Ryan Schleper, owner of All City Builders, Buffalo, Minn., remembers working on a framing crew when the window shipment from the supply yard arrived. Huntingdon Valley, Pa., remodeler Reis Calfayan, of Calfayan Construction Associates, says that in more and more of the projects he builds, windows in unusual shapes, sizes, or finishes are the centerpiece. More
About one-third of the projects built by Ryan Schleper, owner of All City Builders, Buffalo, Minn., are basements. Schleper says clients want their basements finished for two reasons: They need space, and it's usually about a third of the cost of an addition, because mechanicals, foundation, and outside walls are already in place and no re-landscaping is required. More
