{"id":53,"date":"2008-10-29T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-10-30T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T05:40:38","slug":"home-building-show-in-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/53","title":{"rendered":"Home building show in NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After attending the home building show in LA a couple weeks ago (from which the best part was getting a free pumpkin and stumbling into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10293577@N03\/sets\/72157608036304449\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hispanic heritage parade<\/a> downtown afterward), our expectations for this one were tempered.<\/p>\n<p>The show in NM, which included an eco\/green building exhibit, was better, but not great. There was a lot on solar, which we are now already pretty well versed in. We did discover a new roofing material that we think might be a good option. We learned about geo-thermal, which was interesting, but not a good fit for us.<\/p>\n<p>We talked to a couple designers. Neither was a very good fit, but talking to more people has helped me better articulate what we need and be able to judge potential fit in just a couple minutes. We\u2019ll keep looking.<\/p>\n<p>Like the LA show, there were an assortment of seeming unrelated exhibits, like cookware, knives, beauty products, teeth cleaning, jewelry, and even a Kumon booth. Apparently, the \u201clifestyle\u201d part of the show refers to this, along with a general idea that if you have the money to remodel or build a new home, you have plenty of disposable income for this stuff too.<\/p>\n<p>We spent a couple hours at the show before heading off to hike in Petroglyph National Monument.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&#038;offsite=true&#038;intl_lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F10293577%40N03%2Fsets%2F72157608490975082%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F10293577%40N03%2Fsets%2F72157608490975082%2F&#038;set_id=72157608490975082&#038;jump_to=\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=61927\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After attending the home building show in LA a couple weeks ago (from which the best part was getting a free pumpkin and stumbling into a Hispanic heritage parade downtown afterward), our expectations for this one were tempered. The show in NM, which included an eco\/green building exhibit, was better, but not great. There was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}