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  • 10 Products Offering High Style at Low Cost

    Use these items to save some cash and wow your buyers.

     
  • Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders

    A Nautical Play/Sleeping Loft Provides Children With a Well-Designed Escape

    A boatlike play loft gives a children's bedroom a touch of magic.

     
  • 10 Ways to Save Money on Your Interior and Exterior Finishes

    Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking sold separately.

     
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    INFRA by Firma

    Rift-cut oak and crystal countertops detail the architecture of the INFRA line of bath furniture.

     
  • Estes/Twombly's Shoe Bench Organizes a Massachusetts Mudroom

    A cozy and convenient shoe bench helps organize a Concord, Mass., remodel.

     
  • Shope Reno Wharton placed this sunlit library tower at the one end of the building to capture waterfront views and to balance out the home's massing.

    Home Library Tower Captures Light and Views

    Shope Reno Wharton designs a home library tower.

     
  • Court Papers Detail LandSource Plan

    A plan to reorganize and pull LandSource Communities out of bankruptcy debt free would leave its main creditors, who are owed roughly $1 billion, with as much as 85% of the company, Lennar with 15%, and a partnership that now owns 68% of the company with nothing.

     
  • Bankruptcy Judge Allows Lenders to Take Back Properties

    U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Raymond Ray has allowed KeyBank and Bank of America to take back their properties in what may be another sign that famed builder Levitt and Sons 78-year run is done.

     
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    Scotch-Blue Tape

    Scotch-Blue Tape for corners and hinges can help fine-tune painting details. Eliminating the need to remove door hinges or make cuts for windows, the pre-cut pieces provide coverage for hard-to-reach areas. Each piece is sized to fit a standard door hinge and perforated to form two corner pieces.

     
  • 2007 Builder's Choice Winner: Decohouse, Lake Butler Sound

    Simplicity was the imperative in designing the railing for this 8,818-square-foot art deco home, according to architect Mark Nasrallah. The rail's clean, curvilinear motif perfectly complements the bold, geometric elevation of the Floridian house.

     
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    Hot Sellers: Good and Plenty

    Atrium at EastLake Vistas is one of the last neighborhoods to be built in this successful, 3,200-acre community just south of San Diego. Move-up buyers responded to the large plans and architectural details.

     
  • Tech Tools: January 2007

    - Chief Architect is selling a plug-in for its CAD software. - Centex partners with Crozier & Henderson to roll out sales videos.

     
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    The Fremont Lofts

    WITH THEIR WALL-SIZE windows, industrial details, and rock-solid construction, abandoned mills are romanticized as chic living quarters. The realities of adapting them for residential use, however, are quite different.

     
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    Outside In

    Special Focus: Interior Architechture.

     
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    River Idyll

    BEST MASTER BATH IN A CUSTOM HOME

     
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    Beach Provincial

    BEST KITCHEN IN A SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED CUSTOM HOME—3,000 TO 5,000 SQUARE FEET

     
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    Clean Cut

    BEST KITCHEN IN A SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED CUSTOM HOME—OVER 5,000 SQUARE FEET

     
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    Lean and Green

    BEST KITCHEN IN A SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED REMODELED HOME—LESS THAN 3,000 SQUARE FEET; SPECIAL FOCUS—CUSTOM DETAILS

     
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    Bracing Narrow Garage Walls

    Q: My building department says that parts of my house plans—such as the walls next to the garage-door openings—don't meet wall-bracing rules. How can I address these requirements?

     
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    Builder's Choice Design & Planning Awards

    Well-designed housing deserves recognition and for 25 years BUILDER has honored the leaders in residential design. Enter BUILDER's most prestigious design competition. Categories include custom homes, production homes, design details, community design, remodeling and rehabilitation, and more.

     
 
 
 
 

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