The New American Home 2024: Modern Features, Timeless Comfort
Explore the design elements and unique, luxe details that combine to create a sense of comfort and relaxed indoor/outdoor living in The New American Home 2024
4 Inspiring Adaptive Reuse Projects With Real Impact
From former schools to warehouses, these adaptive reuse projects—winners in the 2023 Best in American Living Awards—succeed in creating new housing and revitalizing their neighborhoods
Kid-Friendly Home Design Four Ways
Do your ‘family’ homes really deliver great design for parents and their children? Here are four clever home design ideas that consider kids and adults alike
4 Single-Family Build-to-Rent Home Designs Offering Comfort and Construction Efficiency
Single-family rentals are popular. Take a look at these detached-home design ideas for the single-family build-to-rent market, one of the fastest-growing segments of single-family construction
Are Agrihoods a Growth Opportunity?
Including a farm in your master plan isn’t just trendy, it also gives back
Attainable Housing Solutions (and More) at IBS 2024
A handful of homes at Pro Builder’s Show Village at IBS 2024 offer a path forward for providing high-quality, lower-cost housing nationwide
Home Design: Outstanding Outdoor Spaces
Homebuyers not only value outdoor living space, they have come to expect it. These outdoor environments run the gamut from modest to lavish.
Home Design: Peace out with roof colors
National color expert Kate Smith, president of Sensational Color, predicts that 2014 will be the year of “quiet elegance” for roofing colors across America.
Home Design: Beyond the basic box
With help from Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandson, Eric Lloyd Wright, Three Squared hopes to show the world that shipping-container houses can be both practical and beautiful.
Infill Housing
Ample Infill for Thin Lots
Smaller-scale infill designs are not just for well-established urban areas anymore
Quaint spaces made special
Professional Builder's House Review design team shows how small details added to a stairway landing, hallway, foyer, or porch can be the special touch that transforms a house into a home.
The goods for today’s move-up buyer
Move-up buyers are a fickle bunch, and this blog entry focuses on a Lean Design for that group. It is actually an excerpt from a future House…
AIA announces 2014 Housing Awards winners
Ten winners were selected in four categories recognizing outstanding design
This 2,800-square-foot stunner makes them slam on the brakes!
I had the pleasure of meeting Mary Schumacher from Schumacher Homes a few years back while doing plan reviews at the International Builders' Show…
Door colors gone wild
Raucous Orange, Quixotic Plum, and Relic Bronze are some of the bold colors that will be most popular on residential door exteriors in 2014.
2013 Professional Builder Design Awards
Now in its third year, the Professional Builder Design Awards highlight beautifully designed projects that embrace and display new market trends.