Remodeling

Sunrooms - the next home improvement trend?

Sunrooms - the next home improvement trend? With home prices soaring, more and more homeowners are remodeling their current homes rather than selling and trading up. And when homeowners consider their options for renovation and adding space to their existing building, more of them are choosing to build with the light of a sunroom rather than to block out the light with conventional 2 by 4s and plywood. Architects and designers have been telling us that the trend in building over the past several years has been toward m ...
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Posted By Site Admin on January 12, 2006 17:01 | Remodeling
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Home Remodelers in for a Rude Awakening

For Renovators, a Rude Awakening THE hurricanes that battered the Gulf Coast and Florida this year devastated communities and left tens of thousands of people homeless. Now consumers everywhere are likely to feel the impact of the storms in the form of rising prices for construction and building materials. Many of those materials were already going up in price, but within six months things may be much worse. Tack $7,000 onto the cost of building a typical house in 2006, according to Michael Carliner, an econom ...
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Posted By Site Admin on December 23, 2005 03:12 | Remodeling
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Quick Remodeling an Unrealistic Idea

Quick remodeling an unrealistic idea In the era of instant messaging, overnight delivery and five-hour transcontinental flights, it can be difficult to accept that home improvement takes time. But most people don’t move into a house they find perfect in every way and certainly don’t have the wherewithal to turn it overnight into the house of their dreams. You would think that the myriad home-improvement shows on TV might try to at least hint at the reality of remodeling. Instead, we see Ty and his blow-dried crew re ...
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Posted By Site Admin on November 29, 2005 15:11 | Remodeling
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