Harvard: Remodeling Activity Increasing
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...
Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City Inspires
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...
Historic Wooden Houses in Kansas
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....
Timeless Crown Mouldings in Kansas City
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...
Kansas Home Show to Feature HGTV Star
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...
Wood of the Month: Wenge
If you have opened up a furniture catalog or design magazine lately, you have seen many wooden pieces in an espresso finish. The finish often covers wenge wood or is meant to emulate wenge. The image above, via Houzz, was designed by SLIC interiors with solid wenge panelling. Wenge is...
Wooden Furniture Rules High Point Market
The High Point Furniture Market attracts interior designers and furniture retailers from around the world. At the recent spring show, wooden pieces took the show by storm. Here is a re-cap of some of High Point’s finest wooden offerings. Mahogany. Baker Furniture had exquisite mahogany and mahogany veneer options by Thomas...
Corbels Add Character
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 Graces Fine Homes
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...
Wood of the Month: Fir
Fir is an affordable softwood often used in residential construction, light commercial construction, woodworking and other applications. Douglas fir is used extensively in the construction industry for structural applications that are required to withstand high loads. Douglasfir is dimensionally stable and holds nails well. Douglas fir is one...