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How to Bring Out Your Home’s Character With Trim
If you have a room that lacks adornment, then you have greater leeway to define the style you wish to have. Let us examine a few architectural flavors and the elements that distinguish each.8 Features of 2013's Top-Selling House Plans
There are clear trends in house plans, and they tell as much about marketing as they do about design. Here are the leading ones for 2013 based on sales from house plan subsidiaries of Hanley Wood, BUILDER’s parent company.Simpson NEW Contemporary Door Designs
We are proud to offer this new collection of Contemporary doors that draws the best of modern design into the Simpson heritage.
Integrity windows keep operational costs down for renovated affordable housing unit in Vermont
Red Diamond Achiever Award winner: Q&A with Dave DeBruyn of Inhaus Development
Tell us why you decided to use Integrity in your project. What drove your decision?
Our energy modeling (part of the LEED process) led us to seek out a fiberglass window versus typical vinyl that had originally been spec’d. Due to the large amount of south-facing glass, the quality of our windows had a dramatic effect on the projected energy consumption of the home. Our models concluded that the fiberglass windows from Integrity performed virtually as well as a typical triple paned window, but for less cost.
National Kitchen and Bath Association reveals top 6 kitchen design trends for 2013
The National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) recently unveiled the top six overall kitchen design in 2013 based on its 2013 NKBA Design Trends Survey, which included responses from more than 300 member designers. Each year, the survey polls members on the materials, product types and style they used during the final three months of the previous year.
NA Housing 'Lifer' Takes NAHB's Reins
In January, Frederick Judson began his one-year term as chairman of the NAHB. That post is the culmination of Judson’s longtime involvement with the Washington, D.C.–based trade group, on whose board of directors he first served in 1979. Judson also has been a member of NAHB’s executive board since 2002.
House showcases technology and design on the cutting edge
Rock stars and professional athletes would probably jump at the chance to live in this ultramodern home. Located a few minutes' drive from the Las Vegas Strip, it's a glitzy multilevel house — big enough to entertain 300 of your closest friends.
That's just part of the story. This is a serious housebuilt for a serious purpose.
Report from the International Builders' Show
Most of us attendees didn’t get much time to cruise the show floor, because the educational resources were so rich. NAHB improved the format by adding several different levels of course offerings. They eliminated the last half-day and selected much more carefully for just the best teachers for the premium-priced educational track.
They added on-floor education, called “IBS Live,” open to all with a budget-priced floor pass. The conference also offered a lot of focused mini-classes in the sponsor-supported “centers,” and aimed at introducing people to the Custom Builder Council, Design Council, Green Building Council, etc.
They added on-floor education, called “IBS Live,” open to all with a budget-priced floor pass. The conference also offered a lot of focused mini-classes in the sponsor-supported “centers,” and aimed at introducing people to the Custom Builder Council, Design Council, Green Building Council, etc.
Nostalgia for the Hippie Building Heyday
A discredited theory of embryonic development held that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” — in other words, that the the developmental stages of an embryo (its ontogeny) mimic the stages of evolutionary development experienced by the species (its phylogeny). One piece of evidence supporting the theory: in early stages of development, a human embryo has a tail.
WOODWAY Solid Wood Interior Planking
Solid wood planking from Woodway is the choice of serious professionals and homeowners alike. Every single piece in our generous range of species and sizes is hand-inspected for quality.