Please fix the authors. Correct authors are William Asdal and Wendy A. Jordan

The Paper Trail: Systems and Forms for a Well-Run Remodeling Company

Jordan, Wendy A.

Asdal, William

BuilderBooks

Are you ready to make your business work for you? The path to a thriving business starts with a map that puts you in control. If you don't plot your course to success, you'll just end up spinning your wheels. The Paper Trail: Systems and Forms for a Well-Run Remodeling Company, Second Edition, explains the difference between busyness and business success. It's your map to creating a profitable business that will help you fulfill your dreams! These 160 customizable letters, checklists, forms, contracts, spreadsheets, budgets, and other tools will help you • establish goals and monitor progress • market your company • sell more profitable jobs • communicate with clients • protect your business assets • manage construction efficiently Save time and earn more by applying the lessons you'll learn in The Paper Trail. "I strongly recommend this book to fast-forward a start-up remodeling company and provide tools to improve existing companies. It will save remodelers from years of trial-and-error learning." --Lonny Rutherford, CGR, CAPS, CGP, Legacy Construction, Inc. "Business health is dependent on strong processes and systems. Wendy and Bill's book give you a great blueprint." --Mark Richardson, Co-chairman, Case Design/Remodeling and author of How Fit Is Your Business? "Most remodeling companies are started by people with all of the tools in the back of the truck but none of the tools up front that will help them run a successful business. Asdal and Jordan provide indispensable office tools for the remodeler just starting out and for the seasoned pro." --Larry Zarker, Chief Executive Officer, Building Performance Institute, Inc.

The Paper Trail: Systems And Forms For A Well Run Remodeling Company

Business & Money

Economics

This planning book provides practical design ideas for creating family spaces that function for both kids and adults -- from lofts and secret hideaways to high-tech homework centers and colorful bathrooms. Through comprehensive color photos, floor plans, and instructions, this inspiring manual is suitable for do-it-yourselfers, remodelers, and parents looking for ideas to present to architects and contractors.

Taunton's Kidspace Idea Book: An Idea Book for the Whole Family (Taunton Home Idea Books)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Taunton Press

Taunton's Kidspace Idea Book: Creative Playrooms-Clever Storage Ideas (Taunton Home Idea Books)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Taunton's Kidspace Idea Book: Creative Playrooms, Clever Storage Ideas, Retreats for Teens, Toddler-Friendly Bedrooms (Taunton Home Idea Books)

The New Kidspace Idea Book presents fresh and fun ideas for designing a child's room that will also solve parents' space and storage problems. The new book complements the original with 100 percent new photographs showing completely new ideas for bedrooms, playrooms, bathrooms, and outdoor spaces. Topics include tailoring designs to suit the interests of the individual child, customizing a plain room, making the most of unusual spaces, adapting spaces to children's changing needs, and creating safe spaces for active play. Shared rooms, storage solutions, and what to do with computers and televisions are all treated. The book's simple and accessible approach emphasizes quick fixes involving paint and off-the-shelf products, weekend projects that kids can take part in, and makeovers as children grow older. New Kidspace Idea Book is written for parents but will spark kids' own creative ideas too.

New Kidspace Idea Book: Rooms That Grow Up * Quick Makeovers* Outdoor Pl (Taunton Home Idea Books)

Though seemingly stout and permanent, houses are malleable, able to flex, stretch, shift, and even shrink. Remodeling can enliven all the spaces in a home, solving flaws, enhancing interior livability, increasing curb appeal, and making best use of the site. In some cases, an addition is needed, while in others merely changing the floor plan permits a rediscovery of space. In House Transformed, architect Matt Schoenherr shares insight gained through an architectural practice specializing in renovation work. The 20 projects in this portfolio offer homeowners clever, workable ideas and answers, from connecting new and old parts of a house to gaining needed space through clever storage solutions. Not only has every home in the book undergone a remarkable renovation, but each features great moves, small moves, and simple transformations that are easily applied to any home. This book also features radical before and after photos of beautifully transformed homes and provides a handy blueprint for design decisions.

House Transformed: Getting the Home You Want with the House You Have

Schoenherr, Matthew

Mason Hunter, Linda

Most homeowners long for more space as well as space that better fits their needs. But building an addition is expensive, time-consuming, and disruptive to the household. What homeowners don't realize is that just about every house has room to spare, much of it unrecognized. Making Room showcases creative ideas for areas that are underused or taken for granted--a broom closet, an empty wall, window bays, and corner nooks. Making Room focuses entirely on creating new spaces within the existing footprint of the home, and explores commonly overlooked spaces and scores of clever ideas for putting those spaces to use. More than 100 creative ideas highlight transformations that are small in scale but big in impact, such as a bathroom closest converted to a shower, drawers incorporated into a staircase, a bookcase built into the base of a staircase, and a computer niche tucked into a hallway. Making Room also provides practical design advice that inspires homeowners to adapt the ideas to any room in their home.

Making Room: Finding Space in Unexpected Places

Home Improvement & Design

In Remodel (previously published in hardcover as House Transformed), architect Matthew Schoenherr shares insight gained through an architectural practice that is 90% renovation work. This book features 20 projects across the country, each of which showcases the "wow" that architectural thinking can bring when reworking existing space. Not only has every house in the book undergone an inspiring transformation, but each features great moves, small moves, and simple transformations that are applicable to many homeowner situations. The author's "Seven Knows"--what you need to know before you start a remodeling project--give homeowners a blueprint for design decisions that will exponentially improve the results of their project. Know Your Place: acknowledge the regional context Know Your Property: respond to your site Know Your House: design compatibly Know Your Structure: safety issues Know Your Palette: material options Know Your Lifestyle: design for the way you live Know Your Passions: incorporate what matters most By considering their many design options at the beginning of the renovation process, homeowners can do more than just move a wall or add a few hundred square feet of space: they can transform their home. Table of Contents

Remodel: Great Home Makeovers from Connecticut to California (American Institute Architects)

Universal Design (UD) is coming of age. Once a home design specialty that was little known, of limited interest, and a source of embarrassment more than pride, it is attracting widespread media attention and taking on (as befits its name) almost universal appeal -- and with good reason. The concept emerged years ago out of the need to make homes safe and accessible for the elderly, the handicapped and the very young. Some of the design options were good-looking, but others seemed institutional. Today, there are so many stylish, beautiful, good-sense universal-design options that choosing them has become a "why not?" rather than a "why?" decision. 
Universal Design for the Home features a blend of beautiful projects, creative ideas, and substantive planning information. Highly visual, the book features projects showing room contexts, as well as detail shots. The mix of projects encompasses small and large houses; one-story and multi-story houses; and ideas for general accessibility and comfort as well as some targeted more directly at handicap accessibility. There is an emphasis on remodeled projects, but new homes designed with an eye toward accessibility -- present and future -- are included as well. Chapters cover the spectrum of accessible home planning, from room arrangements to kitchens, baths, entries, and exterior areas. The book displays fresh, inspiring design ideas as well as must-have, good-sense solutions, such as wider doorways. Basic specifications, how-to tips, and other technical content are featured throughout the book in easy-to-find boxes and sidebars.

Universal Design for the Home: Great Looking, Great Living Design for All Ages, Abilities, and Circumstances

Rockport Publishers

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