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Bankrate.com via Omaha World-Herald
Americans are starting to ramp up spending on backyard decks, spa-like bathrooms and other vanity improvements.
The amount people spend on home remodeling and repair is anticipated to hit $325 billion this year, a level that hasn’t been reached since 2007, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Hanley Wood, a marketing services company, offers a similar outlook, predicting the industry will fully recover this summer following 12-straight quarters of growth.
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The Detroit News
One of the hottest design trends to come along in a long time is the "barn door." Rather than what goes on, well, a barn, barn doors mostly refer to doors that slide across a wall rather than open inward or outward. Also called sliding doors, barn doors are showing up in lots of places where traditional doors won't go — or just to add a fresh update to a standard door.
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Business.com
If you're a small business owner, there's a 50/50 chance you don't have a company website.
Surprised by that? SCORE's recent infographic reports that just 51 percent of small businesses have websites.
That was almost as surprising as the survey of small business owners for our 2015 State of Small Business Report. Out of 1,000 plus small business owners, 37 percent of respondents said they get only 1 to 5 percent of their business from their websites.
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By Nate Budde
 Construction payment is complex and full of challenges. The credit-heavy nature of construction projects and the lack of visibility throughout a project can give rise to critical payment problems that can reverberate up and down the payment chain. Sometimes, what seems to be deep-seated payment problems turns out to be visibility issues, so setting up a culture of correcting those particular issues can reduce risk for all parties, and result in faster and more structured payment.
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Associated General Contractors of America via For Construction Pros
Construction employment increased in fewer than half of the nation's metro areas between July 2014 and July 2015, the weakest expansion since late 2011, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials noted that the new jobs data comes while a series of vital federal infrastructure funding measures, notably the surface transportation program, languish unfinished in Congress.
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Forbes
With Katrina fresh in our national memories, now is a fitting time for National Preparedness Month, which has been observed every September since 2003. Sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Preparedness Month encourages Americans to prepare for emergencies in their homes, businesses, schools and communities. FEMA's Ready Campaign, the associated public service campaign, educates and empowers Americans to get involved in preparing for natural and man-made disasters.
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