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Water wisely — and legally — as drought drags on

While Colorado’s lack of snowfall this past winter was devastating for the state’s ski industry, it will be challenging for Colorado homeowners and groundskeepers who cherish their green lawns and gardens.

Renovate. Update. Remodel.

One locally owned homebuilding and remodeling business faces the impact of real estate market fluctuations is Iris Building Group, founded in 1998 by brothers Devin, Shawn and Jason Cooper. 

Much ADU about nothing

You might be familiar with granny pods, in-law flats, carriage houses or casitas, all falling under the category of the colorless term, “Accessory Dwelling Units” or ADUs. Built on the same property as primary residences, these sidekick spaces can serve...

Artistic resident at Springbrooke personalizes her new home

Grace Dallenegra is a prolific lifelong artist and her daughter is a Denver-area interior designer. It’s no wonder that Dallenegra’s apartment at Springbrooke Senior Living is tastefully furnished with properly scaled furniture and carefully curated artwork and accessories, reflecting her own tastes and interests.

Yaron and Michael Marcus ‘sell Denver’

There are approximately 8,000 realtors in the Denver metro area. In a red hot market where properties listed in the morning are sold within a few days, or even by mid-afternoon, these realtors scramble for an edge.

Denver’s apartment boom — why?

There’s a joke: “The Colorado state bird is the crane.”
As in construction crane. A reference to what seems to be the proliferation of new high- and mid-rise apartment buildings in the Denver metro area.
The cityscape, especially in the urban core surrounding downtown Denver, has dramatically changed with new large apartment buildings going up at 8th and Lincoln, 10th and Lincoln, 12th and Grant, 8th and Grant, 7th and Grant, two opposite corners of Speer and Grant, Speer and Logan, Logan and Bayaud, and Logan and Alameda.

Exploring Denver’s historic districts

Denver is known as a young and forward-looking city, but it is also a city that values its history, especially as reflected in the architecture and character of its homes and commercial and public buildings from bygone decades. Denver has...

Garden — start your own veg patch

By Christopher Owen, Creators.com If you’re a DIY hobby champ or an organic-only food snob, you know that nothing parallels the taste of your own freshly grown vegetables. Despite this romantic, bucolic urge, starting a garden — especially one that...

Denver’s hot housing market: Tips from the pros

It’s hot out there . . . and we’re not talking about the weather. After all, how many times has it been cold in Denver on Memorial Day? We’re talking about Denver’s housing market. Yes, the metro Denver real estate...

Mountain serenity in your backyard

The allure of Colorado in the winter is skiing and snowboarding on the majestic snow-covered mountains. Indeed, the snow-capped peaks are breathtaking and fun, but once springtime hits, the world of Colorado wildflowers awakens, creating its own allure. From spring...

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AdventureEXP creates work programs across four continents

Adam Salzman, a Coloradan for the last nine years, previously had a great career working in corporate finance for Nissan in Nashville, Tenn.A nice job, but for Salzman, not fulfilling enough. An Akron, Ohio native who majored in international business and finance at Ohio University, Salzman had studied abroad in China and taught English as a 19-year-old.