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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
Custom Builder
Merging Ancient Construction With Modern Living
This vacation home pushes the boundaries of traditional log construction techniques and incorporates elegant details elevating this typically rustic building method
Construction
Detailing for Dissimilar Materials
Creating adequate separation between materials is critical to mitigating cracks (and worse) along cementitious surfaces.
Construction
Trouble-Free Stucco Overhangs
Transitions from walls to horizontal surfaces are prone to moisture problems. Attention to proper detailing in these areas is key.
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Fireorb Suspended Hearth Fireplace
The Fireorb suspended hearth fireplace burns wood and can be installed in any room of the house. It rotates 360 degrees on a stainless steel ball-bearing revolving system, creating an atmosphere where people can actually gather around the fire.
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TimberGrass Bamboo Floors
TimberGrass' bamboo floors are created with a bamboo species called Moso and come in site-finished and pre-finished strip flooring and pre-finished wide-plank floors, panels and veneers.
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Custom Tiles Bring Images to Life
Bring the feel of Tuscany to your kitchen or Hawaiian waterfalls to your bathroom with Images In Tile's custom tile murals.
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Neo-Metro Cerine Suite
The new Cerine Suite from Neo-Metro combines solid wood with 16-gauge stainless steel fixtures and includes a vanity, a two-piece toilet, a tabletop vessel and a double-wall insulated soaking tub.
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Beverly Soaking Tub
Your customers can enjoy a relaxing soak in Americh's Beverly soaking tub. With a depth of 32 inches, this getaway comes in the spacious sizes of 40x40 and 60x40.
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Paint-Maker Helps Builders Find 'Right White'
Dunn-Edwards' Many Shades of White program aims to expand the limited universe of standard stark white paint, giving builders and contractors more variety for exterior and interior applications to more accurately give their customers the look and feel ...
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Putting on a Finishing Touch
The Hardwood Council, a coalition of 13 hardwood lumber and product associations, has released tips for creatively finishing maple wood, which it says still ranks as highly favored with woodworkers, carpenters and builders.
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Bates and Bates' Cocina Sink
Bates and Bates' Cocina sink in weathered brass can be used as a drop-in or an undercounter kitchen or prep sink.
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Roll Out the Barrels
For its latest offering of reclaimed wood flooring, Mountain Lumber Co. in Ruckersville, Va., is turning 100-year-old oak casks that once held 60,000 gallons of Guinness stout in Dublin, Ireland, into unique flooring for bedrooms, kitchens and living r...
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Trade Group Touts Asphalt Roofing’s Luxury Appeal
The Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association is launching a multiyear marketing and advertising campaign to convey the design aesthetic of asphalt roofing shingles.