DWM/Shelter Magazine Blogs

Door and Window Musings
By Tara Taffera

This past weekend I watched a documentary called Food Inc., and it reminded me to dust off a column I wrote back in October that I never published about green principles.
I wrote the column while compiling our green issue, and I became very interested in some of the things Wal-Mart is doing in its quest [...]

Plavecsky's Ponderings
By Jim Plavecsky

Everybody is talking about the upcoming regulations that will take place for window installations in houses built prior to 1978. The new regulations are designed to protect pregnant women and children from the hazards of airborne lead particles that may arise from disturbing painted surfaces during the process of window installation. The fear is that [...]

Collins, the Trend Tracker
By Mike Collins

Several housing market analysts predict that there will be another seven million foreclosures over the next few years. While that may sound like a dire prediction, the effect of these foreclosures may not be as extreme as a first glance would indicate. Fewer newly built homes are being added to the inventory of existing homes. [...]

A Manager's View
By Keith Castleman

I worked extremely hard this weekend for nothing. The weather in Kansas City this winter has been extremely severe. There are several inches of snow on the ground, nightly lows below zero and we haven’t seen 32 degrees since Christmas Eve. I’ve probably shoveled our driveway ten times already and the forecast is calling for [...]