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Thirty years from now, after concluding a long and proud career in residential building, I can see myself taking my 8 year old grandson to visit the Museum of New Home Construction. Home construction is much more than connecting boards and materials together in a pleasing pattern to create a basi...
11/13/2017
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Your credit score is complex, but having a better basic understanding about how it really works can help you to improve your credit report. While there’s more credit score information available than ever before, many potential home buyers continue to have misconceptions about credit scores that c...
11/06/2017
Mass customization is a concept to manufacture a relatively high volume of product options for a relatively large market that demands customization, without tradeoffs in cost, delivery, and quality. Modular construction is the term used to describe the use of factory-produced building modules tha...
10/30/2017
You never know when the next storm is coming. It could be high winds, a tornado, a hurricane, or an earthquake. In the U.S., every region is susceptible to at least one of these events. Now imagine one of them strikes when you are at work and your family is at home. Is your home built to withstan...
10/23/2017
Custom home builders for years have used the term “stick built” to label their homes as higher quality. The logic is that if you build a home one stick at a time, then you have taken the time to cut, place, and fasten each “stick” correctly. This is a distraction from what it really is. “Stick bu...
10/09/2017
The first thing you hear from almost any source when you start to think about building a new home is to check your credit score. Most prospective home buyers then head to websites like myFICO or Credit Karma to get their credit score. For some, this may be the first time they have actually ever s...
10/02/2017
er·go·nom·ics/ˌərɡəˈnämiks/nounthe science of refining the design of products to optimize them for human useWhen you think about what home ergonomics is, the first thing that comes to mind for most is fitting the home to the resident that lives in it… designing the home with the body’s comfort in...
09/25/2017
Have you ever driven by a home construction site and noticed that big dumpster in the yard? For most, the initial impression is that it’s great to have a place to put the construction garbage to keep the jobsite looking neat and to keep the trash from blowing around. However, it’s a custom built ...
09/18/2017
For most, designing a new home begins with a lot of false starts. Questions need to be answered. How big of a house do you need? How many bedrooms and bathrooms are needed? Do you want an open floor plan? Do you need porches or decks? Which home styles do you like? Once most of the questions are ...
09/11/2017
In the last 25 years, there are four devastating storms that come to mind for most: Hurricane Andrew in Florida, Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey/New York, and now… Hurricane Harvey in Texas. Each of these storms has tested the people that were affected and tested th...
09/05/2017