New Home Building Cancellation Rates Drop, Signaling More Demand

The U.S. housing market remains challenged but new information from two of the biggest home builders in the country suggests demand for new homes is picking up. Even as the market for new homes in the country is still below the past few years, D.R. Horton and PulteGroup – two of the nation’s biggest home […]

The Top 10 States Searching for Home Improvement Projects

The new housing market may be slower but existing homeowners are doing extensive Google searches for home improvements and renovations, according to a new study. Can you guess which states lead the country? As often happens when the housing market slows down, the market for home improvement projects increases and new data compiled by Constructor […]

Dodge Charts Lower Wood Material Prices for March

While the cost of many building materials increased in March Dodge Data & Analytics shows prices in key categories of wood declined dramatically for the month. Inflation continues to cause havoc for those in the building and construction trade with the cost of many raw materials up this year but new data on the prices […]

Lab Grown 3D Printed Wood? MIT Says It’s Coming

They are doing amazing things with 3D printing these days and the researchers at MIT say the latest is lab-grown wood which would “enable someone to ‘grow’ a wooden product like a table without needing to cut down trees, process lumber, etc.” Wood is one of the most natural and easiest to work with building […]

Lowe’s Wants to Get Builders-to-Be at a Young Age

Figuring it’s never too soon to start building relationships with future customers, Lowe’s has launched a program of in-store birthday parties in selected stores. Candles included. Lowe’s, the second largest home improvement chain in the country with more than 2,200 stores, is hoping a new program will close the gap with number one, Home Depot, […]

Your Passion for Woodworking vs. Transformative Technology: Where To from Here?

If you have ever thumbed through any woodworking magazine, you might perceive that the world of woodworking is reserved only for those with meticulous technique. When I first started woodworking, I―like many―romanticized the cultivation of technique and the pursuit of complex joinery: A journey that usually resulted in hours of slow methodical cuts…a side project […]

More Millennials Now Own Than Rent

Throw out your old cliches about the millennial generation being largely renters – or worse, still living with their parents. New research shows more than half of this generation now are homeowners. More millennials now own their own homes than rent, a remarkable shift in the status of the nation’s largest demographic group. And it […]

How Big Is Too Big for Mass-Timber Buildings?

Even as builders around the world continue to put up larger and larger structures using mass-timber construction, a new report says there are limits to how big you can make a wooden building. Construction of residential, office and commercial buildings using timber construction have boomed the past few years as builders look to the material […]

Can You Make a Toilet out of Wood? A Finnish Company Says Yes

Wood has proven itself to be incredibly versatile in its end uses but even we were surprised to find out that a Finnish company has created what it says is the world’s first toilet created entirely out of wood. Woodio, a design company out of Finland, has taken wood to one of its most unusual […]