Design | Remodeling

According to “What Home Buyers Really Want”, a 2012 study by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), energy efficiency is the prime consideration for consumers when purchasing windows. The nationwide survey shows that ENERGY STAR® rated windows (89 percent of respondents), triple-pane insulating glass windows (69 percent of respondents) and Low-E insulating glass windows (67 percent of respondents) are the three top “essential/must have” and “desirable” types of windows identified by surveyed new and potential home buyers.

MAUMEE, OHIO – Most homeowners enter their houses by driving into their garage more frequently than any other door in the home, so why not make it welcoming? To add pizzazz to the exterior of your garage door, the experts at Fypon recommend you install decorative urethane trim pieces, such as mouldings, crossheads, pediments and keystones to the garage door surround at your home.

Although The North Face® retail store in Victor, New York, opened less than five months ago, the structure looks like it’s been part of the landscape for a decade or more. The retailer’s construction team selected products that complemented the historic setting of the area, so that The North Face store fits its location very naturally.

Whether you’re making a fast trip to the store or leaving on a two-week vacation, are you confident that locking your doors is enough to keep your home safe and secure?

James Hardie takes an active role in the post-Hurricane Sandy rebuilding process. Its building products will help to achieve Mayor Bloomberg's exhortation to rebuild smarter, stronger, and more sustainably to weather future storms.

Builder Fabian Sparrow relies on the benefits of offsite modular construction to guarantee the quality of his custom modular homes. Built in a controlled environment and not subjected to the natural elements, the homes produced by Carolina Custom Homes of Burlington are efficiently created and then transported to the job site.

Whether you believe in global warming or just think our weather patterns have been stretched to extremes in recent years, there’s no doubt that homeowners nationwide need to prepare their homes for tougher weather conditions.

Whether you believe in global warming or just think our weather patterns have been stretched to extremes in recent years, there’s no doubt that homeowners nationwide need to prepare their homes for tougher weather conditions.