Home improvement has a broad meaning

FORT MOHAVE The phrase home improvement can mean a lot of different things to different people.

For some, it may mean knocking out a wall to expand a room. Or maybe putting up a wall to turn a wide-open space into two more cozy confines.

It can mean adding a new deck. Or remodeling the kitchen.

Or it can mean something relatively simple, such as changing the lighting, or the paint, or carpeting, or updating appliances.

Painting rental properties, the contractor said as Windham used a color spectophotometer, essentially a computer that identifies the color of a small sample so that a near-exact mixture can be produced to match it.

Every day, people are coming in matching colors, Windham said, suggesting that the prevailing trend in the Tri-state is not to change the color scheme but to freshen it up.

Color is always trending here in Bullhead, said Michael Paul, owner of Tri-State Building Materials and its Ace stores in Kingman, Bullhead City and Fort Mohave. We tend to follow the trend, but not as quickly as maybe Southern California or metro areas.

He said most customers tend to stay on the conservative side when it comes to paint color selection, but occasionally they make requests for non-traditional schemes.

Paul said lighting is also trending, especially with the demise of the incandescent light bulb. Some customers are staying ahead of the times by switching to other lighting sources LEDs, fluorescents and solar-powered lighting.

LEDs are starting to get more affordable, Paul said. Cost is starting to come down, making it more doable for most folks.

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Home improvement has a broad meaning