Parkwood Homes was founded in 1995 and soon became the principal builder in the nationally acclaimed Kentlands, Maryland.  Kentlands is a groundbreaking community outside Washington, DC that helped spark a nationwide trend toward smarter development based on traditional neighborhoods.  As Kentlands gained renown and received visitors from all over the world, Parkwood received several offers to expand outside Maryland and build in new master planned communities.  After turning down many opportunities to expand into other markets, Parkwood accepted an invitation to join the founding team of builders at Central Park, formally Stapleton, where America’s largest urban infill redevelopment would result in a thriving community of 30,000 residents on the site of Denver’s old airport.  Both Kentlands and Central Park are among the Urban Land Institute’s “Great Planned Communities of the World.”  Parkwood Homes currently builds homes in Maryland, Colorado, and Utah. 

We are a small, family-owned company.  Most of our employees have been with us for many years and are seasoned and experienced in homebuilding.  We limit the number of homes we build each year and take great pride in the solid craftsmanship and quality our homes provide.  Although Parkwood is a small company, we have enjoyed very positive recognition for our innovative and high quality homes.  At Parkwood, our loyalties are to our customers and our employees, not Wall Street analysts and stockholders.  Many of our purchasers are repeat buyers, and currently 3 out of 4 Parkwood buyers are coming to us directly because of our reputation.

We understand what a beautiful, well-designed, high-performance home can mean to a family.  It’s the safety and security you feel during a storm.  The joy that comes from hosting friends and family in the one-of-a-kind open first floor plan you designed just for your family.  The cherished memories you build when you read your kids their bedtime stories or enjoy family time around the fireplace.  It’s a great honor to help families build their dream homes, and a responsibility we take great pride in fulfilling.

Will you still love your home in 100 years?  Parkwood’s exterior architecture is driven by a commitment to timeless principles of architectural beauty.  We believe that certain shapes, proportions, and symmetry are inherently pleasing to the eye.  We strive to design and build homes that are historically authentic on the outside while providing innovative spaces and features on the inside.  Many of our homes would fit seamlessly on a historic street in Georgetown or Charleston, but a walk inside reveals 10-foot ceilings, livable open floorplans, smart thermostats, and high performance chef's kitchens. 

The Parkwood Homes team takes frequent trips to historic cities and towns across America and the world, studying great buildings that inspire and refine our architecture.  We’ve counted our paces to determine building setbacks in London, studied grid patterns and relative heights of windows on second and third floors of 19th century Georgetown row homes, and investigated the origins and purposes behind haint blue porch ceilings in Charleston.  Our architect studied the Vitruvian virtues in Rome and 19th century brownstones up and down the east coast.  But we also invest time analyzing the relative “R-values” of different framing, sheathing, and insulation configurations to minimize heat flux and build a more comfortable home that reduces energy costs.  We strive to give families the best of both worlds—timeless beauty and innovative excellence.

 

Parkwood Homes is committed to building a better house every year than we did the year before.  One of the areas in which we’ve seen the greatest improvement over the last ten years is Energy Efficiency.  High energy costs and climate change concerns have led the industry to an increased focus on building a smarter home.  Resulting new technologies and practices have allowed us to build a house that is better for the environment and saves our customers a lot of money.

One of the most common things we hear from our homebuyers when they tell us why they chose a Parkwood is that when they walked in the door, “it just felt like home.”  We couldn’t ask for a more meaningful compliment.  It’s hard to put a finger on just what exactly gives people that feeling, but we think it has a lot to do with some of the standard features that Parkwood builds in to every home.  Three-piece crown molding, classic window and door casings, a smooth drywall finish, gleaming hardwood floors, and custom built-ins are all signs of a home built with care using time-honored traditions.  In addition to these details that make a Parkwood feel like that charming home we grew up in, new Parkwood homes have thoughtful open floorplans, ten-foot ceilings, and are equipped with the latest technologies to help simplify our modern lives, like NEST Learning Thermostats, thorough connectivity, and Bosch appliances.