home improvement

Bruce Ridenour has been a contractor for 40 years and said local contractors in Danbury, Connecticut don’t have bandwidth to handle all the new demand.

Among the beneficiaries: Lowe’s and Home Depot.

Do-it-yourself projects were declining. Then the pandemic arrived.

And historic preservationist Scott Sidler is on a mission to change that.

All this time at home has a lot of us rethinking our living spaces — with sometimes regrettable results.

As people spend less time outdoors, will they keep shopping at places like Home Depot and Lowe’s?

People are still shopping — just for different stuff.

Home Depot reported a 6% increase in sales and True Value says paint sales are up more than 20% as Americans use lockdown to clean up, paint up, and fix up.

As people spend more time at home because of COVID-19, they are thinking about how they can improve those spaces.

Home Depot posted better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fourth quarter.