Granted, the felicitous weather also can hinder home-improvement retailers because of lost sales of winter merchandise.
Terri Lodwick, president of All American Window, a 22-person home-improvement company in Germantown, Wis.
The spring selling season is like Christmas for home-improvement retailers, and this year, Christmas is coming early.
Unseasonably warm weather has boosted sales at Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD) and other building-supply and home-improvement retailers in recent months.
Signs are also good at companies that supply the likes of Home Depot, the biggest home-improvement retailer in the U.S. by sales.
In Home Depot's results, momentum in the average ticket, sales per square foot and the volume of high-ticket items will gauge underlying home-improvement demand.
Her husband, Andy (Jim Broadbent), is an amiable dawdler, a guy who starts ambitious home-improvement projects and never quite gets around to finishing them.
Flooring, power tools and hand tools also showed strength and boosted the average sales receipt, executives with the largest home-improvement retailer said during the call.
Home-improvement retailers are seeing a clear trend toward smaller renovations.
W. Scripps ' (nyse: SSP - news - people ) HGTV or the vast amounts of home-improvement programming on PBS, the Learning Channel and The Walt Disney Co.
Accenture's researchers are also dreaming up ways for the elderly to share digital scrapbooks online with their grandchildren, and smart systems that talk you through simple home-improvement tasks, such as installing a new light fixture.
Lindsay, who said she needs a job because she has home-improvement debt and can't sell her house in this slumped market, said she is able to keep hunting for jobs partly because of her creative outlet online.
At the crossroads of the battered housing market and below-trend levels of consumer spending, it will come down to execution for the home-improvement retailers as housing rises off the bottom and the economy continues its slow rebound.
"Every dollar we pay the credit-card companies is a dollar we can't pass on to consumers or use to hire employees or build more stores, " said Scott Mason, vice president of government affairs for home-improvement retailer Lowe's Cos.
Despite the law many people who sell home improvement services - such are drives and roofing - are wide boys.
Fourth-quarter results came in better than expected Tuesday morning and the home improvement heavyweight rallied in pre-market trading.
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Home Depot closed half of its stores in China after finding that Chinese consumers were not as enthusiastic about DIY (Do-It-Yourself) home improvement projects as Americans are.
Home Depot shocked no one when it posted a drop in fourth-quarter earnings, but the home improvement chain expects results to continue lagging for the rest of the year.
Based in Atlanta, Georgia Gulf manufactures chlorovinyls and aromatic chemicals as well as vinyl-based building and home improvement products.
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It has launched a new online community where do-it-yourselfers can discuss home improvement projects and share their expertise with other members.
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Indeed, we hope you find the new home-page as a whole a big improvement.
The world's number one home improvement retailer's well-paid chief executive, Robert Nardelli, stunningly resigned on Jan. 3.
Trillions of dollars in home equity vanished and as a result, homeowners not wanting to throw good money after bad halted home improvement renovations, including do-it-yourself projects.
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The home improvement market, which includes maintenance and improvement spending of both rentals and owner-occupied units, promises to rise at an inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5% per year in the coming years, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
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Bouchard wants Couche-Tard to focus, like home improvement giant Lowe's, on getting more women in.
Now, the founder of German home improvement chain Bauhaus AG, Heinz-Georg Baus, also joins the billionaire ranks.
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But this week, when Reddit led me to a popular imgur gallery titled Hot Tub Project, I found myself completely re-inspired by the possibilities of home improvement.
So even though sales dropped 12% from 2005 to 2009 and it was the worst industry downturn in two and a half decades, home improvement still accounted for more than two-thirds of total residential investment. 2010 likely saw that number increase.
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When a hurricane comes, count on large-cap investors to snap up stocks of not only home improvement companies, but also discount retailers (everyone's running for flashlights and other supplies and will be replacing losses from flood damage), home builders (all those houses need to be rebuilt) and oil companies (damage to refineries down in the Gulf sparks supply worries and kicks up prices).
Kingfisher, the European home improvement group, generated a tenth of retail sales from eco-products in 2011.
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