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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.
A Community goes solar
Gayler Construction of Danville, Calif. had heard about programs where homeowners had banded together to negotiate reduced prices from solar providers and thought that would be a good fit for their local community.
Stay the course with your marketing plan
Before the end of the year, write a disciplined and actioinable marketing plan for your remodeling firm
Basic Survival Tactics for the Remodeler
Remodeling expenditures are down more than 10 percent, and most remodelers are struggling to maintain sales volumes and margins. Survival has become a major issue for many companies.
Hiring a Business Coach
A business coach can help your remodeling business and personal life run more smoothly.
Budgeting
Remodelers need to think through all changes in overhead and staffing to survive the worst case, it will force you to deal with your fear and your budget.
Closing the books on 2008
Predictions by both the Joint Center for Housing Studies Remodeling Futures Program and NAHB are for another year of decreasing revenue, but national forecasts have little bearing on the course you should map out for your business.