The Home Depot sales grew 6.4% third quarter, while its big box competitor Lowe's quarterly sales increased 5%. Both companies will expand next year as they expect the housing boom to continue unabated. Biggest growth came from professional builders and remodelers.

Martha Stewart's American Made furniture and home furnishings line opened a store at Amazon's Handmade marketplace, leaving eBay where it opened in 2013. The online custom woodworking and maker markets are heating, with Custommade.com trailing and Etsy facing big challenges for the custom made crafts marketplace. Handmade at Amazon, launched Oct. 8, 2015, has more than 200,000 items from 10,000 approved artisans.

A federal courtroom in lower Manhattan yesterday saw Car-Freshener Corporation take action to protect its brand against upstart Exotica Fresheners Company. Let the battle of the tree-shaped car fresheners begin!

One of the tallest wood buildings in the world will soon be constructed at UBC, providing housing for hundreds of students. When completed, the $51.5-million residence building will stand 53 meters tall -about 174 feet.

Georgia-Pacific will invest $110 million to upgrade to its Alabama River Cellulose (ARC) mill.

The U.S. Forest Service has increased the pace and scale of forest restoration by nine percent since 2011, according to a newly released report. The progress comes in the face of mounting challenges to the agency including record droughts, longer wildfire seasons and increased budget dollars spent fighting wildland fires.

Houzz Inc. agrees to pay $175,000 for violating California state privacy laws with secretly recorded phone calls, for training and quality-assurance purposes, from March 2013 to September 2013.

MityLite, hospitality furniture manufacturer, says its Magnattach portable wood laminate dance floor can be assembled or disassembled in less than 7 minutes. Each dance floor panel is held securely together through a patented triplelock magnetic system with no moving parts.

The national union that represents woodworkers at manufacturing companies says details in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement among 11 nations could work against the industry.

HomeAdvisor scored a partnership with Google for finding cabinet makers, closet designers and other home improvement and services firms. HomeAdvisor's Instant Booking for homeowners searching for local service pros online is the latest entry in a heated competition that includes Facebook-Pro.com, Lowe's-Porch.com,Home Depot-Red Beacon, along with freestanding entries including Amazon Home Services, Angie's List, and Houzz.