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Kitchen Cabinetry Design SupportNews from MyFox Detroit:Kitchen Cabinetry Design Support
Team Leader and Junior Support Positions AvailableEW Kitchens / Extraordianary Works is currently seeking extremely creative, technically focused and experienced kitchen designers to join our team in sales support roles.Work in one of our beautiful showrooms, designing with several exclusive cabinetry brands including Mouser, Bremtown, and Showplace Wood Products. Our design support group and award-winning sales team must work hand-in-hand to provide our clients the ultimate experience in kitchen design and project oversight. The ideal candidates may be described as self motivated, accurate, tech savvy [...] Continue Reading…

Will Lowe’s Save Home Improvement’s Earnings Season?News from Investor’s Business Daily:

Home improvement retail chain Lowe’s (LOW) will report first-quarter results before the market opens Monday, and the Street is looking for cues whether consumers are spending to spruce up homes or holding onto cash in a sluggish housing market.
The Lowe’s profit outlook has risen since the beginning of the quarter. Analysts expect a 24% jump in profit to 42 cents a share vs. the same quarter last year. That’s up from a view of 38 cents at the beginning of the quarter.
Consensus of 30 [...] Continue Reading…

Get your home decor, gardening groove on with technologyNews from San Jose Mercury News:

Although we like to grub in the ground and swing a paintbrush now and then, we have our technical side, too. And we’ve found a few goodies that other gardening, home decorating technocrats might enjoy as well.

Sherwin-Williams has struck gold (and orange, teal and aqua) with a little online gadget called “Chip-It.” You start by downloading a Chip-it widget to your favorites bar and then while scrolling through your favorite home decor website or Pinterest boards, you click the Chip-It and [...] Continue Reading…

CALIMESA: Home Improvement Award suggestedNews from Press-Enterprise:May 17, 2012 05:25 PM PDT May 17, 2012 05:25 PM PDT CALIMESA: Home Improvement Award suggested

BY ERIN WALDNER
BY ERIN WALDNER The Press Enterprise
STAFF WRITER
ewaldner@pe.com
Published: 17 May 2012 05:25 PM

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The Calimesa City Council will consider giving its community services commission permission to establish an annual Home Improvement Award when it meets Monday, May 21, according to the agenda……………. continues on Press-Enterprise
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Top Kitchen and Bath Industry Trends Revealed At KBIS 2012News from Sacramento Bee:
ALPHARETTA, Ga., May 16, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — The 2012 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS), held April 24 – 26, 2012, drew thousands of professionals to Chicago’s McCormick Place, the site of the largest event in the industry. The National Kitchen & Bath Association’s annual show and conference brought together 550 exhibiting companies with 16,091 industry buyers and specifiers, a ten percent increase from 2011. This included independent kitchen and bath designers, custom builders, remodelers, architects, dealers and retailers. Three hundred media outlets converged on [...] Continue Reading…

Midcentury style a hot trend in home decor this yearNews from Plain Dealer:

Special to The Plain Dealer This living room features furniture and accessories from the cutting-edge design company Global Views. The pieces illustrate ideas taken from interiors in the 1960s and ’70s, such as tapered legs and the curving base on the credenza. (Global Views) Midcentury style in decor gallery (4 photos)

HIGH POINT, N.C. — Those who lived through the 1960s and ’70s have a mixture of memories — the war, the hippies, the music. The 2012 spring edition of the High [...] Continue Reading…

Kitchen table tinkerer came up with lasting goggle design for ski setNews from The Age:

ROBERT EARL SMITH DENTIST, DESIGNER 12-5-1933 – 18-4-2012

AS AN orthodontist, Bob Smith knew how to correct a problem. And as an avid skier who tackled the mountains in Utah, he recognised something in 1964 that needed fixing: ski goggles.

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Why Home-Improvement Stocks Collapsed TodayNews from DailyFinance:

Homebuilder sentiment soared to a five-year high this month, but the good news didn’t stop shares of the world’s two largest home-improvement companies from trading lower today. Let’s take a closer look at what caused shares of both Home Depot (NYS: HD) and smaller rival Lowe’s (NYS: LOW) to nosedive.
Shares of Home Depot fell 3% to $ 48.38 in early trading, after the specialty retailer reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales. Revenue for the company’s first-quarter clocked in at $ 17.81 billion, marking a 6% gain from the [...] Continue Reading…

Why Home-Improvement Stocks Collapsed TodayNews from DailyFinance:

Homebuilder sentiment soared to a five-year high this month, but the good news didn’t stop shares of the world’s two largest home-improvement companies from trading lower today. Let’s take a closer look at what caused shares of both Home Depot (NYS: HD) and smaller rival Lowe’s (NYS: LOW) to nosedive.
Shares of Home Depot fell 3% to $ 48.38 in early trading, after the specialty retailer reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales. Revenue for the company’s first-quarter clocked in at $ 17.81 billion, marking a 6% gain from the [...] Continue Reading…

County honors Lows for home improvementNews from STLtoday.com:
When Dena Low was a little girl, she often looked at an old house on Lemay Ferry Road in South County. It stood tall with its red bricks, big windows and chimneys.
“I always loved it,” she said. “I thought it was absolutely beautiful.”
That was the historic August Kassebaum House built in 1907. At that time, she never dreamed that some day she would own it.
In 2008, she and her husband, Reed, were looking for a place to expand her beauty and salon business. She heard that the [...] Continue Reading…