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2013 Design Award Winners
The winners of our 2013 Builder’s Choice and Custom Home Design Awards offer cutting-edge, inspired projects, selected by a jury of builders and architects.
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Design Tips from Award-Winning Pros
This year’s inductees into the Marvin Hall of Fame for Design Excellence talk about what’s hot now, and what trends are next.
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Weather or not: winners of AIA ‘Designing Recovery’ competition
How to design disaster-proof places where people would actually want to live. Atlantic Cities staffer Emily Badger looks at winners of the “Designing Recovery” competition sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, Make it Right, the St.
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2014 New American Home to Offer Something for Everyone
The show home will include grand spaces for entertaining, areas for homework and schooling, quiet spots for meditation, and outdoor living opportunities.
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FourPlans: Impressive Master Closets
Really great storage spaces will set your homes apart. With these plans, buyers will flip for double closets, huge closets, and even windows in the closet. Yep, it’s all about the closets.
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Copake Breezehouse, Copake, N.Y.
Merit, 2013 Builder’s Choice and Custom Home Design Awards
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properly pitched gutters
Check your gutters: properly pitched gutters slope between 1/16 inch and ⅛ inch per foot, directing water to the leader and out the downspout. — Button Up Your House For Fall
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How to Dress Up a Hollow-Core Door
Apply panel molding to a featureless door to create a grand entrance to any room
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Farmhouse Addition: What’s Old is New Again
A 19th-century farmhouse’s side addition makes room for a spacious kitchen and a more open floor plan—while evoking the home’s original shape
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2013 Marvin Hall of Fame: Adele Chang
By collaborating with production builders, architect Adele Chang brings high-caliber design to middle-class America.
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