The New American Home 2025
This article first appeared in the NAHB International Builders' Show 2025 Preshow Planner issue.
As the flagship exhibit of the NAHB International Builders’ Show (IBS), The New American Home 2025 continues raising the benchmark for home innovation. Compared with its recent predecessors, the 2025 home features more levels, space and efficiency.
The 2025 home is in the luxury-home community of Ascaya—the same hillside development in Henderson, NV, where three previous New American Homes were built. Although the setting of this latest show home is familiar, its design and features set it apart.
“The unique lot gives us a host of cool opportunities to show some things that we haven’t been able to do in previous it- erations of The New American Home,” said Dan Coletti, owner of Sun West Custom Homes, a four-time builder of The New American Home.
Inside, the home boasts an abundance of glass and an open-floor concept with unobstructed views of the Las Vegas Valley below. An expansive living space of 9,047 square feet includes five bedrooms, two of which are located on an upper level with a large multipurpose game room.
Other unique features include an interior courtyard, a guest casita, two garages (a three-car and a two-car), and an 800-square-foot underground wine cellar and lounge with a glass ceiling looking up into the main level.
“It really suits wine connoisseurs very well,” Coletti said. “It will be interesting to see people’s reactions to the overall home because it’s certainly unique.”
Even with abundant square footage, the home’s interior prioritizes a seamless integration with the outdoors to maximize overall living space. Across the back of the home are several floor-to-ceiling sliding-glass pocket doors that fully retract to create a unique indoor-outdoor living experience.
“What I’m looking forward to the most is seeing the excitement of everyone who comes to see the home,” said Sun West project manager Tim Unick. “There are multiple different experiences all through- out the home—from the subterranean wine cellar to the large, light-filled primary suite, to the organic breezeway from the casita leading into the main home.
“This home just has an incredible array of top products and features everywhere you look,” Unick added.
In addition to incorporating innovative products and designs, The New American Home program prides itself on continually achieving the highest ratings for home performance—and the 2025 home will be no exception. The builder expects the home to achieve Emerald certification from the National Green Building Standard, as well as certification from Energy Star, Indoor airPLUS and the Department of Energy’s Zero Energy Ready Home Program.
“Thinking about what it took to accom- plish something like this—all of the energy, expertise and resources everyone poured into this home, and doing it at such a high level of execution—it gets me emotional and gives me a great sense of pride,” Unick said.
After seeing the finished product, he add- ed, “This home is every bit as amazing, if not even more so, as last year’s home. It was definitely worth all of that hard work.”
The official unveiling of The New American Home 2025 will take place Feb. 25-27, 2025 during the Builders’ Show. All registered attendees of Design & Construction Week 2025 may tour the home via complimentary shuttle buses departing every 30 minutes from the Las Vegas Convention Center. Shuttle tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 7:30 a.m. each show day at The New American Home booth in the Central Hall.
