Blog

Retailers are collaborating with rising-star and established home-décor designers for special collections they sell in their stores under the designers’ names in hopes of drawing consumers to the name as much as the housewares. As one of the many vendors who sell designs to CB2, the affordable modern offshoot of Crate & Barrel, Bernard Brucha […]

Mike Holmes Mike Holmes is on a mission — a mission to teach people about green homes and high-quality homebuilding. Holmes, host of Holmes on Homes and Holmes Inspection on HGTV, talked about his drive to create a ripple effect in the homebuilding industry that makes top-quality, energy-efficient green homes the norm when he delivered the opening keynote […]

Are you thinking about remodeling your home in the near future? If so, now is a great time to begin making your plans since the National Association of Home Builders designates the month of May as Remodeling Month! There couldn’t be a more perfect time to start the plans that will help make your home […]

Using green building materials and products represents one important green building strategy. In fact, the nationally accepted benchmark for high-performance green building, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, includes Materials and Resources (MR) as one of eight categories used to measure a home’s overall performance. Green building materials are renewable, […]

  Many homeowners are now leaning towards going green to save energy costs and to create a more comfortable and healthier place to live. There are many ways to go green from switching to energy-saving appliances to repainting your homes with non-toxic paints. These kinds of changes you may feel comfortable doing yourself. But should your project be more […]

I was telling a friend the other day about how I was replacing all the incandescent bulbs in my house with Compact Florescent Light Bulbs (CFLs.) In return, she dampened my enthusiasm considerably by notifying me that what I was doing was bad for the environment. Why? Because CFLs contain mercury. And as everyone knows, […]

In the lead: Will William and Kate be getting their own house built? There’s much fevered speculation surrounding Kate Middleton’s wedding dress, but in the property world, everyone’s talking about where the royal couple will call home. Word has it that when Prince William’s posting at RAF Valley in Anglesey comes to an end in […]

Brendan Coburn, an architect, turned the interior of an 1847 row house into a sleek, modern space. The switchback staircase in the middle of the house has landings made of slabs of glass and is topped by a skylight. IN late 1999, when Bertina Ceccarelli moved from California to New York to work for an […]

We always like to hear about what’s going on with the LEED program here at Trilogy Partners. Recently, we learned that the historic Gragg Building of the Houston Parks and Recreation Department achieved LEED Gold status after undergoing a $16 million, two year renovation process. The department director, Joe Turner, said in a statement that […]