Harvard Confirms Remodeling Forecasts

Continuing what we’ve seen from other studies, this is the latest outlook from Harvard’s prestigious housing studies program. Oftentimes, research studies present contradictory findings on any given subject. Currently, that’s not the case with the latest forecasts on the remodeling sector. The new Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) from Harvard’s Remodeling Futures Program at […]

Are Traditional Clamps Still Holding On?

How big clamping solutions are growing with industry trends. Check out Ethan’s furniture company at ethanabramson.com and connect with him on Instagram @thebuildwithethan.

Furniture Retailers Showing Surprising Strength

It may just be consumers pushing up purchases in advance of tariff-related price hikes but many of the big chains showed better numbers for their most recent quarters. The furniture business has been in a post-pandemic hangover going on three years, its sales impacted not just by consumers turning their attention more to out-of-home spending […]

Tariffs Finally Hit Canadian Wood Shipments to the U.S.

Everyone’s been waiting to see when the bill would come due for the Trump duties on Canadian Lumber. July was the month. Prices of Canadian lumber coming into the U.S. are as much as 60 percent higher than they were just a year ago as tariffs instituted by the Trump administration are fully taking hold […]

USDA Upping Its Mass Timber Investments

As the soft housing market in the U.S. is impacting the mass timber movement, the Forest Service is stepping in to help. “Mass timber and CLT have been priorities for creating new markets for wood products,” said Brian Brashaw, assistant director of the Wood Innovations Program for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. “Since […]

The Tale of the $1.4 Million Trees

When is a group of trees worth more than a million dollars? When they’re on Nantucket and they’ve been cut down – maybe illegally. Neighbors feuding – and even eventually suing each other – over trees that may have been cut down without permission is nothing new. It’s been going on since people began living near […]