organized storage system and sticking to it.
So, we rounded up a few hints, helps and hacks to create storage and organize all the paraphernalia that tends to pile up in a garage!
Three miles west of I-25 at exit 232 (Erie Parkway). Just 20 minutes from downtown Boulder and 25 minutes from downtown Denver.
