HousingZone.com presents a markup calculator in conjunction with Alan Hanbury's Praying or Planning for Profit? article in Professional Remodeler magazine.

Many remodelers say the do-it-yourself crowd is morphing into a do-it-for-me population. Harvard University says otherwise.

Benjamin Moore's Personal Color Viewer Professional is a software program that allows clients and contractors to visualize what an exterior or interior would look like in a certain color.

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.

In a high-rise home, it pays to prepare for building restrictions, parking crunches and permit pickiness.

New technology makes it easy to add or replace a fireplace anywhere, while improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality.

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.

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.

Today's sales process is more casual than the old high-pressure approach.

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.