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Deck projects can expand to include a wide range of applications, such as light-commercial projects at restaurants or hotels as well as a...

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Expanding homeowners’ outdoor living spaces has become one of the top remodeling projects. The projects often involve upgrades to better...

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Outdoor living spaces are expanding, with larger decks and more attention to the entire yard. This trend gives homeowners ways to extend...

Lean Design

In my travels working with builders all over the country, I have the opportunity to see a lot of home designs. I see good, bad, fair, and...

The Design Side

Home as the realm of the senses

Remember when interior designer Carole Eichen coined the term “merchandising” to describe her approach to model homes? I’m not sure how many...

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Helping consumers check their decks

May has been declared “Deck Safety Month” by the North American of Deck & Railing Association, a program the group started in 2006....

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Advantage, Housing Giants

Some years ago, a small production builder told me that he didn’t want his company to get too big. Smaller companies were nimble, he...

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Transformers—More than meets the eye!

This is a transformer-type plan that offers “plug and play” options without too much of a fuss for the builder. A very popular option as of...

Quality Management

And you thought getting trades was a problem!

A lot has been written recently on the industry problem of getting good trades and rightly so. However, there is another problem you should...

The Design Side

Mid-century modern stirs passions

Where do you stand on mid-century modern design? Do you love it or hate it? In the San Francisco Bay area, a resurgence of interest in...

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