
Factory Expo Home Centers announce that it will exhibit a new cottage style Mobile Home in the 5th Annual Arizona Home & Garden Show. The event that homeowners and green thumbs throughout the Valley have been waiting for, the Home & Garden Show will be returning to Phoenix on January 8th, 2010 at the Phoenix Convention Center. The 3 day show will feature thousands of square feet of exhibits highlighting the latest in home and garden products...

The color experts at BEHR Paints® introduce a dynamic guide to 2010 Design and Color Trends. In the trend brochure, classic elements are fused with contemporary flair to emphasize comfort, ease and functionality. Color personalities are limitless, running the gamut from bright to intriguing, cool to neutral, or subtle to complex. This season’s designs and color meet in a dynamic union of contrasts. Whether light or dark, clean or muted, traditional...

Color trends for 2010 take inspiration from a variety of social and economic influences. In addition, living space personalization continues to act as a driver for color change, with accent walls or niche areas appropriate for small doses of high impact, bold color, while using more subtle hues on broad wall areas. Debbie Zimmer, paint and color expert with the Paint Quality Institute(sm), states, “More and more homeowners are taking on the task...

Pantone, an X-Rite company, and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, announced PANTONE®VIEW home + interiors 2010, the eight most directional color palettes, plus an additional palette of tinged neutrals, for 2010 home furnishings and interior design. “Color trends are not conjured up using a crystal ball. They are the result of much observation of our surrounding natural world as...
iEmergent, a Des Moines, Iowa-based market research, forecasting and advisory services firm for the financial services, mortgage and real estate industries, issued its Mortgage Volume Forecasts for 2009 – 2013, including its Market Behavior Metrics tables, in order to provide lenders details on the size, density and speed of growth of mortgage lending opportunities. The forecasts provide lending details regarding expected loan volumes at the national,...