Archinect - News2013-05-18T18:52:09-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/71432255/what-s-hot-in-housing-trends-these-days
What's hot in housing trends these days? Alexander Walter2013-04-17T19:30:00-04:00>2013-04-22T18:25:46-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/e1/e1a8dfc45ad345f7d593ec0f9c3f4db4.jpg" width="514" height="286" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Housing starts in March rose to the highest level in five years. If developers keep building at that rate, there’d be one million new houses by the end of the year.
So, what are builders building and what kind of homes do consumers want? The granite countertop of the new kitchen is like the leather interior of a new car -- a standard, special order must-have.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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http://archinect.com/news/article/53694416/why-canada-s-houses-are-getting-smaller
Why Canada's houses are getting smaller Archinect2012-07-17T12:09:00-04:00>2012-07-23T18:58:33-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/1z/1z24qdbyy5b9kgpg.jpg" width="514" height="309" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>The Milllennials, the generation born from 1983 onwards, enjoyed a childhood free of bunkbeds or even shared bathrooms. Growing up in plush megahomes undoubtedly helped them become, in the words of one author, “self-centred, needy, and entitled with unrealistic work expectations.” Oddly, it also spawned a group of people patently unimpressed with backyards and breakfast nooks.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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