HER HOME: New Woman-Centric Home Design

Design Basics, the mother company of Woman-Centric Matters, has announced that their currently featured home plan is the brand new Babineaux. It is a Woman-Centric Matters design with some great features, including walk-in closets in 3 of the 4 bedrooms, a quaint covered front porch, and a 3-car garage positioned in such a way that [...]

HER HOME: Boomer Women Seek New Direction in Life

Baby Boom-era women may be the most powerful demographic in the United States.
They’ve got spending power. They’re the fastest-growing segment of entrepreneurs. They’re educated. And they want more.
Those are the intriguing first lines of an article today’s Entrepreneur Magazine online highlights. Originally appearing in Tulsa World newspaper, the article goes on to define the “more” [...]

HER HOME: Buying Power of Women

According to today’s Clarion-Ledger out of Mississippi, African American women are an economic force to be reckoned with, often more than women in general. It’s not just a local source coming to that conclusion either. Sources cited for the article include: Consumer Expenditures 2004; World Of Wonder II: How We Define Success, 2005; Roper NOP [...]

HER HOME: Woman-Centric Home Built INSIDE Civic Center

We just have to brag a bit about one of our Woman-Centric Matters(sm) licensees. Some of our staff will be attending the show to take photos and talk to the press. As soon as they make the pics availalbe, we’ll post them here. It should be pretty cool to have an entire house built inside [...]

HER HOME: Her Hotel Design

Hotels began centuries ago as humble folk simply letting out a room of their house for a night or so to passersby. Hotel design has gone through various stages and incarnations through the years, sometimes, regrettably, going so far as to tear down historic properties to build new modern facilities in their place. From about [...]

HER HOME: Good News for a Monday

Newsday newspaper has the best news of the day. Thanks to a study involving young women, it is now believed that cocoa may be the key to continued high quality brain function as we age. I had heard this about dark chocolate, but now it seems a nice cup of hot cocoa may do the [...]

HER HOME: Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day has officially conquered Japan according to a Time Magazine article. The first Valentine’s Day sale in Japan took place in 1958. Today, according to the Chocolate and Cocoa Association of Japan, $400 million was spent in chocolate purchases in the crucial days leading up to the holiday of love.
Japan has a different take [...]

HER HOME: Morning Shows Losing Women Viewers

According to an article in today’s Chicago Tribune, women are turning off television morning shows this season, particularly those women in the coveted 25-54 age range. The article cites a Los Angeles Times analysis of Nielsen Media Research data. The decline in viewers is estimated to be at 10 percent compared with this same time [...]

HER HOME: Woman-Centric Home Design Featured at Builder Show

Woman-Centric Matters has been highlighted this week at the 2007 International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Florida, with our own Paul Foresman from Design Basics speaking at one of the convention’s education seminars. Paul says, “It’s known that women directly make or have controlling influence in 91 percent of new home purchases. It just makes sense [...]

HER HOME: Beautiful Women

This from a press release issued today on prnewswire.com:
According to a recent Dove global study, nearly all women over
50 want to see a change in society’s view on women and aging. In addition,
the majority of women believe that if media were reflective of the
population, a person would likely believe women over 50 do not exist.
For [...]