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Building/Lifestyle Trends From affordability to accessibility to usability, this information will keep you up to date on trends in the building and design industry and help you determine the home features that are most important to the way you live.

Building or Remodeling? Building or Remodeling?
The holidays are the perfect time to use your present home as a design tool for planning a new house.
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Coastal Architecture: Inside and Out Coastal Architecture: Inside and Out
The Charleston Cottage exemplifies Charleston's classic singlehouse, with the narrow end facing the road allowing the wraparound porches to gather sea breezes.
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Finding a Place for All That Other Stuff Finding a Place for All That Other Stuff
How do you resolve your other storage needs in your new house? The basement or the garage is great for things that you don't need very often. But where to put those things you use frequently and want close at hand?
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Garage Door Design Goes Upscale Garage Door Design Goes Upscale
The offerings of garage door companies have radically changed in the past 10 years, moving from the ho-hum to the quite fabulous.
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House Design Can Encourage Family Interaction House Design Can Encourage Family Interaction
What describes a great house? It looks good and makes you feel good when you're inside. It is energy efficient and comfortable. And it facilitates frequent, casual interactions between family members.
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Instant Cottage Style: 10 Easy Ways to Get the Cottage Look Instant Cottage Style: 10 Easy Ways to Get the Cottage Look
Use these tips to give your home the quaint look of a country cottage
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Open and Shut Open and Shut
Whether louvered, board and batten, paneled, or detailed with coastal cutouts, shutters protect beach houses with style. Here’s advice for choosing a hardworking product that looks good, too.
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Pay a Little Extra, Get a Better House Pay a Little Extra, Get a Better House
When you're trying to nail down a budget for your brand new house, "what's one percent in the grand scheme of things?" asked Vince Ghiloni, a custom-home builder in Newark, Ohio. The dollar amount may not be much, but, Ghiloni tells his clients that one percent is "insurance for the future."
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Revising the American Dream Revising the American Dream
To avoid compromising the needs of future generations, we need to consider how we build homes today.
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The Laundry Room, Like Rodney Dangerfield, Needs Respect The Laundry Room, Like Rodney Dangerfield, Needs Respect
The laundry is the Rodney Dangerfield room of most floor plans. Tucked into a leftover corner, it is almost never big enough to accommodate its designated function, perhaps because the designer has never performed this essential household task.
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Turn a Good House into a Great House Turn a Good House into a Great House
What makes a successful house purchase? One where the house not only increases in value, but also makes you feel great every day you live in it.
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Turning Your Dream Into a Real House Turning Your Dream Into a Real House
In many cases, the first step in making a dream house real is transforming the dream, said architect Carson Looney of Memphis, who has been designing houses there for 25 years.
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Well-Designed “Party Space” Works for Everyday Living Well-Designed 'Party Space' Works for Everyday Living
Almost any large room will seem like a great space for entertaining, if the party occurs at night and the place is jammed with people. But the same space in the cold hard light of day can be a different proposition altogether, and that's what you will live with on a daily basis.
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What Color is Your New Interior? What Color is Your New Interior?
If buying a brand new house is supposed to be so wonderful, why are you having such a hard time choosing all that neat stuff like flooring and cabinets and wall colors?
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Aging Gracefully Aging Gracefully: A House for All Seasons
See how one Virginia couple has found a home that will allow them to age in place.
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That Fabulous Kitchen That Fabulous Kitchen: Is It Functional?
Every homebuilder knows that a gorgeous kitchen will sell a house, but sometimes fabulous kitchens can be impossible to work in.
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In Search of the Family-Proof Sofa In Search of the Family-Proof Sofa
It makes most sense to put the new sofa in the room where the family will spend the most time.
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When Neat and Messy Live Together When Neat and Messy Live Together
Design can help, but when a couple is made up of one neat and one messy person, each has to learn to accept the other's foibles.
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Earthly Impact of Heavenly Houses Earthly Impact of 'Heavenly' Houses
When parents decide to purchase a new house, they almost always say, "We're doing this for our kids." But, considering the ecological impact of a bigger home, how will that really affect our children's futures.
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Durability Is a Big Deal Durability Is a Big Deal
What's required to ensure that your new house will look as good when your mortgage is paid off as it did on the day you moved in? The answer is a focus on durability.
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2008 House Plan Trends 2008 House Plan Trends: What's Hot, What's Cooled
How has the single-family house changed over the past 10 years, and what are the emerging trends?
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