Why the Home Depot Results Are Good for the Home Improvement Category

Even though its sales for the most recent quarter were slightly down, there were many positive things in Home Depot’s second quarter earnings results. If there is one retailer most closely followed by those in the lumber and wood products sectors it is Home Depot. So, its second quarter results, released last week, were studied […]

Nashville Latest City to Get Good with Wood

Nashville has become the latest municipality to embrace the movement to build large mass timber structures. It’s music to the ears of the lumber industry. Joining cities and states around the country, Nashville city government has approved the construction of high-rise timber buildings, up to 18 stories. Known as Music City, Nashville had previously limited […]

The Latest Celeb Obsession: Their Wood Furniture

We know celebrities are not like you and I but we didn’t know that one of their latest obsessions is bragging about their wood furniture. We may be used to seeing the rich and famous showing off their homes, cars, yachts, and all the other trappings of people with too much money, but it appears […]

A Mass Timber Twist: New Canadian Office Tower Features an Entire Bamboo Forest

High-rise structures using mass timber construction are becoming ever more common but a new 43-story tower in Vancouver puts a new spin on it with its own bamboo forest. As more and more builders are using mass timber materials to construct new buildings, a Canadian company using a Japanese architect has reversed the process, placing […]

Designers See Home Renovation Project Growth New Houzz Survey Shows

Forecasts on the home improvement market, both short-term and longer term remain very much an imprecise science but design professionals in a new survey are slightly more positive for the immediate future. The latest research from Houzz, the online home information resource, reveals that slightly more professionals in the design field expect business growth rather […]

Construction Jobs Drop In March but Still Up Over a Year Ago

The construction job picture continues to be unstable, showing a decrease in positions in March versus the month before but still gaining versus 2022 numbers. The slowdown in the residential housing market continues to have a negative impact on the number of construction jobs but the results so far this year are outpacing the 2022 […]

Lumber Remains #2 Seller at Lowe’s

Sales of lumber and building supplies are a larger part of sales at Lowe’s than they are at arch-rival competitor Home Depot. Taken together they represent the best selling products at the DIY chain. A new analysis of sales by product categories at the country’s second biggest home improvement chain, Lowe’s, shows that lumber and […]

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 […]