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With electricity prices rising as much as they have been for the last five years, it is important that you outfit your homes with as many energy-saving features as possible. One way to do this is with Energy Star-qualified lighting packages.
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Between spec homes that didn't sell, investors who canceled due to market conditions, and move-up home buyers who couldn't sell their existing homes, builders got stuck with a lot of inventory in 2006.
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San Jose, located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay and entirely too close to the San Andreas Fault, is also an epicenter of history in California. It was the first town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, as well as the first incorporated city and the first capital of California...
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There's a curse of obscure origin that goes: “May you live in interesting times.” Someone must have slipped that message into Sam Rashkin's fortune cookie, because Mr. Rashkin has been having two very interesting years.
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When you're building in an infill environment, neighbors inevitably become part of the design equation. To avoid putting on a show for the adjacent house, this handsome bath features an oversized picture window, the bottom half of which is obscured glass. “This feature lets light in and maintains...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR (USUALLY) diminutive size and their single-loaded views, condos are challenging spaces to renovate and brighten, especially the kitchen area. Fortunately for architect William L. Feeney, this condo in a 1950s building had features he could work with.
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DESIGNER DEBRA TONEY DESCRIBES the exterior elevation style of this Denver spec home as Asian-influenced Arts and Crafts. It's an aesthetic that clearly set the stage for a succession of serene, zen-like interiors. The professional-grade kitchen, for example, is a study in restraint, eschewing bold...
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Gutting a space and starting over from scratch is one thing. Integrating new materials with elements preserved from a kitchen's former life is another story. That's what the design/build team at Streeter & Associates was up against in the remodel of this 1908 home.
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THIS 1960S KITCHEN SUFFERED some of the typical ailments that usually afflict out-of-date spaces—low ceiling, lack of adequate natural light, poor access to the outside (both visual and physical)—but a series of simple interventions by architect Stephen Varenhorst brought the space into the 21st...
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FROM THE OUTSIDE, THIS SECOND home on Martha's Vineyard looks traditional, insofar as its building forms hark back to the agrarian structures that once occupied the land. Inside, however, the design takes some delightful and unexpected turns.
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This D.C. kitchen proves that a well-organized small space is much more efficient than a poorly designed large one. Located in a 1,670-square-foot row house, the new kitchen was reduced by one-third, but better circulation, abundant light, and architectural details help the space live large.
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IS IT RETRO? IS IT CONTEMPORARY? This heavenly, 340-square-foot master bath defies any one label, proving that eclecticism can be stunning when its done right. “The entire house was designed to resemble a farmhouse that evolved over time, so mixing different elements and genres in the bath felt...
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SECONDARY PREP KITCHENS—I.E., backstage zones where mess can be corralled during parties—are all the rage in luxury homes on big lots. But doubling up on culinary space wasn't an option in this slender urban row house measuring just 19 feet wide. Although the owners were happy to forgo a formal...
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You can always count on the wet areas of a home to serve as laboratories for experimentation and as harbingers of what's hot in residential design. Clean lines and contemporary finishes continued to make inroads in this year's Watermark Awards, even in homes whose exteriors ring traditional.
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It's good to be an apartment developer again. Rental builders across the country breathed a collective sigh of relief last year as the once red-hot condo market began to cool. They took advantage of the long-awaited marketplace shift and broke ground on a large number of rental units in 2006.
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Three years ago, Star Development Corp. decided to try modular housing rather than continue with stick building for its infill projects. Since then, the Ann Arbor, Mich.–based company has purchased more than 200 homes from modular housing manufacturer Genesis Homes.
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Alan B. Levan of Levitt Corp is profiled as part of the 2006 Builder 100.
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Jerry Starkey is CEO of WCI Communities, the 40th ranked company in the 2007 Builder 100.
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Kim Shelpman is CEO & President Holiday Builders, the 28th ranked company in the 2007 Builder 100.
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Ara Hovnanian is CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises, the 6th ranked company in the 2007 Builder 100.