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Can Make it Right teach us to build better?
Brad Pitt's Make it Right foundation has made it their mission to build safe, green and affordable houses in New Orleans' devastated Lower Ninth Ward. Should builders be paying attention?
Building Homes with American-Made Materials Could Save the Economy
A Bozeman builder suggests that "building American" can stimulate the economy
A bath that's not just remodeled, it's reinvented
A new shower, new fixtures and a new floorplan make this remodeled bathroom a whole new experience
Kitchen closed
KBIS 2010 closed today, leaving behind its share of sore feet and indeligble images.
It's back to business at KBIS
This year's Kitchen & Bath Industry Show leaves the flash in the pan, but still cooks up some innovation
Water where it oughta be
In the wake of spring storms, rainwater collection makes more sense than rainwater mitigation
On conscience and construction
If stepping on a crack breaks mom's back, would you really want to take your chances on my unsafe deck?
In kitchen design, the beat goes on
NKBA’s top kitchen-and-bath trends for 2010 read like yesterday’s news. Isn’t it time we put some “heart” into the “heart of the home?”
Taking the pain out of homebuilding
There’s no doubt homebuilders are hurting. Former contractor and longtime yoga instructor Allan Nett is offering some relief.
Dogged by decks
It seems these days that every house needs a deck. So can we make a corresponding rule that every deck needs to be well-designed?
Call it "Structural Insulated Snowpack"
Igloo-building might just be a lesson in traditional energy-efficient construction
Kitchen Design Moves Worth Remembering
Think your kitchen design tricks are the latest and greatest? Chances are some other brilliant—uh, bureaucratic—mind discovered them first.
Can Bark Outlast Vinyl Siding by Fifty Years?
Looking for an energy-efficient, durable, green alternative to standard siding? The answer may be the next tree over.
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Recent comments
Re: Design snapshot: From fishing shacks to home
As someone trying to create functional, family-friendly spaces within a box of a house (typical 1970s construction)I can appreciate what you say, Katie. Every house needs a variety of spaces that run the continuum from public to quasi-public to private--something too many houses don't provide. If only the folks who built my house resisted, as you say, "the all-too-common tendency to bundle everything in to something monolithic"!
posted: 10:23 am on December 1stRe: Almost out of the Ground
Nice to see your wife getting in on the fun. That's what this whole project has been so far, right?
posted: 3:45 pm on May 23rdRe: In kitchen design, the beat goes on
Plumbed coffee and tea center a must, no doubt about that.
posted: 5:16 pm on February 22ndRe: A Countdown to the Big Buildoff
Nobody makes a saw sing like you, Chuck.
posted: 2:08 pm on February 4th