Taking a whole-house approach provides opportunities for you to differentiate your company in a competitive marketplace and to protect your jobs from building failure.

Before beginning a remodeling project, contractors routinely consider its impact on the design and construction of the rest of the home - but not everyone considers the impact on whole-house performance. This can have ill effects on the home and/or occ...

With each new machine or tech gadget I acquire, I have a love-hate relationship. I love it when it does things well and when I know how to use it. I hate it when it gives me trouble.

The way that any one of our employees does his or her job has enormous repercussions with the public and with the company.

Vinyl remains a strong choice even for historic homes, while fiber-cement is gaining ground with new options.

Without measuring employee performance against benchmarks, you leave the possibility of success to chance.

A bedroom with walk-in closet in a home in Minnetonka, Minn., needed to make the conversion from child's space to work space.

When these Seattle homeowners decided to remodel and expand their second-floor bathroom, they also wanted to create a grander, more contemporary entryway that would not distract from the home's 1950s split entry and long, linear lines.

Low-margin commercial projects - especially for historical renovations - leave little room for error but lots for creativity.

The sad truth is that larger jobs, unfamiliar project types, poorly chosen clients, poor job costing - and the resulting repetitive estimating errors - capped by a poor understanding of how profit is generated, are the root causes of remodeler failure....