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Catch the Architect's Eye
Many of the most exceptional remodeling designs are drawn by architects hired directly by their clients. The trick for remodelers who don’t run design/build firms is to figure out how to become a member of this team.
City planning
In a high-rise home, it pays to prepare for building restrictions, parking crunches and permit pickiness.
Fireplaces: Style and Substance
New technology makes it easy to add or replace a fireplace anywhere, while improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality.
Role-playing
As the remodeling market grows ever more competitive, it becomes impossible to ignore other industry players, regardless of your company's size or time in the business.
Laying Down the Law: Rules for Your Customers
If you're like most remodelers I've met, you find certain aspects of your business exciting and intellectually stimulating, but other aspects have far less appeal.
The World Is Full of Talented Poor People
Today's sales process is more casual than the old high-pressure approach.
A New Category of Counter
Over the past two years, engineered quartz stone surfaces have made an aggressive entry into the marketplace, finding a niche between solid surfaces and granite.
Master Suite Addition:
When the Porters turned to Urbieta Construction Inc. in Dayton, Ohio, for an addition onto their home, they wanted more space to entertain and house relatives from overseas in an environment that looked and felt of Old World England.