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Why Innovation Needs Academia

Maura McCarthy, Blu Homes co-founder, blogs about the role that academia played in the creation of Blu Homes. Originally published in Inc. on January 24, 2012. It’s in style to dismiss business school, and higher education in general, as unnecessary. …

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INSPIRATION FROM THE DRIVER’S SEAT

Maura McCarthy, Blu Homes co-founder, blogs about how clients inspire innovation. Originally published in Stylelist on January 19, 2012. Green housing for a boarding school’s faculty. A family compound of lakeside homes. A wall of windows to take advantage of a remarkable …

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A Home for the Holidays

Maura McCarthy, Blu Homes co-founder, blogs about how holidays make a new house feel like home. Originally published in Stylelist on December 13, 2011. It’s no surprise that so many holiday songs praise it and pine after it. Home, we’re reminded …

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A new Blu home in Maine — one of our homeowners blogs about the experience

Patricia Wheeler, a new Blu Homes owner, blogs about getting her new Element 36 in Deer Isle, Maine. One of the great things about Blu is that we get to work with some wonderful home owners, who really love getting …

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3D Models – One of “Blu’s Gurus” Weighs In

Josh Appleman, digital tooling manager and 3D guru at Blu, gives us a look into Blu’s 3D world. It’s not always easy to decipher what’s in those black and white floorplans that architects so often show to their clients. “What’s …

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Faces of Blu: A Peek Around the Busy Office!

With our first Factory Home to be unveiled this weekend at our open house (yay!), things are really buzzing here at Blu! Here’s a quick peek around the office on a busy Tuesday afternoon…

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Open Floor Plans – One of “Blu’s Gurus” Weighs In

We’re back! To say that it’s been a busy few months for Blu would be an incredible understatement: we built and delivered our first two-story home to a client in Lake Tahoe, we’ve appeared in the New York Times, Sunset …

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Blu Construction Team

We talk to people every day about our beautiful homes and our efficient home building process. Today we’d like to pay homage to the awesome construction crew that makes this possible. Our factory and set crew are some of the …

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Blu Home Unfolds in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

We recently unfolded our first Blu home in North Carolina! The Chapel Hill News was there to witness the action. Read their first hand account here.

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Spend Shift

We are psyched to be included in John Gerzema’s and Michael D’Antonio’s new book “Spend Shift: How The Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is Changing The Way We Buy, Sell, And Live.”  Check out this great clip of John and Michael talking about the book …

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