Monogram Wins Better Business
Bureau Award For Customer Satisfaction
Though his latest award is for customer service, Tony Caciolo also could be recognized for diplomacy. When your company's mission statement says, "The customer's perception is our reality," you have to have some serious people skills...
Monogram Wins
Excellence In Energy Efficiency
The
Lehigh Valley Chapter of Associated Builders & Contractors has recognized
10 projects as recipients of the second annual Merit Shop Award of Excellence
in Construction and recognized a contractor and subcontractor for excellence
in safety...
Comfort,
Convenience, And Energy Efficiency
Want to build an energy-efficient home? There are a number of options locally. The Department of Environmental Protection has an Energy Star program for homes just as it does refrigerators, washers and other appliances...
Hydronic System
A Featured Aspect
One of the features in a house built by Monogram Custom Homes is its heating system. It's a baseboard hot-water heating system, known in the business as a "hydronic" system, and it's a departure from the forced-air systems that are almost standard in the region...
Monogram Wins
Single-Family Model Home Of The Year
The Lehigh Valley Builders Association has recognized a number of Lehigh and Northampton county companies for quality construction through its Awards for Professional Excellence program. Awards were presented in 27 builder/remodeler categories at the organization's recent seventh annual dinner...
Winner In
Specialty Project $15,000-$50,000
Twenty-five awards also were presented in categories including remodeling and specialty projects at the association's 10th annual awards dinner Monday at the Holiday Inn in Fogelsville. Other winners in building categories were: Monogram Custom Homes Ltd., Coopersburg, excellence in energy efficiency...
Monogram Wins
Community Of The Year
Monogram Custom Homes Ltd. of
Coopersburg won community of the year for its development, Ashton
Woods, in Upper Macungie Township. When complete, the community will
feature 54 homes starting at $365,000...
Monogram Builds
Three Upscale Houses In Upper Macungie
Tony Caciolo of Monogram Custom Homes in Coopersburg is building three upscale houses in Hickory Hill in Upper Macungie Township, a stone's throw from where Beazer Homes USA, a national builder, is building Morningside, an enclave of 31 luxury dwellings...
Monogram Offers
Finished Basements
Lori and Denis Esslinger waited until they had lived in their Salisbury Township ranch a few years and until the kids -- and their toy collection -- had grown some before they finished their home's basement. "We were crowding out with the toys up here," Lori
Esslinger recalled...
Staying In Hot
Water
Scott and Ruth Rice's stone and stucco home in Upper Macungie Township has cathedral ceilings, palladium windows and nearly 4,300 square feet of living space, including the finished basement. Yet the first year they lived in the dwelling, they spent only about $700 for heat and hot water...
Unplanned Job
Changes Forged Team
Tony Caciolo, a Lehigh Valley native, and Lewis "Chip" Shupe of Wilmington, Del., met when they attended Lehigh University. Today, they build upscale custom houses together as Monogram Custom Homes in Upper
Saucon Township...
Where The
Unusual Becomes Standard
Sometimes, what you see really is what you get, which is the philosophy of Anthony "Tony" Caciolo and Lewis "Chip" Shupe IV. Caciolo, the 31-year-old co-owner and president of Monogram Custom Homes, Upper
Saucon Township, espouses a philosophy of sticking with good materials as standard...
Magnificent Driveways
Tina and John Dowd do a fair amount of
entertaining. Two years ago, when they built a 17,000-square-foot
home in Franklin Township, they wanted a driveway that would do
several things: make a grand entrance, provide space for guest
parking, and allow for cars to get around those dropping off guests...
Not One Master Bedroom
Suite But Two In Every Home?
More than half of the designers surveyed by the National Association
of Home Builders earlier this year said they expect the demand for
two master bedroom suites in high-end homes to increase
significantly by 2015. According to the NAHB, the demand for two
master suites is being fueled by baby boomers...
What's In, What's Out:
Realtors Name Trends In Housing For 2007
For 2007, Lehigh Valley real estate
agents and homebuilders predict what will be hot - and what not -
with homeowners. What's in: Sustainable design. Sustainable design
focuses on energy conservation, indoor air quality and resource
conservation...
Safe Rooms Are
A Rare Security Feature For Cautious Homeowners
Two builders of upscale homes in the Lehigh Valley, Tony Caciolo
of Monogram Custom Homes Ltd. in Coopersburg and Myron R. Haydt
of Haydt Development Inc. in Salisbury Township, say they, too,
have built safe rooms for clients...
Recreated In An Upper Saucon
Home Is The Look Of New Orleans
Tony Caciolo and his wife, Penny, love New Orleans'
French Quarter so much that they have recreated a piece of it in their Upper
Saucon Township home. They have built a room that looks as though it is the
quarter's famous Bourbon Street. "It's an indoor room but it looks like
you're outdoors," Tony says...
Build with Baseboard.
A Builder's Key to Success.
Boiler-baseboard heating systems help
Monogram Custom Homes sell new houses as fast as they can build
them. Ten years ago, Monogram's president, Tony Caciolo, decided
that to be successful in his Allentown, PA area home building
business, he would equip his homes with extras...
A Builder
That Believes
Monogram Homes has an admirable philosophy:
"The customer's
perception is our reality." Founded by two college friends with a
background in business in 1994, Monogram Homes has grown to be a $10
million company building 25-30 custom homes per year...
Press Release
From The BBB About Monogram's Excellent Customer Service
The mission statement of Monogram Custom Homes can be summed up
in one phrase: "a customer's perception is our reality." This
builder conducts its business based on the principle that "total
customer satisfaction is a mindset that is present in all areas
of the home building process...
Hydronic
System: A Deciding Factor In Selecting Builder
When Susan and Joe Marsala began looking to
build a new home in the Lehigh Valley, PA, area, they knew of
hydronic systems - their previous home had one - but they had no
idea of how much the systems could do...
Monogram in
Unique Homes
The lights dim, the smell of popcorn
wafts by and an image flickers on a large screen. most of us can
only get this experience away from home - most likely at a local
movie theater. But others needn't leave their front door to
enjoy the cinema...
Lehigh Valley
Magazine "Old World New World"
From the outside, Tony and Penny
Caciolo's home, in Upper Saucon Township, looks like a French
country mansion, and the basement was designed to look like an
old-world street in Italy. In fact, the home is thoroughly
modern - a state-of-the-art command center, with a secret
room...
Monogram's
Outdoor Living Spaces
Are you ready to take the plunge?
Dreaming of adding a pool to your backyard oasis? Whether you're
looking for an Italian tile Roman rectangle; an Endless swimming
pool designed with fitness in mind; or a negative-edge, or
infinity, pool designed to imitate an ocean expanse...
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