Arlington, TX (PRWEB) September 10, 2014

Brennan Enterprises is a locally owned full service home improvement company that was recently named to REMODELINGs national listing of top 170 replacement contractors. REMODELING is a valued remodeling publication that shares topics ranging from management advice, to ideas and instructions for remodeling homes and provides tips on marketing strategies. The listing featuring Brennan, recognized a select group of remodelers across the U.S. that on average, produces 15 times as many jobs as other full service remodelers.

The Arlington, Texas based company specializes in a wide range of services and products including but not limited to windows, siding, doors, roofing, decks, patio covers and sunrooms. Brennan takes a consultative approach to all home remodeling projects and their business philosophy "one size DOES NOT fit all" pertaining to customers needs, serves them well. They offer a wide variety of products, manufacturers and finance options, which allows them to satisfy a diverse range of homeowners.

Since 1979, Brennan has retained satisfied customers and continues to be a nationally recognized leader. They are projecting a 2014 revenue of $8,000,000 which proves their ability to retain a reputation for excellence for over 35 years - a rarity that seems to set them apart in the remodeling industry.

Brennan Dallas-Fort Worth offices: 888-995-3305 - Brennan Austin offices: 512-253-7950

About Brennan : Brennan Enterprises is a locally owned full service home improvement company whose services span a wide variety of services. For a free estimate request form or for more information, visit http://www.brennancorp.com

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Lanham, MD (PRWEB) September 09, 2014

For the first time in company history, Remodeling Magazine has listed local custom closet manufacturer, Closet America among the Top 100 Remodeling firms in the nation.

Closet America is the industrys leading home organizational remodeling company, serving the Washington DC, Northern VA & MD Metropolitan areas. This year the company ranked No. 90 on the 2014 Remodeling Magazines Top 550 Replacement Contractors. Closet America is the highest ranked installer and manufacturer of strictly home organizational products in the nation.

Breaking into the nations top 100 remodeling companies is a testament to the hard work and dedication from our entire team at Closet America, stated President Skip LaBella. Our record growth clearly showcases our commitment to providing local homeowners with the highest quality products, professional design experience, and an unsurpassed focus on customer service.

Closet America has maintained a high ranking on this prestigious list for the past three years, due to their innovative services and outstanding customer service. Previously, in 2013 the company was ranked No. 111, and No. 124 in 2012.

The annual listing is published in the August issue of the national trade publication, Remodeling Magazine. This list showcases the Top 550 largest residential renovation companies and is based on sound financial reports and a commitment to quality construction

Founded in 2009, by Skip LaBella and Rick Wuest, Closet America has also earned prestigious awards and recognitions such as Woodworking Network's 2011, 2012, and 2013 Fast-Growing Wood Industry Firms lists; and Qualified Remodeler's 2012 and 2013 and 2014 Top 500 Remodelers lists. With customer service at the core of the business, Closet America additionally has been recognized as an Angies List Super Service Provider, a 2014 Guild Quality Guildmaster, and a Best of Houzz Service Award.

Our focus has always been on providing our local homeowners quality products and the experience of a world class organization, remarked LaBella. Our team is simply honored to be recognized among the best in our industry.

About Closet America

Closet America (http://www.closetamerica.com) is a privately owned and locally operated manufacturer and installer of custom home organization systems for closets, home offices, pantries, and garages. Founded in 2009, Closet America has steadily grown into one of the premier names in the professional organizing systems industry, by raising the standards for quality and customer service. Closet America is a vertically integrated company where design, engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service are all controlled internally. Closet America has two locations, with a manufacturing plant and distribution center in Landover, Maryland, and corporate headquarters, administrative offices, and showroom in Lanham, Maryland. For more information on Closet America, please call 1- 877-203-9952.

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Just about everyone has a vision of their dream home. Even if you built it yourself or had extensive remodeling done before moving in, after several years in residence youve likely come up with ideas about how your living space could be improved. Its human nature to want to create a nest thats as cozy, attractive, and practical as can be. Clarifying your needs and wants before you hire a professional remodeler helps ensure that the work will be done to your satisfaction. Mentally walk through your house and picture how you'd like it to look and feel.

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Your personal style will determine the direction your dreams flow in. Do you prefer casual or formal mode, vintage or industrial chic, lots of open expanse or small cozy nooks? Which dcor materials and colors are you drawn to? How about outdoor space is a flower garden, fountain, tennis court, or swimming pool your idea of bliss? Check online or in decorating magazines to find home remodels that you love. Or take a course in planning and building your dream home. Then think about how these ideas could be adapted to your own abode.

Stretch Your Imagination

For some of us homebodies, dreaming of remodeling wish lists for our house and practically every home we visit comes as second nature. Coming up with the perfect vision is a mental exercise that will stretch the imagination and let your mind have fun with ideas. And on a more down-to-earth level, brainstorming is a useful technique which encourages you to think out of the box, identify your needs and wants, and come up with creative, feasible inspirations.

Make a List

Choose a place whether a hardbound journal or an online document to record your ideas. Keep a running list of the essential and not-so-essential features of your dream home. At the same time, write out an inventory of the features of your home as it is now both pluses and problems. You may find that your home is closer to your personal ideal than you thought great! On the other hand, if the negatives far outweigh the positives, this may spur you to move ahead with remodel plans.

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A free barbecue lunch and information about renovating materials and services will be served at the Home Remodeling Street Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13. TheNeil Kelly Co. puts on the annual event at its Design Center, 804 N. Alberta St., for Portland-area residents to get inspired and meet suppliers, from window installers to landscapers.

There will be educational workshops on home design trends, kitchen and bath ideas, lighting, landscaping, solar systems and energy efficiency presented by home design and remodeling experts including designer Martha Kerr.

"The event may be free, but the design ideas people can pick up are priceless," states Neil Kelly President Tom Kelly. "Designers will be on hand to answer tough questions and share the latest trends in home design."

More than 25 local companies will be presented, including:

Building materials: PARR Lumber, Milgard Windows, Trane Heating & Air Conditioning Specialists, Kohler, Keller Supply, BASCO, Neil Kelly Cabinets, Decor Cabinets, Caesarstone, Coulee Concrete, Forbo Marmoleum, Emser Tile, Statements Tile, Pratt and Larson ceramic tile, Gary's Vacuflo, Null Designs in Time, Budget Blinds, Rodda Paint, ReStore, Cupolette, Parker Furniture, Windfall Lumber,

Services: Landscape East & West, Capital Pacific Bank, Neil Kelly Home Performance, Neil Kelly Handyman Services, Neil Kelly Design/Build Remodeling.

For a full schedule and detailed workshop descriptions, visit http://www.neilkelly.com.

-- Homes & Gardens of the Northwest staff

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By Gabriella Dunn, The Gazette

IOWA CITY Carpenters arent just only, well, carpenters anymore.

Today the term carpenter can be used to refer to someone who is employed in a broader spectrum of woodworking including furniture craftsmanship, construction and remodeling, among other professions.

And a sub-area of carpentry, remodeling contractors, refers to carpenters in charge of home remodeling projects that involve many disciplines beyond simply woodworking.

Oddly enough, said Chris Weckmann, remodeling contractor and owner of Iowa City-based Carpentry by Chris, the things we do involve very little wood anymore,

Weckmann said much of his job as a remodeling contractor involves orchestrating various disciplines involved in remodeling homes such as plumbing, lighting, tiling, drywalling, exterior home work and, of course, carpentry itself, which can include constructing cabinets, doors and trim.

The remodeling market nationwide has increased steadily since 2011, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity, a report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University that studies home-improvement spending.

The same report projects a 9.9 percent increase in home-improvement spending by the end of 2014 up from 5.6 percent in 2013.

But the remodeling group anticipates spending to drop to 7 percent during the first quarter of 2015, which would be the first quarterly drop since the beginning of 2012, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. WHY?

In the Iowa City area, some remodeling contractors and carpenters had a defense against the recent recession.

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Yaoying Ma says that biology, by nature, has a yin and a yang -- a push and a pull.

Addiction, particularly relapse, she finds, is no exception.

Ma is a research associate in the lab of Yan Dong, assistant professor of neuroscience in the University of Pittsburgh's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. She is the lead author of a paper published online today in the journal Neuron that posits that it may be possible to ramp up an intrinsic anti-addiction response as a means to fight cocaine relapse and keep the wolves of relapse at bay.

This paper is the first to establish the existence of a brain circuitry that resists a relapse of cocaine use through a naturally occurring neural remodeling with "silent synapses."

The work is a follow-up on a recent study conducted by Dong and his colleagues, which was published in Nature Neuroscience last November. The team used rat models to examine the effects of cocaine self-administration and withdrawal on nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens, a small region in the brain that is commonly associated with reward, emotion, motivation, and addiction. Specifically, they investigated the roles of synapses -- the structures at the ends of nerve cells that relay signals.

The team reported in its Nature Neuroscience study that when a rat uses cocaine, some immature synapses are generated, which are called "silent synapses" because they are semifunctional and send few signals under normal physiological conditions. After that rat stops using cocaine, these "silent synapses" go through a maturation phase and acquire their full function to send signals. Once they can send signals, the synapses will send craving signals for cocaine if the rat is exposed to cues previously associated with the drug.

The current Neuron paper shows that there's another side of "silent synapse" remodeling. Silent synapses that are generated in a specific cortical projection to the nucleus accumbens by cocaine exposure become "unsilenced" after cocaine withdrawal, resulting in a profound remodeling of this cortical projection. Additional experiments show that silent synapse-based remodeling of this cortical projection decreases cocaine craving. Importantly, this anti-relapse circuitry remodeling is induced by cocaine exposure itself, suggesting that our body has its own way to fight addiction.

Dong, the paper's senior author, says that the pro-relapse response is predominant after cocaine exposure. But since the anti-relapse response exists inside the brain, it could possibly be clinically tweaked to achieve therapeutic benefits.

Ma notes that this finding "may provide insight into ways to manipulate this yin-yang balance and hopefully provide new neurobiological targets for interventions designed to decrease relapse."

"The story won't stop here," Ma adds. "Our ongoing study is exploring some unusual but simple ways to beef up the endogenous anti-relapse mechanism."

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