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MityLite Expands Custom Chair Lines for Retaurants
OREM, UT - Hospitality furnishings manufacturer MityLite launched a new line of customizable banquet chairs, The Galleria Collection, at the Boutique Design New York trade fair in New York last week....
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Chicago Biennial Scores Winning CLT Wood Structure
CHICAGO - A cross-laminated timber structure has been built in Chicago, bringing that city it's first high profile application of the wood construction material being used in high rise wood building...
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Hue and Cry: Alabaster Versus Galapagos for Color of the Year
CLEVELAND - Sherwin-Williams announced Alabaster (SW 7008), a hue it is says is symbolic of new beginnings, as the 2016 Color of the Year. "Alabaster represents a straightforward and necessary shift to...
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Why Tiny Houses? Because They Are Cheaper
Amanda Schatz at Sustainablekits.com, running an Indiegogo to fund it's house-in-a-box product, passed along some information on the Tiny House movement. She shared an infographic from thetinylife.com...
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A Walnut Table Prototype Using 3D Printing
Designer and fabricator Vera Shur presented an experiment in developing a table, using 3D printing to create prototype hardware components. Find links to design and 3D printing files below.This is my...
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Folding Glass Wall Manufacturer Makes Bear-proof Doors
SAN FRANCISCO - NanaWall says its Framed Folding Glass Wall BEARricade will help custom home builders and homeowners to bring the outdoors in, yet keep the bears out. While the new model is designed in...
View ArticleMillwork Profile Program Shows Thousands of Drawings of Mouldings, Doors
Video of zE2DsXxemXs Koetter Woodworking shares its profile library through the envisionIIT application profile library and architectural design program. envisionIT contains thousands of drawings for...
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Carlisle Wide Plank Floors Brings Torlys Floating Plank Floors to U.S.
STODDARD, NH - Carlisle Wide Plank Floors is now distributing floating wide plank floors in partnership with Ontario-based Torlys, which specializes in unique, eco-friendly designs. The flooring...
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Are Lasers Beating Out CNC Routers?
Designers are able to style and create their own cutting patterns with laser cutters. While easier to operate than CNC routers, laser cutters are also limited in cutting angles and patterns. Still,...
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Twisted Cabinet: a Signature Design Developed on Spindle Sander
Architect and designer Thomas Heatherwick established Heatherwick Studio in 1994. It is recognized globally for its work in architecture, urban infrastructure, sculpture, design and strategic thinking....
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Closets for Marijuana: a Budding Design Market?
In states where marijuana has been legalized, consumers are converting home closets to discrete horticultural centers for cultivating pot. Is this a meaningful trend?Real estate developer Eric...
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Cigar Box Guitars - Smokin' Awesome
Cigar boxes may have intrigued you - dovetailed wood versions that seemed so wonderfully crafted, and perhaps overbuilt, to their purpose. The subject may be gaining currency as relations thaw between...
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Nautilus Table: 4,000 Strips of Sycamore Veneer
The request that resulted in the sycamore veneer Nautilus table was very open, says furniture designer and builder, Marc Fish. The client wanted "a large statement piece, with maybe a hint of the sea -...
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Julia Child's Kitchen Cabinets: Should They Get a Makeover?
Among the most famous kitchen cabinets and countertops must be those of the master of French cooking, Julia Child. The originals are in the Smithsonian. A copy is in a cottage she and her husband Paul...
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Hearst Castle-inspired Ceiling Designed and Built by Gabriel McKeagney
Gabriel McKeagney sent us has latest project: an adaptation of a ceiling in the Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California. Designed and built by McKeagney, "The layout can be adjusted to suit any room's...
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Houzz App Introduces Sketch Feature, a New Way to Bring Design Ideas to Life
PALO ALTO, CA – Houzz, the social media website for home renovation and design, has launched a “Sketch” feature within its app for iPhone and iPad devices. The app lets users select from eight million...
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Custom Flat Track Barn-style Doors Made from Reclaimed Wood
SHORTSVILLE, NY - NEWwoodworks, fine woodworking group for New Energy Works Timberframers, has added to its line-up 16 new styles of Flat Track Doors – custom made doors fashioned from reclaimed...
View ArticleMonomoy Capital acquires Construction Resources, Inc. and Builder...
ATLANTA - Atlanta building and remodeling supply firms Construction Resources, Inc. and Builder Specialties, Inc., will merge. The merger comes following a transaction with Monomoy Capital Partners II,...
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Best in Wood 2016 winners announced
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Woodworking Network announces the winners of the 2016 Best in Wood (formerly the Custom Woodworking Design Portfolio) Awards, which are given annually to honor custom woodworkers...
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Ethan Allan will provide furniture for HGTV's Dream Home 2016
DANBURY, Conn. -- Residential furniture designer and manufacturer Ethan Allen, for the 10th consecutive year, will provide furniture and décor for HGTV's Dream Home 2016 contest."We’re honored to be...
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