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Landscape Architects Announce 2008 Awards Included among the ASLA award categories is the Residential Design Award of Excellence

Custom Kitchen Sinks: Almost Too Pretty for Dishes Not convinced that a kitchen sink can be art? These examples might change your mind.

Spa bathroom welcomes the outdoors inside a private retreat A custom builder creates a spa bathroom that merges the outdoors with a private retreat

Great Kitchens and Baths Score Points with Custom Home Buyers Kitchens and baths that display a high level of creativity and craftsmanship can give custom homebuilders an edge in a competitive market

What Luxury Looks Like in the New Kitchen and Bath Mary Jo Peterson runs down some of the latest trends in high-end kitchens and master bathrooms

How custom homebuilders can better manage customer service Columnist Tom Stephani shows how custom-home builders can focus on helping homebuyers understand the building process

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Industry News

• Defining the McMansion
  It's a lot easier to deploy the "M" word than to define it. "The term refers to something overscale and cheesy," said John Archer, architectural history/cultural studies professor at the University of Minnesota. "Of course, overscale and cheesy are both in the eye of the beholder. You can't define it. It's like pornography; you know it when you see it."
• Trendy New Designs for Dated Kitchens
• Panel of Architects Tackle Emerging Trends
• Market Conditions Inspires Builder Shift to Remodeling

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