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Expansive porches, soft colors, and a visual feast of well-crafted details —all the hallmarks of gracious Southern architecture—are on display at Oldfield, a 90-lot resort development on 24 acres. Dominick Tringali Architects looked to Savannah, Ga., to the south and Charleston, S.C., to the north...
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The mood in the home building industry is officially glum. Buyers are playing a waiting game, and inventory isn't moving. Except in the case of that builder around the corner whose homes are being snapped up faster than free NFL tickets on Craig's List. What gives?
Single women now represent 22 percent of home buyers, up 14 percent from a decade ago, according to the National Association of Realtors. So what exactly do they seek in a home?
Architecture, site planning, and construction pro formas can make or break the bottom line.
Referrals are the most cost-effective way of generating traffic and sales in your communities. If you’re not asking your home buyers for referrals, you need to start today.
Architects’ own houses often hold the keys to cost savings, building efficiencies, and new standards of beauty.
A murky present has builders just hoping for better days ahead. But looking forward, futurists see clearer paths to energy-efficient homes and walkable communities.
- Faulty plumbing fittings cause legal morass in Las Vegas area.
- Data from the National Association of Realtors show that single women accounted for 22 percent of home sales nationally in 2006—up from 14 percent in 1995.
- TNDs have sparked a revival of classical elevation styles in recent...
When markets turn soft, things get interesting. With housing starts correcting to a more sustainable pace and inventory piling up, builders are reevaluating the rote and the slapdash when it comes to design and pondering how savvier floor plans and features might serve as a differentiator in...
House size is a tricky thing. Some folks want a feeling of space that's expressed in volume—soaring foyers, three-car garages, and cavernous master suites come to mind. Others, to quote Goldilocks, want spaces that are “just right,” with rooms that work for their particular lifestyle.
It's a curious thing. At the same time that houses are getting bigger and bigger, lot sizes keep on getting smaller and smaller. Just look at the numbers: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average size of new homes increased from 2,095 square feet in 1992 to 2,434 square feet in 2005.
By any standard of measurement, green building is hot. Green building has now spilled over into the residential world as well. According to the NAHB, 14,600 green homes were built in 2004, up from 2,500 in 2000.
ONE OF YOUR JOBS AS A BUILDER IS to make your houses as desirable as possible without breaking the bank. Anyone can add high-end baubles that cost serious money, but how do you achieve an upscale look for a relatively low cost? Adding cool features to the bath is a good place to start.
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IN 2005, THE NAHB PUBLISHED the Model Green Home Building Guidelines to move green building further into the mainstream and to provide a practical baseline for resource-efficient, cost-effective home building.
Twenty years ago, it would have taken about 15 years for a new building product to emerge and hit profit pay dirt. That time frame applied to successful products that made it into the supply chain over the long run. Now, as a result of builder consolidation, better communications via the Internet...
WASHINGTON IS KNOWN MORE FOR FILIBUSTERS than for innovative design. For one rain-soaked week in October, however, innovation was the word when 18 university teams converged on the city for the Solar Decathlon, an event in which students compete to see who can design, build, and operate the...
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In flush times, design often drove what was built, and until recently, many builders sought to blur the line between production and custom homes.
Big builders use a blend of in-house architects and outside firms to meet their design needs.
many forward-thinking builders and architects are actively pursuing projects that revolve around an edgier set of buzzwords: Affordable. Urban Infill. Green/Energy-Efficient. Nature. Good design is a consistent theme across the board.
THE RESIDENTS OF MEMPHIS, Tenn.'s struggling South End have much to cherish about their neighborhood, including LeMoyne-Owens College, a historic black institution founded in 1862. But there were cheers all around when LeMoyne Gardens, an impersonal and dilapidated barracks-style public housing...