10 Fashionable, Functional Interior Home Products
From high-performance features to on-trend styles, these interior products offer new design options from floor to ceiling
Easy Fix for Ceiling—Designer Finds the Key with Armstrong Ceilings
5th Wall provides opportunity for texture and interest in a room
Framing Best Practices That Help Prevent Drywall Cracks
A home's constant movement can wreak havoc on gypsum wallboard unless you take these steps with your framing components
A Checklist for Building Party Walls the Right Way
Party wall mistakes can be costly to fix. Use this guide to avoid them
How to Manage Moisture in Walls: Tips for Designing and Building
Moisture trapped in a wall can cause extensive, costly, and harmful damage. Take these steps to prevent it
Wall Framing Techniques to Improve Thermal Performance and Lower Costs
An optimized value-engineered approach to framing kills two birds with one stone by reducing lumber costs while boosting the home's thermal performance
Walls + Ceilings
HousingZone's articles, surveys, ideas, trends, and tips on walls & ceilings for residential builders, remodelers, and architects serving the residential construction industry.
Quality Matters
A Checklist for Building Party Walls the Right Way
Party wall mistakes can be costly to fix. Use this guide to avoid them
Quality Matters
How to Manage Moisture in Walls: Tips for Designing and Building
Moisture trapped in a wall can cause extensive, costly, and harmful damage. Take these steps to prevent it
Quality Matters
Wall Framing Techniques to Improve Thermal Performance and Lower Costs
An optimized value-engineered approach to framing kills two birds with one stone by reducing lumber costs while boosting the home's thermal performance
Construction
Net Zero Energy: The Ultimate Z.E.N. Home's Wall Assembly
The Ultimate Zero Energy Now Home proves there’s more than one way to deliver a high-performance wall
Framing + Building Envelope
How to Frame Walls That Combat Moisture
A pair of research studies reveal best practices—and a new assembly sequence—to combat moisture in framed walls
Quality Matters
Limit Cracks in Construction: Mind the Gap Between Building Materials
The expansion gap between dissimilar materials is a critical detail that can prevent costly callbacks and warranty headaches for home builders
Interiors
2019 Top 100 Products: Interior Products
Products from Country Wood Flooring, Emerson Electric, Environmental Stoneworks, Husqvarna, Meridian Brick, Sherwin-Williams, and Viewrail
Exterior
2019 Top 100 Products: Exterior Products
Products from Arcitell, Boral, Cultured Stone, James Hardie, LP, and Woodford Manufacturing
Masonry | Stone Master Global
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