Tag: business
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Advice From Master Kitchen Designer
In kitchen design, the name Mick de Giulio is code for ‘best of the breed’. De Giulio has been in business for 30 years, and he has seen the industry go from lumberyard business to true craft. Here, he shares wisdom about staying in business for 3 decades.
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Designing Practical Mudrooms and Laundry Rooms
For a young family, a mudroom or laundry room might be the hardest working room in the house. For other households, the room can be more minimal and streamlined.
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How to Design a Custom Timber Structure on a Tight Budget
Through creative detailing and design, Hennebery Eddy Architects crafted a facility for the Cascades Academy that complements its forested site.
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10 Buzzworthy Builder Articles in 2014
According to you, these 10 articles have made the most impact thus far in 2014. We’ve compiled the list using Google Analytics data—now see if you’ve missed any of the most buzzed about articles on Builder this year.
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Brooklyn by design
“Design Brooklyn: Renovation, Restoration, Innovation,” a new book by Anne Hellman, chronicles the compelling changes in residential and commercial architecture and interior design in a borough that’s quickly replacing Manhattan as New York’s main hub of arts and culture.
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What homeowners say they want by design
Billings at residential architecture firms growing in nearly every sector.
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Design musts for a choppy 2014 recovery…
Commentary from senior executives of the bellwether public home builders confirms one thing. Whether it’s accurate or not to call 2013’s latter-half slowdown a “pause??? or something else, it’s clear that what’s changed is this: Not everything is working, and some things are working very well. That’s called “lumpy.??? So, our focus on five production…
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In Texas, home building’s world apart, Modern Hill Country design catches a wave
When a home building company sees a sudden spike in the number of competitive shoppers wandering around their new model markets, it’s a sure sign that a new design has taken hold. In Texas, which is a housing market arena unto itself these days, just such a design “tipping point” has occurred.
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Success Strategy: Follow the Jobs
Saint Aubyn Homes picked its first home building market right, choosing Colorado Springs, where military jobs were plentiful and large national builders weren’t.
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Two Shows Under One Roof
KBIS and IBS will be held simultaneously Feb. 4 to 6 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, creating the nation’s largest annual gathering of residential construction and design professionals called Design and Construction Week.