Products - Cabinets - Industry News

• Built-in Cabinets Solve Storage and Problems
  Built-ins are not only beautiful and functional, they personalize a home. Constructed to fit the odd nooks and crannies of a residence, they provide customized storage for the owners' interests.
• Wood is Good for Home Building
  Whether it is in structural products, or in staircases and cabinetry, where fabricated products sometimes boast lower cost and more strength, wood maintains its popularity. Here's why.
• Interest in Green Construction Growing
  Custom home builders in the California market are noticing a growing interest in green construction among consumers. Here are their observations.
• Bathroom Furnishings Rise Above Vanity
  Don't call them medicine cabinets. Today's bathroom cabinets are so far removed from your parents' and grandparents' medicine cabinets, they can't be considered comparable.
• Sustainable Products May Help Revive Slumping Kitchen Cabinet Market
  The kitchen cabinet industry has the potential to be on the cutting edge of the green transformation, especially through the use of wood from sustainably managed forests, reclaimed wood and wood alternatives such as Microfiber or metal, according to "Kitchen Cabinets in the U.S.," a new study from SBI.
• Bathroom: New Comfort Zone
  Tell your clients: The bathroom is still one of the best investments that can be made to their home. Homeowners can recoup nearly 80 percent of a midscale bathroom remodel
• Falling prices, Sales Damage Idaho's Forest Products Industry
  Idaho's forest products industry had a not-so-good year in 2007, and a weak housing market promises more of the same in 2008.
• Remodeling Jobs Help Contractors Survive
  With Wisconsin's Dane County housing starts at record low levels, some area contractors are taking on more remodeling projects to stay afloat financially.
• NAHB to Highlight Green at IBS 2008
  The NAHB will be celebrating what they are calling Green Day on Thursday, Feb. 14, at the 2008 International Builders' Show in Orlando, Fla.
• End of Lumber Mills Spell End to Way of Life
  Lumber mill closures marked more milestones in the slow death of the region's timber industry: a few less mills, a couple of hundred fewer jobs and the gradual disappearance of a way of life.
• J.D. Power Study Ranks Cabinet Manufacturers
  J.D. Power recently released results of an inaugural study that ranks cabinet brands in satisfying remodelers and home builders. Take a look at who comes out on top.
• Plan for Good Plumbing in Home Renovations
  In the hierarchy of importance, faucets, sinks and knobs often wind up in last place, a mere afterthought to the starlets that are cabinets, counters and flooring. Such benign neglect has consequences. If scant thought is given to how kitchen or bath fixtures integrate into the design scheme, homeowners may end up with a room that is figuratively all wet, designers say.
• Slump Cuts Price of Lumber
  The national slump in the housing market is pushing down tree and lumber prices throughout the country, forestry experts say. A forestry report also said hardwood prices were suffering from the downturn.
• Going Green With Bamboo
  As a rapidly renewable resource, bamboo -- which is actually a woody-stemmed perennial grass that can grow to heights of 30 feet -- long has been used by builders of environmentally sensitive kitchens for everything from flooring and cabinets to cutting boards and window treatments.

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