Across the country, home shows act as a show-and-tell for local housing markets by showing the latest trends in construction and design, but also telling the story about consumer confidence. For this week’s BuildChat, we interviewed Bryce Johnson, the executive vice president for the Home Builders Association of Fargo-Moorhead. We wanted to hear what Johnson [...]

We caught up with remodeler David West of Meadowview Construction in Massachusetts for a chat about how he markets his business, what social media tools have done for him, and the changes he’s seen in the industry over the past few years. For more about David, find him on Twitter @remodeling_dude or on his blog. [...]

After several years as a senior editor at Hanley Wood, Leah Thayer founded Daily 5 Remodel in 2010 to provide a daily resource for building professionals interested in industry news, trends and best practices. She’s fostered an ever-growing online community, leading to a constant conversation about the happenings of the remodeling industry. For this week’s [...]

Just over a year ago, we interviewed Matt Risinger, president of Risinger Homes, an Austin, Texas-based green building company. We recently circled back to ask Risinger about his use of social media marketing. When he’s not busy pounding nails, he’s pounding the keyboard for his blog and Facebook page. He also has a YouTube channel [...]

For our latest BuildChat, we caught up with residential designer Kelly Morisseau, CMKBD, CID, who resides in Northern California and maintains an excellent home remodeling blog, Kelly’s Kitchen Sync. We discussed trends in the kitchen and bathroom. We also found out the key to an effective designer-contractor relationship. Which kitchen design trend are you most [...]

For builders who focus on new construction, remodeling projects have been a lifeline as the marketplace has sagged. However, the healthy remodeling market isn’t just a fad. In fact, a recent study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard suggests remodeling projects will continue to thrive over the next decade. What does this mean? We [...]

With so many factors to consider, from training and certification to use of location and materials, building green can be complicated. We caught up with green-building expert Carl Seville — @GreenCurmudgeon on Twitter — to find out where builders should start when breaking into the brave new world of green building. “Green expert” may be [...]

Recently, the Builder Blog caught up with Sal Alfano, editorial director for Remodeling Magazine and the Journal of Light Construction, to talk about the thriving remodeling market. As more builders take on remodeling projects, it’s increasingly important to learn the new landscape and which factors are motivating consumers to stay and improve rather than move [...]

To help sort through some of the new innovations and technology at the 2011 NAHB International Builders’ Show, we caught up with Nigel F. Maynard, a senior editor at Residential Architect and BUILDER Magazine who focuses on home products, for an interview about what he say at IBS and the outlook for the year ahead. You’ve had a [...]

Every year, the NAHB International Builders’ Show acts as a summit for builders, architects and designers alike to not only check out new products and trends, but to gauge the state of the industry. We caught up with design pro Paul Anater, editor and publisher of Kitchen and Residential Design, to get his take on this year’s [...]