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Telling a Story That Preserves the Past

Custom builder and historic restoration and preservation expert Brent Hull walks us through the careful details of his Pennsylvania Farmhouse project




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Construction

2022 Custom Timber Home Building Outlook

A few of top tips from Mid-Atlantic Timberframes for working with timber frame providers, as well as what we’re seeing on the custom timber home building horizon for 2022.

Construction

Net Zero and Beyond

Different roads to energy and resource independence

Custom Builder

Veteran Builder Talks Group Purchasing and Building Science on DuPont's Residentially Speaking Podcast

Builder Bill Smithers decided to leave his division president position for a national builder to enter the world of custom home building. He…

Building Materials

Benjamin Obdyke Liquid Flashing

Benjamin Obdyke has expanded its line of flashing with the addition of a liquid-applied product

Architecture

Design Details: Feel The Burn

San Diego designer/builder Rob Wells creates the Gnar (short for gnarly) House that breaks some rules

Best Practices

Resilient Design: Ready for Natural Disasters

Resilient design creates homes that can survive natural disasters and stay functional in the aftermath

Building Materials

Door Hardware

Nostalgic Warehouse takes crystal door knobs to the next level with a bright infusion of color that lends an unexpected glamour to their heirloom-…

Leadership

Why you should embrace the Hispanic conflict

  Shawn Coyne is a writing partner to Steven Pressfield. Mr. Pressfield wrote The War of Art, the most important book ever written for people…

Leadership

Rosetta Stone, relevance, and retention

  Living in a small sliver of the language pie Rosetta Stone enlarged, we owe a debt of gratitude to the public company. Rosetta has been shelling…

Leadership

“We’ve done this a lot. You...as a group…are stupid.”


    Last week I went to the Chicago filming of “America’s Got Talent”, the NBC show that accepts all comers who don’t make it on American Idol, X…

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