I gave a client a $15,000 budget for tile and she went and picked out what she wanted and spent $35,000. To have someone blow a budget like that. ... There's just an unbelievable amount of expression to be done with tile.

The $200 billion remodeling industry is almost exclusively small businesses that operate in local communities. And we can now confirm that money spent on remodeling stays local.

Two separate kitchens in very large houses is not uncommon now.