Category: What’s Going On

Good news. “With home sales picking up and contractors seeing more positive business conditions in the future, remodeling activity (will grow) by the end of this year and into 2013,” Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reports. In related news, railroad shipments of lumber have increased–a positive indicator for the new...

The Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City has great educational events, including Home Show-Fall Edition, which is returning to the Overland Park Convention Center. KCHBA’s mission is to serve the new-home industry of Greater Kansas City as a resource for HBA members and consumers. KCHBA also advocates the new-home industry...

High quality wood, when properly treated and installed, can last generations. Here are some Kansas homes that demonstrate the natural material’s durability. Constitution Hall. Built in 1857, Constitution Hall housed the legislative assembly. The clapboard structure is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark....

Kansas City’s understated design aesthetic lends itself to crown mouldings, as national magazines have demonstrated. Southern Living magazine featured crown mouldings in the Kansas City home of designer Barbara Cosgrove. House Beautiful showed how crown mouldings dress up this bedroom, by David Jimenez.   The same timeless look can be...

The 26th Annual Home Show-Fall Edition will inspire homeowners, with over 200 exhibitors expected at the Overland Park Convention Center.   The home show is September 14-16 and will include stage presentations, cooking demonstrations and ideas regarding home upgrades. This year’s Home Show Stage, sponsored by Spaces Magazine, will feature...

A corbel is a piece of wood or masonry that jutts out of a wall to carry a weight. Corbels have been used a lot in architecture lately, as these images from notable design magazines demonstrate: House Beautiful showed this carved corbel over a stove in a French Country-style kitchen in Connecticut....

Wainscoting, or wainscot paneling as they call it in England, is a series of narrow boards that line the lower portion of a wall. It is common now to see wainscoting on the upper portions of walls and ceilings as well. What you may have associated with a cottage...

Usually, glossy interior design magazines save their excitement for color and pattern. But wide plank flooring has been all the buzz lately, from coast to coast. Here is a look at images from notable national interior design publications: House Beautiful showed wide plank heart pine flooring in a kitchen by...

When cuts to education threatened to eliminate a woodshop class at Joe T. Robinson High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, one dedicated teacher refused to take it sitting down.  Mr. Howell Jackson, armed with his knowledge of woodworking and his passion for his students, was determined to fight the...

The International Woodworking Machinery & Furniture Supply Fair (IWF) is now taking entries for the 2012 Challengers Distinguished Achievement Awards. Known as the highest honor in the woodworking industry, the Challengers Awards competition takes place every two years to recognize those companies that introduce innovative and game-changing woodworking products including...