Homes are selling at The Highlands!

Langley Builders has sold two homes during the week of April 15 – 20, 2012  at The Highlands! We have one home left in our current inventory, the Peregrine on Lot 21 with vaulted ceilings in the great room and a limited view of Puget Sound.

Langley Builders will start construction in the next four weeks on another Robin floor plan located on Lot 2.  We are also designing a new floor plan that will have three bedrooms and will be built on Lot 1.  Elevation and floor plans will be available on this website over the next couple weeks.

Whether you hire an Architect and Builder or find your dream home among the floor plans available on our website; there are a variety of vacant lots still available for your dream home.  Watch our website or call 360 221-1026 for more information.

Langley Builders has designed another floor plan, the Sandpiper that will be available for viewing on this website in early May 2012.  These home will be available on a “pre-sale” basis only.

Winter in Langley

2012 is off to a good wintery beginning fulfilling my wishes to cross country ski tour right from my house around our lovely seaside village of Langley, stopping along the way for quiet moments, meeting friends and enjoying our shops.  A surprising 4” of fluffy snow offered a respite from the usual hubbub for a leisurely start and time to connect with friends.  After attending to urgent business, I joined my sister for a stroll to the Langley Village Bakery for Biscotti and discovered a fabulous Marjolane with its layers of hazelnut cake, butter cream and chocolate ganache!  I was absolutely transported to Austria with its snowy winters and delectable pastries!  That also happens when I pop into the PS Suisse Bakery in the Langley Village, but that will have to wait until they are open at week’s end.

Returning home with a few winter storm necessities from the Star Store, we admired bare trees resplendent with snow outlining their arresting branches and were greeted with a distant honking as a flock of snow geese appeared, forming and reassembling their V, flying northwesterly to the clear, blue horizon. Catching up on client emails & listening to KUOW, Garrison Keillor shared the perfect poem, New Year’s, by Dana Gioia, ending with………..

The new year always brings us what we want
Simply by bringing us along—to see
A calendar with every day uncrossed,
A field of snow without a single footprint.

Wow! Serendipity. Wrapping up chores, checking to be sure friends made it home,  I layered on ski clothes and headed out to make tracks in the unbroken snow outside my back door.  Perfectly compacted and snow kissed, a lane offered sunny, snowy vistas over Langley, capturing icy blue Saratoga Passage framed by heavy, snow laden clouds, edged and broken by blue sky.  I stopped briefly to enjoy & snap the snowy scene & water views from the porch of the new cottage under construction in the Highlands at Langley for the new owners. Continuing, I skied open fields to Fairgrounds Road for a couple glides down & treks up before heading off to Noblecliff to check in on a snowbound client.  It was exhilarating to find some packed snow, snowplow broken snow and fluffy snow interrupted just intermittently by bare spots under snow laden fir boughs.  Ski touring, at home!! I am reminded of Annie Proulx skiing around her Wyoming Bird Cloud!  Fortunately only a few good citizens had scraped their walks & drives late in the afternoon!  Schussing gently down Camano and Cascade was perfect!

After catching up on tasks on foot in Langley, a Jagermeister seemed just the thing to compliment a perfectly crisp, starry evening and my romantic, snowy winter memories of back country skiing the Enchantments, Cascades,  Sun Mountain, Oregon’s  Wallowas and the Austrian Dachsteins with its cafes and bakeries along the way for indulgent layered cakes, Knoblach Suppe,  Gluwein and Jagermeister!  Better than I could have imagined, good friends Bob & Bern were among the few intrepids at the Prima Bistro, so good conversation combined with piping hot French onion soup and a soul warming Jagermeister.  This perfect gift of a day was topped off by a starry ski home to a driveway plowed by a friend new to the neighborhood—Ryan Haines—thank you!   Listening to Pink Martini, I am counting my blessings for this place, these friends, good health and the gifts that appear given time and space.

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Sales at The Highlands

It has been a wonderful fall!  We have four new sales at The Highlands since August and the fall colors have been glorious!  The BEST  BUY currently available is our floor plan we call the Finch on Lot 6 for $279,000.00.  Come see what The Highlands has to offer!

Open House/Grand Opening

1056 Village Loop

Open House/Grand Opening

December 3 and 4, 2011

1:00PM to 4:00PM

Join us for a friendly visit and a cup of hot cider.

 The Peregrine homes located on Lot 20, 1056 Village Loop and Lot 21, 1050 Village Loop are now finished – including the landscaping!  We have furnished the home on Lot 21, 1050 Village Loop, as a model home which includes a refrigerator and a front-loading washer with dryer.

The comfort of the BiosmartTM Infrared heating technology is immediately noticeable and the energy savings will be noticed for years to come. The attention to detail and the finish work is outstanding.

We will have special financing available for these two models through the end of December.  Copies of the details for this special financing are available at the Model Home at 1050 Village Loop.  As an additional incentive, Langley Builders is offering the refrigerator, washer and dryer included in the price on Lot 21, 1050 Village Loop for $349,500.00 and on Lot 20, 1056 Village Loop for $334,900.00 until December 31, 2011.

The Neighbors are Friendly at The Highlands

Anybody Home?

Some neighbors stopped by when I was holding an Open House

at The Highlands.

The were friendly.....

and they were very handsome young bucks but…..

sadly they didn't stay long.