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The Builders Association of Greater Boston is an organization of housing professionals dedicated to improving the communities we work in, bettering the lives of the people we build for, and enhancing the success of our members. Home owners, and new home buyers, we are here to SERVE you, and put you in touch with the best home building and remodeling businesses in Greater Boston.
Eastern Massachusetts NARI is a not-for-profit trade association committed exclusively to enhancing the professionalism of the remodeling industry and providing ethical and quality service to the region's remodeling homeowners. Representing full-service remodeling contractors, design-build firms, architects, designers, subcontractors, product manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and those who provide services and products to the remodeling field, NARI stands as the spokesgroup of the industry and an ally to the nation's homeowners.
The Not So Big House, by Sarah Susanka, brings to light a new way of thinking about what makes a place feel like home--characteristics that many people desire of their homes but haven't known how to verbalize.
The Timber Framers Guild is a non-profit educational membership association. Their goal is to educate its members as well as the public in the techniques and theories of contemporary and historic timber framing, the centuries-old construction system of large wooden posts and beams.
