Lessons from Legends in the Home Building Industry: Elise Platt
Lessons from Legends in the Home Building Industry: Elise Platt In this latest installment of our ongoing series, “Lessons with Legends” we sit down and talk to Elise Platt, residential [...]
The Big Design Impact of Small Spaces
The Big Design Impact of Small Spaces Every nook and cranny in a model home are important. We approach every design creation with this edict in mind. We know that [...]
March 2021 Newsletter: Women in Construction/Building Industry, Healthy Design, and More!
March, 2021 Spring has sprung! Well, not exactly sprung here in Denver. As I write this, we are currently digging out of a snowstorm that dumped over two-feet of [...]
Lessons from Legends in the Home Building Industry: Philip Fankhauser
Lessons from Legends in the Home Building Industry Our Lessons from Legends series are informal chats with leaders in the home building industry. In which we pick the brain of, [...]
Healthy Design
Healthy Design Healthy design is more than just including certain materials or colors into a model home. Health and wellness is a way of living and by extension designing. We [...]
Women & The Construction/Building Industry
Women & The Construction/Building Industry March is officially designated as Women’s History Month. And as such, we thought it only apropos to celebrate women in the construction/building industry. Not a [...]
How the Economy Impacts Design Trends
How the Economy Impacts Design Trends It’s been said that design follows fashion. In other words, the trends that we see from the world of fashion heavily influence the trends [...]
Opportunities and Challenges of IBSx 2021: A Participant’s Viewpoint
Opportunities and Challenges of IBSx 2021: A Participant’s Viewpoint Each year after IBS we take a minute to exhale and reflect on what we’ve learned and who we met with [...]
Color and Design Impact
Using Color for Maximum Impact One of the most powerful tools in a designer’s toolbox is the use of color. In the hands of a professional designer, the use of [...]
Two (Overarching) Housing Trends of 2021
Two (Overarching) Housing Trends of 2021 We are now a year (or so) into the pandemic. Homeowners have had the chance to consider how spaces, both before and during the [...]
IBSx 2021 – The Virtual NAHB International Builders’ Show
Lita Dirks to “Present” at IBSx 2021 – The Virtual NAHB International Builders’ Show For 76 years, NAHB's International Builders' Show (IBS) has been where the industry comes together to [...]
Construction and Design: Better Together
Construction and Design: Better Together Construction and design working in collaboration is better for everyone. Unfortunately, working together from the very beginning on a building is more often the outlier [...]