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Now Is Your Chance to Live in a House Designed by Queer Eye s Bobby Berk
The design star recently put the finishing touches on his latest master-planned community project with Tri Pointe Homes. He gives
House Beautiful the design rundown.
Bobby Berk doesn t just beautifully outfit interiors, he designs entire communities of homes. The
Queer Eye star recently put the finishing touches on his latest master-planned community with Tri Pointe Homes, a home builder he had started working with in 2015. At the time, he was tasked with designing two show homes for NAHB s International Builder Show and needed a builder to manifest his vision. That snowballed into a great working relationship in the years that followed, he tells
Trendspotters Rose Quint, assistant VP for survey research at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and Donald Ruthroff, AIA, principal at Dahlin Group Architecture | Planning, in Pleasanton, Calif., report that using painted and lighter-colored brick can provide visual interest in sophisticated monochromatic schemes and add strong texture to the modern industrial farmhouse aesthetic that continues to be popular.
Using several exterior cladding materials in this case, fiber-cement “block” panels and wood-look siding with a stone veneer that features tones of both reflects recent trends to create more visual interest. | Photo: courtesy Nichiha
To ensure a beautiful end result, Chris Donatelli, president of Donatelli Builders, in Downers Grove, Ill., points out that brick requires proper installation and attention to the details. He relies on MortarNet to collect mortar droppings and uses weep holes to ensure incidental moisture that gets behind the material can e
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Tackling the Downsides of Wood Siding
TruExterior, like many siding products on the market, is designed to emulate the look of painted wood, once the dominant siding material in the U.S. Wood hit its peak market share 44% in 1981 and 1982, but those numbers decreased drastically as homebuyers developed a distaste for the maintenance and rot often associated with the material. A new generation of wood products hopes to address those issues.
Wood products from companies such as Thermory USA, which offers a heat-treated product, or modified wood products from Lignia and Kebony, promise updated and enhanced performance attributes.
Thermory says its ash, pine, and spruce products undergo a heat-treatment process that modifies each board to the core, “leading to unequaled durability and stability without sacrificing the natural qualities of real wood.” Thermory promises 20 to 25-plus years of rot resistance.