HGTV Dream Home 2006

HGTV president Burton Jablin couldn't be happier. "HGTV once again searched the U.S. for another dream-worthy location," Jablin says, "and we believe we've found it in the mountains of western North Carolina. The home we're building at Lake Lure includes many of the attributes that research has shown us people are looking for in a Dream Home."

Father-and-son architectural team Al and Parker Platt, familiar with the wonderful ridges of this Blue Ridge mountain location, jumped into action. "The goal for the home design, as with most of our house designs for mountain settings, is connection," says Al Platt, "connection of the house to its place, connection of the people who use the house to its place and connection of the people to each other."