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Purgula Innovation for Homeowners The Value of In-Person Showcase Homes April 20, 2025 Hi Reader, This week’s topic is primarily the 2025 Pasadena Showcase House of Design (PSH), but the larger theme is the value of attending similar showcase events in your local market. In PSH’s case, this is the 60th home they have remodeled, with proceeds supporting local music education. The annual event involves approximately 30 designers (interior and exterior) renovating the majority of rooms and...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Copper: A Truly Amazing Metal April 12, 2025 Hi Reader, The topic of this week’s newsletter is Copper. While investigating the many ways copper can be used in home décor, we became fascinated with this magical metal and wanted to share what we recently discovered, as well as rediscovered. With our core editorial mission being Innovation, we admittedly can become biased towards “new” ideas, at the risk of undervaluing what already exists. Copper is a humbling...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners The Trend Toward Self-Sufficiency April 5, 2025 Hi Reader, The topic of this week’s newsletter is Self-Sufficiency. Recently, a realtor told us a story that we found amusing, but sadly, not surprising. A month ago, he sold a home to a couple, who were first-time homebuyers. They were of course excited with their purchase, but as many first-time homeowners do, they failed to understand that being an owner, rather than a renter, encompasses a broad set of...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Learning from Industry Innovators March 29, 2025 Hi Reader, Having recently attended the 2025 National Hardware Show (NHS) in Las Vegas, we present our favorite products from the show in this week's newsletter. NHS is one of our most enjoyable industry shows for Purgula, as we are free to discover a wide range of innovative products uniquely designed for the home, as well as the imaginative, daring inventors behind them. What is different about this tradeshow...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Flex Rooms to the Rescue March 22, 2025 Hi Reader, Having just returned from the 2025 National Hardware Show in Las Vegas, we are in the process of curating our “best of” list of innovative products for homeowners. In anticipation of sharing our list in next week’s newsletter, we’ve inventoried a collection of home projects to consider this spring. Several of the products we plan to highlight will make these projects more feasible and easier to tackle. This...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Custom Home Trends 2025 March 15, 2025 Hi Reader, According to recent data presented at IBS 2025, custom home builds — home construction undertaken on a contractual basis — experienced a 7% uptick in Q4 2024, compared to the same period in 2023. This trend is expected to rise by 13.8% in 2025, a result of favorable market conditions, together with several converging factors that reflect buyer preferences for current and future requirements. Personalization...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Design & Construction Week 2025 March 9, 2025 Hi Reader, If you missed the recent Design & Construction Week (DCW) event held in Las Vegas, fear not! We’ve curated a short list of our favorite innovative products from this year’s combined IBS and KBIS tradeshows. The “fear of missing out” pertains to attendees, as well, since there is simply too many interesting exhibitors and products, across too expansive of a convention center, with never sufficient time...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Inspiration from The New American Home 2025 March 3, 2025 Hi Reader, During the media reception for The New American Home (TNAH 2025), held last week in Las Vegas, a journalist asked how the spacious luxury property could be relevant to homeowners in her community where homes are typically one-third the size. Purgula immediately seized on the opportunity to explain that although TNAH 2025 is breathtakingly spacious and beautiful, with all the amenities a...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners How Tradeshows Can Help You Innovate February 22, 2025 Hi Reader, During the first quarter of each year, several prominent industry tradeshows related to the broad “Home Space” (e.g. construction; home & garden products; home improvement services; etc.) are held. CES – the world’s most famous tradeshow – leads off the season in early January, as all aspects of business and life can pertain to “consumer electronics” and “all things digital”. This includes the...

Purgula Innovation for Homeowners Getting Ready to Play in the Dirt February 15, 2025 Hi Reader, This week’s topic is Gardening — "playing in the dirt", as we like to call it — and how it can help you become a healthy, happy & innovative homeowner. With the first day of spring just one month away — Thursday, March 20 — now is a great time to start gathering practical, as well as inspirational ideas, for your garden. To begin the process, we’ve included a simple guide that shares five easy...