Home Demolition or Deconstruction?

Salvaging What Matters in Home Building When an older home undergoes extensive remodeling, or a complete tear down, what happens to the debris? Most of it ends up in landfills. Let’s dust off that old adage, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” There are a multitude of reasons to think this way. It will

SIPs Coming in from the Fringe of Home Design

Change in any industry can feel sluggish when you have a great idea you want to see catch on. That is certainly true for proponents of structural insulated panels or SIPs for short. In the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with an early prototype that lacked insulation, in his search for materials that were functional,