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Kitchen Cabinets + Accessories

Pros and Cons of IKEA Cabinets for Residential Design

Two designers discuss the affordable cabinet alternatives. What's your take? Watch more from The Weekly here. ...

Business Management

Rod Cullum, co-founder and CEO of Cullum Homes in Scottsdale, Ariz., talks about how unitized pricing changed his company's business model...

Design

How To Design for a Multi-Gen Household

Seth Hart from DTJ Design in Boulder, Colo., shares his clever approach to designing homes for multigenerational households ... and how that...

Home Technology

Smart Home Tech for Aging in Place

Aging in place and smart technology expert Ryan Herd discusses what smart technologies are best suited for homeowners wanting to age in...

Building Technology

Home Building's Technology Problem

Scott Sedam gives his reasons why home builders and technology generally don't get along ... and why that dynamic is hindering progress and...

Energy Efficiency

What's Inside a LEED Platinum Home?

Home builder Kevin Kittilsen of DJK Custom Homes walks us through his flagship, LEED Platinum-rated model home, including an overview of the...

Construction

Off-Site Versus On-Site Construction

Advocates for factory-built homes and traditional on-site builder True Homes present their cases for why their respective approaches are...

Design

2021 Design Trends from the National Kitchen & Bath Association

Tricia Zach from NKBA reveals the hottest kitchen and bath trends residential pros should know for 2021. Watch more from The Weekly...

Design

How to Design More Privacy Into New Homes

A recent survey by John Burns Real Estate Consulting revealed that many homeowners are concerned about a lack of privacy, both inside and...

Business Management

This Builder Transformed His Business by Switching Markets

Sublime Homes CEO Mike Graniczny discusses how his company benefitted from moving its focus from Illinois to Indiana, and how other builders...

Design

Design Highlights and Trends from the 2020 Best in American Living Awards

David H. O'Sullivan, AIA, president of O'Sullivan Architects and the chair of the 2020 Best in American Living Awards (BALA), reveals the...

Business Management

Risky Business: Builder Liability Insurance Tips

Home builder liability insurance guru Katie Beck provides the low-down on the changing landscape and how best to work with insurance...

Leadership

Time Machine: Lessons for Your Rookie Self-Vol. 2 [VIDEO]

If you could go back to your rookie self in home building, what would you tell yourself to do differently? Jacklyn Graniczny, partner/design...

New-Construction Projects

The Haciendas: Future of Production Building?

The Haciendas, an experimental production home project by Oaxaca Interests LLC, in Dallas, Tex., uses modern design and unconventional...

Leadership

The Fragility of Good Things [VIDEO]

Editorial Director Denise Dersin talks with industry sage Scott Sedam about the "fragility of good things," and the metrics he advises home...

Women at WIRC

The House That SHE Built

Home builder Kristi Allen talks about The House That SHE Built, a project built by an all-women skilled-labor team from the Utah Chapter of...

High-Performance Homes

Can High Performance Be Cheaper Than Code? [VIDEO]

Jim Nostedt, president or Seefar Building Analytics, lays out a formula that shows how total cost of ownership makes high-performance...

Construction

Recruiting the Next Generation of Skilled Construction Labor

Senior Editor Mike Beirne talks to workforce development pros about how they overcome resistance from school guidance counselors and parents...

Comfort + Health

Builders Add Health-Focused Tech to New Homes

In response to the growing buyer demand for healthy homes, several large builders are offering advanced water and air filtration systems and...

Sales + Marketing

Is Facebook Still Relevant for Builder Marketing?

Should builders continue to market homes for sale on Facebook? And, if we are nearly sold out of inventory and lots for 2020, what should we...

Quality Matters

Solving Truss Uplift [VIDEO]

Tim Kampert from IBACOS-PERFORM presents the causes of truss uplift, its impact on quality and customer satisfaction, and best practices to...

Mixed-Use Development

The 860 Condominiums: Mixed-Use at its Best

Adele Chang, president of the architecture firm LCRA in Pasadena, California, presents the Eight Sixty Condominiums, an "on the boards"...

NAHB

An Interview With NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke

New NAHB Chairman Chuck Fowke outlines the key issues facing the housing industry and how the association is working to address them. ...

Regional Builders

Ryan Cantrell and the Art of Tier 3 Market Dominance

Learn how and why Ryan Cantrell from Trendsetter Homes, a production builder in Springfield, Mo., managed aggressive growth and made radical...

High-Performance Homes

Innovative Products: A New High-Performance Wall [VIDEO]

Patti Gunderson, a building science engineer at Home Innovation Research Labs, explains the myriad values of the high-performance Extended...

Considering the Millennial Homebuyer

In These Cities, It Takes 25 Years Worth of Rent Payments to Afford a Home

Home Remodeling Sentiment Dips