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CAMBRIDGE -- National home-remodeling gains, which perked up this year after several years of sluggishness, are expected to continue into 2014, according to a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
Specifically, a gradually improving housing market over the past 18 months is translating into increased spending on home improvements, according to the so-called Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released last week by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center.
The report found that remodeling contractors have been reporting improving market conditions for the past four quarters, and are seeing strength in future market indicators.
The report found that during the first quarter of 2013, $127 billion was spent nationwide on home improvements. That's up about 2.5 percent from $121.5 billion in the first quarter of 2012.
However, spending in the last quarter of this year is expected to jump to about $150.9 billion, nearly 20 percent higher than it is now, according to the Joint Center.
"Homeowners are more comfortable investing in their homes right now," said Eric Belsky, managing director of the Joint Center, in a prepared statement. "Consumer-confidence scores are back to pre-recession levels, and since recent homebuyers are traditionally the most active in the home-improvement market, the growth in sales of existing homes is providing more opportunities for these improvement projects."
The report found that the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) is projecting continued strengthening of the market through the end of this year and into the first quarter of 2014.
One of Belsky's colleagues, Kermit Baker, issued a note of caution.
"With housing starts leveling off in the second quarter and financing costs beginning to edge up, we may be seeing the beginning of more measured growth in the residential markets," said Baker, director of the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center. "Given normal timing patterns, this suggests that the pace of growth for home-improvement spending should begin to moderate as we move into 2014."
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By JAMES A. KIMBLE Union Leader Correspondent
BRENTWOOD A plumber who plotted a home invasion targeting a Deerfield veterinarian that he once did work for was convicted on Friday afternoon on all charges that he conspired with two partners to loot a safe with $20,000 in cash, silver bars and firearms.
A jury convicted Christopher Martin, 40, of Danbury of conspiracy to commit burglary and being an accomplice to a Manchester man who carried out the violent break-in by donning a ski mask and beating the homeowner over the head with a handgun.
The jury reached its verdict just before 2:30 p.m. on Friday in Rockingham County Superior Court. It marked the third and final conviction in the case.
Dr. Arthur Cutter, the homeowner who suffered nearly 50 staples along his head from his injuries, watched from the front row of the court gallery as jurors were individually polled on their decision.
Deputy County Attorney Tom Reid said during closing arguments that Martin served as the nexus between Cutter and his masked attacker, who knew exactly where a bedroom safe was located after being given a hand drawn map of the house.
Who is this man in the mask? He has no idea, Reid said of Cutter. He is seriously injured. He is forced to take things out of the safe and load his own car.
Martin became familiar with Cutters home and the valuables he kept in it after working jobs at his home. The plan for the home invasion went awry when the attacker, Jacob Palo, 37, of Manchester lifted up his ski mask to take a cigarette break.
Thats when Cutter fled to his basement and escaped through a back door into the woods.
Palo is serving a 20 to 40 year prison sentence on a litany of charges for beating Cutter in his home and setting off a county-wide manhunt that ended after he crashed his second stolen getaway car into an Epping police cruiser in Fremont.
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Kara McDonald took a kind of vision test and passed with flying colors and lighting, fabrics, finish, furnishings and other elements of health care interior design.
Kara McDonald, an interior designer with Miles Associates: Architecture Planning and Interiors, recently earned the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers Certificate. McDonald is one of 120 recipients of the certificate nationwide, and the only one in Oklahoma. She is shown at Miles Associates, 865 Research Parkway, Suite 100.
Actually, it was the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers Examination. McDonald, 33, an interior designer with Oklahoma City's Miles Associates: Architecture Planning and Interiors, is the first and so far only person in Oklahoma to earn the AAHID Certificate.
The exam covers acute care, ambulatory and outpatient care, long-term care, senior living, as well as medical, retail and hospitality support services, codes, guidelines and other aspects of health care interior design. Five years of experience, a portfolio review and professional references are required for anyone to attempt the exam.
McDonald's recent experience includes work at The Children's Hospital at OU Medical Center, the OU Children's Physicians Building and atrium, Presbyterian Tower and Edmond Medical Center.
Adding health care to interior design adds layers of concerns not addressed in, say, a regular office setting, such as infection control, patient health and safety and the welfare of physicians, staff and visitors, McDonald said, physical and emotional.
Thinking about the time all those people spend in a given space, and how they use it and respond to it, drives her vision, she said.
When a lot of people think about architecture, they might not think about the experience of somebody in the space, how they see it. But you're at work or using that space more than you are at home, and so it needs to be fitting to what the environment is, McDonald said.
Take a laboratory, for example.
Somebody might think that that's more technical, just dry space. But it still can be uplifting and energetic to somebody that has to be standing on their feet for long hours while they're doing research, she said.
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