PR January 2005

Nearly 20 million people worked at home at least once a week in May 2001, according to the most recent available data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Combined with the number of homeowners who need space from which to manage personal and household finances, you're looking at a lot of home offices.

Newborn Brothers' new Gator Trigger Series has all steel construction with a patent pending dual component comfort grip and comes in nine models. The caulking gun series consists of a ratchet model in two sizes, a parallel frame model, a Drip-Free model, a revolving barrel model, an industrial grade ratchet model, and a bulk loader in three sizes.

With company crimes both big and small regularly making headlines, nothing says "trust us" like an ethics and integrity award from the Better Business Bureau. When Firstcall Construction Inc. of Urbandale, Iowa, took home the 2004 Des Moines Better Business Bureau Integrity Award in the 1–50 employees category, the company promptly e-mailed press releases describing the achievements for w...

Revere recently launched Sovereign premium vinyl replacement windows for residential and light commercial remodeling. Steel-reinforced interlocking meeting rails and thickset multi-chamber extrusions add to the window's structural integrity and strength. An insulated glass unit with a high-performance PPG Intercept Warm Edge Spacer System and multi-layer weatherstripping provide added thermal e...

In each new episode of HGTV's "Designers' Challenge," three designers picked by the producers present their concepts for the same remodeling project to the homeowners. Though the scenario resembles the three-bid sales process that many remodelers prefer to avoid, Construction Concepts Corp., a full-service remodeling firm in Stamford, Conn.

Brilliance Series garage door windows from Clopay offer the look of beveled glass using 3M's Accentrim technology. The optically enhanced glass filters light and casts a rainbow of colors that create the illusion of cut glass. Available in both long and short panel styles and insulated or non-insulated glass, the window is available in three design patterns: Solitaire, Marquise and Trillian.

Creating a remodeling company with sellable value continues to challenge even the best contractors in the business. Some remodeling company owners have turned to purchasing, rehabbing and selling or renting properties to grow personal wealth and ensure a comfortable retirement. Steve Jordan, former owner of Dirty Work Construction Company in southern California, has taken that model to the extr...

Offering MDF and wood doors that are built with traditional stile and rail construction, TruStile has created Authentic Designs, which categorizes the company's more than 300 door styles into nine distinct door series: Arts & Crafts, Colonial, Modernist, New European, Southwestern, Traditional, Tudor, Tuscan and Victorian.

The story is typical: The owners of this 1,500-square-foot English Tudor needed to expand their living space, but setbacks and architectural controls in their Denver historic district restricted what could be done with an addition. So they turned to the 1,280-square-foot basement as the likeliest candidate.

Crossville's handcrafted wall tile Savoy comes with a 1×2-inch Pinwheel Pattern and a 1×2-inch Running Board or Brick Pattern — both are sheet-mounted for easy installation. Available in 3×6-inch and 6×6-inch field tiles and in 6×6-inch beadboard. The tile comes in five colors: White, Linen, Blush, Sea Mist and Café.