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• Platinum Winner: Exterior
  Magee Construction Co.'s biggest challenges in expanding a historic home was making sure the new addition blends with the existing exterior.
• Platinum Winner: Kitchen $75,000 - $150,000
  Janice Donald has been remodeling other people's homes as the owner of Eren Design and Remodel. She wanted to improve the kitchen in her 1955 ranch home but had never gotten around to it. This was her opportunity.
• Platinum Winner: Bath Over $50,000
  The clients for this master suite remodel by Lee Kimball were frequent travelers and wanted to recreate the spa-like feel they had encountered in the luxury hotels and resorts they frequent.
• Platinum Winner: Commercial Remodel
  Creative Contracting was hired to transform this 1950s-style theater to a modern venue for live performances. The owner wanted to update the theater's lobby while at the same time preserving the historic character of the building, parts that dated back to the stables originally built on the site in 1894.
• Taking Over the Family Business
  It was 25 years ago that Scott Mosby bought a $1,300 workers’ comp credit from his father, effectively taking over the two-man family construction business.
• Universal Remodeling Education Program Launched
  This Universal Remodeling education program is designed to teach remodelers how to build these projects and the seven principles of Universal Remodeling.
• Managing the transition from one generation to the next
  F.H. Perry Builder is figuring out what comes after succession
• 2008 Remodeler of the Year
  Neil Kelly Company’s green remodeling practices, business strategies and best practices help them earn Professional Remodeler’s highest honor.
• Historic Green Remodel
  Historic buildings possess many of the characteristics now being touted as green. Green remodels involving historic homes requires a careful balance of aesthetics versus efficiency.
• From botched investment to model green remodel
  MyGreenBuildings transforms a bungalow into a luxurious green home
• Iris Harrell Stepping Back
  Many remodelers don’t have a succession plan in place. Iris Harrell was no different. What happens to your remodeling company if something happens to you?
• Historic Remodel
  Allegro Builders restores a once-grand 1910 home that had been seemingly ruined by years of neglect and abuse as it went from owner to owner before ending up as a halfway house for the homeless.
• Making the Tough Decisions on Layoffs
  It's a position no remodeler wants to be in, but with a slipping economy and work dropping off, many owners are having to make the tough decision to lay off employees.
• Brand Pickell
  Orren Pickell is a remodeler. He's a custom builder. He's a businessman. But perhaps most importantly, he's a brand. Talk to high-end homeowners in Illinois, Michigan or southern Wisconsin and they'll know the name Orren Pickell. Whether it's remodeling or custom homes, the name Orren Pickell carries a meaning beyond what most contractors ever achieve.
• Stormy Forecast
  While 2007 had its rough moments, 2008 seems to be the year that the housing downturn really hit remodeling. Fundamentally, the remodeling industry follows the trends of homebuilding. While the troughs are not as deep and the peaks not as high, new construction is a good predictor of remodeling activity.

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