Cool corks, slick bamboo, colorful glass, and distinctive woods shine amongst a number of uninspired wood and boring vinyl flooring options at annual trade show.
A new generation of products are featured at Surfaces 2010.
Air-cleaning tile, wood-like bamboo, and salvaged flooring make waves at show.
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An industry panel provides expert advice at Surfaces 2010.
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New products likely to be a big part of the show.
Find out what products piqued readers curiosity over the course of 2008.
Lumber Liquidators, Crane, LP, Whirlpool, and Therma-Tru offer new packages to their builder customers in difficult housing market.
Add these features to boost the value of your homes with your buyers.
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Discover the latest new products featured at this week's Pacific Coast Builders Show in San Francisco.
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Organization has traditionally evaluated only wood forest products.
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The latest and greatest building products.
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Hanley Wood product editors are combing the Builders' Show exhibit floor in search of innovative and interesting introductions for you and your clients. Here are hot finds from Day 3.
Of course, post-industrial houses do have their benefits (indoor plumbing, beer fridges, hi-def surround sound), so the task becomes figuring out how to integrate antiquity’s greatest green lessons into designs that meet the lifestyle demands of today. That is what Tradewinds, our show home for the 2008 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla., set out to do.
Like most real estate agents these days, Lori McGuire has had to step it up a bit to get buyers to sign a contract. A Realtor in Orange County, Calif., McGuire is working with three different builders in Covenant Hills, a gated community in the master planned development of Ladera Ranch. Prices start at about $3 million.
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Following the great Chicago Fire of 1871, the city adopted stringent ordinances requiring that homes be built with stone or other non-combustible materials. Not being situated on municipal land, however, the community of Lakeview quickly became a boomtown for shoddy, non-regulated construction, populated mostly by small multifamily buildings and worker cottages. By the end of the 20th century, many of those structures, which had been patched up over the years with aluminum or asphalt siding, had reached the end of their lifespan and became prime targets for teardowns.
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The assignment wasn't exactly a piece of cake: a postage-stamp–sized lot (measuring 45 by 60 feet) in a flood plain with site requirements for a self-contained septic system and drain field. Some builders would have walked away, but Holbeck Construction teamed with the architects at Pelletier + Schaar to create this jewel-box of a home in a rural area of Washington state whose street grid predates the invention of the automobile.
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Five likeable projects prove that not all teardowns warrant a crackdown.
It happens all the time. People drive through downtown Escondido, Calif., on Centre City Parkway and stop for the traffic light at West Second Avenue. Across the street they see City Square, a cluster of four-story, contemporary townhomes painted in brick, mustard, charcoal, sand, and cornflower blue. It doesn't look anything like all the other, mostly Spanish-style, buildings in the area.
Compatible with the maker's electric floor-warming mats, the