Natural Beauties
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Leadership
Mark Richardson: Chess Moves
Today’s great business leaders are masters of thinking several moves ahead.
Design
Custom Homes: Natural Beauties
Site characteristics shaped the design of these two houses, which have spectacular views of water, hills, and valleys from every room.
Marketing & Sales
Home Builder Marketing: Beyond the Business Card
Word of mouth will always be the holy grail of marketing, but custom home builders can do more to find prospects than just wait for past clients to pass their business card.
Flooring & Tile
Armstrong Alterna Engineered Stone
Armstrong offers these crushed limestone-composite tiles as an alternative to natural stone and ceramic tile.
Lighting
LED Omni A19
This LED bulb is designed to produce energy savings in retrofits for 60-watt A19 incandescent or typical 13w to 15w spiral-shape compact-fluorescent medium base lamps.
GateMate
This self-contained free exit system for solar powered gates limits the amount of electric current needed for operation.
Cabinets, Countertops & Hardware
Danver Parapan Acrylic Door and Drawer Fronts
Designed for use in outdoor kitchens, these new acrylic door and drawer fronts from Danver are nonporous, UV-stable, waterproof, and easy to clean.
Lighting
WAC Lighting Huntington Pendant
The newest edition to WAC Lighting’s Early Electric Collection, this LED luminaire is ideal for Arts and Crafts-styled interiors.
Insulation
CertainTeed R20 Sustainable Insulation
CertainTeed is adding this new fiberglass insulation to its family of high-performance products to meet 2012 IECC requirements that wood-frame walls have at least an R20 thermal performance.
Technology
EasyHeat FGS and FG Thermostats
These dual-voltage programmable (FGS) and non-programmable (FG) thermostats are engineered to offer precise control of floor temperature via floor warming mats or cables.