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The family room is lined with five Palladian windows. The gas fireplace has a remote and a niche above for a television.
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The Ballston model at Station View has three finished levels, including a lower-level recreation room, and an open living and dining room with a center-island kitchen and breakfast area on the main level.
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M/I Homes is building 47 town homes on 2,178-square-foot sites at Station View in Ashburn. The three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath Ballston model homes have approximately 2,350 finished square feet and are base-priced from the upper $300,000s.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Emergency vehicles can be seen at the top left as traffic backs up at the scene of a commuter bus crash on Interstate 270, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, in Bethesda, Md.
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A rescue worker uses a zip-line to cross a civilian through an overflowed river in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Workers remove mud from a house in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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Cars are buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Men inspect a vehicle buried under mud after a landslide in the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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Overall view of the town of Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010, after a landslide occurred. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez)
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People remove mud from a street after a landslide in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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People rest at a temporary shelters in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. The mudslide has left 11 people missing and there are no confirmed dead, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image taken on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010, at 1:45 a.m. EDT shows Tropical Depression 16 in the northwestern Caribbean Sea. The system is generating numerous strong rain showers and thunderstorms over Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti, and strong rain showers and thunderstorms also are approaching South Florida. Over the United States, a stationary front along the Eastern Seaboard is supporting moderate to heavy rains from Florida northward to the Mid-Atlantic. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)
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Mr. Castro said capitalism and the United States would be the primary culprits of a nuclear war and environmental destruction. (Associated Press)
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In this 1966 image made from file television footage, North Korea's Kim Il Sung delivers speech at North Korea's Congress of Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/APTN)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Bob Graham, co-chairman of the commission investigating the BP oil spill, said federal officials underestimated their challenge just as George Custer did at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
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Eric Lobner, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, places sandbags Monday where water is seeping through a levee in Portage. An estimated 75 of 300 area residents have decided to stay in their homes, he said. (Associated Press)
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Mrs. Rousseff is joined by Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral in greeting supporters during a campaign rally at Rio's Center of Northeastern Traditions on Sept. 26. Election Day is Oct. 3. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2010 file photo, Haiti's presidential candidate and hip hop singer Wyclef Jean, speaks during an interview at his mother's house in Croix de Bouquets, Haiti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, file)
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Catholics pray in the rubble of the Notre Dame cathedral during mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 that killed a government-estimated 300,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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A musician plays a trumpet during a mass in honor of those killed in the earthquake in the Fort National neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010 which killed a government-estimated 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
