Carole P. Eichen (Posthumously Awarded), Class of 2008 In the crucial area of new home merchandising and marketing, Carole Eichen led the change. Eichen was one of the first housing industry executives to recognize the need to involve the home buyer in the product — emotionally and psychologically. Eichen had the vision, talent and organization to make that crucial subliminal sale. She coined the terms “interior merchandising” and “buyer profile.” She is credited with developing the discipline and spearheading its…

Architect Gary Cline designed this 4000 square foot two-story French country house in Cary, North Carolina. The judges of 1997 said that the attention to detail, livability, and functionality wowed them with a timeless quality. They decided to award the home Platinum in Best One-Of-A-Kind Custom Home, Up To & Including 4000 Square Feet, along with Home Of The Year 1997 and Best Of South Atlantic Region. The post 1997 Home of the Year first appeared on Best In American…

Existing home sales in June fell to the lowest level since January as limited inventory and fluctuating mortgage rates continued to weight on homebuyers, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Low resale inventory and strong demand pushed existing home prices to the highest level in a year and contributed to the recent increases in new home sales. Total… Read More ›

Single-family production fell back after four straight monthly gains as elevated construction costs and rising mortgage rates led to a reduction in home building activity and affordability conditions worsened for home buyers. Overall housing in June decreased 8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.43 million units, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban… Read More ›

This all-electric, modular tiny home village prototype was a grand award winner in the Salt Lake’s Empowered Living Design competition, held to help the city achieve its goal to build a master-planned tiny home community for the homeless. This prototype is now part of its “library of designs” to expedite the building and permitting processes. Designed to function as a small cluster on one lot or a small, planned development comprising multiple lots, the inward-looking site plan creates a village…

Low existing inventory that is keeping demand solid for new homes helped to push builder confidence up in July even as the industry continues to grapple with rising mortgage rates, elevated construction costs and limited lot availability. Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes in July posted a one-point gain to 56, according to the National Association… Read More ›

Designed as an urban edge and gateway into the West Village, Camden Buckhead is the follow-up project to the flourishing Camden Paces in Atlanta’s premiere Buckhead neighborhood. The community’s 366 units offer gracious floor plans, concierge-level services, exceptional amenities and luxury finishes with the potential for urban street, wooded and skyline views. Camden Buckhead’s two buildings front Roswell Road and form the northern edge of the village. The structures include eight- to nine-story post-tensioned concrete frames and an entry road…

While US homeownership rates have been rising since 2015 and received an extra boost during the post-pandemic housing boom, they remain below the levels reached during the housing boom of the mid-2000s. With the national trends reflecting fundamental drivers of homeowners, local markets often tell different and unique stories. NAHB’s analysis of the 2021 5-year ACS county-level data reveals substantial… Read More ›

Reaching back to the 1990’s, this home from Las Vegas received a 1998 BALA Platinum Award in the category Best Single-Family Detached Home, 4001 square feet and over. Chris Stuhmer (Owner of Christopher Homes firm) and Mark Scheurer (Principal of Scheurer Architects) came up with the idea of this 4375 square feet, called “The Palisades”. The post 1998 Home of the Year: The Palisades first appeared on Best In American Living.

The interior design world has countless elements that can be combined to create breathtaking interiors using smaller budgets yet yielding outstanding outcomes.   Accent walls and ceilings Accent walls and ceilings are powerful tools that can take any room from ordinary to extraordinary with a small budget. Breaking the monotony of a room by painting a wall or ceiling with a contrasting color or textured paint or hanging patterned wallpaper can result in an outstanding look and bring a lot of…