After years of being relegated to the basement, laundry rooms have largely moved above ground in homes built over the last 25 or so years. But if your home was constructed before upstairs laundry room...
Americans, on the whole, love space. Our houses keep getting bigger and bigger, and we keep inventing new rooms. Bonus rooms? Why not. Home theaters? Absolutely. And as anyone who has ever moved from ...
For more than seven years, UpCodes has been making the complicated world of building codes easier to understand for people like industry professionals and homeowners. Its platform includes a searchabl...
Keeping your garden watered might not feel like a chore at first, but dragging hoses around, getting them stuck on trellises or railings, and spending the time on each bed to keep everything well-wate...
The first rule of home ownership is that you are perpetually unprepared for just how expensive it is. Even after years of dealing with the slow-motion collapse of your most valuable asset, you can sti...
Aldagram, a startup out of Japan developing project management software for construction companies, has picked up a new strategic backer to help it build out its footprint across Asia and the Middle E...
The real estate industry is a bit of a greenhouse gas powerhouse, responsible for 40% of all global emissions. A quarter of that comes from building materials, and Tangible has had enough. The company...
We like to think of drains as some kind of magic hole that makes things disappear. As convenient as that would be, unfortunately, that's not how they work--including those attached to kitchen sinks wi...
If you learn anything after buying a house, it's this: Water is your enemy. Every day, in a surprisingly wide variety of ways, water is infiltrating your house and trying to erode, rust, and wash away...
For a while, Google has planned to build a new 80-acre mega campus that would take over a large chunk of downtown San Jose, California. If you expressed doubt that the modern-day shutdown-happy Google...
The first day at a new job can feel a whole lot like the interviews you went through to land that job. You're still nervous, excited, and desperate to make a strong first impression. Only now, you als...
With warmer weather and longer, sunnier days on the horizon, now is the time to get your yard ready for summer hangouts. If your yard doesn't have many trees, consider adding shade--both to make the h...
Woodoo, a startup working on alternative materials for various industries, has raised $31 million. The company is manufacturing composite materials based on wood so that they can replace common materi...
More construction projects are being started, but payments to contractors and their subcontractors continue to cause a bottleneck in the normal course of completing a project."Banks are more and more ...
Remember when Amazon turned the United States into Thunderdome, making every state battle over the right to host the company's next big headquarters and 25,000 jobs? Well, after laying off more than h...
[photo1]Anna KramerAfter a dramatic competition that pitted US cities against one another, years of contested planning, and claims of unwavering commitment despite the pandemic, Amazon now says its pl...
[photo1]Out of all the usual household tasks, washing the floors is one of the easiest to put off (repeatedly). It's a lot of hassle to go through only to have people walk on the clean floors as soon ...
[photo1]Coffered ceilings are a great way to add character, pattern, and depth to your ceiling. If you have high ceilings, they also can make your room look cozier--but the price to have them custom-b...
Earlier this week, the US' Energy Information Agency (EIA) gave a preview of the changes the nation's electrical grid is likely to see over the coming year. The data is based on information submitted ...
Construction will reportedly soon begin on a mine that's expected to become the United States' largest source of lithium. This mine is viewed as critical to Joe Biden's $2 trillion clean energy plan b...