Webinar: 20th-Century Home, 21st-Century Performance

Learn all about high-performance home renovations through The New American Remodel 2022.

How to Enhance a Remodel's Design, Layout with Feng Shui

Joanna Lily Wong shares her tips on how to balance a room's layout to bring calmness in a space with Feng shui principles.

How Can Remodelers Use Biophilic Design to Connect With Homeowners?

With the rise of personalization and organic design during the pandemic, biophilia has had a moment in remodeling projects. Will it last?

Behind the Walls: The New American Remodel 2021

The E2 team set out to make the performance, comfort and health of this year’s New American Remodel as cutting-edge as its architecture. Here’s how they did it.

Achieving Zero Net Energy: A Path Through Propane?

Propane may be a surprise player in green building's quest for zero-net-energy homes.

3 Materials That May Forever Change the Home’s Makeup

With price spikes and shortages of traditional building materials, it may be time to start considering non-traditional ones

Nominations Open For 2021 Innovative Showroom Awards

NKBA's annual Innovative Showroom Awards (because of the pandemic) are expected to be particularly interesting this year 

Green Design

4 Ways to Get Green Buy-In

Get clients onboard for greener material and product options

Green Design

How to Pick an NGBS Certification Path Based on 2020 Remodeling Updates

The 2020 National Green Building Standard’s new prescriptive path allows potential certification regardless of existing conditions

Ashley Noethe, 32

Designer Normandy Remodeling  / Chicago   Environmental design:   Understanding how our environment influences the way we feel and behave has led me…