Managing Change When Building Your Home

July 21st, 2008 by Sunwest Development

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Excerpt: When we're on the job site, we want to make the most progress possible on our clients' new home. Building is a dynamic and exciting process; one that we try to make trouble free and easy to understand. Once we get going, things can happen quickly, so we work with our clients to make decisions well a ...

Green Building - Major Appliances

July 14th, 2008 by Sunwest Development

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Excerpt: Without a doubt, the kitchen is one of the most important rooms in any new home. Sometimes called "the heart of the home," the kitchen is also the heart of a home's energy use. Because of cooking fumes and perhaps the use of natural gas or propane, the kitchen may also be the heart of poor indoor ai ...

Learning the Language of Building

July 7th, 2008 by Sunwest Development

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Excerpt: If you spend any time on a construction site, you're likely to hear words that sound like a foreign language. Worse yet, you may hear words that you thought you knew but which have some specialized meaning to the people around you. Don't worry! You aren't really on another planet. Like any profes ...