Ideal Living Magazine Home Opens For Tours

Reynolds Plantation has partnered with Ideal Living magazine to introduce another "ultimate showhome" to its impressive roster of showcase residences.

Greensboro, Ga. (Vocus) June 1, 2009-- Reynolds Plantation (http://www.reynoldsplantation.com/?utm_source=RP%2Blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=RP%2Blog) has partnered with Ideal Living (http://www.ideal-living.com/) magazine to introduce another "ultimate showhome" to its impressive roster of showcase residences. Ideal Living magazine opened it's first-ever showhome with a customized addition to the Signature Home Collection at Reynolds Plantation that is now open for tours.

"We choose Reynolds Plantation for the location of the Ideal Home because it is the premier resort and lifestyle amenity community, certainly in the south and perhaps in the country," said Dave Robertson, editor of Ideal Living magazine. "We hope the Ideal Home will embody everything that home means. We want people to walk in and think, 'This is a place where I could make memories.'"

The "Ideal Home" floor plan, designed and built by Linger Longer Homes (http://www.lingerlongerhomes.com/), is based on Reynolds Plantation's most popular Signature Home, the St. Claire. The 3-bedroom, 3½-bath home encompasses two levels, expanding to 3,400 square feet of luxurious and functional living space.

"We were able to take our homebuyers' favorite and most requested features and incorporate them into this exciting and new version of an already celebrated home plan," explains Linger Longer Homes' vice president, Tom Allhoff.

In addition to encompassing the most popular features requested by homebuyers, the "Ideal Home" incorporates the best of green building practices. The "Ideal Home" is an EarthCraft-certified home adhering to a stringent 150-point environmental scale developed by the Greater Atlanta Homebuilders Association. The EarthCraft certification requires strict attention to many "green" standards, including energy efficiency, building materials, indoor air quality, water quality and use, site planning and homebuyer education.

The Ideal Living magazine home, made possible through the support of Georgia Power and Weinberger's Furniture, is open for tours 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 12 - 5 p.m. on Sunday.

About Ideal Living magazine

Ideal Living Magazine (under parent company RPI Media, Inc. www.rpisales.com) is the leading provider of information for people seeking second home, resort and retirement communities in the southeastern United States through publications, real estate shows, and websites.

About Reynolds Plantation

Named the "Best of the Best" Golf Community by Robb Report and the community with the "Best Golf" in America by the editors of GOLF Magazine, Reynolds Plantation, located between Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia, is a gated community with more than 80 miles of shoreline on Lake Oconee. Reynolds Plantation features 99 holes of championship golf from designers Bob Cupp, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio, Rees Jones and Jim Engh; Pete Dye has begun work on the community's 6th golf course. Reynolds Plantation is also home to The Reynolds Golf Academy, as well as the exclusive TaylorMade Kingdom. The community offers members a variety of dining options, swimming pools, pedestrian trails, three full-service marinas and The Lake Club Wellness Campus with its award-winning Tennis Center, under the direction of Peter Burwash International. GOLF Magazine, Golf Digest and TRAVEL + LEISURE Golf all debuted their first-ever "ultimate golf homes" at Reynolds Plantation, with LINKS Magazine joining the "sweep" with the opening of its first-ever "GreenHouse" on Earth Day 2009. Reynolds Plantation is also home to the AAA Five Diamond Award-winning Ritz-Carlton Lodge, a 251-room lakefront resort and spa ranked No. 5 in the "Top 100 Golf Resorts" worldwide by Condé Nast Traveler Magazine. For more information, call 800-800-5250 or visit www.reynoldsplantation.com.

For media inquiries, contact Traci Buch

(706) 467-1687

or

Lee Hauser, Ideal Living

800.736.0321

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