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The fenced yard contains a patio that is accessed through French doors. The brick wall of the adjacent garage includes an arched niche that can be used for a potted plant or sculpture.
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The home at 5708 Little Falls Road in Arlington is on the market for $899,000. The five-bedroom home was built in 1937.
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Buyers can customize their homes with a fireplace with a marble surround or a floor-to-ceiling stone surround.
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The Dixon model includes a library, a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area, a family room, and formal living and dining rooms on the main level. Upstairs are the master bedroom with a sitting area, luxury bath and walk-in closet; two additional bedrooms share a hall bath.
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The center-island kitchen in the Dixon model at the Village of Idlewild has 42-inch cabinets and recessed lighting. It has 2,508 square feet and is priced from $259,990 to $279,990.
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Ryland Homes is building 875 single-family homes at the Village of Idlewild in the city of Fredericksburg. The homes have approximately 2,200 to 3,540 finished square feet, with base prices from $241,990 to $344,990.
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The Hampton model includes more than 4,700 finished square feet with a two-story family room, a formal dining room, a study, a breakfast area off the center-island kitchen and a formal living room on the first level.
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Ken Jacowitz, from Queens, N.Y., eats a serving of lobster bisque soup from the reopened Original SoupMan takeout restaurant in New York, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. "This is really good soup," said Jacowitz, who was among about 100 people lined up for the reopening of the takeout that inspired the Soup Nazi character on "Seinfeld." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Tiger Woods of the United States chips onto the 17th green during the third round of the British Open Golf Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Shoppers throng to a popular mall in Caracas in November 2006. Consumerism remains strong, creating resistance to socialism as Mr. Chavez looks to September's congressional elections.
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A separate security lane has been created for people who have licenses for concealed handguns, allowing them to bypass lines at the metal detectors. Capitol insiders are now signing up in droves for the course that will get them a gun license, now known as the express pass.
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Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams addresses a crowd March 30 in Salt Lake City. A spokesman for the National Tea Party Federation on Sunday said the organization has expelled the Tea Party Express from its ranks for refusing to oust Mr. Williams after he posted a blog that satirized the NAACP and referred to its president, Benjamin Jealous, as "Tom's nephew and NAACP head colored person."
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Regulators and retailers are concerned that kombucha may need to be regulated as an alcoholic drink because some bottles of the fermented tea have more than 0.5 percent alcohol.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Cyclists pass outside a locked exit that keeps lower-income migrants from China's rural areas in their gated village at night.
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A guard stands at the entrance to a gated village near Beijing, waiting to check the papers of anyone coming in or out. Guards also roam the villages during the day.
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Associated Press photographs Archeologists (above) take measurements of the wood hull of a 32-foot-long 18th-century boat found at the World Trade Center site and workers survey the planks sticking out of the mud. Archaeologists are racing to analyze the vessel before the delicate wood begins to deteriorate.
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 9, 2010 file photo, a customer reads a Nook electronic reader at a Barnes & Noble book store in Hackensack, N.J. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
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The curved ribs of a wood hull of a 32-foot-long (9.75 meters) 18th century boat poke up from the mud at the World Trade Center site on Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy prepares to putt on the 16th green during the first round of the British Open Golf Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)
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Tiger Woods of the United States, center, and Colombia's Camilo Villegas, right, and caddie Brett Waldman walk across the Swilken Burn bridge on the 18th hole during the first round of the British Open Golf Championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
