PB January 2005

Delta Simply PUR Water Filtration System is a partnership between Delta and PUR. This filtration system brings bottled-water quality through your kitchen faucet. The all inclusive filtration system processes water through three stages of filtration to reduce the amount of sediments and contaminants in drinking water while retaining fluoride and minerals.

Some builders view the electronic gadgetry associated with home automation systems as part of a distant, hi-tech future. But for many others, the future is now. This third article on the PATH Concept Home (see sidebar) focuses on modern home automation systems. With its "disentangled" utilities, the Concept Home provides fewer impediments than traditional homes to installing and upgrading a hom...

 

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Tile has long been the selected material of designers, architects and home owners to provide a rich, luxurious look. How about adding personalized images or photos to create custom tiles? Imagine adding a family portrait to the tiles located in the foyer. What about adding the beautiful sunset captured on film while on vacation to a tiled bathroom wall? Coastal Murals, LLC specializes in transf...

S88 Compact Sub is a free-standing, small footprint subwoofer. Designed with an enclosure that enhances its performance. Engineered to provide optimal corner-loading, the S88 works with the walls in a room to deliver sonic performance. It is offered in several sizes depending upon the size of the room and the homebuyer's budget.

For many high-end custom builders, selling spec houses is an alluring alternative to the hassles of dealing with well-heeled clients: Build what you want and sell it later...Of course, there's that catch. You have to carry the spec until it sells. Here's a Texas builder with some great ideas on how to market highly visible specs, and use the notoriety that brings to drive more custom clients to...

 

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Appearing to be recycled from a building long exposed to the elements, Stone Mountain Brick Co. introduces four new veneer styles for its brick and stone. "Used textures" have a slightly worn face with a few random indentations in each brick surface. In sharp contrast, the fresh-looking wirecut style has blunt, uneven grooves that stretch vertically across the surface of each piece.

A new single-speed router kit KM12SC is ergonomically designed and comes with both a plunge and fixed-base attachment. It's a follow-up to the variable-speed KM12VC kit released in September 2004. Both are designed for precise groove cuts, chamfering, trimming, shaping and pattern cutting, and feature an 11 Amp, 1-1/4 horsepower motor that operates at a quiet 79.

Betting that this delightfully detailed 6,200-square-foot luxury home designed to resemble a classic New England carriage house, would place first in the hearts of affluent empty-nester buyers in his upstate New York market, custom builder John Witt created this one-of-a-kind spec-built model to launch Saratoga Farm, the first equestrian-oriented development to be built in Saratoga County.