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November 2006

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Positively Perfect
How is your company culture? If you've got happy, productive employees, satisfied customers and feel like every day presents a new opportunity for success, congratulations. If this is not the case at your company, take heart in the fact that you...
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The Power of Respect
We live in a fast-paced society with e-mail, instant messaging, microwaves and hydro mulch. Society keeps speeding up, and often we take on more than we can do. It is easy to lose sight of some basic truths that never change, like using the words...
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2006 Design Awards Bronze
WHOLE-HOUSE OVER $500,000 VB Contractors Inc., Virginia Beach, Va. WHOLE-HOUSE $251,000 – $500,000 Orfield Design & Construction Inc., St. Louis Park, Minn. WHOLE-HOUSE UNDER $250,000 Anderson Moore Builders, Winston Salem, N.C. WHOLE-...
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2006 Design Awards Gold
WHOLE-HOUSE OVER $500,000 Bowers Design Build Inc., McLean, Va. WHOLE-HOUSE $251,000 – $500,000 Byrd Development, Woodland Hills, Calif. REBUILD ON EXISTING FOUNDATION Remodeler: Prestige Custom Builders Inc., Seattle Architect: TCA...
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2006 Design Awards Silver
WHOLE-HOUSE OVER $500,000 Landis Construction Corp., Washington, D.C. WHOLE-HOUSE $251,000 – $500,000 HighCraft Builders, Fort Collins, Colo. WHOLE-HOUSE UNDER $250,000 Lellbach Builders, Warrenville, Ill. CONSERVATORY/SUNROOM Remodeler:...
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Best in Class Winners
Professional Remodeler's 2006 Best in Class Survey asked top remodelers in the residential and commercial sectors to rate the qualities that attract them and keep them with a manufacturer and their products. Though most of the respondents named...
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Blast from the Past
EXTERIOR Remodeler and architect: Feinmann Inc., Arlington, Mass. Using a treasured set of original architectural plans for their century-old Victorian home as their guide, the owners of this Newton, Mass., home realized their long-held dream of...
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Craftsman's Touch
EXTERIOR Remodeler and residential designer: Stone Pillar Remodeling, Redmond, Wash. Classic craftsman details with a northwestern twist transformed the exterior of this high-profile, 35-year-old hillside ranch from bland to beautiful. The new look...
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Fairy Tale Finish
KITCHEN $51,000 – $100,000 Residential designer: Stimmel Consulting Group, Ambler, Pa. General contractor: Emerald Designs, West Chester, Pa. Creating a new kitchen for this turn-of-the century Victorian castle provided residential designer...
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Illuminating Ideas for New Kitchen
KITCHEN $51,000 – $100,000 Remodeler and architect: Forward Designers & Builders, Ann Arbor, Mich. Architect and remodeler Jef Forward says that he let conventional design constraints go when it came to remodeling the dark, dreary kitchen...
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Innovative Ideas Help Tight Space
KITCHEN UNDER $50,000 Remodeler and designer: Michael Nash Custom Kitchens, Fairfax, Va. Adding storage, seating and cooking features in a kitchen as restricted as this townhouse in Alexandria, Va., was no simple task, says Sonny Nazemian, president...
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Natural Wonder
BATH OVER $30,000 Remodeler and architect: Landis Construction Corp., Washington, D.C. A dramatic, glass-tiled curvilinear wall, accented by a floor-to-ceiling water feature rather than a conventional doorway, marks the transition from the bedroom...
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PATH Report: Ageless Designs

Connect these dots: Aging-in-place remodeling is the fastest growing segment of the residential remodeling industry. About 20 percent of the U.S. population will be elderly by 2030, and in 50 years, the percentage of retirees will more than...

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Polishing a Gold Coast Gem
WHOLE HOUSE OVER $500,000 Remodeler and architect: Orren Pickell Remodeling Group, Lincolnshire, Ill. When it came to recapturing the original interior character of this turn-of-the-century Chicago graystone, architect Jason DeBaker, discovered he...
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Quality Addition
ADDITION OVER $100,000 Remodeler and architect: Carnemark Systems & Design, Bethesda, Md. Combining well-thought-out design changes with common sense value engineering principles, design/build remodeler Carnemark Systems & Design transformed...
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Sweet Caf
COMMERCIAL REMODEL Remodeler: Kaiser Building Co., Cranbury, N.J. Interior designers: Jerry Reilly, Halo Farm, Lawrence, N.J. The sterile space once belonged to a celluar phone store. Now it's a charming old-style ice cream and pastry parlor...
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The Better, Greater Outdoors
OUTDOOR LIVING Remodeler and designer: Marrokal Construction Co., San Diego, Calif. Remodeler John Davies only added 938 square feet of covered outdoor space to an already roomy, 7,800-square-foot southern California residence, but this luxuriously...
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Their Own Private Circus
KITCHEN OVER $100,000 Interior designer: Bauer Interior Design, San Francisco, Calif. General contractor: John Sullivan, San Francisco, Calif. A piece of artwork of a circus scene inspired interior designer Lou Ann Bauer's clients to crave a...
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Upscale Design

With baby boomers continuing to fuel growth in the residential remodeling market, it's no wonder their penchant for high-end luxuries, amenities and design details have come shining through in this year's winning Best of the Best Design Awards...

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