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- Trends: Tipping Top
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (5/1/2007)
- Alex Wilson noticed a recurring theme when he talked to participants at the West Coast Green Conference last September. "'We've reached a tipping point,'" he recalls them saying. "Homeowners are all of a sudden very excited about things like linoleum or cork, natural flooring materials. Across the board it's becoming more popular."
- Transforming Tile Countertop or Backsplash Can Be Easy DIY Project
- Virginian - Pilot (4/28/2007)
- By JAMES and MORRIS CAREYA frequent question we receive: What to do with an old tile shower or kitchen or bath countertop that has lost its pizazz? Complaints center on grungy or stained grout, cracked or chipped tile and/or a dated color.
- Here's How
- State Journal Register (4/28/2007)
- Q: In a remodeling project, I want to install laminated wood flooring. My problem is an uneven floor, which slopes about an inch to an inch and a half from one corner of the floor to the other.Do you have any recommendations for leveling the wood subflooring prior to the installation of the new plank flooring?
- Countertops Do Crown the Kitchen ; Solid Selections Anchor Any Remodel of the Most-Used Room in the Home
- Dayton Daily News (4/26/2007)
- Spring is a time for home improvement, to finally do all those things that you promised you were going to fix just as soon as the weather broke. For a long time, ceramic tile and laminates were the choices. Then the solid-surface countertops, marble and granite began to make appearances in homes.
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Alkemi Solid Surfacing
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (4/24/2007)
- Renewed Materials. Made from fine flake aluminum milling scrap and polymeric resins, Alkemi solid surfacing can be used for countertops and other surface applications. Alkemi can be cut, seamed, and machined like other solid-surfacing materials. Twelve colors are available in honed or textured finishes. 301-320-0042.
- Home Alone? Fortify Your Castle
- Daily News; Los Angeles, Calif. (4/22/2007)
- Every 15 minutes, a burglar breaks in to a home or office somewhere in the city of Los Angeles, according to L.A. Police Department figures.I invited Pete Moraga of Allstate Insurance Co. to inspect my place.Before Moraga's arrival, I got some quick advice from Chris McGoey, a security consultant in Riverside.
- Builder's New Home Breaks All the Molds
- Record, The; Bergen County, N.J. (4/22/2007)
- Builder Gary M. DeLuisio was determined not to construct one of the newer, cookie-cutter homes he sees everywhere when he bought a woodsy lot in Old Tappan with a 1960s home and horses.To avoid that, DeLuisio and his design team of Ridgewood architect Piero Gabucci and DeLuisio's wife, April, combined their individual strengths to create a unique home in a market saturated with sameness.The first distinguishing feature of the six-bedroom, 6.5-bath home is its reddish-amber cedar shake exterior, a hint of April's warm color choices inside.
- Faux Stone Has Advantages
- Topeka Capital Journal (4/21/2007)
- Engineered stone products are primarily (more than 90 percent) made of natural quartz, the hardest non-precious stone, and bound together by resins.By comparison, granite is only 40 percent to 60 percent quartz; the rest is comprised of softer minerals and impurities.Therefore, engineered stone products require less maintenance than granite because they are non-porous.
- New Laundry Rooms Are Multi-Purpose
- Cincinnati Post (4/21/2007)
- MELVILLE, N.Y. -- It's not that Christopher Dubs actually likes doing laundry. "Being a single father, I realized I spent a lot of time with my child and in the laundry room," says Dubs, an architectural designer who lives in Amagansett. When it's laundry time, Dubs sets out art supplies for Chasen on the low wood coffee table or pulls a stool up to the counter so they can work together.
- New Products Revealed at Coverings Show
- BUILDER Online News Service (4/18/2007)
- Almost 35,000 tile and stone industry professionals and 1,200 manufacturers, dealers, installers have descended on the Windy City to get an interactive glimpse of all the latest product and technology developments associated with tile. Coverings--essentially, Fashion Week for the tile set--is where attendees come for one reason: to see and touch the merchandise.
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