Design Spotlight* UNPUBLISHED Rites of spring Spring is here, regardless of the fact that it is snowing in the D.C. area as I write this at the end of March, and it’s the beginning,...
Lean Design The goods for today’s move-up buyer Move-up buyers are a fickle bunch, and this blog entry focuses on a Lean Design for that group. It is actually an excerpt from a future...
Quality Management Lessons from an ‘Extreme Home Makeover’ project ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover challenged Veridian Homes (of Madison WI) in 2008 to build a home for a family in need. The home builder’s...
Market Data + Trends 'Married with Children' only 20 percent of all households During the last 50 years, the rate of growth of households has outpaced that of population growth in the U.S. The total number of...
Lean Design This 2,800-square-foot stunner makes them slam on the brakes! I had the pleasure of meeting Mary Schumacher from Schumacher Homes a few years back while doing plan reviews at the International Builders'...
The Design Side The Wrights are still cutting edge As regular readers know, I rarely miss an opportunity to mention Frank Lloyd Wright in my blog. That goes for his descendants, too. FLW’s...
Quality Management St. Patrick: 10 Lessons in Leadership A look to St. Patrick's Servant Leadership as an example of how we might develop our own leadership skills
Design Spotlight* UNPUBLISHED Solving housing's labor problem Although recovery for home building has been looking up for a while—with new-home starts in 2013 up 18 percent over 2012 and new-home sales...
Economics Housing market continues to improve While analysts continue to argue about whether or not the dip in housing sales in the first two months of 2014 is weather-related or not,...
Building Business The Truth Behind February's Home Builder Confidence Decline The Wells Fargo/NAHB Builder Confidence survey, for February, reported a historic drop in Builder Confidence. The report was hyped and in...
