tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52580319896025930892024-03-13T11:42:20.984-07:00Awesome Home DesignLuxury home design interior idea pictures, home design pictures insightsAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049172016300434419noreply@blogger.comBlogger2029914501500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-11059032238555340712009-10-21T03:27:00.000-07:002011-03-23T09:50:03.032-07:00Table of Equivalent Terminology<b>Table of Equivalent Terminology</b><br />The following table shows which terms are equivalent between Deneba Canvas™, CorelDRAW®, Adobe® Illustrator® and Macromedia® FreeHand® and are presented here to sort out any possible confusion where mixed terminology has been used in this web site: <br /><table background="images/bgffffff.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="2" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 480px;"><tbody><tr background="images/bgffff00.gif" bgcolor="#ffff00"> <td align="center" height="60" width="123"> <b>CorelDRAW</b></td> <td align="center" height="60" width="122"><b>Deneba<br />Canvas</b></td> <td align="center" height="60" width="122"> <b>Adobe<br />Illustrator</b></td> <td align="center" height="60" width="123"> <b>Macromedia<br />FreeHand</b></td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <table background="images/bgffffff.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 120px;"><tbody><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Fill</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Outline</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Node</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Control Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(no equivalent)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cusp Node</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Smooth Node</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Symmetrical Node</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Symmetrical Line Node<br />(or line smooth<br />node)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Combining Objects</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Welding, Trimming and Intersecting Objects</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wireframe View</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="" name="pwrclip"></a>PowerClip™</span> </td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Envelope</span></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table background="images/bgffffff.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 120px;"><tbody><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Fill</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stroke</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anchor Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Handle</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tangent Line</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Corner Point<br />(cusp defined as<br />corner point with<br />no handles)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Smooth Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Smooth Point<br />(option/ctrl-drag handles)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(no equivalent)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Composite Path</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Combining Objects</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wireframe Display</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clipping Path</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Envelope</span></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> <td valign="top"> <table background="images/bgffffff.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 120px;"><tbody><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Fill</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stroke</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anchor Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Direction Point<br />(or handle)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Direction Line</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Corner Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Smooth Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(no equivalent)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(no equivalent)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Compound Path</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pathfinder:<br />Combine, Isolate<br />and Subdivide Objects</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Artwork View</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Mask</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(no equivalent)</span></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> <td valign="top"> <table background="images/bgffffff.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 120px;"><tbody><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />Fill</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stroke</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Point Knob</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Point Handle</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Corner Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Curve Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="60" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(no equivalent)</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Connector Point</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Composite Path</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="80" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Merging Objects</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Keyline View</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Clipping Path</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="center" height="40" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Envelope</span></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> </tr></tbody></table><span><br /></span>A mask is a vector path which allows part of an object to show while blocking out the rest effectively making part of it transparent. A mask in an illustration program is functionally equivalent to a in an image editor .<br /><br />1. Take for example a photo. You can create a mask which will knockout the background.<br /><br /><img alt="spacer.gif" height="3" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/spacer.gif" width="3" /><img alt="clip31.jpg" height="242" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/clip31.jpg" width="322" /><br /><br />2. Using the Pen, draw a path around the bird in the photo.<br /><br /><img alt="clip42.jpg" height="243" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/clip42.jpg" width="323" /><br /><br />3. This is a view of the path only.<br /><br /><img alt="mask37.gif" height="207" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/mask37.gif" width="294" /><br /><br />4. When the path is made into a mask and combined with the background image, the background becomes transparent.<br /><br /><img alt="clip41.jpg" height="240" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/clip41.jpg" width="320" /><br /><br />5. Masks can be made to create many kinds of effects. A type mask can be combined with a background photo.<br /><br /><img alt="mask34.jpg" height="202" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/mask34.jpg" width="350" /><br /><br />6. This is the mask created by converting type to curves.<br /><br /><img alt="mask35.gif" height="238" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/mask35.gif" width="230" /><br /><br />7. This is the type mask when combined with the background image.<br /><br /><img alt="mask36.gif" height="238" src="http://www.sketchpad.net/images/mask36.gif" width="230" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-85494223485712233072009-10-21T02:03:00.002-07:002011-03-21T22:04:46.934-07:00Modern Minimalist Home Design and Ashley Furniture<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7OpzG4w7I/AAAAAAAADSk/-_JK7Nzh5cU/s1600-h/modern+minimalist+home.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7OpzG4w7I/AAAAAAAADSk/-_JK7Nzh5cU/s400/modern+minimalist+home.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394976621125485490" border="0" /></a>Modern Minimalist <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a> is between 2 houses. Minimalist design houses such as the example picture above you can make a private room. Suitable for you who like to design a simple house. In the room you can give ashley furniture that was popular with the preservation and good design. Outdoor furniture in the blank intentionally make it look beautiful scenery that the house was cool and fresh with natural air.<br />Do not forget to your home insurance to deal with things that are not in want. Like a house fire. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-44157803030875040382009-10-21T02:03:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.094-07:00Modern Minimalist Home Design and Ashley Furniture<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7OpzG4w7I/AAAAAAAADSk/-_JK7Nzh5cU/s1600-h/modern+minimalist+home.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7OpzG4w7I/AAAAAAAADSk/-_JK7Nzh5cU/s400/modern+minimalist+home.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394976621125485490" border="0" /></a>Modern Minimalist <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a> is between 2 houses. Minimalist design houses such as the example picture above you can make a private room. Suitable for you who like to design a simple house. In the room you can give ashley furniture that was popular with the preservation and good design. Outdoor furniture in the blank intentionally make it look beautiful scenery that the house was cool and fresh with natural air.<br />Do not forget to your home insurance to deal with things that are not in want. Like a house fire. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-45302616862075582192009-10-21T02:03:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.070-07:00Modern Minimalist Home Design and Ashley Furniture<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7OpzG4w7I/AAAAAAAADSk/-_JK7Nzh5cU/s1600-h/modern+minimalist+home.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7OpzG4w7I/AAAAAAAADSk/-_JK7Nzh5cU/s400/modern+minimalist+home.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394976621125485490" border="0" /></a>Modern Minimalist <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a> is between 2 houses. Minimalist design houses such as the example picture above you can make a private room. Suitable for you who like to design a simple house. In the room you can give ashley furniture that was popular with the preservation and good design. Outdoor furniture in the blank intentionally make it look beautiful scenery that the house was cool and fresh with natural air.<br />Do not forget to your home insurance to deal with things that are not in want. Like a house fire. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-7311359780390041742009-10-21T01:48:00.002-07:002011-03-21T22:04:47.357-07:00Ashley Furniture Foam Materials>> Minimalist Modern Home Design<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7NJWp5ktI/AAAAAAAADSc/dw9W8zEe_ss/s1600-h/ashley+furniture+foam+materials.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7NJWp5ktI/AAAAAAAADSc/dw9W8zEe_ss/s400/ashley+furniture+foam+materials.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394974964220269266" border="0" /></a>Ashley Furniture Foam Materials>> Minimalist Modern <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a> : Interior Home Design<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-21829775345180255682009-10-21T01:48:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.143-07:00Ashley Furniture Foam Materials>> Minimalist Modern Home Design<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7NJWp5ktI/AAAAAAAADSc/dw9W8zEe_ss/s1600-h/ashley+furniture+foam+materials.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7NJWp5ktI/AAAAAAAADSc/dw9W8zEe_ss/s400/ashley+furniture+foam+materials.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394974964220269266" border="0" /></a>Ashley Furniture Foam Materials>> Minimalist Modern <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a> : Interior Home Design<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-67915980958871553602009-10-21T01:48:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.124-07:00Ashley Furniture Foam Materials>> Minimalist Modern Home Design<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7NJWp5ktI/AAAAAAAADSc/dw9W8zEe_ss/s1600-h/ashley+furniture+foam+materials.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St7NJWp5ktI/AAAAAAAADSc/dw9W8zEe_ss/s400/ashley+furniture+foam+materials.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394974964220269266" border="0" /></a>Ashley Furniture Foam Materials>> Minimalist Modern <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a> : Interior Home Design<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-137468237427545722009-10-20T22:00:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.168-07:00Variant Mirror Designs Idea<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gidesigns.net/images/feather-mirror-iron-M.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 470px;" src="http://www.gidesigns.net/images/feather-mirror-iron-M.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jW0fHcfb-L4/SWWzRkdSbCI/AAAAAAAAKKE/nXegVoGXVpM/s400/Creative_Mirror_Designs_Narcisse.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 373px; height: 374px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jW0fHcfb-L4/SWWzRkdSbCI/AAAAAAAAKKE/nXegVoGXVpM/s400/Creative_Mirror_Designs_Narcisse.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.twizzles.net/images/Twizzles_contemporary_mirrors_mirrorkool/splat_mirror.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 269px;" src="http://www.twizzles.net/images/Twizzles_contemporary_mirrors_mirrorkool/splat_mirror.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Variant Mirror Designs Idea...............<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="result_box" dir="ltr"> The mirror in your home also affects the view in the house, therefore also all variant mirror in your home. The picture above is an example of a variation of the mirror can you be a reference to choose the appropriate form with your home.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-83005198148852003902009-10-20T19:44:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:01:39.799-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/St52xCi8M-I/AAAAAAAAHk4/3NY2ZQKGKTo/s1600-h/wedding+photo.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394879988505523170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/St52xCi8M-I/AAAAAAAAHk4/3NY2ZQKGKTo/s400/wedding+photo.JPG" border="0" /></a> Every city has its' iconic location where couples like to have wedding photos taken. Here in DC it is either down at the national mall in front of the capitol building or with the cherry blossoms in front of the Jefferson Memorial (season permitting), Chicago has Buckingham fountain and Paris has....the Eiffel Tower!<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/St52wVSH43I/AAAAAAAAHkw/-Fz1xX-r_CU/s1600-h/rolls+royce.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394879976355390322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/St52wVSH43I/AAAAAAAAHkw/-Fz1xX-r_CU/s400/rolls+royce.JPG" border="0" /></a> What do you think of this? I tend to think these photo op moments are maybe a bit cliche (especially when you throw in the rolls royce above!) but do they speak of where the couple was married and therefore have more meaning (good taste be damned). What do you think - tacky or appropriate?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-49257608891244030632009-10-20T14:47:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.187-07:00Plum CushionI'm thrilled to announce that my newest sponsor is the very popular etsy seller, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7209753">Plum Cushion</a>!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46BJaTWHI/AAAAAAAAKJs/a1f3QyBOs5Y/s1600-h/plumcushion_ad_170.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46BJaTWHI/AAAAAAAAKJs/a1f3QyBOs5Y/s400/plumcushion_ad_170.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813195016951922" border="0" /></a><br />The owner of the Plum Cushion shop, <a href="http://www.plumcushion.com/">Melanie</a>, is as kind and as talented as they come! I cyber-met Melanie when contacting her about making some KWID Imperial Trellis pillows in the charcoal colorway for a client. Even though she didn't have a listing for that specific colorway in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7209753">her etsy shop</a>, she was more than happy to make it happen.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46CkCmXDI/AAAAAAAAKKE/8OzD2vvGJMc/s1600-h/CIMG4378.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46CkCmXDI/AAAAAAAAKKE/8OzD2vvGJMc/s400/CIMG4378.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813219345161266" border="0" /></a><br />I asked Melanie about her background for this post. Don't you just love learning the story behind the genius?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" >"I formally learned to sew in college, I was a Family and Consumer Sciences major, but I remember sewing Barbie clothes out of silky nightgowns when I was 5 or 6. After college I taught for four years then decided to go back to school for interior design. I've been in the industry for almost five years now. I have a major obsession with high-end textiles. Because of my appreciation for their quality and beauty I'm incredibly persnickety about the construction of my products."</span><br /><br />I think it's awesome that she would sew her own Barbie clothes as a child! Not surprisingly, I was obsessed with arranging and rearranging my Barbie's furniture...<br /><br />Check out some of the fabulousness at <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7209753">Plum Cushion</a>:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46DA04DiI/AAAAAAAAKKM/UgAaMW870JY/s1600-h/CIMG4387.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46DA04DiI/AAAAAAAAKKM/UgAaMW870JY/s400/CIMG4387.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813227072228898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46m8WvTRI/AAAAAAAAKKU/Agp7tUEi3zM/s1600-h/CIMG4475.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46m8WvTRI/AAAAAAAAKKU/Agp7tUEi3zM/s400/CIMG4475.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813844347374866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46BrNGEsI/AAAAAAAAKJ0/eSemmmKHuko/s1600-h/CIMG4325.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46BrNGEsI/AAAAAAAAKJ0/eSemmmKHuko/s400/CIMG4325.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813204088361666" border="0" /></a><br />Prices start out around $75, which is amazing considering she uses only the best designer fabrics available and includes down inserts with your purchase! With the holidays just around the corner, now would be a good time <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7209753">to order</a> a pair of gorgeous cushions for your best friend, sister, mother (or yourself!!).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46CAVRGFI/AAAAAAAAKJ8/36at40owFeg/s1600-h/CIMG4335.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46CAVRGFI/AAAAAAAAKJ8/36at40owFeg/s400/CIMG4335.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813209759782994" border="0" /></a><br />And speaking of the holidays, I'm completely <span style="font-style: italic;">loving </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7209753">her Christmas stockings</a>! Such a creative idea!!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46ne27uUI/AAAAAAAAKKc/r7HD_CID7-Q/s1600-h/CIMG5649.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46ne27uUI/AAAAAAAAKKc/r7HD_CID7-Q/s400/CIMG5649.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813853609212226" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46oYsnSwI/AAAAAAAAKKk/B5Lj73LD0PA/s1600-h/CIMG5696.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/St46oYsnSwI/AAAAAAAAKKk/B5Lj73LD0PA/s400/CIMG5696.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394813869135186690" border="0" /></a><br />Please show <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7209753">Plum Cushion</a> a little love and pop on over to the shop...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">If you have a design-related business and would like to advertise on Little Green Notebook, please <a href="mailto:pearlstreetinteriors@gmail.com">contact me</a> for readership statistics and rates. </span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-13460859523105694232009-10-20T11:43:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:29.642-07:00China Imitates Brick Urban House Plans<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4FmHNGaZI/AAAAAAAAB50/dR1n-GwGDWk/s1600-h/China+Imitates+Brick+Urban+House+Plans.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4FmHNGaZI/AAAAAAAAB50/dR1n-GwGDWk/s400/China+Imitates+Brick+Urban+House+Plans.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394755555963595154" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Known for their innovative use of traditional materials – namely brick – Atelier Zhanglei created this concrete urban design, the Slit House, as an ode to custom with an eye looking toward the future. This urban house design in Nanjing, China was modeled after the adjacent homes dating back to the 1920s, only with a cool, contemporary twist. In place of grey brick, the architect opted for concrete in an abstract form. Strips of wood two inches wide were used for the concrete formwork, giving the concrete a wonderful texture reminiscent of a fine textile. The 2,900-sq.-ft. house boasts a zigzag of glass that characterizes its urban exterior while illuminating the interior. <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/index.php?seite=cn_project_details_en&system_id=17122&profile_sprache=en">Atelier Zhanglei</a><br /></div> photo credit: Iwan BaanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-83242077349830018272009-10-20T11:41:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:30.531-07:00Modern & Luxury Restaurant Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4EmbdfAkI/AAAAAAAAB5s/O59AgU9OWaI/s1600-h/Luxury+Restaurant+Design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4EmbdfAkI/AAAAAAAAB5s/O59AgU9OWaI/s400/Luxury+Restaurant+Design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394754461889397314" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Black is the new gold. The sleek and lavish interior is the blend of amazing concept where the <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(174, 238, 0); text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(174, 238, 0); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica;" class="IL_LINK_STYLE" >dining experience</span> is treated like an entertainment venue. World renowned chefs are invited to cook for their guests. Diners buy “tickets” to enjoy the food, theme, music, and even lighting all designed by the chef. There are even spots for live cooking demos by the chefs and even their sous. There are four main spaces on this <a href="http://www.studiofrst.com/" target="_blank">Studio FRST</a> design: the entrance, the bar for the first half of the show, the main dining room and back-stage are the kitchens and corridors. There is a great black staircase in the foyer which used as an enormous piece of furniture.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-9871375301290163362009-10-20T11:40:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:31.277-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4EUXclBrI/AAAAAAAAB5k/0yr3T5eeRpw/s1600-h/Melbourne+Grammar+School+Modern+Architecture+by+John+Wardle+Architects.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4EUXclBrI/AAAAAAAAB5k/0yr3T5eeRpw/s400/Melbourne+Grammar+School+Modern+Architecture+by+John+Wardle+Architects.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394754151574210226" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Melbourne Grammar School Modern Architecture by John Wardle Architects<br /><br />John Wardle Architects has completed a project of Melbourne Grammar School, located in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. It is a prominent Melbourne secondary school, sparsely built around lush sporting fields, where the student’s character is developed in competition. The architect received the brief as the objectives to create a new campus entry, consolidate the school’s library facilities and provide supporting lecture theater and seminar room spaces to forge a new campus heart focused on learning.<br /><br />The architecture design comprised of a series of inter-linked pavilions, maintaining the continuation of the scale and rythym of the school’s frontage to Domain Road. Each link is glazed encouraging visibility through to the campus interior. Main entry provides a view of the Quadrangle building weaving the old and new together visually.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-15335347509183527162009-10-20T11:34:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:31.574-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4D3vVuDYI/AAAAAAAAB5c/LBnzdLs9IEY/s1600-h/MINIMALISTIC+MODERN+BATHROOM+DESIGNS.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4D3vVuDYI/AAAAAAAAB5c/LBnzdLs9IEY/s400/MINIMALISTIC+MODERN+BATHROOM+DESIGNS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394753659771686274" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For a truly minimalist, almost Zen-like bathroom design, you cannot go wrong with these modern designs from Dornbracht. Inspired by the Tara line of faucets, these bathrooms look completely serene, unaffected by disturbance from any other decor elements. Pale colors in combination with the unclouded decor create this minimalist look. There is nothing extra, just a few necessary fixtures to turn these bathroom designs into an enjoyable experience. From <a href="http://www.dornbracht.com/en/">Dornbracht</a> ...</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-14279280318660247642009-10-20T11:32:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:31.857-07:00Valentin Small Apartment Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4CmQpcYVI/AAAAAAAAB5U/K9yE8oBgH-E/s1600-h/Valentin+Small+Apartment+Design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/St4CmQpcYVI/AAAAAAAAB5U/K9yE8oBgH-E/s400/Valentin+Small+Apartment+Design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394752259963511122" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">French architects <a href="http://www.combarel-marrec.com/" target="_blank">Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec</a> have designed the sophisticating Valentin Apartment. The main feature of the small apartment design is a suspended room within the center of the apartment. Sleeping in the “flying bedroom” should be a fantastic sensation. Although, the safety of the structure is not overlooked since the suspended bos is made of a metallic structure covered with wooden panels. The cube, the floor, walla and ceiling has been painted with white polyurethane resin. Suspended right in the center of the appartment, leaving untouched the floor and the circulations around, it divides the space, reversing the perception of the atmosphere in the appartment by making private what is usually not : the living room. Wherever you stand below or above, it truncates the perception of the occupiers bodies of whom one only sees the legs sitting, crossing or walking around in the place. <a href="http://www.contemporist.com/">Via</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-77815093364208081452009-10-20T11:01:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:01.318-07:00Mike has just posted an article about Fathead Wall Graphics at Home Accents Today's The Landfair Retail Focus titled <a href="http://www.homeaccentstoday.com/blog/1960000396/post/1270045127.html">Fathead Wall Graphics Are Big!</a><br /><br />Bev & Mike<br /><a href="http://www.landfairfurniture.com/" target="_blank">Landfair Furniture + Design gallery</a><br />Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/landfairfurni" target="_blank">Twitter</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-1098223625846679982009-10-20T10:50:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:01.834-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 386px; height: 278px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4soAfirknHk/SjqBUx21b5I/AAAAAAAAAkE/VpWyp6V4kEA/s320/design-11a%281%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348729701436583826" border="0" /></a>Kara Pierce, Senior Design Consultant at The Sofa Company, has written an article titled How to Test My Sofa’s Upholstery Fabric Durability and Strength.<br /><blockquote>How exactly is a fabric’s durability measured? Most fabrics go by one of two test methods, known as Wyzenbeek and Martindale, to give the fabric an “abrasion” or “double rub” rating. Essentially, the fabric is pulled tight and rubbed in two directions by a standard weight fabric; if two yarn breaks occur, or if noticeable wear is observed, at that point the number of rubs is recorded as the abrasion rating. 30,000 double rubs is considered minimum durability for commercial use; hotels, conference rooms, etc. Between 30,000 and 100,000 is considered heavy duty. Although these tests are only used as tools for predicting wear, it can help when looking at fabrics, to know that the higher the abrasion rating number is, the better it performed on the durability test.</blockquote><br />At Landfair Furniture + Design Gallery you will notice that most of the Sherrill fabrics have a "wearability" rating from Heavy and Medium to Light. The Duralee fabrics carry a durabilty rating and the samples will have a "double rub" rating.<br /><br />It's important for your satisfaction with our furniture that you pair the durability of the fabric with its use. You wouldn't want to use a linen fabric, for example, in the den where the kids wrestle. You also wouldn't want to use a lower quality sofa or chair in a room that gets heavy use.<br /><br />In our store we have sofas with different price points, different styles and fabrics that can be ordered to fit your needs.<br /><br />Bev & Mike<br />Landfair Furniture + Design gallery<br />Follow us on Twitter</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-3335819752784850392009-10-20T10:10:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:02.120-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.3d-photorealism.eu/images/living_room_interior_design_03.jpg" src="http://www.3d-photorealism.eu/images/living_room_interior_design_03.jpg" /></a> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-42362303585708662162009-10-20T09:41:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:02.435-07:00Glamourous Sliding and Folding Doors by Rimadesio of Italy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3b0yHwbqI/AAAAAAAADSU/9sjJIgqLNoo/s400/ashley+furniture+modern.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394709628513709730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Ashley Furniture Modern >> Interior <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-41478029130952314952009-10-20T08:47:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.239-07:00Ashley Furniture Modern<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3b0yHwbqI/AAAAAAAADSU/9sjJIgqLNoo/s1600-h/ashley+furniture+modern.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3b0yHwbqI/AAAAAAAADSU/9sjJIgqLNoo/s400/ashley+furniture+modern.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394709628513709730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Ashley Furniture Modern >> Interior <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-3969283809290880892009-10-20T08:47:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.208-07:00Ashley Furniture Modern<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3b0yHwbqI/AAAAAAAADSU/9sjJIgqLNoo/s1600-h/ashley+furniture+modern.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3b0yHwbqI/AAAAAAAADSU/9sjJIgqLNoo/s400/ashley+furniture+modern.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394709628513709730" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Ashley Furniture Modern >> Interior <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Design</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-12479833161568974632009-10-20T08:46:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:12:23.265-07:00Selective exterior view framed<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.roomu.net/files/user10/1253131677-casa-triangulo-16-778x1000.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.roomu.net/files/user10/1253131677-casa-triangulo-16-778x1000.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.roomu.net/files/user10/1253131668-casa-triangulo-15-528x669.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 500px;" src="http://www.roomu.net/files/user10/1253131668-casa-triangulo-15-528x669.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>............<a href="http://gudegjogjacoy.blogspot.com">CLIK HERE</a>......>>>><br />Selective exterior view framed by the windows in the rooms vary from place to stay. The interior has a more fluid, with a sequence of light and space overlap both in plan and in the courts. This dual focus and convenience are the character of the building.<br />to learn more>>>>>>><a href="http:///www.roomu.net">CLIK HERE>>></a><br />following.......ceramics.....>>><a href="http://classic-ceramics.blogspot.com">HERE</a><br />learn more........<a href="http:////www.roomu.net/architecture/triangle-house-jva.html">CLIK HERE</a>>>>>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-85412705828088757482009-10-20T08:23:00.002-07:002011-03-21T22:04:48.022-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3YgfuKbFI/AAAAAAAADSM/KFsA13FAfqU/s1600-h/tony+austin+simple+home+theater+design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 333px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3YgfuKbFI/AAAAAAAADSM/KFsA13FAfqU/s400/tony+austin+simple+home+theater+design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394705981442255954" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Tony Austin Simple <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Theater</a> Design >> Modern Home Design ICF<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-18686811247701763012009-10-20T08:23:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.287-07:00Tony Austin Simple Home Theater Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3YgfuKbFI/AAAAAAAADSM/KFsA13FAfqU/s1600-h/tony+austin+simple+home+theater+design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 333px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3YgfuKbFI/AAAAAAAADSM/KFsA13FAfqU/s400/tony+austin+simple+home+theater+design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394705981442255954" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Tony Austin Simple <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Theater</a> Design >> Modern Home Design ICF<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-74627805862038855112009-10-20T08:23:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.265-07:00Tony Austin Simple Home Theater Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3YgfuKbFI/AAAAAAAADSM/KFsA13FAfqU/s1600-h/tony+austin+simple+home+theater+design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 333px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jiLsBLaOvzE/St3YgfuKbFI/AAAAAAAADSM/KFsA13FAfqU/s400/tony+austin+simple+home+theater+design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394705981442255954" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Tony Austin Simple <a href="http://minimalist-home-designs.blogspot.com/">Home Theater</a> Design >> Modern Home Design ICF<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-63094634240181316952009-10-20T08:01:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:12:23.302-07:00Beautiful! This 3 Bedroom<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.designhomesco.com/plugins/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php?img=Lori%20McElroy/3.JPG&width=90&height=90&quality=80"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 67px;" src="http://www.designhomesco.com/plugins/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php?img=Lori%20McElroy/3.JPG&width=90&height=90&quality=80" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.designhomesco.com/plugins/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php?img=Lori%20McElroy/17.JPG&width=90&height=90&quality=80"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 67px; height: 90px;" src="http://www.designhomesco.com/plugins/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php?img=Lori%20McElroy/17.JPG&width=90&height=90&quality=80" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.designhomesco.com/plugins/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php?img=Lori%20McElroy/1.JPG&width=90&height=90&quality=80"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 67px;" src="http://www.designhomesco.com/plugins/content/plugin_jw_sig/showthumb.php?img=Lori%20McElroy/1.JPG&width=90&height=90&quality=80" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /> <br />Yearling calves Farms<br />Satifaction<br />PDFPrintE-mail<br /><br />3608 Glaser Drive<br />View Full-Size Image<br />3608 Glaser Drive<br /><br />Ask a question about this product<br /><br />3608 Glaser Drive - Kettering Ohio - $ 119,900 JUST REDUCED $ 117,900<br /><br />clik .........<a href="http://rejopot05.blogspot.com"><span style="font-style: italic;">HERE....</span></a>..>>>>.<br /><br />Beautiful! This 3 Bedroom, 1 Bath house full of updates and sidewalk appeal. A new ceramic front porch welcomes guests to the house, surrounded by luxurious gardens. Open to the Foyer Family Room, featuring a stone gas fireplace and picture window. Entertaining made easy with the nearest update the kitchen and porch. 3 bedrooms and bathroom with covering the first floor, while the lower level houses boast laundry, recreation area and additional storage capacity. A large back yard, friendly environment, and schools that are great to make the perfect home for every family.<br />to learn more........<a href="http://www.designhomesco.com"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">CILK HERE>>>></span></a><br />You following pottery.... <a href="http://classic-ceramics.blogspot.com">CLIK HERE>></a><br />........................................<a href="http://rejopot04.blogspot.com">HERE>>>>>>></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-61558214298633187232009-10-20T07:45:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:56:21.077-07:00<div align="center">Meet the very talented Dianne, of <a href="http://simplydesignpdx.blogspot.com/">SimplyDesign</a>.<br /><br /></div><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StzyJ3MN4VI/AAAAAAAAFIc/1Q6VGJ_vZew/s1600-h/DiannePortrait"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394452704930947410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StzyJ3MN4VI/AAAAAAAAFIc/1Q6VGJ_vZew/s200/DiannePortrait" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/St0YsxHmn2I/AAAAAAAAFJs/JJDv_yAooBY/s1600-h/simplydesign_logo.gif"><img style="border:none;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394495086038261602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 71px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/St0YsxHmn2I/AAAAAAAAFJs/JJDv_yAooBY/s320/simplydesign_logo.gif" border="0" /></a><br />Imagine my delight, after moving into the new neighborhood last fall, to learn this designer is a neighbor just down the street!<br /><br />As we got to know one another over the next several months we realized our skills and specific areas of interests within design are a wonderful compliment to one another. When I got a lead on a kitchen remodel that required reworking a large portion of the main floor layout, I knew Dianne was the person to work with. Having worked together well on this project we look forward to many similar opportunities in the future. Dianne is very skilled in space planning and moving a wall or two if needed, whereas my interests lie in the multitude of selections and details after the dirty work has been done.<br /><br />In a post Dianne wrote <a href=http://simplydesignpdx.blogspot.com/2009/10/family-dog-stuff-homework-new-kitchen.html>yesterday</a> she outlines the steps taken to get from the Before Floor Plan shown below:<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Stz8T5H4xnI/AAAAAAAAFI8/8CgIWoQDaKc/s1600-h/existing_floor_plan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394463872364627570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 259px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Stz8T5H4xnI/AAAAAAAAFI8/8CgIWoQDaKc/s400/existing_floor_plan.jpg" border="0" /></a>To the After Floor Plan here:<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Stz8H5oJoOI/AAAAAAAAFI0/pNTENS9dgt8/s1600-h/new_floor_plan.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394463666341519586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 259px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Stz8H5oJoOI/AAAAAAAAFI0/pNTENS9dgt8/s400/new_floor_plan.jpg" border="0" /></a>Apart from the changes which make the kitchen a much more usable space, the aspect of this project that I think has the biggest impact is the reworked entrance to the garage. Before the only way to access the garage was through the combined powder/laundry room. Now there is a direct path through a new combination mudroom/laundry room, allowing the powder room to be just that! (Nearly brilliant I think!)<br /><br />Make sure to visit her informative blog, <a href="http://simplydesignpdx.blogspot.com/">simplydesign</a>, to see more about this and other projects.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-3433177714535800202009-10-20T06:55:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:12:23.331-07:00Rumah 'Indonesia Indah'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.karbonjournal.org/id/admin/fokus/images/farabifakih_webs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 285px;" src="http://www.karbonjournal.org/id/admin/fokus/images/farabifakih_webs.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Rumah '<span style="font-style: italic;">Indonesia Indah'</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Farabi Fakih</span><br />Peresmian perumahan Kota Legenda di samping jalan tol Jakarta-Cikampek pada tahun 1996, mungkin menjadi salah satu penanda era baru dalam imajinasi Indonesia. Kota Legenda adalah perumahan "jalan-jalan" pertama Indonesia. Gaya rumah dan menawarkan berbagai kitsch: Anda dapat membeli rumah bergaya Kolonial Amerika, Eropa atau Jepang klasik. Ini dijanjikan: dunia dalam genggaman tanpa harus meninggalkan Indonesia sama sekali. Tetapi juga diinginkan oleh kelas menengah Jakarta sebagai akibat dari perubahan yang dialami oleh Indonesia dan kelas menengah sejak tahun 1985, yang mengakibatkan sebuah fragmentasi imajinasi identitas baru, yang pada gilirannya akan mempengaruhi imajinasi akan juga Indonesia sendiri.<br /><br />Imajinasi adalah fondasi utama penciptaan masyarakat, [1], khususnya orang-orang yang melampaui atau melebihi kelokalitasan kota, desa, atau komunitas di mana dia tinggal. Indonesia sebagai negara-bangsa telah diciptakan sebagai akibat dari perubahan teknologi yang memudahkan orang untuk membayangkan bahwa ia adalah bagian dari sesuatu yang lebih besar. Seiring dengan perubahan teknologi komunikasi dan transportasi, dalam sebuah ledakan bentuk-bentuk masyarakat imajiner baru, mungkin ada apa yang disebut Arjun Appadurai sebagai "pencabutan tentang wilayah imajinasi".<br /><br />Imajinasi model baru ini adalah translokal dan deteritorial; imajinasi seseorang hari ini yang sering tidak dapat dipetakan pada setiap entitas lokal; identitas seorang imigran dari Uganda dengan etnis India di Amerika Serikat yang menonton film Hindi, identitas asrama sekolah anak-anak dari Garut sedang mendengarkan kaset - kaset khotbah dari Osama bin Laden di Afghanistan dan membayangkan sebuah masyarakat Islam internasional: dia adalah siapa? Pertanyaan berikutnya: Apa dan siapa Indonesia? Sementara postmodern dan postkolonial imajinasi adalah sepenuhnya meninggalkan negara-bangsa; bagaimana kita harus memahami "Indonesia"? Setidaknya, bagaimana kita harus memahami bahwa Indonesia sebagai negara telah dibangun oleh Orde Baru itu sendiri? Bagaimana bentuk imajinasi sendiri dan apa yang mendorong?<br />baca lebih lanjut>>><a href="http://www.karbonjournal.org/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CLIK DI SINI</span></a><br />MO........ cari yg eXtremmm............>>><a href="http://rejopot02.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">DISINI</span></a><br />>>>>>>>>>>>><a href="http://otomotifgaul.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DI SINI JG ADA</span></a>>>>>>>>>>>>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-77239619806356782232009-10-20T03:09:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:02.958-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="width: 402px; height: 424px;" src="http://www.constructionwork.com/gallery/photos/554.jpg" alt="" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-40289469091200420332009-10-19T21:01:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:03.509-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://i43.tinypic.com/igcjz8.jpg" alt="Modern Dining Room, Minimalist Dining Room,Dining Room interior, contemporary Dining Room, interior-design" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Light Seeting Modern Dining Room Interior Design<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-73524681234033613282009-10-19T20:04:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:56.881-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/St0pnyf19PI/AAAAAAAAHko/aDRIqHSrm5E/s1600-h/Paris+View.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394513692206691570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/St0pnyf19PI/AAAAAAAAHko/aDRIqHSrm5E/s400/Paris+View.JPG" border="0" /></a>Going through my photos from Paris tonight, I was trying to organize them to make a printed album when I realized: they're all my favorites, they're all beautiful! I was wondering where I would spend my next birthday and now I've decided: Paris here I come! There is so much <a href="http://www.habituallychic.blogspot.com/">Heather</a> and I didn't get to see last month and I just can't go another year. Heather, you're forewarned: Start saving now!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-88091884185902791152009-10-19T17:50:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:04.176-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="width: 397px; height: 247px;" alt="http://assets.hunterdouglascontract.com/pows/8a4383491ece3ed0011ef0573c310115/Reflect_01large_wc.jpg" src="http://assets.hunterdouglascontract.com/pows/8a4383491ece3ed0011ef0573c310115/Reflect_01large_wc.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-9819615482880548312009-10-19T16:51:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.307-07:00Kravet's 'Lutron' in EspressoI spent the better part of today [wrestling my kids] in fabric stores.<br /><br />I'm totally loving these colors...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/Stz7rD1GOVI/AAAAAAAAKJI/PhKNgPgOrlk/s1600-h/yhst-48015105577255_2067_399277798.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/Stz7rD1GOVI/AAAAAAAAKJI/PhKNgPgOrlk/s400/yhst-48015105577255_2067_399277798.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394463170863970642" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/Stz7q_U8KuI/AAAAAAAAKJA/TcpEU-dymxw/s1600-h/yhst-48015105577255_2067_399148544.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/Stz7q_U8KuI/AAAAAAAAKJA/TcpEU-dymxw/s400/yhst-48015105577255_2067_399148544.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394463169655352034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/Stz7qerzWhI/AAAAAAAAKI4/hijcJg4vk9I/s1600-h/yhst-48015105577255_2067_399027730.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/Stz7qerzWhI/AAAAAAAAKI4/hijcJg4vk9I/s400/yhst-48015105577255_2067_399027730.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394463160892873234" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-53721618519449030722009-10-19T16:23:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:04.496-07:00bedroom design - Patio Doors open all the way<a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SihXkbqxEAI/AAAAAAAAB0E/xQwmxobLUSo/s400/bedroom+design+-+Patio+Doors+open+all+the+way.jpg" alt="bedroom design - Patio Doors open all the way, bedroom, door, interior design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343617241289134082" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Watching the sunset has a whole new meaning when you can do so in the comfort of your own <i>bed</i>. This bedroom design boasts large double <b>patio doors</b> to allow the outside in. The calm green walls and the understated interior help to rejuvenate the spirit while acknowledging the view as the focal point. This effect is achieved through the simplicity of the <i>bedding</i> and window treatments, while the darker patio wood and railing draw the eye outward. Recess <i>lighting</i> provides the perfect amount of soft glow, allowing the outdoors to dictate the level of illumination for the room. However, the patio doors can be shut and the blinds drawn to provide the necessary privacy that is often required in a <b>bedroom</b>. If bedroom décor is meant to reflect the occupant’s definition of comfort, this one says serenity.<br /><br />source <i>bedroom design</i> [via] <b>modern interior design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-50807037914908570522009-10-19T12:35:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:04.954-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 363px; height: 281px;" src="http://homedesigninterior.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/minimalist-dining-room-table-500x388.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-74040648492300681412009-10-19T12:33:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:05.210-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 420px; height: 343px;" src="http://www.eco-furniture.com/guide/im/contempo/diningjpg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-52720670834926313082009-10-19T11:48:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:19.690-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1fHbeb2I/AAAAAAAAFdk/rm_FfZO4ndg/s1600-h/groceries+003.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394385999857872738" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1fHbeb2I/AAAAAAAAFdk/rm_FfZO4ndg/s400/groceries+003.JPG" /></a><strong> CVS</strong><br />Glade candle $6.99- $3Q-$4 ECB= $.48 OOP /earned$6.99 ECB<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1et1ULNI/AAAAAAAAFdc/GGEOOTKnWCY/s1600-h/groceries+004.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394385992986930386" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1et1ULNI/AAAAAAAAFdc/GGEOOTKnWCY/s400/groceries+004.JPG" /></a></div><div>RiteAid- </div><div>Nasal Mist $9.99- $2PQ=$.799</div><div>Nasal Gel $5.99- $2PQ= $3.99</div><div></div><div>Paid $13.26 with rebate money/ earned $15.98<br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1eGHGN1I/AAAAAAAAFdU/-0cYLuq1kcc/s1600-h/groceries+005.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394385982324094802" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1eGHGN1I/AAAAAAAAFdU/-0cYLuq1kcc/s400/groceries+005.JPG" /></a> Walgreen</div><div>2- pack Northern bath tissue $3.99 ea- (2) $1 Q= $2.99 ea</div><div>2- Pert shampoo $2.50 ea- (2) $1Q= $1.50 /earned $2 Reg Reward</div><div>Halls refresh $1- $.50Q = $.50 /earned $1 RR</div><div></div><div>Total $10.23- /earned $3 in RRewards<br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1dRNbGiI/AAAAAAAAFdM/jhlOi1GzE2o/s1600-h/groceries+002.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394385968123550242" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1dRNbGiI/AAAAAAAAFdM/jhlOi1GzE2o/s400/groceries+002.JPG" /></a><br />Publix</div><div>4-Lenders bagels $1.79/2= $.895 each</div><div>4 Hillshire smoked sausage $1.99 ea- $1/2 Q=$1.49 ea</div><div>Candy (pictured in wrong group below) $.01</div><div></div><div>Total $10.31<br /><br /><br /></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1cwibb3I/AAAAAAAAFdE/yGB0IBTwnBU/s1600-h/groceries+001.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394385959353282418" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sty1cwibb3I/AAAAAAAAFdE/yGB0IBTwnBU/s400/groceries+001.JPG" /></a> milk$2.38</div><div>2- 18 count eggs $3/2</div><div>2- bread $2/2</div><div>6- Nature valley bars= $.40 ea</div><div>6- chunky soup $1 ea</div><div>4- Carnation evaporated milk$.50 ea</div><div>3- Muir Glen tomato paste $.09 ea</div><div>4 - mozzarella cheese $1.25 ea</div><div>2 Tobasco sauce -1Free and one for $.39</div><div>5 lb ground chuck $1.79 lb</div><div>bananas $.59 lb</div><div>bag tater tots- $1.88</div><div>2- Nestle chips $$2.50 ea- $.50 doublecoupon ea- $1.50 ea</div><div></div><div>Total $39.35<br /><br />Total OOP spent was $46.88/ earned $25.97 in store money or rebates</div><div>I could do multiple transactions at Walgreens to reduce my out of pocket expenses but am at the point that it is not worth the amount of time that takes. One is that to work the transactions the store has to have the items available, which they never do. So, for me, it is worth doing fewer transactions and paying more with cash. Don't let this be too much of a hastle. It took me an hour and a half from leaving home until I returned, and I talked with a lady from church in one store. </div><div><br /><br /><br /> </div><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-17307802942308608032009-10-19T10:20:00.000-07:002011-03-21T21:18:03.068-07:00I was just reading the October issue of our TED magazine (The Electrical Distributor), and I saw this Lutron ad:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StygMMIpCSI/AAAAAAAAAbE/JvP9Nilc6u8/s1600-h/LUT+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394362584959355170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StygMMIpCSI/AAAAAAAAAbE/JvP9Nilc6u8/s320/LUT+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> We just installed this in our basement this weekend! My boys are forever leaving the lights on down there, and we have 4 fixtures that take 3-60 watt bulbs each, so it's a LOT of energy. But we like to be able to dim the lights from the top AND the bottom of the stairs, so until now, our choices were really limited. But my husband was able to put this in with NO problems and quite quickly (yes, it helps that he's a former electrician AND he works in inside sales here at Dominion Electric Supply!) ~ and it works like a charm. The sensor is completely wireless, so he just stuck it on the ceiling and then changed out the two dimmers. Pretty nifty!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-42447768004340977792009-10-19T08:43:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:19.858-07:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/StyJXdOdlbI/AAAAAAAAFcU/KcTj6sgDrrM/s1600-h/6a00d83451b77469e200e5518a3edb8834-800wi.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394337489758295474" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/StyJXdOdlbI/AAAAAAAAFcU/KcTj6sgDrrM/s400/6a00d83451b77469e200e5518a3edb8834-800wi.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/StyJW53tQ8I/AAAAAAAAFcM/iYOCTzv2ZXw/s1600-h/43928742_Boiledpeanuts.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394337480267613122" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/StyJW53tQ8I/AAAAAAAAFcM/iYOCTzv2ZXw/s400/43928742_Boiledpeanuts.jpg" /></a> Along the southeast boiled peanuts are a summer tradition. The small farm towns north of all the beach areas of Gulf Shores, Destin, and Panama City Beach are home to peanut farmers. Along the road you will find stands or people selling boiled peanuts from the back of their truck. They are so good and juicy. The peanuts are boiled for hours in salted water until the green (raw) peanuts are cooked through and seasoned. You put the shell in your mouth and crack it with your teeth and the juice that is inside the shell runs out into your mouth. You then use your teeth to pick the peanut out of the shell to eat. They are so good either warm from the pot or after refrigerating them. You have to refrigerate them or they will spoil. This is a messy snack, but so worth the mess!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-8175965084122331052009-10-19T07:56:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:57.527-07:00On the Other Side of Arrival: An Interview with David Barnes<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2727/4026971170_eca5c1f437_o.jpg" width="475" height="329" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: A ruined dock at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Lazaretto"target="_blank">Philadelphia Lazaretto</a>; photo by <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html"target="_blank">David Barnes</a>].</small><br /><br />David Barnes is associate professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html"target="_blank">medicine and public health</a>. His most recent research project involves the <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Lazaretto.html"target="_blank">Philadelphia Lazaretto</a>, a 19th-century quarantine station located on an island in the Delaware River.<br /><br />As part of our ongoing series of quarantine-themed interviews, Nicola Twilley of <a href="http://www.ediblegeography.com/"target="_blank"><i>Edible Geography</i></a> and I spoke to Barnes about the origins and history of the now-abandoned Lazaretto, including ongoing attempts to preserve the site today. In the process, our conversation covers the legal nature of Colonial-era quarantine, the cultural impact of epidemic disease, and the psychological effects of involuntary medical isolation, <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/4026218249_91def8582e_o.jpg" width="475" height="309" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: The Philadelphia Lazaretto, via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Lazaretto"target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>].</small><br /><br /><center>• • •</center><br /><b>BLDGBLOG</b>: How did you first get into the study of quarantine, and specifically of the Philadelphia Lazaretto? <br /><br /><b>David Barnes</b>: The history of quarantine was actually not my idea of a burning historiographical problem. In fact, I was working on two completely different projects when I first saw the Lazaretto—but the sight of it just really stuck in my mind. I decided to read everything that had been written about the history of this place—but I soon found that essentially nothing <i>had</i> been written, in a city where it seems like half the buildings in Center City have two or three books written about their history. This is the oldest surviving quarantine facility in the Western hemisphere, and the seventh oldest in the world—and almost nothing has been written about its history.<br /><br /><b>BLDGBLOG</b>: Why do you think it’s been so overlooked? <br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: I don’t really know. I don’t have a good answer for that, even though I’ve asked myself that question many times. It’s possible that it’s just an accident, and the right person at the right time simply hasn’t come along. On the other hand, I wouldn’t say that the history of quarantine is a large, robust subfield of the history of medicine. Generally, historians have written about specific diseases or specific outbreaks; in many of those works, quarantine figures only fairly marginally. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3515/4026971408_4ea2148860_o.jpg" width="475" height="493" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Philadelphia's abandoned Lazaretto as it now stands, photographed by <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html"target="_blank">David Barnes</a>].</small><br /><br /><b>Edible Geography</b>: Can you describe the Philadelphia Lazaretto, and tell us something of what you have found out about it?<br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: Sure. The first law relating to quarantine in Pennsylvania was signed by William Penn in 1700, in response to an epidemic of yellow fever in 1699 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded by William Penn and his gang in 1682, of course—so yellow fever wasn’t far behind. But quarantine itself was not a systematic policy until later in the eighteenth century. <br /><br />Sometime around 1743, the Pennsylvania colonial government bought an island at the mouth of the Schuylkill River, where the Schuylkill meets the Delaware near Fort Mifflin (which was also built around the same time). It was called by various names: Fishers Island and Province Island, and then later it became known as State Island. It’s just northeast of where the airport is today. <br /><br />I should say that I’ve developed a little bit of a pedantic pet peeve about the word <i>quarantine</i>, because people use <i>quarantine</i> to refer to what I call <i>isolation</i>. Whenever there is the threat of swine flu or whatever other contagious disease, there are always various policies or proposals to isolate patients or isolate the households of patients or infected people—in other words, impose some form of voluntary or mandatory house arrest or hospitalization somewhere. To me, that’s not quarantine, that’s isolation. Quarantine, in the strict sense, refers to trying to prevent a disease from entering a community from the outside: basically, the interception and detention of vessels, vehicles, cargo, people, or whatever, for a period of time. That’s what quarantine is to me. <br /><br />Anyway, in the 1740s, Fishers Island/Province Island was bought by the colonial government of Pennsylvania, and structures were built for the accommodation of vessels, passengers, cargo, and patients. Those structures are occasionally referred to as the Lazaretto, though it’s usually referred to as the Marine Hospital. Occasionally you’ll see it referred to as the Pest House, or just Province Island. <br /><br />Quarantine was enforced on a sporadic basis at that location for the rest of the eighteenth century. As the city grew, the inhabited part of the city got closer and closer to the island. What was a pretty remote location in 1740 was not that far away at all from the city by the 1790s, and it was not at all hard for people in the city to have contact with people at the marine hospital. So you have friends and relatives trying to make contact with people undergoing quarantine; you have merchants trying to pick up their cargo from ships undergoing quarantine; you have people passing messages back and forth… It was just not very hard for Philadelphians to get there and to have contact with people under quarantine, even though it was against the law. <br /><br />Then comes 1793. There was a devastating epidemic of yellow fever that year, the likes of which had not been seen before. The best estimate is that ten percent of the city’s population died in two months. A huge percentage of the population fled. Basically, anyone who had anywhere to go, left, including many of the doctors. It was a calamity. <br /><br />By then, the United States was an independent nation, and its capital was Philadelphia. The Federal Government was sitting here, the Supreme Court, the President—they were all there in Philadelphia. They mostly hightailed it out of town, too, and the national government was brought to a standstill. <br /><br />The scenes of devastation that are written about in letters and surviving testimony are absolutely heart-wrenching. It was terrifying, it was gruesome—but it was also heroic, poignant, and inspiring, because some people didn’t leave. Some people selflessly volunteered to tend to the sick, and to help keep the city going in the midst of an emergency. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush"target="_blank">Dr. Benjamin Rush</a>—a titan of American medicine—stayed, and he cared for patients from before sunrise to long after sundown. Of course, he also bled them profusely and gave them huge doses of what was, essentially, mercury—he was a controversial figure because of his treatment methods.<br /><br />Others, including a community of free blacks in Philadelphia, led by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_(bishop)"target="_blank">Richard Allen</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_Jones"target="_blank">Absalom Jones</a>, organized groups to take patients to Bush Hill, the emergency hospital that was set up in the city, and to provide clothing, food, and care for the sick people and their families. It was believed by many that black people were immune to yellow fever; the idea was that, because blacks were native to tropical climates, they were immune to tropical diseases. But, of course, that was not the case, and many blacks did die in that epidemic. <br /><br />So there are stories of heroism, and stories of tremendous suffering. The reason I’m going on at length about 1793 is that I have come to believe that this experience was nationally formative. I think there was sort of a 9/11 effect, for lack of a better term, that took place after a catastrophe like that. There were many other yellow fever epidemics, in many other port cities, but 1793 in Philadelphia was, in a sense, like Ground Zero. It was something that nobody believed could happen; it was in the capital; it was just unimaginable. <br /><br />The yellow fever went away with the first frost, as cooler temperatures arrived—but what is perhaps most terrifying of all was that it came back. It didn’t come back in 1794 or in 1795, but it came back especially severely in 1797, 1798, and 1799. A deep trauma, I think, was inflicted by those recurring epidemics. Clearly, quarantine at the Marine Hospital was not protecting the city against disease. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2549/4026971068_3e4c3a7c36_o.jpg" width="475" height="176" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: A painting of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, "probably by Frank Taylor, noted Philadelphia illustrator, ca. 1900," Barnes notes].</small><br /><br /><b>BLDGBLOG</b>: It’s interesting that the Marine Hospital was not a bio-secure facility in any modern sense; it was simply geographically isolated enough to function as a site of quarantine. Its medical usefulness was undone by urban sprawl.<br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: Exactly. The reason the hospital was there in the first place was because it was on the river. Ships could anchor there conveniently. Most importantly, though, it was far away from the city. It’s not as though the air on Province Island was especially healthful or clean—it was just the distance from downtown Philadelphia. <br /><br />However, by the 1790s, it was clearly not working. Many people believed it was simply too easy for those undergoing quarantine to have contact with people from the city. There are countless stories of violations of the quarantine laws—people leaving ships or people coming on board the ships. <br /><br />The Board of Health of Philadelphia was established in response to the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. It started meeting in 1794, and it quickly determined that the city needed a better quarantine facility—one that was farther away and that had much more rigorous enforcement. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2714/4026218497_7f2d3de964_o.jpg" width="475" height="314" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: An aerial view of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, ca. 1929].</small><br /><br /><b>BLDGBLOG</b>: Did that come with any constitutional issues, as to whether or not the Board of Health was violating the rights of the people it held in quarantine? How much of that sort of discourse was there at the time?<br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: There wasn’t much discourse about infringement of liberties, at least in the way we would see it today. However, the Board of Health was always politically controversial. There were controversies about the division of powers between the state and the city authorities, and there were always arguments about the extent of the Board of Health’s power. <br /><br />Complaints by individual people who were enduring the unpleasant experience of quarantine usually did not take the form of complaints about their rights being violated. Rather, it was that they had other things to do. It’s boring; they need to be somewhere else; it’s interfering with their business; it’s interfering with their lives and it’s taking too long. Those sorts of more mundane, less philosophical complaints predominate. <br /><br />On the other hand, there are constant complaints about the way that this authority was used—that the Board of Health was overdoing it, or overreaching, or interfering excessively with commerce. In fact, “interfering excessively with commerce” is the number one complaint I’ve found.<br /><br />In any case, in 1799 the Board of Health chose and bought a new location on Tinicum Island, which is the site of the Lazaretto that I’m studying—the one that is still intact today. That site was roughly twelve to fourteen miles from the city proper. It was much more remote, and nobody lived nearby. The new Lazaretto they built there was a state-of-the-art facility—there was nothing like it anywhere else in North America and possibly even the world. They opened it in 1801, and it operated continuously until 1895.<br /><br /><b>Edible Geography</b>: What does “state-of-the-art” mean for a Lazaretto at that time? What design rubric or template were they using?<br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: That’s a really good question. One of the main things was its size. It’s a ten-acre site, and the main building is huge. Today, it still looks like a very large, very stately building. It’s even, I would say, beautiful. <br /><br />In terms of outbuildings, there was a separate two-story house for the Lazaretto physician, and another separate two-story home for the Quarantine Master. There were bargemen’s quarters and a watch-house right on the edge of the river. There was a United States Customs Facility right next door with a large warehouse for the storage of cargo undergoing quarantine. There were also smaller outbuildings like a kitchen and a barn, or carriage house. <br /><br />Interestingly, the main gate to the Lazaretto site still survives—it’s a gorgeous, ornate, wrought-iron gate that’s a little bit overgrown with vines now. That was where all transactions with the outside world took place. You had to get written permission from the Board of Health before approaching the gate of the Lazaretto. In other words, all relatives and friends visiting those who were undergoing quarantine, or visiting those who lived and worked at the Lazaretto, had to get permission simply to approach the gate. <br /><br />Then there was another hospital that was sometimes called the Dutch hospital, or the smallpox hospital. It was a fairly decent-sized, two-story building, built in 1804-5 on the northwestern corner of the property. It does not survive today. <br /><br />Basically, it was a very expansive facility. It had the ability to house a large number of patients and to provide for the daily needs of the crew and passengers undergoing quarantine. I certainly don’t think it operated any differently, medically-speaking, from other hospitals or quarantine hospitals of the time. It was fairly well-staffed with full-time employees, at least during the quarantine season. The quarantine season varied. For most of the nineteenth century, the season was, by law, June 1st to October 1st—but the Board of Health could declare an early start or a late finish to quarantine. In really bad years, where there were lots of epidemics, or reports of epidemics, in various geographic regions, the quarantine season could last all year. <br /><br />I think it’s really the size and extent—the staffing and capacity—of the Lazaretto that made it state-of-the-art at the time. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2554/4027870922_beba1ae6a9_o.jpg" width="475" height="357" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Photo by <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html"target="_blank">David Barnes</a>].</small><br /><br /><b>BLDGBLOG</b>: How exactly would one preserve the Lazaretto today—would you be preserving only the buildings themselves, or could you somehow preserve, even recreate, the experience of quarantine? Further, at what stage of its life would the Lazaretto be most usefully preserved—as it was built in 1801, or as it was closed down in 1895?<br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: All excellent questions. I’ll take your last one first. <br /><br />The site did change over time, but it didn’t change all that much. The grounds certainly changed—gardens and ornamental hedges were planted. The most detailed surviving description of the site that I’ve been able to find is from a newspaper article in 1879. It’s a very, very detailed description of the buildings and grounds. We also have a gorgeous watercolor, but it’s undated; the best guess of the archivists and curators who have studied it is that it’s from the middle of the nineteenth century. That doesn’t tell us much, but you can make some educated guesses based on the way the people are dressed in it. We also do have some photographs from the 1880s and onwards. <br /><br />Interestingly, the site and the buildings later went through several incarnations. It became the summer home of the Philadelphia Athletic Club—so it was a summer resort retreat for the wealthy elite of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, which are today the <a href="http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/"target="_blank">Oakland A’s</a>, played at the Lazaretto. They played on the northern half of the grounds. There are even some depictions of it laid out as a baseball field. Then, beginning around 1920, it was the first seaplane base in North America—an aviation training school for seaplane pilots. That’s what it was for most of the twentieth century. <br /><br />As far as preservation goes, I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent thinking about this. My own fantasy is of a great historic site and museum. The site has unparalleled historical significance. Various people have called it Philadelphia’s <a href="http://www.ellisisland.org/"target="_blank">Ellis Island</a>—but, in some ways, I think it’s more significant than Ellis Island. Ellis Island has tremendous historical significance because of the volume of human cargo that passed through there. The sheer number of people who passed through Ellis Island is huge, as is the number of Americans today who can trace their ancestry back through the inspection station there. But Philadelphia’s Lazaretto is a century older—as well as completely different. It was the quintessential nineteenth century institution. To me, it’s a no-brainer that this would be a destination. <br /><br />Having said that, it costs money to preserve and save historic sites. It costs a lot of money to restore the buildings and the grounds, and to maintain them. And museums, with a few exceptions, are not doing all that well; they don’t generally tend to pay their own way. It’s not a no-brainer financially, by any means. <br /><br />The latest proposal I’ve heard is that the outbuildings could be dedicated to historical interpretation, and the main building itself would be dedicated to commercial office space. It’s all still up in the air.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2629/4027116185_9d47a1ac37_o.jpg" width="475" height="715" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Out-buildings on the grounds of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, photographed by <a href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbarnes/Home.html"target="_blank">David Barnes</a>].</small><br /><br /><b>Edible Geography</b>: Your work suggests that quarantine is quite an overlooked dimension of everyday life in the early United States—as well as something of a forgotten chapter in the immigrant arrival experience. Why is that? <br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: Well, it was an unpleasant fact of life—that’s really the best way that I can put it. In one of the papers I’m writing about this, I call it “a most unloved institution.” Really, nobody liked quarantine at all. Merchants, of course, hated it—their cargo spoiled, time is money in business, and this was a huge delay, a waste of time, and an obstacle to commerce. <br /><br />Everybody on board a ship couldn’t wait to get to their destination. Whether they were immigrants, as many of them were, or they were engaged in commerce—or simply visiting—everyone was desperate to arrive. They’re so close to getting there—but then they’re detained. They can write letters—but they can’t get off the ship unless they’re very sick and have to be taken to the hospital. Many refer to complete and utter boredom, and to impatience—sometimes even to fear of getting sick. After all, you’re trapped on board a filthy ship with filthy people who have been confined together for weeks at a time. They are, in a sense, imprisoned on this vessel. All they can do is write letters and complain.<br /><br />The paradox for me, historically, has been: how did quarantine survive so long, even into the twentieth century, when everybody hated it so much? Crews and captains hated it, passengers hated it, and doctors denounced it. Many doctors, throughout most of the nineteenth century, said quarantine was completely worthless, and that we should be devoting our attention to cleaning up our cities instead, because it was sanitation that would prevent epidemics. Other doctors didn’t go quite so far, but they did complain that quarantine was enforced arbitrarily and needlessly aggressively. <br /><br />As to the experience of quarantine itself, I have only scattered bits of testimony. One of the letters I’ve found was from a Philadelphia-based merchant in 1804; I think his name was John Reynolds. I’ve found several letters that he wrote to his mother and sister in Philadelphia from the Lazaretto, where he was undergoing quarantine. <br /><br />In each letter he says, “I hope to be liberated from here in a few more days.” And in the next letter, written five days later: “I cannot wait to escape from this place of my captivity.” He’s impatient. He’s not complaining that his rights have been violated; he’s just desperate to get out of there. <br /><br />In one letter to his sister, he says, “It has been so long since I’ve been on shore. It has been so long since I have been home. I am dying to see some of those Pennsylvania beauties. You must introduce me to some as soon as I arrive.” This was in a letter to his sister. <br /><br />It gets lonely where you’re trapped in this sort of sardine can!<br /><br /><b>Edible Geography</b>: On average, how long were people held there?<br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: There is no general rule. The length of time varied from a day to two weeks, or even more. On occasion, vessels were detained for 30 days. <br /><br />What’s interesting about the enforcement of quarantine is that there were three objects of detention: the vessel, the cargo, and the people on board. They were often treated very differently. I have lots of examples of vessels detained, and their cargo allowed to go on, but the people were kept on board. I have many other examples of the <i>people</i> being allowed to go, but the cargo being considered very dangerous and having to be cleansed and purified, usually by means of fumigation or with some kind of disinfectant spray. <br /><br />Really, though, I think at the heart of quarantine is the idea of the cleansing power of time. The passage of time alone will make certain things better. If there is something dangerous in the vessel or in the cargo, it will declare itself within a period of time—or it will simply burn itself out. It can’t last indefinitely. Further, everybody knew from experience that things were fine after the first frost, so you would never detain any vessel, cargo, or people longer than the first frost. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4027870672_7c62c407a0_o.jpg" width="475" height="304" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Painting of the Lazaretto attributed to T. Barnea (undated);
courtesy of the <a href="http://www.philadelphiahistory.org/"target="_blank">Atwater Kent Museum</a> of Philadelphia].</small><br /><br /><b>BLDGBLOG</b>: There’s an interesting point to be made here vis-à-vis long-haul travel to extremely distant destinations. If a place took long enough to get to, in an era of wind-powered ships, quarantine wasn’t often necessary; any disease on board would already have burned itself out, as you say, by the time of arrival. But when steam-powered ships came along, and, then airplanes, people could arrive before a disease cycle came to its natural end—so quarantine stations became necessary. In other words, an entire class of architectural structures comes into existence because of the lengths of certain journeys or the types of transportation involved. <br /><br /><b>Barnes</b>: That’s fascinating. Time is crucial in quarantine—and there is always a negotiation about how long is long enough. There was a tug of war, for instance, between the Lazaretto physician, who was the leading authority on the site, and the Board of Health, whose dictates that physician was required to obey. But you also had to factor in news reports of epidemics on various Caribbean islands, and you had to factor in the testimony of the captain and crew about what the health status of their port of origin—whether there were any illnesses there, what broke out during the journey, and if anyone had died. But is the captain reliable, or is he known to be a liar? And you also had to inspect the passengers and the crew physically. All of these were factors in the quarantine decision. <br /><br />Time will always be a critical element of that calculus.<br /><br /><center>• • •</center><br />This autumn in New York City, <a href="http://ediblegeography.com/"target="_blank"><i>Edible Geography</i></a> and BLDGBLOG have teamed up to lead an 8-week <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/michael-cannell/cannell/design-challenge-day-what-should-quarantine-look"target="_blank">design studio</a> focusing on the spatial implications of quarantine; you can read more about it <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/landscapes-of-quarantine-studio.html">here</a>. For our studio participants, we have been assembling a coursepack full of original content and interviews—but we decided that we should make this material available to everyone so that even those people who are not in New York City, and not enrolled in the quarantine studio, can follow along, offer commentary, and even be inspired to pursue projects of their own.<br /><br />For other interviews in our quarantine series, check out <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/isolation-or-quarantine-interview-with.html"><i>Isolation or Quarantine</a>: An Interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin</i>, <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/extraordinary-engineering-controls.html"><i>Extraordinary Engineering Controls</a>: An Interview with Jonathan Richmond</i>, <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/last-town-on-earth-interview-with.html"><i>The Last Town on Earth</a>: An Interview with Thomas Mullen</i>, and <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/biology-at-border-interview-with-alison.html"><i>Biology at the Border</a>: An Interview with Alison Bashford</i>. <br /><br />Many more interviews are forthcoming.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-46054120390913850182009-10-19T07:25:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:57.563-07:00The Emperor's Castle<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3186/3980460526_1310abba74_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Image 1, "Eternal Punishment," from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />For his student thesis project at the <a href="http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/"target="_blank">Bartlett School of Architecture</a>, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story's architectural landscape. Hillier's project was called <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/sets/72157622494379671/"target="_blank"><i>The Emperor's Castle</i></a> and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige"target="_blank">Hiroshige</a>. <ul><i>The Emperor’s Castle</i> originates from a mythical and ancient tale hidden within a woodblock landscape scene created by Japanese <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/"target="_blank"><i>Ukiyo-e</i></a> printmaker, Ando Hiroshige. This tale charts the story of two star-crossed lovers, the weaving Princess and the Cowherd, who have been separated by the Princess’s father, the Emperor. These characters have been replaced by architectonic metaphors creating an urban theatre within the grounds of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo.</ul>The result is astonishing; the images here have been presented in order, so you can follow the flow of the tale, with descriptive text supplied by Hillier. I would advise, however, that you also check out the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/sets/72157622494379671/"target="_blank">Flickr set</a> I put together for the project, where much larger versions of these images (and more text) are available.<br /><br />The first two images, Hillier says, are taken from his "research storybook." They are hand-cut paper collages, and they show us "two acts from a series of five that illustrate and explore the narrative structure of the tale." The scenes thus supply "a series of clues, which can inform the future architectural proposition."<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2566/3979702087_6aa70af0a7_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Image 2, "The Last Meeting," from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />As Hillier writes:<ul><b>Image 1</b> (Act 3, Eternal Punishment) illustrates the Emperor’s anger over his daughter’s relationship with a cowherd. He separates the couple, placing them back in their original locations. The Emperor wanted to be sure they would never meet again, so he closed the castle and opened the heavens. Rain fell, causing the castle’s moat to flood, creating an island of the castle surrounded by a deep and swift lake unassailable by any man. <br /><br /><b>Image 2</b> (Act 5, The Last Meeting). Seeing the sadness of their friend, the Princess, the birds and animals came together to decide how to stop the torrent of her tears. So the sky became black as all the magpies and crows, with their wings spread wide, formed a bridge across the lake. When the Princess realizes what the birds have done, she stops crying and rushes across the feathery bridge to embrace the Cowherd and renew their pledge of eternal love.</ul>The next three images "are hand-cut exploratory paper collages" illustrating "the architectonic character transition" through which the story's human figures are transformed into pieces of architecture. <br /><br />In a way, it's the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili"target="_blank"><i>Hypnerotomachia Poliphili</i></a> as retold for Late Edo Japan.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/3980461688_101a269b81_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3979701013_70fe8356f5_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2438/3980460860_5c03871562_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Image 3, "The Emperor's Origami Lungs"; Image 4, "The Princess's Knitted Canopy"; and Image 5, "The Cowherd's Mechanical Cow-cutters"; from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />From Hillier's project text:<ul><b>Image 3</b> (The Emperor’s Origami Lungs). The Emperor’s lungs come alive through differing gestures and surface transformations based on geometrical tessellations adopted from origami crease patterns. The lungs imitate the motion of breathing through expansion and contraction creating a bellowing volume that allows the Emperor to project his emotions both visually and audibly. They rise and fall, creating a bobbing motion, which produces a rippling affect onto the surrounding skin. The severity of these ripples will depend on the anger of the Emperor, and can cause the newly knitted areas of skin to become loose and break, stopping the Princess from ever reaching the cow herder.<br /><br /><b>Image 4</b> (The Princess’s Knitted Canopy). The Princess, a flexible, diaphanous knitted membrane, envelopes the spaces below and is fabricated using the surrounding ‘Igusa’: a natural rush material used in the fabrication of tatami mats. Igusa expels a soothing scent as the skin undulates, which is said to calm body and mind. This scent acts as a perfume of remembrance to the cow herder and his time spent running hand in hand through the meadows with the Princess.<br /><br /><b>Image 5</b> (The Cowherd’s Mechanical Cow-Cutters). The cowherd has been reinterpreted architecturally as the grass band, which wraps the perimeter of the site, encompassing the Emperor’s lungs and Princess’s knitted skin. Embodying the cowherd are the mechanical cows, which act as wind-up grass-cutting devices that constantly wander the grazing land, cutting the grass and fanning the aroma towards the Princess as a reminder of the cowherd. These cows are waiting and hoping for the moment the Princess knits her skin over the mechanical waves towards them, re-enacting the connection between the two star-crossed lovers.</ul>The mechanical symbology of the resulting landscape—with "the Princess's knitted membrane knit[ting] itself ever larger... to reach the grass parkland perimeter representing the Cowherd"—is outlined in more detail in the project text (again, as seen in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/sets/72157622494379671/"target="_blank">Flickr set</a>). <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/3980461606_56f9630154_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Image 6 from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />The rest of the images—including the full model, above—showcase Hillier's exquisite craftmanship. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3439/3980460774_2d896bde1b_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2456/3979700389_0ea98150da_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2585/3980461030_52ed601067_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3980459700_5bdc99e49c_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Images 7, 8, 9, and 10 from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />Image 7, above, shows us "the contoured landscape underneath the knitted canopy, exposing the series of connecting walkways that allow the Emperor’s army to run from one lung to another," while Image 8 reveals "the Emperor's origami lungs." Image 9 reveals how those lungs operate; there, we begin to see "the lung movements" of the Emperor, Hillier writes, as they "generate a bellowing volume of air." This air is then "forced upwards, sending the woven lung collars into a thrashing frenzy, visually increasing the impact of the Emperor’s anger." In another context, it might be interesting to explore the use of pneumatic metaphors to explore the nature and function of imperial power; but such an essay will have to wait for another day. <br /><br />Image 10, meanwhile, zooms in on the Emperor's "Mechanical Moat," a machine-hydrology that surrounds and delimits the project landscape.<br /><br />And then we reach the finale. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3980461886_0c66f9ecd4_o.jpg" width="475" height="248" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Image 11 from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />The images below are "the final triptych," Hillier writes. They offer "a section through the urban theatre [that] illustrates the frenetic ‘life’ of the building. This 1.8m x 0.8m piece is the culmination of all the research and design synthesis carried out above."<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2561/3979700655_b0c6040756_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/3980460632_de10f73b58_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3979700821_83d435b95d_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2436/3979701709_24d361a73f_o.jpg" width="475" height="335" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Images 12, 13, 14, and 15 from <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> by Thomas Hillier].</small><br /><br />Hillier's project is a beautifully realized example of something I've long been curious about—for instance, if a book like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141182806?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0141182806"><i>Ulysses</i></a> had been "written" not with a typewriter <i>but with a 3D printer</i>, what sort of architectural world might result? <i>The Emperor's Castle</i> offers at least one possible answer for how literature could be translated directly into urban and architectural space. <br /><br />Now reverse-engineer this: take a landscape garden somewhere—or an accidental assemblage of parks, buildings, rivers, and homes—and interpret that setting <i>as if it is literature</i>. Do a reverse-Hillier, so to speak: start with the landscape and extract characters and motivated dramatic actions from the objects placed within it. <br /><br />In any case, again, check out the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/sets/72157622494379671/"target="_blank">Flickr set</a> for more text and much larger images; and don't miss Johan Hybschmann's "<a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-of-space.html">book of space</a>," also produced this year at the Bartlett.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-65177220282154026862009-10-19T06:54:00.002-07:002011-03-22T23:47:13.842-07:00Ceramic Kitchen Dining Table Photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwhLnynBI/AAAAAAAAAnU/b_rbNXGEx1E/s1600-h/ceramic+3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 361px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwhLnynBI/AAAAAAAAAnU/b_rbNXGEx1E/s400/ceramic+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310169040690194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwgclcsUI/AAAAAAAAAnM/o9I4eZOplgg/s1600-h/ceramic+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwgclcsUI/AAAAAAAAAnM/o9I4eZOplgg/s400/ceramic+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310156414398786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxwfk2DUBI/AAAAAAAAAnE/G31qqk0F8tk/s1600-h/ceramic+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxwfk2DUBI/AAAAAAAAAnE/G31qqk0F8tk/s400/ceramic+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310141451653138" /></a><br /><br /><br />Selecting the right choice of a kitchen table is important to your kitchen design because the kitchen serves as the central meeting place of most homes. Your children do their homework at the kitchen table. Family and friends gather for dinner and parties around the kitchen table.<br /><br />Ceramic kitchen tables can be used in modern or an Italian or Tuscan country kitchen design. They have a beautiful, durable top that can be used for dining and food preparation. Some come with full-size drawers for convenient storage. Granite is a heat-resistant stone that can handle hot pans and dishes. Granite table tops are available in a variety of shades and patterns to match most interior color schemes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-62824316984042431602009-10-19T06:54:00.001-07:002011-03-15T02:42:08.420-07:00Ceramic Kitchen Dining Table Photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwhLnynBI/AAAAAAAAAnU/b_rbNXGEx1E/s1600-h/ceramic+3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 361px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwhLnynBI/AAAAAAAAAnU/b_rbNXGEx1E/s400/ceramic+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310169040690194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwgclcsUI/AAAAAAAAAnM/o9I4eZOplgg/s1600-h/ceramic+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwgclcsUI/AAAAAAAAAnM/o9I4eZOplgg/s400/ceramic+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310156414398786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxwfk2DUBI/AAAAAAAAAnE/G31qqk0F8tk/s1600-h/ceramic+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxwfk2DUBI/AAAAAAAAAnE/G31qqk0F8tk/s400/ceramic+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310141451653138" /></a><br /><br /><br />Selecting the right choice of a kitchen table is important to your kitchen design because the kitchen serves as the central meeting place of most homes. Your children do their homework at the kitchen table. Family and friends gather for dinner and parties around the kitchen table.<br /><br />Ceramic kitchen tables can be used in modern or an Italian or Tuscan country kitchen design. They have a beautiful, durable top that can be used for dining and food preparation. Some come with full-size drawers for convenient storage. Granite is a heat-resistant stone that can handle hot pans and dishes. Granite table tops are available in a variety of shades and patterns to match most interior color schemes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-86807466437561988572009-10-19T06:54:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.330-07:00Ceramic Kitchen Dining Table Photos<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwhLnynBI/AAAAAAAAAnU/b_rbNXGEx1E/s1600-h/ceramic+3.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 361px; height: 303px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwhLnynBI/AAAAAAAAAnU/b_rbNXGEx1E/s400/ceramic+3.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310169040690194" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwgclcsUI/AAAAAAAAAnM/o9I4eZOplgg/s1600-h/ceramic+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxwgclcsUI/AAAAAAAAAnM/o9I4eZOplgg/s400/ceramic+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310156414398786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxwfk2DUBI/AAAAAAAAAnE/G31qqk0F8tk/s1600-h/ceramic+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxwfk2DUBI/AAAAAAAAAnE/G31qqk0F8tk/s400/ceramic+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394310141451653138" /></a><br /><br /><br />Selecting the right choice of a kitchen table is important to your kitchen design because the kitchen serves as the central meeting place of most homes. Your children do their homework at the kitchen table. Family and friends gather for dinner and parties around the kitchen table.<br /><br />Ceramic kitchen tables can be used in modern or an Italian or Tuscan country kitchen design. They have a beautiful, durable top that can be used for dining and food preparation. Some come with full-size drawers for convenient storage. Granite is a heat-resistant stone that can handle hot pans and dishes. Granite table tops are available in a variety of shades and patterns to match most interior color schemes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-65161011950053192342009-10-19T06:50:00.002-07:002011-03-22T23:47:13.876-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvXbfwxCI/AAAAAAAAAm8/LwwtHt8EXDA/s1600-h/wooden+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvXbfwxCI/AAAAAAAAAm8/LwwtHt8EXDA/s400/wooden+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308901991662626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvW_3pHcI/AAAAAAAAAm0/W-ARr-tzrr4/s1600-h/wooden+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvW_3pHcI/AAAAAAAAAm0/W-ARr-tzrr4/s400/wooden+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308894575631810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvWBVGTKI/AAAAAAAAAms/pQ2Bb7Mi_wo/s1600-h/wooden+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvWBVGTKI/AAAAAAAAAms/pQ2Bb7Mi_wo/s400/wooden+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308877787745442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvVlhuQeI/AAAAAAAAAmk/9gnNzdhw3EE/s1600-h/wooden+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvVlhuQeI/AAAAAAAAAmk/9gnNzdhw3EE/s400/wooden+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308870324503010" /></a><br /><br /><br />You can apply kitchen mixes modern and traditional for a soft country look. Wooden units from Ikea are teamed with a cupboard and table with shelves painted in sage green. Wicker storage baskets and wooden shelves add a rustic touc, while a steel range cooker is up-to-the-minute.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-71143731365310773922009-10-19T06:50:00.001-07:002011-03-15T02:42:08.446-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvXbfwxCI/AAAAAAAAAm8/LwwtHt8EXDA/s1600-h/wooden+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvXbfwxCI/AAAAAAAAAm8/LwwtHt8EXDA/s400/wooden+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308901991662626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvW_3pHcI/AAAAAAAAAm0/W-ARr-tzrr4/s1600-h/wooden+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvW_3pHcI/AAAAAAAAAm0/W-ARr-tzrr4/s400/wooden+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308894575631810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvWBVGTKI/AAAAAAAAAms/pQ2Bb7Mi_wo/s1600-h/wooden+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvWBVGTKI/AAAAAAAAAms/pQ2Bb7Mi_wo/s400/wooden+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308877787745442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvVlhuQeI/AAAAAAAAAmk/9gnNzdhw3EE/s1600-h/wooden+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvVlhuQeI/AAAAAAAAAmk/9gnNzdhw3EE/s400/wooden+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308870324503010" /></a><br /><br /><br />You can apply kitchen mixes modern and traditional for a soft country look. Wooden units from Ikea are teamed with a cupboard and table with shelves painted in sage green. Wicker storage baskets and wooden shelves add a rustic touc, while a steel range cooker is up-to-the-minute.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-48271422717278385702009-10-19T06:50:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.354-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvXbfwxCI/AAAAAAAAAm8/LwwtHt8EXDA/s1600-h/wooden+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvXbfwxCI/AAAAAAAAAm8/LwwtHt8EXDA/s400/wooden+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308901991662626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvW_3pHcI/AAAAAAAAAm0/W-ARr-tzrr4/s1600-h/wooden+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvW_3pHcI/AAAAAAAAAm0/W-ARr-tzrr4/s400/wooden+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308894575631810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvWBVGTKI/AAAAAAAAAms/pQ2Bb7Mi_wo/s1600-h/wooden+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 316px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvWBVGTKI/AAAAAAAAAms/pQ2Bb7Mi_wo/s400/wooden+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308877787745442" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvVlhuQeI/AAAAAAAAAmk/9gnNzdhw3EE/s1600-h/wooden+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 310px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/StxvVlhuQeI/AAAAAAAAAmk/9gnNzdhw3EE/s400/wooden+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394308870324503010" /></a><br /><br /><br />You can apply kitchen mixes modern and traditional for a soft country look. Wooden units from Ikea are teamed with a cupboard and table with shelves painted in sage green. Wicker storage baskets and wooden shelves add a rustic touc, while a steel range cooker is up-to-the-minute.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-87333039657267125852009-10-19T06:39:00.002-07:002011-03-22T23:47:13.909-07:00Modern Bedroom Designs Photo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt-zfeADI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Z30mXqcgopc/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 343px; height: 230px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt-zfeADI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Z30mXqcgopc/s400/modern+bedroom+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307379424526386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt9bj-fAI/AAAAAAAAAmM/jV0m2ocWVgQ/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt9bj-fAI/AAAAAAAAAmM/jV0m2ocWVgQ/s400/modern+bedroom+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307355821112322" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt8gp4wyI/AAAAAAAAAmE/E9yXoW1rpLY/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt8gp4wyI/AAAAAAAAAmE/E9yXoW1rpLY/s400/modern+bedroom+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307340008211234" /></a><br /><br />If you’ve ever watched Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, you are familiar with what modern bedroom decor is. It is defined by it’s beauty, material, style, and placement within a room. modern bedroom décor applies to anything from window treatments to throw rugs to lampshades.<br /><br />Having modern bedroom décor in your home will instantly make you feel like one of the stars, as you relish in its color, fabric and design. Usually, this type of décor has a theme throughout a particular room. These can run anywhere from an Egyptian theme to a marble theme to an Italian villa theme.<br /><br />A popular theme is nautical, where blue and white stripes are painted vertically on the wall. They can be topped off with an eggshell finish to give it a slight shimmer. Couches match, displaying navy pillows and ottomans and sconces light up a room with a soft, dim glow. This kind of modern bedroom décor will surely make you comfortable asleep!<br /><br />It’s best that your modern bedroom décor matches, so that it can give your room a unified feel. Pick your own favorite theme and place items of that description all over—and don’t forget that modern bedroom décor is not complete without modern materials!<br /><br />For more information on modern bedding, furniture and bedroom decor visit http://www.luxurybeddingcollections.com - find out more about popular themes, materials and designs.<br /><br />For information on Asian inspired home and bedroom decor visit http://www.asian-furniture.netUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-40194465459686089042009-10-19T06:39:00.001-07:002011-03-15T02:42:08.465-07:00Modern Bedroom Designs Photo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt-zfeADI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Z30mXqcgopc/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 343px; height: 230px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt-zfeADI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Z30mXqcgopc/s400/modern+bedroom+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307379424526386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt9bj-fAI/AAAAAAAAAmM/jV0m2ocWVgQ/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt9bj-fAI/AAAAAAAAAmM/jV0m2ocWVgQ/s400/modern+bedroom+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307355821112322" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt8gp4wyI/AAAAAAAAAmE/E9yXoW1rpLY/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt8gp4wyI/AAAAAAAAAmE/E9yXoW1rpLY/s400/modern+bedroom+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307340008211234" /></a><br /><br />If you’ve ever watched Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, you are familiar with what modern bedroom decor is. It is defined by it’s beauty, material, style, and placement within a room. modern bedroom décor applies to anything from window treatments to throw rugs to lampshades.<br /><br />Having modern bedroom décor in your home will instantly make you feel like one of the stars, as you relish in its color, fabric and design. Usually, this type of décor has a theme throughout a particular room. These can run anywhere from an Egyptian theme to a marble theme to an Italian villa theme.<br /><br />A popular theme is nautical, where blue and white stripes are painted vertically on the wall. They can be topped off with an eggshell finish to give it a slight shimmer. Couches match, displaying navy pillows and ottomans and sconces light up a room with a soft, dim glow. This kind of modern bedroom décor will surely make you comfortable asleep!<br /><br />It’s best that your modern bedroom décor matches, so that it can give your room a unified feel. Pick your own favorite theme and place items of that description all over—and don’t forget that modern bedroom décor is not complete without modern materials!<br /><br />For more information on modern bedding, furniture and bedroom decor visit http://www.luxurybeddingcollections.com - find out more about popular themes, materials and designs.<br /><br />For information on Asian inspired home and bedroom decor visit http://www.asian-furniture.netUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-35425497670588701482009-10-19T06:39:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.373-07:00Modern Bedroom Designs Photo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt-zfeADI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Z30mXqcgopc/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 343px; height: 230px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt-zfeADI/AAAAAAAAAmc/Z30mXqcgopc/s400/modern+bedroom+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307379424526386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt9bj-fAI/AAAAAAAAAmM/jV0m2ocWVgQ/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt9bj-fAI/AAAAAAAAAmM/jV0m2ocWVgQ/s400/modern+bedroom+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307355821112322" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt8gp4wyI/AAAAAAAAAmE/E9yXoW1rpLY/s1600-h/modern+bedroom+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rWWciemLE4M/Stxt8gp4wyI/AAAAAAAAAmE/E9yXoW1rpLY/s400/modern+bedroom+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394307340008211234" /></a><br /><br />If you’ve ever watched Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, you are familiar with what modern bedroom decor is. It is defined by it’s beauty, material, style, and placement within a room. modern bedroom décor applies to anything from window treatments to throw rugs to lampshades.<br /><br />Having modern bedroom décor in your home will instantly make you feel like one of the stars, as you relish in its color, fabric and design. Usually, this type of décor has a theme throughout a particular room. These can run anywhere from an Egyptian theme to a marble theme to an Italian villa theme.<br /><br />A popular theme is nautical, where blue and white stripes are painted vertically on the wall. They can be topped off with an eggshell finish to give it a slight shimmer. Couches match, displaying navy pillows and ottomans and sconces light up a room with a soft, dim glow. This kind of modern bedroom décor will surely make you comfortable asleep!<br /><br />It’s best that your modern bedroom décor matches, so that it can give your room a unified feel. Pick your own favorite theme and place items of that description all over—and don’t forget that modern bedroom décor is not complete without modern materials!<br /><br />For more information on modern bedding, furniture and bedroom decor visit http://www.luxurybeddingcollections.com - find out more about popular themes, materials and designs.<br /><br />For information on Asian inspired home and bedroom decor visit http://www.asian-furniture.netUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-84835019184049233482009-10-19T06:20:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:56:21.393-07:00If you have been reading this blog you know I've looked high and low for a 54" round pedestal table. What have I discovered? They are hard to find! Or perhaps my list of criteria has been the stumbling block...it needs to be 54" in diameter sitting no higher than 29", have a dark walnut stain, preferably made of solid wood showcasing good design, <em>and</em> be affordable.<br /><br />After reading a post about the search a <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/master-bedroom-retreat-complete.html">client</a> suggested I contact a craftsman she had used for a sofa table. I remembered how much I had admired this table so decided it might just be worth contacting her "guy".<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StuuLDkLokI/AAAAAAAAFFk/7w7VEebtHfM/s1600-h/PhilipCulbertson.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394096483665158722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 136px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StuuLDkLokI/AAAAAAAAFFk/7w7VEebtHfM/s200/PhilipCulbertson.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Who is this "guy"? A very talented craftsman, named <a href="http://www.custommade.com/gallery-profile.php?u=285">Philip Culbertson</a>. Just look at his beautiful work, the sculptural sofa table shown above and the stunning table below. It is like a work of art.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StuuKt5FJaI/AAAAAAAAFFc/WigUymDlFcE/s1600-h/PhilipCulbertson1.jpg"><img style="border:none;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394096477847233954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StuuKt5FJaI/AAAAAAAAFFc/WigUymDlFcE/s200/PhilipCulbertson1.jpg" border="0" /></a>We met to review the possible project last Friday and brainstormed about the design. I originally sent him images of the <a href="http://www.zgallerie.com/pc-7433-71-sonoma-dining-table.aspx">Somona</a> and <a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=882&f=26971">Kyoto</a> tables, but if I am going to go through the effort of having a custom table made shouldn't we design the table rather than just copy one? A much more interesting project for both of us!<br /><br />Possible wood options are the maple and bamboo samples picture below, stained with <a href="http://www.generalfinishes.com/finishes/water-base-finishes/waterbase_finishes.htm">General Finishes</a> water based Espresso Stain. Gorgeous.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StvefminQDI/AAAAAAAAFGE/ckmMvNT027g/s1600-h/IMG_1300-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394149613209337906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 108px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StvefminQDI/AAAAAAAAFGE/ckmMvNT027g/s200/IMG_1300-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />For inspiration I started looking at all types of furniture and came across this console table with the slate detail. It is a striking detail and I've attempted to bring the essence of this piece to the design of the table.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StvJCmQTNAI/AAAAAAAAFF8/0gRWkgUwJJE/s1600-h/Console-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394126025172136962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 60px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 102px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StvJCmQTNAI/AAAAAAAAFF8/0gRWkgUwJJE/s400/Console-1.jpg" border="0" /></a> This is the initial rough sketch. I've sent it off to Philip to review and see what input he has, not only from an aesthetic point of view but a functional one. Let's hope there are no major road blocks and this project can move forward! You know I'll keep you posted...<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StvH5vMwHwI/AAAAAAAAFFs/TrySvtZB_sk/s1600-h/image-2.jpg"><img style="border:none;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394124773442723586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StvH5vMwHwI/AAAAAAAAFFs/TrySvtZB_sk/s200/image-2.jpg" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-36615281621991135832009-10-19T04:00:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:17:42.800-07:00<div style="text-align: left;">It's taken me a while but I am really convinced that Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Traditionally buildings have been drawn using 2 dimensional CAD technology - or by hand drafting. But with BIM you create a 3 dimensional "virtual" model of the building. In order to communicate the design to client and contractors you then generate various views from the model (plans, elevations, sections, etc). I'll show you an example of how this works below.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here you can see an axonometric view of the 3 dimensional model of this house plan. The model was created using REVIT software, by <a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">Autodesk</span></a>.</span></div><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stm9D1hXtGI/AAAAAAAABSo/EwugoNAGybM/s400/axon1.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393549902357181538" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Now I have "sliced" a view from overhead looking down onto the plan. What is great here is you can see the relationships between the various elements (windows, doors, trim and even furniture) so that you can better evaluate the design.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stm9Ed5Lc-I/AAAAAAAABSw/WosiqT_Yg84/s400/overhead+slice.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393549913194460130" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here is another sliced view, but this time from a side. You can see the roof, ceilings and the decorative trusses.</span></div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stm9EgNpC_I/AAAAAAAABS4/OL7BpNHusxM/s400/section+slice.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393549913817156594" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The section below is just another "slice" taken from the model. The walls, floors roof and ceiling profiles are all in precisely the correct position. To make it into a construction drawing you just need to add the pertinent detailed information.</span></div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stm9FJ2_JJI/AAAAAAAABTA/fupVGdFZB68/s400/section.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393549924996424850" /><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here the virtual model has been exported into Google Sketchup, which is a great design tool. In this case all I did was added the materials, colors and a little entourage. Isn't this a better way to convey the interior design concept?</span></div><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stm9FdZqmAI/AAAAAAAABTI/4boUMmIGfpU/s400/Hudson-Cottage-Interior-vie.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 198px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393549930242152450" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">All images above are of the </span><a href="http://www.simplyeleganthomedesigns.com/hudson_simple_cottage_house_plan.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"Hudson Cottage"</span></i></b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> house plan which is available for sale at </span><a href="http://www.simplyeleganthomedesigns.com/index.html"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simply Elegant Home Designs</span></span></i></b></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It takes a while to learn and become efficient at BIM. But in the end I am convinced it is a better way to understand your design, a better way to communicate the design and a better way to assemble the construction drawings.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-25568881774740475832009-10-18T20:00:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:57.592-07:00TravelingTraveling for a few days, so posts will resume in the middle of the week.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/159617105/" title="Dark Clouds by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/62/159617105_bf2b0fdf68.jpg" alt="Dark Clouds" width="500" height="306" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-84670666159533740202009-10-18T19:07:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:05.468-07:00<img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3_yqxWTlAOI/Sgjafvl6GqI/AAAAAAAABes/fGRc2G4-KMA/s400/HPIM0489.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334753997506615970" border="0" /><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3_yqxWTlAOI/Sgjaf2PyhHI/AAAAAAAABe0/81aWogZzpYU/s400/HPIM0490.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334753999292892274" border="0" /><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3_yqxWTlAOI/SgjaflWEOVI/AAAAAAAABek/nXfMsU_nx4Y/s400/HPIM0488.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334753994755815762" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3_yqxWTlAOI/Sgjaf-RvzwI/AAAAAAAABe8/9uI3_u_zH38/s400/HPIM0491.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334754001448587010" border="0" /><br /></a><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3_yqxWTlAOI/SgjagLPq7JI/AAAAAAAABfE/ezsbLzFdqrY/s400/HPIM0493.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334754004929539218" border="0" /></a><br />What do you think? The last picture is of my new lingerie chest, I love how tall it is. I also added a picture of my most recent collage board. I put up all the ideas I like and anything that inspires me. Do you have one?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-90291546906488682342009-10-18T11:34:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:57.659-07:00The Archaeology of Seclusion<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/4022554207_f82f51af90_o.jpg" width="475" height="316" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Photo by Vienna-based photographer <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a>].</small><br /><br />Journalist <a href="http://www.osnap.ba"target="_blank">Christoph Hinterreiter</a> recently teamed up with photographer <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a> to document a nuclear bunker called D-0 in what is now Bosnia. <br /><br />As Hinterreiter wrote in an email:<ul>The bunker was the largest structure of its kind, and was for use by the upper echelon of the former Yugoslavia. The premises are still fully furnished and equipped with military apparatus—code books are positioned beside telexes and restrooms are equipped with originally wrapped paper towels. Its construction lasted for 26 years (1953 – 1979) and it cost 4.6 billion USD.</ul>The bunker's construction required "20,000m3 of excavated material," Hinterreiter adds, all of which "was secretly transported from the site. A major part was further processed in the nearby JNA quarry and disguised as construction material."<br /><br />The photos and text quoted here were originally published in issue #56 of a Croatian magazine called <a href="http://www.oris.hr/"target="_blank"><i>ORIS</i></a>; they have been reproduced with kind permission of Hinterreiter and Thaler.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/4023310008_4022641fe2_o.jpg" width="475" height="354" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2561/4023311516_9e4936e0e4_o.jpg" width="475" height="316" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Photos by <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a>].</small><br /><br />Reminiscent of the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568984669?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1568984669"><i>Waiting for the End of the World</i></a> by photographer <a href="http://www.richardross.net/"target="_blank">Richard Ross</a>—of which you can see many examples over at <a href="http://www.good.is/post/picture-show-waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world/"target="_blank"><i>GOOD</i></a>—Hinterreiter and Thaler show us a strangely preserved world of plastic-wrapped couches and vintage telephones, track lighting and glass-framed photographs.<br /><br />Hinterreiter specifically zooms in on these details for his article in <i>ORIS</i>:<ul>All basic functions are organized in simple metal structures, aligned within a tunnel-like space. In the centre of the horseshoe-shaped footprint lies an elevated block, whose design exceeds purely functional considerations. It is elevated above the rest of the facility and contains interior design components not found elsewhere in the fallout shelter. It was for use by upper echelons of the Yugoslav government. Variously ornamented wall papers, kept in garish colors, cover most walls and arches. Patterns and shades of green vary from room to room and characterize each space. The surface driven spaces provide no clue about the nature of their organization or construction.</ul>It was a kind of subterranean <a href="http://www.motel6.com/"target="_blank">Motel 6</a> in which guests could wait-out the apocalypse.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/4023310932_10bfa9c287_o.jpg" width="475" height="354" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2791/4023310716_5867510ab6_o.jpg" width="475" height="712" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4023311382_557e4fa199_o.jpg" width="475" height="316" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: By <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a>].</small><br /><br />Such patience would require an extraordinary technical apparatus, however, something that might allow a state of self-imposed quarantine to exist; between the bunker-dwellers and the obliterated surface of the planet above them stood complex networks of ventilation equipment and back-up generators. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/4023311138_3cbbe03e56_o.jpg" width="475" height="712" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: By <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a>].</small><br /><br />As Hinterreiter further explains:<ul>Twice a day, air-handling units pump fresh air through a labyrinth of air ducts to maintain 21-23°C temperature at 60-80% humidity. Two transformers are on alternating duty to supply electricity. The water reservoir is filled with potable water from the adjoining Bijela Neretva river. Still modestly filled fuel tanks are ready to supply stand-by emergency generators. Various archaic-appearing mechanical systems would have guaranteed automatic seclusion from the outside world and the engagement of self-sustainable building systems, providing an autarkic survival space for 350 people over a period of months. What was in the event of a nuclear attack supposed to ensure the survival of the political and military elite of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia now fills solitary spaces with fresh air and illuminates Cold War military artifacts for visitors, interested in the fiction-like premises of nuclear bunker D-0.</ul>The motivation for building this structure where it is was fundamentally <i>geographical</i>:<ul>The geographic advantage of Bosnia and Herzegovina, being completely surrounded by other Yugoslavian republics, led to the establishment of strategically important industries in the country’s inaccessible valleys. A network of underground control posts, ammunition factories and power plants lies beneath the country.</ul>But then, of course, all geographies come with strategic implications; filling the valleys of Bosnia and Herzegovina with military installations should thus come as no surprise. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2563/4022552647_496fa0ac27_o.jpg" width="475" height="354" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a>].</small><br /><br />Earlier this week, meanwhile, there was some speculation that perhaps the original Labyrinth at Minos had been discovered; we read in the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/has-the-original-labyrinth-been-found-1803638.html"target="_blank"><i>Independent</i></a> that "a disused stone quarry on the Greek island of Crete which is riddled with an elaborate network of underground tunnels" could very well be the original site where the myth of a minotaur hiding at the heart of an architecturally elaborate underground space was inspired. The history of these quarry-caves is fascinating (with shades of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark"target="_blank"><i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i></a> thrown in at the end):<ul>The caves, which are known locally as the Labyrinthos Caves, consist of about two and half miles of interlocking tunnels with widened chambers and dead-end rooms. They have been visited since medieval times by travellers looking for the Labyrinth, but since Knossos was rediscovered at the end of the 19th century they were neglected, and were even used as a Nazi ammunition dump during the Second World War.</ul>I mention this because the urge to build labyrinths—in stone or <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/derinkuyu-or-allure-of-underground-city.html">in tufa</a> or against the detonations of nuclear war—often seems to transcend those labyrinths' purported use-value. As Hinterreiter himself might say, constructing a labyrinth of any kind "exceeds purely functional considerations," sliding off into mythology before too long and adding an oddly sinister veneer to any civilization that pursues it.<br /><br />In other ways, I'm reminded of stories like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray"target="_blank">Seymour Cray</a> and his <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967095,00.html"target="_blank">obsession with tunneling</a>, or William Gass's unreadable novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1564782131?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1564782131"><i>The Tunnel</i></a>, even the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/aug/08/communities.uknews"target="_blank">Mole Man of Hackney</a>.<br /><br />Of course, it would be wrong to over-blur these contexts and ignore the clear, functional purpose of a nuclear bunker; but it's hard not to wonder about the psychological implications of living underground for extended periods of time or, indeed, what strange impulses might compel a society to seek refuge beneath the surface of the earth—Hinterreiter's "automatic seclusion from the outside world"—in the first place. This is what BLDGBLOG has previously referred to as "<a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/psychology-at-depth.html">psychology at depth</a>."<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2435/4022552799_05759ef80b_o.jpg" width="475" height="358" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: <a href="http://www.wolfgangthaler.at"target="_blank">Wolfgang Thaler</a>].</small><br /><br />In any case, the <i>ORIS</i> article ends with a quotation from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568980159?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1568980159">Paul Virilio</a>. He suggests that the now-purposeless and abandoned bunker pictured here "joins a row of defense installations such as the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksowers/sets/72157622023359591/"target="_blank">Atlantic Wall</a> along the French coast or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line"target="_blank">DEW Line</a> in North America, which are not only heritage monuments of contemporary history. They remain to remind 'us less of yesterday’s adversary than of today’s and tomorrow’s war'." <br /><br />Check out Hinterreiter's <a href="http://www.osnap.ba/nuclear-bunker-konjic-published-in-oris/"target="_blank">website</a> for even more photos and text.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-63225762722752100112009-10-18T09:46:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:05.811-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 444px; height: 191px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4soAfirknHk/SkJYeMwGCRI/AAAAAAAAAlk/qf_xyorR7jQ/s320/CG76-0026_349.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350936583111837970" border="0" /></a><br />This dining table from Christopher Guy is described on his website thusly:<br /><blockquote>"Sheer elegance and luxury define this magnificent looking mahogany and veneer dining table, complete with delicate marquetry work, a fine example of a contemporary piece with classic appeal."<br /></blockquote>Ava Living has this video of a furniture fashion show in Paris this year:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CtSloupsTvs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CtSloupsTvs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Bev & Mike<br />Landfair Furniture + Design gallery<br />Follow us on Twitter</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-26973901277797766862009-10-18T09:43:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:06.073-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://www.socketsite.com/1990%20California%20Interior.jpg" src="http://www.socketsite.com/1990%20California%20Interior.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-12329473252716536382009-10-18T08:56:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:06.437-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 749px;" src="http://www.walterknabe.com/img/user/Conrad_Toile_Window_5x71.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-56932094125755284732009-10-18T08:32:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:25:38.535-07:00Modern Bedroom Decorating Ideas by Huelsta<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Decorating your bedroom can be a great way to give your self a tranquil retreat, yet so many people neglect this room. Often times people focus on the public rooms of the home – the kitchen, living room and guest bathroom but the bedroom is your own private sanctuary and you owe yourself to decorate it!</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-lilac2-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-lilac2-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">If decorating your bedroom seems like an overwhelming task, you might want to take it easy and make small changes over a period of time instead of one huge change. On way to ease yourself into decorating the bedroom is to start with the walls. Artwork can make a huge difference in the look of your bedroom and is one decorating idea that you can easily reverse if the look doesn't work.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-elumo-2-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-elumo-2-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">What is the first thing you notice when you walk into someone's home? The walls, right? Walls enclose the home, giving a thematic impression. So, if your walls are empty you've got to get to work to populate them. Wall hangings can be expensive, but that's only if you purchase something by a famous dead artist. You can create your own artwork without any art instruction whatsoever. First, you have to consider your theme. If you have a Victorian, feminine or shabby chic bedroom theme then you will want floral or feminine artwork. A modern bedroom theme will look best with prints in sleek frames. A tropical look? Then get some jungle style prints or prints of exotic animals and birds.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-2-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-2-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Do you have hundreds of pictures and just don't know what to do with them? If the idea of a personalized bedroom picture wall appeals to you, you could arrange the photos into a huge wall photo collage. Examples include pictures of exotic places, weddings, and children growing up. If there is a teenager in your home, their bedroom is probably home to a huge collection of music CDs. They can create their own wall collage using the cover art from their CDs. Although you will have more fun creating your collage yourself, there are companies that will take care of this for you. The cost ranges from about $50 for an 8x10 to $150 for a 20x24 wall collage.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-3-554x374.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 374px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-3-554x374.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">If your bedroom contains foliage, you might want to consider pressing leaves or flowers and framing your work; the best of these are flat. You basically place the leaves or flowers in a book to allow them to dry flat. They are ready for your wall hanging when they become crisp. This shouldn't take longer than a week or two. After the items are pressed, you will just need to mount the artwork and hang it on your wall.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-4-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-manit-4-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-multi-forma-2-554x372.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 372px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-multi-forma-2-554x372.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-metis-2-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-metis-2-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-new-metis-3-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-new-metis-3-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-554x367.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 554px; height: 367px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/bedroom-design-huelsta-554x367.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-53374193848419245622009-10-18T08:19:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:06.734-07:00<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/3610615269_59a0e99f67.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" >Normal Room's curving deck wall via Apartment Therapy, originally uploaded by Lyndar T. Merciless.</span></div></div><p>The wood deck for your home. It's a good use of the space in the garden. It's suitable for one who don't have much time to maintain the garden so build the deck.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-42010255227858902912009-10-18T06:02:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.394-07:00Tower<em class="link"> </em> <div class="post-body"> <div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.capetowndailyphoto.com/uploaded_images/IMG_2058-788772.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 307px;" src="http://www.capetowndailyphoto.com/uploaded_images/IMG_2058-788763.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-8893208829793175242009-10-18T05:53:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.414-07:00Graphic design<div id="photos"> <div id="the-pic"> <img style="width: 221px; height: 165px;" src="http://images04.olx.in/ui/2/93/73/t_39909073_1.jpg" /> <img style="width: 180px; 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return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;" class="url" target="_blank"><br /></a> </p> <img style="width: 266px; height: 177px;" src="http://www.sanantoniointeriordesigner.com/common/imagelib/index.htm/1882_420_280_crop_2f456.jpg" alt="" /><div class="blankbox"><div class="inner"> <img style="width: 201px; height: 132px;" src="http://www.sanantoniointeriordesigner.com/common/imagelib/index.htm/1594_300_198_crop_7cdef.jpg" alt="" /> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-47045041781871737872009-10-18T03:30:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.492-07:00Interior Design<p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img style="width: 401px; height: 401px;" alt="http://www.yossawat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/feb/Top_10_Kitchens_by_SouthernAccents/Top_10_Kitchens_by_SouthernAccents_1.jpg" src="http://www.yossawat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/feb/Top_10_Kitchens_by_SouthernAccents/Top_10_Kitchens_by_SouthernAccents_1.jpg" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="articlebody">Once you have completed a college or university course, you can then focus on building up a portfolio. This is important if you want to show what you can do. Maybe if nobody will give you a chance, you could practice on friends and family? Usually friends and family are more than happy for you to redecorate one of their rooms and if they are happy with the result they may even let you loose on the whole house! In order to create a good portfolio you should take a picture of the room before you made it over and then take a picture afterwards. That way it gives people an idea of what you can do and it proves you know exactly what you are doing.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img style="width: 278px; height: 278px;" alt="http://www.homeinteriorszone.com/images/BedroomDesign21.jpg" src="http://www.homeinteriorszone.com/images/BedroomDesign21.jpg" /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-92112465999012032282009-10-17T23:10:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.520-07:00A Lofty Living<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-230" title="design-trends-MH1109-robison-001" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/design-trends-MH1109-robison-001.jpg" alt="design-trends-MH1109-robison-001" width="360" height="288" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 269px; height: 215px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-232" title="design-trends-MH1109-robison-003" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/design-trends-MH1109-robison-003.jpg" alt="design-trends-MH1109-robison-003" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 268px; height: 334px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-234" title="design-trends-MH1109-robison-006" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/design-trends-MH1109-robison-006.jpg" alt="design-trends-MH1109-robison-006" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 256px; height: 320px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-235" title="design-trends-MH1109-robison-007" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/design-trends-MH1109-robison-007.jpg" alt="design-trends-MH1109-robison-007" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 274px; height: 219px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-236" title="design-trends-MH1109-robison-008" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/design-trends-MH1109-robison-008.jpg" alt="design-trends-MH1109-robison-008" /></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 360px; height: 271px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-242" title="11" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/11.jpg" alt="11" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 324px; height: 243px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-241" title="10" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/10.jpg" alt="10" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 292px; height: 390px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-240" title="8" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/8.jpg" alt="8" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="width: 241px; height: 180px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-245" title="220021_Loft_2.JPG" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/220021_Loft_2.JPG.jpeg" alt="220021_Loft_2.JPG" /></p> <img style="width: 194px; height: 145px;" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-244" title="220019_Loft_3.JPG" src="http://www.paigeofdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/220019_Loft_3.JPG.jpeg" alt="220019_Loft_3.JPG" /><br /><br /><br /><h1 class="itemtitle_cat"><a href="http://manducagroup.com/green-building-interior-design/"><br /></a></h1> <a href="http://manducagroup.com/green-building-interior-design/" title="Green Building / Interior Design"><br /></a> <p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-33745107734475875662009-10-17T15:10:00.001-07:002011-03-17T01:43:04.574-07:00Building An Affordable House: A Smart Guide to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561585963/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 305px; height: 305px;" alt="Building An Affordable House: A Smart Guide to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eyZWEmJsL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div><br />The first comprehensive guide of its kind, Building an Affordable House is for homeowners and building contractors who want to incorporate proven cost-saving techniques into their projects. Written by a contractor who has been nationally recognized for his innovative approach to cost control, this book shows readers how to generate significant savings on major projects such as building a new home or adding on to an existing one.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />The first section provides an economical approach to planning projects, while the second reveals the quality-conscious, cost-cutting strategies the author has uncovered through direct construction experience and extensive consultation with industry experts. The third section covers finish details from drywall to flooring, with emphasis on saving money without compromising quality or distinctive results. Handy features include floor plans, resource listings, and project management tools.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-8772954461105956222009-10-17T15:10:00.000-07:002011-03-16T21:48:12.716-07:00Building An Affordable House: A Smart Guide to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561585963/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 305px; height: 305px;" alt="Building An Affordable House: A Smart Guide to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eyZWEmJsL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div><br />The first comprehensive guide of its kind, Building an Affordable House is for homeowners and building contractors who want to incorporate proven cost-saving techniques into their projects. Written by a contractor who has been nationally recognized for his innovative approach to cost control, this book shows readers how to generate significant savings on major projects such as building a new home or adding on to an existing one.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />The first section provides an economical approach to planning projects, while the second reveals the quality-conscious, cost-cutting strategies the author has uncovered through direct construction experience and extensive consultation with industry experts. The third section covers finish details from drywall to flooring, with emphasis on saving money without compromising quality or distinctive results. Handy features include floor plans, resource listings, and project management tools.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-87030094337398210812009-10-17T14:58:00.001-07:002011-03-17T01:43:04.795-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789313499/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 470px; height: 516px;" alt="Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K5ZHR0JFL.jpg" /></a></div><br />In an age of "McMansions," this international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is beautiful-and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The houses profiled here prove that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the architect overcame them, a detailed blueprint for each house, full-color photos of the interior and the exterior, and plans of the layout. This book will be an inspiration to anyone in the interior design or residential architecture field as well as to anyone considering a second home, and proves that environmentally responsible design principles are not just a style but a philosophy for sustainable living.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />About the Author<br />Cristina del Valle has a Bachelor in Audiovisual Communication by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has combined her studies with various journalistic works in publications of the architecture and design sector. She is currently collaborating actively with a variety of magazines of the sector in the position of project coordinator and is the author of various books including New Bars and Restaurants.<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-65794537610755997592009-10-17T14:58:00.000-07:002011-03-16T21:48:13.044-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789313499/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 470px; height: 516px;" alt="Compact Houses: Architecture for the Environment" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K5ZHR0JFL.jpg" /></a></div><br />In an age of "McMansions," this international survey of the latest in residential architecture proves that small is beautiful-and responsible. The houses profiled are designed to make maximum use of the smallest possible footprint in order to protect the environment. The houses profiled here prove that efficiency as well as beautiful, thoughtful design can be had in a tiny setting. Each project includes a case history describing its design challenges and how the architect overcame them, a detailed blueprint for each house, full-color photos of the interior and the exterior, and plans of the layout. This book will be an inspiration to anyone in the interior design or residential architecture field as well as to anyone considering a second home, and proves that environmentally responsible design principles are not just a style but a philosophy for sustainable living.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />About the Author<br />Cristina del Valle has a Bachelor in Audiovisual Communication by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has combined her studies with various journalistic works in publications of the architecture and design sector. She is currently collaborating actively with a variety of magazines of the sector in the position of project coordinator and is the author of various books including New Bars and Restaurants.<br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-14916435420157521372009-10-17T14:21:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:19.994-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto32FIVkEI/AAAAAAAAFcE/bc8VPuu2efM/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+002s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684905959198786" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto32FIVkEI/AAAAAAAAFcE/bc8VPuu2efM/s400/kyle+birthday+002s.jpg" /></a> The kids piped icing on the cupcakes.<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto31nE5NHI/AAAAAAAAFb8/C95ZP2lk9KI/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+008s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684897891693682" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto31nE5NHI/AAAAAAAAFb8/C95ZP2lk9KI/s400/kyle+birthday+008s.jpg" /></a> We went to Kids Kingdom, a park in our city that is done on a castle theme.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto31eAAKqI/AAAAAAAAFb0/arBJoIY1-yQ/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+083s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684895455259298" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto31eAAKqI/AAAAAAAAFb0/arBJoIY1-yQ/s400/kyle+birthday+083s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto31CgtynI/AAAAAAAAFbs/DhD53n8IJac/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+091s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684888076274290" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto31CgtynI/AAAAAAAAFbs/DhD53n8IJac/s400/kyle+birthday+091s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3CsuYwYI/AAAAAAAAFbk/M1k8DcKtHW0/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+040bws.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684023234576770" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3CsuYwYI/AAAAAAAAFbk/M1k8DcKtHW0/s400/kyle+birthday+040bws.jpg" /></a><br /><br />It was 48 degrees but the kids played Capture the Flag for hours. I think they had a lot of fun. Here is a captive now.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3CY7J3LI/AAAAAAAAFbc/14G7-XaD83Q/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+032s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684017919417522" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3CY7J3LI/AAAAAAAAFbc/14G7-XaD83Q/s400/kyle+birthday+032s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3B65u-ZI/AAAAAAAAFbU/3M9DYWFVS3M/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+023bws.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684009860397458" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3B65u-ZI/AAAAAAAAFbU/3M9DYWFVS3M/s400/kyle+birthday+023bws.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3BqDWd1I/AAAAAAAAFbM/-IgGVPNopOo/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+013s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684005337331538" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3BqDWd1I/AAAAAAAAFbM/-IgGVPNopOo/s400/kyle+birthday+013s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3Bf88KpI/AAAAAAAAFbE/P3QmifAVB0Y/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+028s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393684002626087570" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto3Bf88KpI/AAAAAAAAFbE/P3QmifAVB0Y/s400/kyle+birthday+028s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2H36kV_I/AAAAAAAAFa8/jbspm2CR0WU/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+082s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393683012626175986" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2H36kV_I/AAAAAAAAFa8/jbspm2CR0WU/s400/kyle+birthday+082s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2HSrXlTI/AAAAAAAAFa0/gSCnSAgq-Qs/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+074s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393683002630313266" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2HSrXlTI/AAAAAAAAFa0/gSCnSAgq-Qs/s400/kyle+birthday+074s.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2HJ6NMSI/AAAAAAAAFas/c7lS-24Ytl0/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+071s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393683000276627746" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2HJ6NMSI/AAAAAAAAFas/c7lS-24Ytl0/s400/kyle+birthday+071s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2G_3hFxI/AAAAAAAAFak/RooNqxc57bE/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+069s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393682997580994322" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2G_3hFxI/AAAAAAAAFak/RooNqxc57bE/s400/kyle+birthday+069s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2GelGNDI/AAAAAAAAFac/QPaPPcFsD80/s1600-h/kyle+birthday+064s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 265px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393682988645364786" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sto2GelGNDI/AAAAAAAAFac/QPaPPcFsD80/s400/kyle+birthday+064s.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-86671711394995199022009-10-17T10:21:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:07.078-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="max-width: 800px; width: 401px; height: 248px;" src="http://www.nicksonskitchens.co.uk/images/daval_bedrooms.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-29185086484413549312009-10-17T09:02:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:07.474-07:00<p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/335187713_8511d1a3f8.jpg" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/335187713_8511d1a3f8.jpg" height="450" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/060304_fg4.jpg" src="http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/060304_fg4.jpg" height="346" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://simplystated.realsimple.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/22/real_simple_greygardens101.jpg" src="http://simplystated.realsimple.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/22/real_simple_greygardens101.jpg" height="338" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://www.dominomag.com/images/galleries/rooms/gasl_small_apartments_03.jpg" src="http://www.dominomag.com/images/galleries/rooms/gasl_small_apartments_03.jpg" height="464" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/wallpapers/prettypink.jpg" src="http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/wallpapers/prettypink.jpg" height="360" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://homestaging.us/images/feng_shui_home_staging.jpg" src="http://homestaging.us/images/feng_shui_home_staging.jpg" height="674" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/home-decorating-tips12.jpg" src="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/home-decorating-tips12.jpg" height="338" width="450" /></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://www.e-write.cn/upimg/allimg/070917/1126100.jpg" src="http://www.e-write.cn/upimg/allimg/070917/1126100.jpg" /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-4175115326174515212009-10-17T08:30:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:56:21.699-07:00More Children's Art + Furnishing A Landing<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StnPasCi23I/AAAAAAAAFCM/c2nOZKoEUxA/s1600-h/IMG_5465.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393570086158261106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StnPasCi23I/AAAAAAAAFCM/c2nOZKoEUxA/s200/IMG_5465.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />A few years ago I picked up this large canvas at another <a href="http://www.aaronbrothers.com/">Aaron Brothers</a> sale for Isabella to have her hand at painting. Fun! Painting has since become a favorite project for both Max & Isabella.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StniU9mxlDI/AAAAAAAAFDE/sH58EXNHLAQ/s1600-h/IMG_1044-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StniU9mxlDI/AAAAAAAAFDE/sH58EXNHLAQ/s200/IMG_1044-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393590878515336242" /></a><br />It hangs in the landing at the top of the stairs, an oddly large spot which puzzled me when first visiting the house. I recall telling our <a href="http://www.equitygroup.com/getagent/show.php?uname=scriven">realtor</a>, "What wasted space!" I have to admit I was wrong.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Stnigu6e1xI/AAAAAAAAFDM/M__oOmVPAcA/s1600-h/IMG_1034-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Stnigu6e1xI/AAAAAAAAFDM/M__oOmVPAcA/s200/IMG_1034-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393591080729892626" /></a><br />This spot is perfect for the <a href="http://www.potterybarn.com/products/blanca-settee/?pkey=call-sofas">Blanca Settee</a>, a <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2008/10/buy-floor-modelsave.html">floor model</a> I found at Pottery Barn last year. It was in perfect condition and priced at nearly a third of the original cost. Later I went online and found it listed at full price. What a deal!! The yellow Ikat fabric looks great with the painting...and what really impresses me? Look how the fabric design lines up perfectly between the frame and cushion. Good job <a href="http://www.potterybarn.com/products/blanca-settee/?pkey=call-sofas">PB</a>!<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StniupF8kTI/AAAAAAAAFDU/fschCSBmSrM/s1600-h/IMG_1018-1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StniupF8kTI/AAAAAAAAFDU/fschCSBmSrM/s200/IMG_1018-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393591319685534002" /></a><br />The kids read here, and it's a great place to lay things that need to be put away or taken downstairs. Clean laundry gets placed here for the kids to take into their rooms. Yes, it's a good (<em>rare</em>) day when they actually remember to put it away.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-54040589006824139702009-10-17T07:36:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:07.809-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 438px; height: 329px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/3468224384_4506dfcdbd.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-10486362434755443712009-10-17T07:30:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:57.692-07:00<style type="text/css">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }</style><div class="flickr-frame"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuk/4014265336/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3495/4014265336_af09b76be6.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /><span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuk/4014265336/">Galeria Adriana Varejão / Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kuk/">pedro kok</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> The Galeria Adriana Varejão in Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil by Rodrigo Cerviño Lopez, Fernando Falcon and Eduardo Chalabi, 2008. Visit <a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/24/galeria-adriana-varejao-by-rodrigo-cervino-lopez/">Dezeen</a> for information on the building.<br /></p><p>To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:</p><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-50829769854034525942009-10-17T03:53:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:08.168-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img alt="http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/1206_kitchendesign/small-kitchens-01.jpg" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/g/1206_kitchendesign/small-kitchens-01.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-33171113929472614752009-10-17T03:28:00.001-07:002011-03-17T01:43:04.925-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3c/38/d3b3e03ae7a089129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br />IN PREFAB GREEN, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment-and how each work together to create homes that make a difference.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/65/a8/4833e03ae7a0a9129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/65/a8/4833e03ae7a0a9129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/0e/dd/3465e03ae7a0b9129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b3/1b/f0ffe03ae7a099129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br />Prefabricated housing, an all-purpose term that is used to describe any home that is built partly off-site, is enjoying a revival, thanks to a handful of innovative architects and hip shelter magazines. 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Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment-and how they work together to create homes that make a difference.<br />Kaufmann is part of a new generation of architects who are modernizing modular. They are taking the old idea of prefabrication and reshaping it to accommodate modern lifestyles and varying climates as well as a commitment to the environment. Even the small changes we make in our daily lives-as well as the large decisions we make about the kinds of homes we want to live in-can create transformations that will benefit for generations to come.<br />After receiving her master's degree from Princeton University, Michelle -Kaufmann worked for renowned architects Frank Gehry and Michael Graves. In 2002, she founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs. Michelle's work is widely published and her homes have been showcased in a number of museums, including the -National Building -Museum, the Vancouver Art Center, MOCA in Los Angeles, and Chicago's -Museum of -Science and -Industry. -Michelle lives in Marin County, California.<br />Cathy Remick is a designer with experience in architecture, graphics, and fine arts painting. She holds a master's-degree in architecture and has worked as a staff architect and designer for several -national firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. She is a design manager for -mkStudios. She lives in Orinda, California, with her husband and daughter.<br />Jacket designed by The Book Designers<br />Front and back cover photos 2009 John Swain<br />Kaufmann author photo by Cutter Cutshaw<br />Remick author photo by Terry Riggins<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-28793209937168216842009-10-17T03:28:00.000-07:002011-03-16T21:48:13.257-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/3c/38/d3b3e03ae7a089129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br />IN PREFAB GREEN, architect Michelle Kaufmann shares her vision of creating thoughtful, sustainable design for everyone. Her firm, Michelle Kaufmann Designs, blends sustainable home layouts, eco-friendly materials, and low-energy options to create a "prepackaged" green solution to home design. Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment-and how each work together to create homes that make a difference.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/65/a8/4833e03ae7a0a9129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/65/a8/4833e03ae7a0a9129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/0e/dd/3465e03ae7a0b9129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423604970/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 478px; height: 320px;" alt="PreFab Green" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b3/1b/f0ffe03ae7a099129f420210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br />Prefabricated housing, an all-purpose term that is used to describe any home that is built partly off-site, is enjoying a revival, thanks to a handful of innovative architects and hip shelter magazines. 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Kaufmann tells about five eco-principles that are present in every design her firm creates-smart design, eco-materials, energy efficiency, water conservation, and healthy environment-and how they work together to create homes that make a difference.<br />Kaufmann is part of a new generation of architects who are modernizing modular. They are taking the old idea of prefabrication and reshaping it to accommodate modern lifestyles and varying climates as well as a commitment to the environment. Even the small changes we make in our daily lives-as well as the large decisions we make about the kinds of homes we want to live in-can create transformations that will benefit for generations to come.<br />After receiving her master's degree from Princeton University, Michelle -Kaufmann worked for renowned architects Frank Gehry and Michael Graves. In 2002, she founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs. Michelle's work is widely published and her homes have been showcased in a number of museums, including the -National Building -Museum, the Vancouver Art Center, MOCA in Los Angeles, and Chicago's -Museum of -Science and -Industry. -Michelle lives in Marin County, California.<br />Cathy Remick is a designer with experience in architecture, graphics, and fine arts painting. She holds a master's-degree in architecture and has worked as a staff architect and designer for several -national firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. She is a design manager for -mkStudios. She lives in Orinda, California, with her husband and daughter.<br />Jacket designed by The Book Designers<br />Front and back cover photos 2009 John Swain<br />Kaufmann author photo by Cutter Cutshaw<br />Remick author photo by Terry Riggins<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-25420258182498995172009-10-17T03:18:00.001-07:002011-03-17T01:43:05.055-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px; height: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51l6VURq3GL._SS500_.jpg" /></a></div><br />A sensible answer to many of our most challenging housing problems, container architecture is the hottest thing in building today. Easy to transport, environmentally friendly, reusable and recyclable, container buildings are the home of the future today. Container Architecture presents the findings of three years of research into container architecture, showcasing more than 140 top projects with detailed full-color photographs and full resource lists. Container Architecture can hardly contain all these great ideas and innovative solutions?get it now!<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/c5/63/823ec0a398a028650ef82210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/33/a9/45d2c060ada0c52b4ef82210.L.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ed/e5/bdcbe03ae7a00b9e3ef82210.L.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-65216073562625738392009-10-17T03:18:00.000-07:002011-03-16T21:48:13.448-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px; height: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51l6VURq3GL._SS500_.jpg" /></a></div><br />A sensible answer to many of our most challenging housing problems, container architecture is the hottest thing in building today. Easy to transport, environmentally friendly, reusable and recyclable, container buildings are the home of the future today. Container Architecture presents the findings of three years of research into container architecture, showcasing more than 140 top projects with detailed full-color photographs and full resource lists. Container Architecture can hardly contain all these great ideas and innovative solutions?get it now!<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/c5/63/823ec0a398a028650ef82210.L.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/33/a9/45d2c060ada0c52b4ef82210.L.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8496969223/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 475px;" alt="container architecture: this book contains 6441 containers" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/ed/e5/bdcbe03ae7a00b9e3ef82210.L.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-10881749373417409652009-10-17T03:11:00.001-07:002011-03-17T01:43:05.195-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060859644/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 315px; height: 315px;" alt="Prefab Modern" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H2UuTeYZL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div><br />For many, the idea of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> prefab housing </span>may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life. But this idea couldn't be more wrong! Rather, the newest trends in prefab has emerged as a great way for a design- (and cost-) conscious generation to achieve the dream of home ownership. Today, prefab houses are manufactured to the highest standards of construction and aesthetics. And with the internet, these houses can be ordered from all over the world--affording people everywhere the opportunity to acquire an affordable home of distinction.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Prefab Modern explores the best prefabricated houses on the market today, from all over the world along with a resource directory on how you can purchase them. Included are case studies from all over the US and around the world, from top architects and designers. Projects featured include:<br /><br /> * The Ikea "Blokok House"<br /> * Michael Graves "Target House"<br /> * Steven Holl's "Turbulence House" in New Mexico<br /> * David Hertz's Venice, CA "Concrete House"<br /> * "SUSI" and "Fred Houses" from Kaufmann, KFN Architects (Australia)<br /> * Jennifer Siegal's "Office of Mobile Design" and "Seaview House"<br /><br />and many more!<br /><br />Prefab is the inevitable next step to "cool" housing as the market looks for reasonably priced housing for first and second homes. Prefab Modern is the perfect guide to this undeniable and fascinating trend.<br /><br />Who says dream houses are only for the rich? The ongoing revolution in prefabricated homes brings innovative, contemporary design to the masses, transforming "trailer trash to trailer chic," declares architectural writer Herbers. These diverse projects by 15 firms-from Michael Graves’s Pavilions (designed for Target as freestanding structures or home additions) to Rocio Romero’s LV Home building kit-are not only inexpensive, they’re also sturdy, transportable, adaptable and, most revolutionary of all, purchasable online. Much of the secret to cutting costs is using readily available materials such as steel, glass and aluminum, and cutting the building process down to a few days. As a result, several bargain homes featured sell for well under $100,000 and can be assembled by the owner-like Romero’s rustic Fish Camp House for $30,000, including furnishings, or Adam Kalkin’s Quik Build House for $50,000. Glossy photographs highlight these sleek, functional spaces, and pages are enriched by detailed house plans and Herbers’ anecdotal narration of their genesis. The blond wood floors and window-lined bookshelves in Oskar Leo Kaufman’s signature SU-SI House, for example, were originally designed for his sister Suzy and offer a clean, minimalist feel along with plenty of light and storage. Herbers situates the projects within a brief history of modern prefab and muses on the future of the movement. Most important, she aims to make this architectural spectacle as functional as the designs it features by including a final section on "Constructing Prefab," with advice on new materials and processes, building guidelines and a list of material sources. Like prefab modern itself, this book successfully combines both style and practicality. 100 color photographs.<br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-67591793568317017232009-10-17T03:11:00.000-07:002011-03-16T21:48:13.641-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060859644/?tag=songs0c-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 315px; height: 315px;" alt="Prefab Modern" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H2UuTeYZL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg" /></a></div><br />For many, the idea of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> prefab housing </span>may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of home life. But this idea couldn't be more wrong! Rather, the newest trends in prefab has emerged as a great way for a design- (and cost-) conscious generation to achieve the dream of home ownership. Today, prefab houses are manufactured to the highest standards of construction and aesthetics. And with the internet, these houses can be ordered from all over the world--affording people everywhere the opportunity to acquire an affordable home of distinction.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Prefab Modern explores the best prefabricated houses on the market today, from all over the world along with a resource directory on how you can purchase them. Included are case studies from all over the US and around the world, from top architects and designers. Projects featured include:<br /><br /> * The Ikea "Blokok House"<br /> * Michael Graves "Target House"<br /> * Steven Holl's "Turbulence House" in New Mexico<br /> * David Hertz's Venice, CA "Concrete House"<br /> * "SUSI" and "Fred Houses" from Kaufmann, KFN Architects (Australia)<br /> * Jennifer Siegal's "Office of Mobile Design" and "Seaview House"<br /><br />and many more!<br /><br />Prefab is the inevitable next step to "cool" housing as the market looks for reasonably priced housing for first and second homes. Prefab Modern is the perfect guide to this undeniable and fascinating trend.<br /><br />Who says dream houses are only for the rich? The ongoing revolution in prefabricated homes brings innovative, contemporary design to the masses, transforming "trailer trash to trailer chic," declares architectural writer Herbers. These diverse projects by 15 firms-from Michael Graves’s Pavilions (designed for Target as freestanding structures or home additions) to Rocio Romero’s LV Home building kit-are not only inexpensive, they’re also sturdy, transportable, adaptable and, most revolutionary of all, purchasable online. Much of the secret to cutting costs is using readily available materials such as steel, glass and aluminum, and cutting the building process down to a few days. As a result, several bargain homes featured sell for well under $100,000 and can be assembled by the owner-like Romero’s rustic Fish Camp House for $30,000, including furnishings, or Adam Kalkin’s Quik Build House for $50,000. Glossy photographs highlight these sleek, functional spaces, and pages are enriched by detailed house plans and Herbers’ anecdotal narration of their genesis. The blond wood floors and window-lined bookshelves in Oskar Leo Kaufman’s signature SU-SI House, for example, were originally designed for his sister Suzy and offer a clean, minimalist feel along with plenty of light and storage. Herbers situates the projects within a brief history of modern prefab and muses on the future of the movement. Most important, she aims to make this architectural spectacle as functional as the designs it features by including a final section on "Constructing Prefab," with advice on new materials and processes, building guidelines and a list of material sources. Like prefab modern itself, this book successfully combines both style and practicality. 100 color photographs.<br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-26772296364302220592009-10-17T00:37:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:08.561-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/2510924460_839fbaeecc.jpg" alt="Modern Bedrooom, Minimalist bedroom,bedroom interior, contemporary bedroom, interior-design" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Modern Minimalist Bedroom Design with Japan Style</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-48517582475686105912009-10-16T22:08:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.540-07:00Spring fresh living roomSmart dark wood furniture is teamed with creamy neutrals, like the walls and carpet, to create a soothing backdrop in this living room. Flashes of yellow liven up the look, while a nest of tables creates more surface space for books and magazines. The floral cushion covers match the curtains for a super-smart finish.Source via housetohomeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-13687729516076715352009-10-16T20:10:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:08.931-07:00<p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"> <a href="Modern%20Living%20Room%20Decoration%20in%20Apartment"><img src="http://www.rentaldecorating.com/images-08/modernliving.jpg" lowsrc="Interior%20Design" longdesc="Interior Design and Decorating Ideas" alt="Learn Interior Design and Decorating Basics from Interior Designers" border="0" height="282" width="425" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><b>Learn basic interior design principles used by the designers!</b> Get ideas to help in creating your own personalized living space. Find out how to create a floor plan and the basics on selecting furniture and room decorating.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-59897358342097638432009-10-16T18:53:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:09.640-07:00<a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14690000/14691103.JPG" /></a><h5 class="left" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/">My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living<em class="nl">by <span class="">Jonathan Adler</span></em><em class="nl stand-out">Hardcover</em></a></h5><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><span class="removeIcon"><br /></span><br /><img src="http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/14510000/14511726.JPG" /></a><h5 class="left" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/">Home Rules<em class="nl">by <span class="">Nate Berkus</span></em><em class="nl 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type="hidden"><input name="ItemEan" id="ItemEan_24060766" value="9780764132599" type="hidden">Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-6010051005212447812009-10-16T16:45:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:57.921-07:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358454101600866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkO8FMTamI/AAAAAAAAHjw/BTttVagsL8s/s400/fallingwater+post.JPG" border="0" />Last weekend I toured Fallingwater, the famous Frank Lloyd Wright designed country house for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr while in Western Pennsylvania. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPdfBBOMI/AAAAAAAAHkg/uNTwk0AFo_U/s1600-h/fallingwater.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393359027969276098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPdfBBOMI/AAAAAAAAHkg/uNTwk0AFo_U/s400/fallingwater.JPG" border="0" /></a>This is the famous view as seen from across the waterfall. I hadn't visited in a few years and was hit again by how modern this house really is: hard to believe it was designed in 1934. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358592053517506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPEHGmnMI/AAAAAAAAHkQ/b9eqSjFGGPc/s400/188-8900_IMG.JPG" border="0" />Edgar Kaufmann Jr. was studying with Frank LLoyd Wright (a low point of FLW's career where he taught to make ends meet) and convinced his parents to hire him to build a country house on their land in Bear Run, PA. The highlight of the land was a beautiful waterfall and Wright ingeniously recommended building ON the falls rather than facing them (the common approach). <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358597910752722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPEc7E7dI/AAAAAAAAHkY/6L2P0Meo6Jo/s400/188-8897_IMG.JPG" border="0" />The Kaufmann's would escape here with friends or alone for years: lots of parties and drama, trust me! The commission revived Frank Lloyd Wright's career, even making the cover of Time magazine shortly after it was completed. Not bad for a private country house!<br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkO6lOzBFI/AAAAAAAAHjQ/KbkSS1GtP2M/s1600-h/living+room.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358428342256722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkO6lOzBFI/AAAAAAAAHjQ/KbkSS1GtP2M/s400/living+room.JPG" border="0" /></a>The living room connects you to the outside in many ways. You can hear the falls situated right right underneath, as seen below. The natural stone walls and flooring also connect you to the site as do the large open expanses of windows.<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOyuU4fOI/AAAAAAAAHjI/v0ql_-gnywg/s1600-h/looking+down.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358293344746722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOyuU4fOI/AAAAAAAAHjI/v0ql_-gnywg/s400/looking+down.JPG" border="0" /></a>Numerous seating areas in this large entertaining space make for a great party room. The house is much smaller than you would think, about 2,500 sf, and this is the only public space. A very modern idea which many of us have in our own homes, one room for living room, den & dining room.<br /><div><div><div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOxAHkjeI/AAAAAAAAHio/Ua-dH8uEcN4/s1600-h/sitting+area.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358263761014242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOxAHkjeI/AAAAAAAAHio/Ua-dH8uEcN4/s400/sitting+area.JPG" border="0" /></a>The Kaufmann's must have really kept Tiffany's in business. The house is littered with beautiful objects such as these bowls on the low tables in the sitting area.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358132710054754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOpX6lm2I/AAAAAAAAHiI/WkseG2OumMo/s400/tiffany+bowls.JPG" border="0" />Unfortunately, an overly zealous maid had attacked them with a brillo pad, scrubbing the gilding off!<br /><div><div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOpz8OltI/AAAAAAAAHiQ/YalsWU_yE0U/s1600-h/telescoping+door.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358140233127634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOpz8OltI/AAAAAAAAHiQ/YalsWU_yE0U/s400/telescoping+door.JPG" border="0" /></a>The falls are connected to the living room directly with a set of stairs which take you down to the stream right before the waterfall. The windows telescope back allowing access.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358574611728290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPDGIKB6I/AAAAAAAAHkA/ek9dsJFYLQ4/s400/dining+room+flowers.JPG" border="0" />One of the nicest features is that the house is set up as if the Kaufmann's might walk in at any moment with many personal items and fresh flowers in every room. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358583274973394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPDmZoqNI/AAAAAAAAHkI/Xk2zuHEVfcI/s400/cross+breezes.JPG" border="0" />As air conditioning was rare in 1934, cross ventilation was extremely important, even in the mountains of Pennsylvania. In the guest room on the 2nd floor, these small windows are located above the bed along with a large wall of glass facing south.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358441377629282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkO7VyrBGI/AAAAAAAAHjg/DGM6D4PXmVU/s400/her+bathroom.JPG" border="0" />Even Mrs. Kaufmann's bathroom is set up as if in use: much of this beautiful glass is from lalique. Extraordinary! Love the planters screening the bathroom from the master bedroom's terrace.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358572913329794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkPC_zOhoI/AAAAAAAAHj4/hoIbE9aMKDk/s400/dressing+table.JPG" border="0" />More Tiffany pieces on Mrs. Kaufmann's dressing table.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358279106449634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOx5SNUOI/AAAAAAAAHi4/9Diu9-Wr2CI/s400/nightstand.JPG" border="0" />The lamp seen here on Mr. Kaufmann's nightstand is located throughout the house and was designed by FLW for the house. They're available for <a href="http://www.fallingwatermuseumstore.org/browse.cfm/fallingwater/furniture/fallingwater-15-vertical-bedside-lamp/4,179.html">purchase</a> in the giftshop: I was so tempted!!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358275003322098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOxp_8jvI/AAAAAAAAHiw/ePOiP2VlQ6U/s400/shelves.JPG" border="0" />Mr. Kaufmann's desk in his bedroom (yes, seperate his and her bedrooms) had fresh flowers and a Tiffany inkwell: the most important thing to note is the notch in the desk to allow the window to open bringing in the sound of the falls.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358436353135010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkO7DEvUaI/AAAAAAAAHjY/bEe2kABfnsw/s400/linen+closet.JPG" border="0" />One of the most noted features of the home are the linen shelves with reeding to allow air to circulate: I wish I had this at home!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358285688461042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOyRze1vI/AAAAAAAAHjA/0Mqg8FKe83I/s400/mrs+kaufmann.JPG" border="0" />Mrs. Kaufmann sadly committed suicide here at the house but her memory lives on. Besides being buried here with her husband, this photo of her with fresh flowers lies in her son's 3rd floor bedroom.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358144495954034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOqD0kKHI/AAAAAAAAHiY/DBrXFXpZgZs/s400/statue.JPG" border="0" />My favorite part of the house is probably the ascent to the guest house, built a few years after the house which contains additional guest & servant quarters along with a carport.<br /><div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOo--I4sI/AAAAAAAAHiA/_Y1tHMQ3PTI/s1600-h/walkway.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358126014063298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOo--I4sI/AAAAAAAAHiA/_Y1tHMQ3PTI/s400/walkway.JPG" border="0" /></a>The path of stairs is covered with this cantilevered roof which is really breathtaking: A true structural feat!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358450849280498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkO75E48fI/AAAAAAAAHjo/M9muAX0b5PU/s400/guest+sitting.JPG" border="0" />The guest sitting room is really comfortable and as beautiful as the main house. One bonus feature is the taller ceiling! Additional guests could sleep on the built in sofa along the window wall as well as in the guest bedroom next door which housed many famous luminaries of the day, including Einstein.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393358152900189074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StkOqjISm5I/AAAAAAAAHig/e0dfbWtwT3s/s400/stained+glass.JPG" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br />Edgar Kaufmann, Jr realized the importance of this house and donated it to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in October, 1963 after his parents deaths. He remained an active supporter of the museum till his death when his ashes were strewn over the grounds, near his parents.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-74180530323746503592009-10-16T16:42:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:10.035-07:00<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3636350367_a05641da48.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" /><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" >Modern wallpaper: Blue & brown floral textured metallic print, originally uploaded by xJavierx.</span></div></div><p>Modern wallpaper: Blue & brown floral textured metallic print<br /><br />Lasari Flock by Romo. Photo from romofabrics.com.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-18353348890819395132009-10-16T13:18:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:10.478-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 197px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4soAfirknHk/SjFnkdKTmVI/AAAAAAAAAj0/_XML3GymfTI/s320/Malmsten.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346168108666296658" border="0" /></a><br /><br />While surfing the web, I came across Retro To Go. They had a post about Carl Malmsten Samsas sofa and easy chair. The style "originated in the 1920s when Malmsten was working on furniture for the then newly constructed Stockholm Concert Hall." There is still a company that makes Malmsten sofas.<br /><br />Retro To Go writes,<br /><blockquote>His design style was routed in his Swedish background and traditions – he worked a lot with the blond woods that are now so closely associated with Scandinavian style – and he wanted his furniture to inspire a warmth feeling. This certainly is reflected in this pleasing curving design. One of Malmsten's main achievements was to found two schools of design and also to establish co-operative furniture making workshops. It's these that continue to produce the furniture manufactured under his name today. </blockquote><br />No fashion goes out of style. Good design just gets put away and then brought back at a later date.<br /><br />Bev & Mike<br />Landfair Furniture + Design gallery<br />Follow us on Twitter</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-17231675242800175952009-10-16T10:38:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:32:32.696-07:00George and I are always up for saving a buck. We are <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">frugalites</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">primarily</span> because that's just how we are. We <em>like</em> being this way; it <a href="http://www.wearethatfamily.com/2009/10/wfmw-ten-ways-to-please-your-husband.html">works for us</a>. Even if we had a million dollars in the bank I would still happily clip coupons every Sunday night and make out my grocery list according to the specials because it's <em>fun</em>. But, we also have another motive. We want to pay off our house early and <em>finally</em> be debt free.<br /><br />We believe that debt is bondage, (particularly excessive debt). Imagine being tied up to a chair and being unable to move or barely gasp for breath. If you are in debt or have been in the past, you know what I'm talking about. Any debt that has become even the least bit difficult to manage strangles you and sucks the very life out of you and your marriage. George and I do not want this to happen to us so are taking strides to finally be completely out of debt.<br /><br /><br />I know penny pinching takes a lot of flak, especially from the crowd that wants to save big bucks by forgoing a daily latte, and yet still live a high consumption lifestyle in every other way.<br /><br />Penny Pinching <em>does</em> pay off; but <em>only</em> if you are careful about the big things too. Ever heard that old saying "penny wise and pound foolish"? Not a good thing to aspire to.<br /><br />George and I are pretty careful with our money -- the little things <em>and</em> the big things. You simply cannot have healthy finances if you consistently over spend in either area.<br /><br /><br /><br />Here are some of the things we've found to be very helpful to us in saving money.<br /><br /><br /><strong>1. We tithe on our personal revenue and business revenue.</strong><br /><br />Tithing not only opens the windows of heaven; it does a miracle work on the inside of us. When we acknowledge God as the source of our <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">capabilities</span>, talents, business ideas and plans that cause us to prosper we stop being so greedy with the money we do have. We realize our success has a whole lot more to do with God than it does us. We've found the less greedy we are with what God gives us, the more He blesses us.<br /><br /><br />This technically isn't a money saving idea, but God's always made the other 90% go so miraculously far that we consider tithing as a money saver.<br /><br /><strong>2. We do not overspend on big things...<em> </em>like<em> houses.</em></strong> Knowing a house will probably be the biggest purchase we will ever make; George and I are cautious to the extreme about housing (even before the housing bubble popped). Buying too expensive of a house causes more financial hardship in this country than anything else in our opinion. We figure that if we keep our housing expenses under control, then the rest of our finances would be easy; well, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">easi</span><em>er</em>.<br /><br /><br /><em>A little about our housing situation.</em><br /><br />George and I both owned modest homes before getting married. Mine was getting close to being paid off and George's was entirely paid off. Rest assured, these were not large, fancy homes in exclusive subdivisions. When I say modest; I <em>mean</em> modest. In our opinion a modest home that's paid off is much more desirable than a much nicer home that comes with a hippo sized payment.<br /><br /><br />We were delighted to be starting out marriage in such a good position housing-wise (two houses to sell). The home we live in now, we purchased just after we got married. It's an old farmhouse out in the country. We have a modest <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">mortgage</span> on this house that we are working <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">diligently</span> to pay off in the next few years.<br /><br /><br />We <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">could've</span> bought a much nicer home according to the credit union, but we chose not to. We chose a home where the payments (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">including</span> taxes) would be less than 20% of the one fixed income source we have, which is my job in the Accounting field. Our credit union was willing to lend us <em>a lot</em> more money, but I shudder to think how painful it would be to write a check every month that would take up such a large portion of our take home pay. Plus, that would make it impossible for us to have enough money left to make extra principle payments so the mortgage could be paid off early.<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong>3. We save on the little things</strong><br /><br /><br /><p>Every family is unique so some of the ideas I'll share here might not work for you and that's okay. Here's a handful of the things we do that work for us. </p><ul><li>cook most of our meals from scratch</li><li>eat out infrequently -- usually as a special treat, maybe twice a month</li><li>hang our laundry to dry</li><li>make our own laundry soap</li><li>cover our windows with plastic during winter</li><li>use <a href="http://print.coupons.com/couponweb/index.aspx?pid=14602&zid=yf73&nid=10&cid=0&bid=ALK1016101000136E137C116217">coupons</a>, coupons and <a href="http://print.coupons.com/couponweb/index.aspx?pid=14602&zid=yf73&nid=10&cid=0&bid=ALK1016101000136E137C116217">more coupons</a> combined with sale prices.</li><li>plan meals around what's in our pantry and freezer (stocked from great sales, of course!)</li><li><a href="http://farmhomelife.blogspot.com/2009/05/fruit-and-vegetable-gardening-ideas.html">grow a garden</a></li></ul><p><strong>4. We don't shop much.</strong></p><p>This is probably the biggest way we save money. We just don't buy very much stuff. We buy what we need, and sometimes even stuff we don't need but just want. But <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">honestly</span> we don't want very many things that we don't need. That's the secret. Seems like it would be the biggest burden to carry around -- always wanting something you don't need. </p><p>It's wonderful to save money and everything, but what sense does it make if you were just browsing through the craft store, Target or the hardware store and bought a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">whatchamacallit</span> on a great deal. Good news if this is an item you needed and were on the look out for. Bad news if this is an item you think you might use someday -- that's cash right out of your pocket. </p><p>I don't think it's the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">occasional</span> treat of buying something just because you like it and want to have it. As a matter of fact, I think its good to do something like this once in a while, providing it's not something hugely expensive like a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">cruise</span>, new car, etc. Buying something for fun is a nice pick me up. But when you start doing it every week, every day is when the trouble starts. </p><p></p><p>After going over this before hitting the magic publish button I realized the things we do might seem rather dull and boring to you. After all, you can read the same thing (well, all but the tithing) in any money saving article found in a supermarket check line magazine. </p><p></p><p><strong>5. I'm rich! It's all about the attitude. </strong></p><p>This applies mostly to me, and not so much my husband. Long time readers and those that have read through my <a href="http://farmhomelife.blogspot.com/search/label/Old%20Fashioned%20Life">Old Fashioned Life series</a> know that I grew up very poor. So poor, in fact that I sincerely thought that anyone that was lucky enough to have an indoor bathroom was fabulously <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">wealthy</span>. I knew what it was like to worry about the garden stores not lasting through the winter. What it would me to our family if one of us got gravely ill or injured or the impact of a crop failure. </p><p><br />If I got to meet the 35 year old Trixie when I was the little 7 year old Trixie I would have thought I was so rich you couldn't imagine. We have an indoor bathroom with toilet paper (read <a href="http://farmhomelife.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-old-fashioned-life-outhouses.html">this</a>), we have a furnace for heat, gardening, hunting and fishing are not a necessity for survival, we have hot running water. Really, what more could you want?</p><p><br />I think growing up thinking the basic necessities makes you rich, has dramatically shaped my view of money and possessions today. I don't really ever feel like we need more and therefore seldom feel the need to buy stuff that isn't <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">truly</span> needed. As a matter of fact, I think we could easily do with less. Sometimes I just look around our home amazed; we have so very much! Yet when we have to do without something or get to comparing ourselves to others it's so easy to start feeling sorry for ourselves; isn't it?<br /><a href="http://ow.ly/t7r7"></a><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-77558601048515585542009-10-16T10:34:00.000-07:002011-03-21T21:18:03.381-07:00<div align="left">Eileen & I just got back from a most delicious lunch at the Grand Opening of Cakes By Happy Eatery in Manassas. Today was their very first open day, but you would not have known it ~ they were very organized, and our sandwiches were excellent! And of course we couldn't leave there without bringing back a box of exquisite sweet treats for everyone at Dominion. Yum! Eileen helped the owner, Victoria, with all of her lighting needs, as well as some of her general design decisions. They did a fantastic job ~ look how beautiful it is!</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StiwVmg4VtI/AAAAAAAAAa8/JCuYzBX_6dM/s1600-h/dscn1614.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393254438938367698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StiwVmg4VtI/AAAAAAAAAa8/JCuYzBX_6dM/s320/dscn1614.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>Their address is 9685 Liberia Ave, Unit 107, Manassas, VA 20110</p><p align="center">703-530-8898 </p><div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivyOjXOJI/AAAAAAAAAas/COocFEsZp8g/s1600-h/dscn1612.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393253831210907794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivyOjXOJI/AAAAAAAAAas/COocFEsZp8g/s320/dscn1612.jpg" border="0" /></a> Victoria, the owner, on the left, and our Eileen Naughton on the right<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivxpUPrFI/AAAAAAAAAak/ar1f6JgudPw/s1600-h/dscn1611.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393253821215386706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivxpUPrFI/AAAAAAAAAak/ar1f6JgudPw/s320/dscn1611.jpg" border="0" /></a> Look at the delicious treats! And don't forget the beautiful lighting by Besa.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivxL1ZcyI/AAAAAAAAAac/i0SKSimQEwU/s1600-h/dscn1610.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393253813301375778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivxL1ZcyI/AAAAAAAAAac/i0SKSimQEwU/s320/dscn1610.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Eileen's trying to decide which treats to bring back to the ladies at Dominion!</div><div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivwhBzNcI/AAAAAAAAAaU/nU1HwxIMqW0/s1600-h/dscn1609.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393253801810671042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/StivwhBzNcI/AAAAAAAAAaU/nU1HwxIMqW0/s320/dscn1609.jpg" border="0" /></a></div></div><br /></div><p align="center">I loved the framed "portfolio" pictures.</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="left">They also have a Centreville location where I had helped with lighting several years ago. That address is 14200A Centreville Square, 20121 (703) 988-9688. And their website is <a href="http://www.cakesbyhappyeatery.com/">www.CakesByHappyEatery.com</a>. Enjoy!</p><p align="center"> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-3164149797815671142009-10-16T10:33:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:10.931-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 432px; height: 287px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/hoesch-libeskind-futuristic-bathtub-1-554x369.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-12784995810751173032009-10-16T10:32:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:58.175-07:00Safari 7<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/4016731017_6a841377ed_o.jpg" width="475" height="565" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: The <a href="http://www.safari7.org/"target="_blank">Safari 7 Reading Room</a> open now at <a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/school/studiox"target="_blank">Studio-X</a>].</small><br /><br />Earlier this year, while driving down Highway 5, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, my wife and I passed through huge and endless clouds of butterflies. For a few seconds, the effect was extraordinarily beautiful—even sublime—but, within an instant, our car was covered in tiny corpses: yellow blurs smashing repeatedly against the windshield, leaving a grotesque series of impenetrable smudges. Looking at the other cars around us—not to mention heavy moving trucks and agricultural semis running short-haul routes downstate—it was clear that an all-out slaughter of these migratory butterflies was underway. <br /><br />What strange irony of the California landscape would lead butterflies to follow a major highway on their seasonal migrations—or what triumph of bad planning would result in that highway being built in perfect alignment with a preexisting animal geography? <br /><br />Of course, the landscape itself might all but guarantee such an overlap, as California's central valley offers both <a href="http://www.dot.ca.gov/"target="_blank">Caltrans</a> and <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050519144731.htm"target="_blank">Painted Lady butterflies</a> an effective and easy route to from north to south. But what other examples might there be of human transportation infrastructure coexisting with biological routes of passage?<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2601/4016802035_04342e1732_o.jpg" width="475" height="839" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Gavin Browning of <a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/school/studiox"target="_blank">Studio-X</a> shows Nicola Twilley of <a href="http://ediblegeography.com/"target="_blank"><i>Edible Geography</i></a> around the <a href="http://www.safari7.org/"target="_blank"><i>Safari 7 Reading Room</i></a>].</small><br /><br />I'm reminded here of artist Elliot Malkin's <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/artificial-migration-routes-for-monarch.html"><i>Graffiti for Butterflies</i></a> project, which—morally or not—sought to create new migration routes for other species using aerosol sprays that only non-human eyes can see. <br /><br />What paths for animals could we thus build through our cities? Birds following WiFi signals along parallel geographies through the urban canyons our buildings now frame...<br /><br />Exploring all of these questions, and more, is a cool new exhibition called the <a href="http://www.safari7.org/"target="_blank"><i>Safari 7 Reading Room</i></a>, which opened last night at New York's <a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/school/studiox"target="_blank">Studio-X</a>. Nicola Twilley, of <a href="http://ediblegeography.com/"target="_blank"><i>Edible Geography</i></a>, and I got to take a tour of the exhibition before it opened with Studio-X's Gavin Browning.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2463/4016774587_e96684778e_o.jpg" width="475" height="255" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: A map of the 7 train's ecological route; from the <a href="http://www.safari7.org/"target="_blank">Safari 7 Reading Room</a>].</small><br /><br />The project, developed by <a href="http://urbanlandscapelab.org/"target="_blank">Urban Landscape Lab</a> and <a href="http://mtwtf.org/"target="_blank">MTWTF</a>, with a series of podcasts created by architecture students from <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archprogram/"target="_blank">Barnard & Columbia Colleges</a>, treats New York City's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(New_York_City_Subway_service)"target="_blank">7 train</a> as a kind of safari: what creatures live along the 7 line—and what ecosystem does the train route explore? <ul>Oysters, dogs, humans, worms, snakefish, cormorants and germs are some of the species that populate the length of the MTA 7 train. The “Safari 7 Reading Room” is an exhibition that presents a series of 3D maps, audio listening stations, curated reading materials, and a series of large-scale drawings of animal habitats, behaviors and life cycles in relationship to urban culture and history at selected sites along the MTA No. 7 line.</ul>The podcasts, in particular, we read, are meant as way to "reimagine train cars as eco-urban classrooms, inviting travelers to act as park rangers in their city." You just download the appropriate sound file, pop in your earphones, and the city becomes an immersive wildlife environment within seconds.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/4016734981_cef203de21_o.jpg" width="475" height="356" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Let's go on a city safari... From <a href="http://www.safari7.org/"target="_blank"><i>Safari 7</i></a>].</small><br /><br />The city is treated as an environment full of "decomposers" (the 7 line passes by graveyards), "urban coops" (there are gardens and allotments along the way), "Frankenfish" (aquatic life mutationally altered by chemical runoff), dog parks, weed-choked vacant buildings, and more. <br /><br />It's a nature tour of New York, using the city's existing transportation infrastructure as both route and guide—and it's a fantastic idea. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 23px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2648/4017495482_4b6ec5e726_o.jpg" width="475" height="306" border="0" alt="" />Vaguely similar things have been done, for instance, in London, where walking tours of the now-buried rivers beneath the city's surface reveal what present-day geographies inhabit these lost natural worlds today. Of course, there is also Fritz Haeg's <a href="http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/animalestates/main.html"target="_blank"><i>Animal Estates</i></a> project, which asks us "to consider the animals that we share our cities with, and creates dwellings for animals that have been unwelcome or displaced by humans. As animal habitats dwindle daily," Haeg continues, "<i>Animal Estates</i> proposes the reintroduction of animals back into our cities, strip malls, garages, office parks, freeways, front yards, parking lots, skyscrapers, and neighborhoods." <br /><br />Further, I remember reading in Alan Weisman's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BWQ4XW?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002BWQ4XW"><i>The World Without Us</i></a> that many of New York's subway lines would simply become "rivers" after mere weeks of pumpless-ness (it would only take 36 hours, I believe Weisman wrote, for the entire New York subway system to flood should the pumps truly fail). <br /><br />This notion that much older ecologies and whole parallel geographies lie waiting beneath our cities, just waiting to self-resurrect and come roaring back to the surface, is something that has long fascinated me. Along these lines, there's a great quotation from Michael Novacek's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374531412?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0374531412"><i>Terra</i></a>: <ul>Ecologists often point out that the images of Earth still harboring unspoiled, pristine wild places is a myth. We live in a human-dominated world, they say, and virtually no habitat is untouched by our presence. Yet we are hardly the infallible masters of that universe. Instead, we are rather uneasy regents, a fragile and dysfunctional royal family holding back a revolution.</ul>In fact, I'm now reading Laurie Garrett's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140250913?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0140250913"><i>The Coming Plague</i></a>, and it seems not unrealistic to argue that Novacek's "revolution" is already underway—only it is being spearheaded by previously unknown diseases. <br /><br />In any case, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention one more project in this context: <a href="http://www.invisible5.org/"target="_blank"><i>Invisible-5</i></a>, an eco-geo-socio-enviro-chemical audio tour of California's Highway 5, the same route where this post began:<ul><i>Invisible-5</i> investigates the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor, through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. </ul>So what other human routes could we explore for their ecologies, the landscapes they coexist with or simply cover? London bus lines, the Chicago El, ferry routes through the Baltic, Beijing's ring-roads, or perhaps even your own daily commute through the city. <br /><br />The <a href="http://www.safari7.org/"target="_blank"><i>Safari 7 Reading Room</i></a> is up at <a href="http://www.arch.columbia.edu/school/studiox"target="_blank">Studio-X</a> until December 31, 2009.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-58926470016003026612009-10-16T10:17:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:11.569-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="max-width: 800px; width: 414px; height: 294px;" src="http://www.brand1.co.uk/images/baths/images/brand1_bathrooms_fitted_12_jpg.jpg" /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-42652007571073522462009-10-16T10:05:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:20.166-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/StioI54-5FI/AAAAAAAAFaU/rtMrJGAj3j8/s1600-h/groceries+001.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393245424708412498" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/StioI54-5FI/AAAAAAAAFaU/rtMrJGAj3j8/s400/groceries+001.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Peter Pan $1.22 - $.50 Oct All You doubled= $.22</div><div>Log Cabin syrup $3.49/2- (2) $.50 PQ doubled= $.74 each</div><div>Ronzini Pasta $.89- $1/2 PQ= $.39 each</div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Kellogs Rice Krispies $3.99/2- one free</span> and three $1 coupons from Vocalpoint Mailer= <span style="color:#ff0000;">1free,</span> 3 $.99 each.</div><div>BCrocker fruit snack$1.30-$.40 PQ doubled = $.50</div><div>Old El Paso taco mix $1.07/2- $.60/2 PQ = $.23 each</div><div>Hillshire Farm smoked sausage $1.99 ea - (2) $1/2 Q from Yellow Advantage flyer at front of store = $.99 each</div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;">Snuggle fabric softener $3.00- $3.00 RP 10/4=</span><span style="color:#ff0000;"> free</span></div><div><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;">Total $11.13</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-72655333575928509392009-10-16T08:37:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:56:21.734-07:00<div align="center"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SteoR7ypvuI/AAAAAAAAE_w/hlGJmnk0aAk/s1600-h/image.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392964104860843746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 187px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SteoR7ypvuI/AAAAAAAAE_w/hlGJmnk0aAk/s400/image.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://wwwcdn.oprah.com/slideshow/oathome/slideshow1_ss_nate_diyideas/4">O at Home, Winter 2007</a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(Click on the above 'O at Home' to read more)</span></div><p><br />I love decorating with children's art, it is a wonderful way to bring a light hearted quality to a room. Below the artwork is framed in multiple frames, creating a feature wall.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdyPau44QI/AAAAAAAAE_A/CJ0XMuYWMeI/s1600-h/DSC07028.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392904687999049986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdyPau44QI/AAAAAAAAE_A/CJ0XMuYWMeI/s320/DSC07028.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Here I hung eight frames purchased at an <a href="http://www.aaronbrothers.com/">Aaron Brothers</a> buy one, get the second one for a penny sale. The cost for these frames was just $40! Once home I browsed through a stack of artwork that had been saved and placed my favorites in the frames. Fast, easy and inexpensive with a delightful result.<br /><br />My favorite in this grouping are the paper dolls...I especially love framing shapes the kids have cut out and colored. During a visit my mother in law helped Isabella cut these dolls, followed by Isabella drawing these quirky characters on each one. When I saw these figures laid out on the table I knew they were just too special to be stored away in a file. Instead I layered them within the frame and was completely smitten with the result.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StfmHv_Kd-I/AAAAAAAAFAc/sufbTJDlQcI/s1600-h/DSC07134-5.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393032099614324706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 257px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StfmHv_Kd-I/AAAAAAAAFAc/sufbTJDlQcI/s320/DSC07134-5.JPG" border="0" /></a> So much so that the people at Oprah's... (sadly now defunct)... 'O at Home' took <a href="http://wwwcdn.oprah.com/slideshow/oathome/slideshow1_ss_nate_diyideas/4">notice</a>. That is a whole other story that would require more time than I have at the moment to write about! But someday, I promise.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-92001304847170268482009-10-16T05:19:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.564-07:00Calling All Pelmet BoxesAt the request of some readers, I'm putting together a Flickr group of pelmet boxes that YOU have made using <a href="http://littlegreennotebook.blogspot.com/2009/09/easy-pelmet-boxes.html">this basic tutorial</a>. I'll also be doing a post about all the submitted projects.<br /><br /><img src="http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd246/jkomenda/pelmet8.jpg" /><br /><br />If you'd like to be included, <a href="mailto:pearlstreetinteriors@gmail.com">please send me an email</a> with a link to your blog post or a picture of your DIY pelmet. Please resend this info even if you've already emailed me or left a comment.<br /><br />Won't it be inspirational to see what other DIYers chose for the pelmet box shape and the fabric they used?<br /><br />First up: <a href="http://johnsjournal-maria.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-all-greek-to-me.html">Maria's</a> chic golden combo.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/SthqontKzII/AAAAAAAAKIo/9PeOV7wpPEk/s1600-h/DSC_0159.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/SthqontKzII/AAAAAAAAKIo/9PeOV7wpPEk/s400/DSC_0159.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393177799861914754" border="0" /></a><br />She used a stencil from JoAnns to make the pattern on the pelmet, which looks like an expensive trim from afar.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/SthqpE9rDTI/AAAAAAAAKIw/Lvj50poQyjE/s1600-h/DSC_0163.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/SthqpE9rDTI/AAAAAAAAKIw/Lvj50poQyjE/s400/DSC_0163.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393177807715765554" border="0" /></a><br />LOVE this project! Thanks for sharing, Maria!!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Don't forget to <a href="mailto:pearlstreetinteriors@gmail.com">submit</a> your pelmet box project this weekend!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-51735340526485079762009-10-15T20:45:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:12.036-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 455px; height: 383px;" src="http://i42.tinypic.com/szee4w.jpg" alt="Modern Living Room, Minimalist Living room,Living room interior, contemporary bedroom, interior-design" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Modern Living Room Decoration in Apartment<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-3329660373010957472009-10-15T20:06:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:58.201-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfmAHfRiHI/AAAAAAAAHh4/VW8Svc6g3Oo/s1600-h/hall+of+mirrors.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031968484067442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfmAHfRiHI/AAAAAAAAHh4/VW8Svc6g3Oo/s400/hall+of+mirrors.JPG" border="0" /></a> Were you wondering when I would get to the good stuff from Versailles? I think I've kept you waiting long enough! The most famous room at Versailles is undoubtedly the Hall of Mirrors. I've enabled clicking on my photos so you can zoom into the details.<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl_7U0akI/AAAAAAAAHhw/jOeM1s5NBzk/s1600-h/179-7925_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031965218990658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl_7U0akI/AAAAAAAAHhw/jOeM1s5NBzk/s400/179-7925_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> I wasn't sure what to expect. I've seen photographs of it my entire life but I was totally blown away.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031956839649810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl_cHB0hI/AAAAAAAAHho/gPEmJcEI4To/s400/179-7941_IMG.JPG" border="0" />Blown away not just by the sumptuousness of every detail: the gilding, the beautiful mirror, the huge crowds, but mainly by the beautiful light.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031951551338242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl_IaMlwI/AAAAAAAAHhg/AKifAaaw8UA/s400/179-7942_IMG.JPG" border="0" />The room is immensely long, 239.5' to be exact, and that doesn't include the adjoining Salon of War and the Salon of Peace on either end.<br /><div><div><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl2gmQRQI/AAAAAAAAHhY/ummd2hTu1pQ/s1600-h/179-7943_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031803425539330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl2gmQRQI/AAAAAAAAHhY/ummd2hTu1pQ/s400/179-7943_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> The light comes from the tall french doors facing the gardens and is reflected into the 17 mirror clad archways opposite. All of the crystal, highly polished marble and gilding don't hurt either!<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl2LQgZ1I/AAAAAAAAHhQ/bWfJ3rZD7dE/s1600-h/179-7944_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031797697177426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl2LQgZ1I/AAAAAAAAHhQ/bWfJ3rZD7dE/s400/179-7944_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> At the time of the halls construction in 1678, mirrors were one of the most expensive items to own. Meant as a gathering place at the palace, the mirrors were not just a decorative item but also meant to impress all those waiting for a glimpse of the king.<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl1-LjB0I/AAAAAAAAHhI/XUd12HoXvKE/s1600-h/179-7946_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031794186716994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl1-LjB0I/AAAAAAAAHhI/XUd12HoXvKE/s400/179-7946_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> I was impressed.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031630900670626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stflsd5HsKI/AAAAAAAAHgg/ZHizcOnfMFw/s400/179-7952_IMG.JPG" border="0" /> <div>As you can see, so was everyone else! Everyone was jockeying for elbow room to take pictures!<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl1DmgONI/AAAAAAAAHg4/shsN8hfCJOw/s1600-h/179-7949_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031778462087378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfl1DmgONI/AAAAAAAAHg4/shsN8hfCJOw/s400/179-7949_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> The hall was designed by the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart for Louis XIV; would you expect anything less from either man?<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfltB0rX1I/AAAAAAAAHgw/Ucc097TgnLc/s1600-h/179-7950_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031640545714002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfltB0rX1I/AAAAAAAAHgw/Ucc097TgnLc/s400/179-7950_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> Beautiful candelabras and statues line the hallway, reflected ten fold by the mirror.<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfls2IwMmI/AAAAAAAAHgo/RArEycvbYi4/s1600-h/179-7951_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031637408690786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfls2IwMmI/AAAAAAAAHgo/RArEycvbYi4/s400/179-7951_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a>The views over the gardens are spectacular: I could have spent all day long in this one room.<br /><div><div><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StflroCPQMI/AAAAAAAAHgQ/rAlpO-HXqMw/s1600-h/179-7954_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031616443400386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StflroCPQMI/AAAAAAAAHgQ/rAlpO-HXqMw/s400/179-7954_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> I kept pinching myself: am I really here?<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfleiUmMsI/AAAAAAAAHgI/2z7DSGeHkKQ/s1600-h/179-7955_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031391571489474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfleiUmMsI/AAAAAAAAHgI/2z7DSGeHkKQ/s400/179-7955_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> Towards the end of my visit in this great room, I started to pay closer attention to the mirror.<br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfleV8AqOI/AAAAAAAAHgA/-Y07VKfnWb8/s1600-h/179-7956_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031388247140578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfleV8AqOI/AAAAAAAAHgA/-Y07VKfnWb8/s400/179-7956_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> Does it look ok to you? Hazy maybe?<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfld1rwSgI/AAAAAAAAHf4/5G1ERSMTrTM/s1600-h/179-7977_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031379589024258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Stfld1rwSgI/AAAAAAAAHf4/5G1ERSMTrTM/s400/179-7977_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> Not just old, but there is GRAFFITI on the mirror! At first I was outraged!!!<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfldmSR8VI/AAAAAAAAHfw/XY6BZfRqyzE/s1600-h/179-7978_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031375455646034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfldmSR8VI/AAAAAAAAHfw/XY6BZfRqyzE/s400/179-7978_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> Then I started to read what was scratched onto the glass. Most of the inscriptions left behind are from 100-200 years ago. Historical graffiti!<br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfldDVG_FI/AAAAAAAAHfo/frcke2BCafs/s1600-h/179-7979_IMG.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393031366072269906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StfldDVG_FI/AAAAAAAAHfo/frcke2BCafs/s400/179-7979_IMG.JPG" border="0" /></a> Somehow that made it much more acceptable to me, is that wrong? This last image has been the screensaver on my home computer since I came back. History refleccts history!</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-21981148970619396682009-10-15T19:10:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:12.406-07:00Hey, gang, check out Angela Todd's blog. She has a step-by-step process to get remodeling or redecorating project underway.<br /><br />Another post on her blog has pictures of the Home Builders Association’s Ultimate Open House, which took place on April 18th-19th and 25th-26th. She says it was a tremendous success. The Interior Design Society of Portland worked with several of the home builders to stage and style their homes. This picture just steals my heart. I just love the drama and the striking saturated orange:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 495px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4soAfirknHk/SkGMd4Nc2gI/AAAAAAAAAk0/MRLcHUyjLas/s320/Angela+Todd+3507115304_69705b4ded.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350712277225757186" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />The only thing missing on her blog is a blogroll and our blog on it.<br /><br />Bev & Mike<br /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT895">Landfair Furniture + Design gallery</span><br />Follow us on <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT896">Twitter</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-83728534632942515582009-10-15T19:00:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:58.400-07:00Chemical ArchiveAs the world's glaciers melt, they've begun to release an archive of banned industrial substances back into the environment, chemicals that have been locked, frozen, inside the glacial ice for up to thirty years. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2437/4015121119_974eb3309d_o.jpg" width="475" height="258" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Photo via the <a href="http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/scientists_expect_increased_melting_of_mountain_glaciers/?tx_list_pi1%5Bmode%5D=6&cHash=a8f84f17aa"target="_blank">Alfred Wegener Institute</a>].</small><br /><br />According to <a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/13/glaciers-melt-pollutants.html"target="_blank"><i>Discovery</i></a>, "many persistent pollutants, including PCBs, dioxins and several chlorine-containing pesticides [such as] DDT" have begun to leach out from melting glaciers in places like Switzerland. <br /><br />The idea of a poisonous <a href="http://htcexperiments.org/2008/09/19/project-08-urban-ice-core-indoor-air-archive-200/"target="_blank">atmospheric archive</a> being unintentionally released—on a global scale—makes me wonder what sorts of news reports we might read in several thousand years' time, when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage"target="_blank">carbon tombs</a> start to leak their quarantined contents back into the atmosphere. The <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7325782.stm"target="_blank">buried skies</a> of an industrial era, put to pharaonic rest beneath the earth's surface, will make their operatic reappearance in future human history. <br /><br />Will hissing vents of carbon dioxide gas be found someday, six thousand years from now, when these specially carved geological resting places of the sky crack open? <br /><br />I was astounded to read, for instance, two years ago in <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325914.900-green-light-for-carbon-burial.html"target="_blank"><i>New Scientist</i></a>, that "burying carbon dioxide under the seabed is likely to remain controversial because of concerns that it will eventually leak out. However, a team of environmental engineers now claims that these worries are unfounded, and that natural reactions will lock away the carbon dioxide within aquifers for millennia." <i>For millennia</i>. In other words, a catastrophic release of entombed CO2 will re-enter the atmosphere—and it will do so well within what could still be the anthropological era. <br /><br />Already, we see lead, DDT, PCBs, and more flowing out from melting glaciers, bringing back a chemical presence that we thought we had effectively regulated. What strange myths of haunted returns and cursed ancestors might we be forced to conjure when these other, more deeply buried elemental forces reappear? <br /><br /><small>(Spotted via <a href="http://twitter.com/stevesilberman"target="_blank">@stevesilberman</a>).</small>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-40851777536836305302009-10-15T16:38:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.581-07:00Contemporary Living Room Furniture Designs with Great Ideas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJknFNlmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/AgGbZXP5vmo/s1600/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 308px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJknFNlmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/AgGbZXP5vmo/s320/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_1.jpg" alt="house interior design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405455977322223202" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Contemporary Living Room Furniture Designs with Great Ideas for Home Interior design Concepts</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://abouthomeand-garden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" alt="living room interior design" src="http://www.alldoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Contemporary-Living-Room-Furniture-designs-1-510x274.jpg" /></a></div><br />Find the inspiration of house design ideas,especially Living room Interior design and furniture in these pictures. These are the sample pictures of terrific Living room with black and brown sofa.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://abouthomeand-garden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" alt="living room furniture" src="http://www.alldoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Contemporary-Living-Room-Furniture-designs-2-510x301.jpg" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJk7PzisI/AAAAAAAAAAU/ry0Iet9MuGY/s1600/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJk7PzisI/AAAAAAAAAAU/ry0Iet9MuGY/s320/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_2.jpg" alt="interior design ideas" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405455982735362754" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://abouthomeand-garden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" alt="tittle" src="http://www.alldoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Contemporary-Living-Room-Furniture-designs-3-510x271.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://abouthomeand-garden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" alt="interior design" src="http://www.alldoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Contemporary-Living-Room-Furniture-designs-4-510x301.jpg" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJlUnDu4I/AAAAAAAAAAk/cNS2_oLLWio/s1600/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 254px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJlUnDu4I/AAAAAAAAAAk/cNS2_oLLWio/s320/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_4.jpg" alt="interior furniture" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405455989543779202" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://abouthomeand-garden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" alt="interior design furniture" src="http://www.alldoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Contemporary-Living-Room-Furniture-designs-5-510x317.jpg" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJlOpldjI/AAAAAAAAAAc/FlKuWGw1En8/s1600/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 372px; height: 249px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n_EMPtZBlBA/SwQJlOpldjI/AAAAAAAAAAc/FlKuWGw1En8/s320/Living+Room+Interior+Design+Idea_3.jpg" alt="interior design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405455987943765554" border="0" /></a></div><br />Todays’s sample photos gallery presented are Contemporary Living Room furniture which have the black and white designs. These designs are different from previous gallery which have modern and minimalist concepts. The designs are taken from the latest minimalist concepts designs 2010 which will then become the coolest designs of the year. So, if you are interested in one or two Contemporary Living Room furniture designs presented, you may use or at least follow the truly brialliant ideas of Contemporary Living Room designs presented on this site. Don’t be the follower just design it now to be the first one. Get it now<br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-14402650983703615822009-10-15T16:36:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:55:12.786-07:00<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><a href="Modern%20Living%20Room%20Decoration%20in%20Apartment"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3058/3100144131_131f4d3eae.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" >Modern Remodel - Murdock Young Architects, originally uploaded by plastolux.</span></div><p>Modern Remodel - Murdock Young Architects plastolux</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-51981176062068110882009-10-15T16:35:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:58.417-07:00Soft RobotsI'm fascinated by the so-called "<a href="http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/materials/multfunmat/chembots/index.htm"target="_blank">chemical robots</a>" program run by <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/"target="_blank">DARPA</a>. Its purpose is to create "soft robots": a "new class of soft, flexible, mesoscale mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their dimensions and perform various tasks." <br /><br /><center><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SbqHERKdlK8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SbqHERKdlK8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></center><small>[Image: Video originally seen over at <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/robotics/robotics-software/automaton/irobot-soft-morphing-blob-chembot"target="_blank"><i>IEEE Spectrum</i></a>].</small><br /><br />These soft machines, DARPA suggests, can be materially realized using "gel-solid phase transitions, electro- and magneto-rheological materials, geometric transitions, and reversible chemical and/or particle association and dissociation." The idea of a robot that travels via "particle disassociation"—that is, a blurry cloud of "mesoscale mobile objects" that temporarily coalesces into a functioning machine before dissolving again—seems particularly astonishing. <br /><br />Watch the above video for just one example of a "chemical robot."<br /><br />So what would these machines be used for? As DARPA explains: "During military operations it can be important to gain covert access to denied or hostile space. Unmanned platforms such as mechanical robots are of limited effectiveness if the only available points of entry are small openings." <br /><br />This is what I imagine <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844671259?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1844671259">Eyal Weizman</a>'s alter-ego might invent if he went into the robotics business in collaboration with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXistenZ"target="_blank"><i>eXistenZ</i></a>-era David Cronenberg. <br /><br />I'm specifically reminded of Weizman's amazing paper, "Lethal Theory" (it is well worth reading the <a href="http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Weizman_lethal%20theory.pdf"target="_blank">PDF</a>), in which he writes of "microtactical actions" used by the Israeli military as a means of exploring a new domination of the city. The Israeli Defense Force, Weizman writes, has begun strategically retraining itself, in a bid to explore a "ghostlike military fantasy world of boundless fluidity, in which the space of the city becomes as navigable as an ocean." Soldiers, we read, can now become "so 'saturated' within [a city's] fabric that very few would have been visible from an aerial perspective at any given moment."<ul>Furthermore, soldiers used none of the streets, roads, alleys, or courtyards that constitute the syntax of the city, and none of the external doors, internal stairwells, and windows that constitute the order of buildings, but rather moved horizontally through party walls, and vertically through holes blasted in ceilings and floors.</ul>This is referred to as "infestation."<br /><br />So what if you replaced the living human soldiers with swarms of "soft robots," capable of squeezing themselves, roach-like, through even the smallest opening? As Weizman terrifyingly suggests later in the paper: "You will never even understand that which kills you."<br /><br />Or perhaps we could find a more civilian use, we might say, for these soft machines, and send tens of thousands of them—a storm of flexible swarm-organisms shifting their shapes and flocking—outfitted out with GPS and radar, <i>into the earth</i>, traveling downward via faultlines, where they can map the spheroidal puzzle of our planet. <br /><br /><small>(Thanks to <a href="http://pruned.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">Alex Trevi</a> for the tip!)</small>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-22015704064340162009-10-15T16:29:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:53:45.749-07:00<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3620/3638170382_f44e44ec36.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" >ARTFUL ARRANGEMENTS, originally uploaded by Gustavsberg.</span></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Framed artworks and mirrors bring a bathroom to life, making every visit to the room an extra special experience. Tiles and bathroom furniture act as stenography. Black mosaic tiles on the walls and floor, combined with exclusively simple, white bathroom products create a slightly bare, but simultaneously warm and intimate background.<br />Find more on www.gustavsberg.com</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-81541367201622264742009-10-15T14:22:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:20.314-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SteTJ-nSDrI/AAAAAAAAFaM/eiAOweVNUsM/s1600-h/chicken+in+crock+pot+004.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392940878435323570" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SteTJ-nSDrI/AAAAAAAAFaM/eiAOweVNUsM/s400/chicken+in+crock+pot+004.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SteTJphoRJI/AAAAAAAAFaE/6NhnigZZAPI/s1600-h/chicken+in+crock+pot+006.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392940872774468754" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SteTJphoRJI/AAAAAAAAFaE/6NhnigZZAPI/s400/chicken+in+crock+pot+006.JPG" /></a><br />The recipe does not make a soup. You are to serve the mixture over rice, noodles, or put in a burrito. I had beans in the freezer that I cooked from dry beans so they had the liquid in with them. I placed that in the crock pot frozen so it made my mixture soupy. I also used two boxes of Green Giant corn instead of a can. Still delicious! Great with tortilla chips. This tastes like <a href="http://southernseven.blogspot.com/2009/09/king-ranch-chicken-casserole.html">King Ranch Casserole</a> in flavor and would be very good baked with corn tortilla layers and cheese. </div><div> </div><div>4-6 boneless chicken breasts</div><div>1 can black beans, drained</div><div>1 can corn, drained</div><div>1- 15 oz jar salsa</div><div>8 oz cream cheese</div><div> </div><div>Put the breasts in the crockpot and put the beans, corn and salsa on top. Cook 6 hours. Thirty minutes before serving cut up breasts into bite size pieces. Stir in the cream cheese.<br /></div><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-21484433166371188632009-10-15T11:47:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:25:39.546-07:00<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Using bedroom interior designs are becoming more and more popular because people are realizing the power of using a good interior design.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Also you know that we spend most of our life in the bedroom, because it is where we sleep in and also rest or even work sometimes. So the design it has will have a big effect on our mental and physical health.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Here are some important factors to bring to attention in your bedroom interior design...</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/colage-charcoal.2jpg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 819px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/colage-charcoal.2jpg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">1.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lighting:</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Light has a very huge impact on your mood and energy when you are in your bedroom. For example, have you noticed you feel more active and energetic during day time when sunlight is still there?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Well, it is because light increases your energy. On the other hand, at night we mostly feel we need to relax and not be super active.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">So the lighting you use in your bedroom interior design, how much it is, and also the color of it is very important.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pixels-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 569px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pixels-3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>2. Wallpapers and Floors<br /><br />The color and design of your walls and floor is also another effective factor.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pixels-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 596px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pixels-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">3. Objects and Furniture</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The furniture you put in your bedroom - like your bed, desk, decorations, etc. - has a big effect on the look and feel of your bedroom.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">So by following all the three important factors, you can easily create the mood and interior design that you wish in your bedroom.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Also the mood that you want to give to your bedroom is very important too and you should choose all the colors and objects based on that. For example for a romantic room and interior design, you can use red colors in the floor or walls.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pixels.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 625px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pixels.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-10210176324702860692009-10-15T11:03:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:25:40.062-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 548px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/Stdm7uU_KgI/AAAAAAAACWA/HyoUG4Jx9L0/s1600-h/yellow-living-space-5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 812px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/Stdm7uU_KgI/AAAAAAAACWA/HyoUG4Jx9L0/s400/yellow-living-space-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392892255033829890" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 780px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 438px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/yellow-living-space-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-58383526006466523802009-10-15T10:33:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:56:22.203-07:00P.S. If You Doubt My Love For Target...<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY7yWqFYI/AAAAAAAAE-U/eyTSvtGPb8Y/s1600-h/P1010091.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392876862951789954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY7yWqFYI/AAAAAAAAE-U/eyTSvtGPb8Y/s200/P1010091.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />A few years ago, while visiting Australia, I heard a rumor that a Target store was located nearby. <em>Of course</em> I had to visit...dragging the whole family with me.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY7o9a3cI/AAAAAAAAE-M/1gneFQVL8Tc/s1600-h/P1010092.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392876860430015938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY7o9a3cI/AAAAAAAAE-M/1gneFQVL8Tc/s200/P1010092.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Yes, that's cute Isabella...but now we need to keep moving towards the Target.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY7B_BiqI/AAAAAAAAE-E/iPz7Mb8m25A/s1600-h/P1010093.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392876849967762082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY7B_BiqI/AAAAAAAAE-E/iPz7Mb8m25A/s200/P1010093.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Do you see the happiness on my face, upon nearing the entrance? Well, let me tell you, my face looked differently upon leaving the store. What a disappointment!<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY6lupwFI/AAAAAAAAE98/mZNHZtpAuGk/s1600-h/P1010110.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392876842382901330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StdY6lupwFI/AAAAAAAAE98/mZNHZtpAuGk/s200/P1010110.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />No more stores after that...just beaches, great food and family time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-21664141553933682582009-10-15T10:30:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:58.441-07:00AnnouncementsLike many architects, this year has been quite a doosey for me, up and down...and down. Thankfully things are up this autumn. After dozens of resumes sent in response to job ads went unanswered the first half of the year, I decided to see if my previously extra-curricular activities (my <a href="http://www.archidose.org/">web pages</a>) could somehow lead to opportunities related to architecture but outside architectural production. This experiment of sorts yielded some freelance writing gigs, which continue to this day, but a couple recent developments are more exciting, announced in some detail below.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/JH-WA.jpg" title="world-architects.com business card" alt="JH-WA.jpg" /><br /><br />Near the end of summer I started as the Representative for <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/">american-architects.com</a>, part of the <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/">world-architects.com</a> platform that features profiles of selected archtitects. The U.S. sites also include <a href="http://www.newyork-architects.com/">newyork-architects.com</a> and <a href="http://www.california-architects.com/">california-architects.com</a>, the two areas that predominate in the sum total of the American profiles of architects, landscape architects, engineers and photographers. As well, the agenda and job posting reflect this coastal bias. One of the goals in my new role at world-architects is to make the site more representative of the United States, reflective of the diversity found between NY and CA. A large part of achieving this goal is adding more firms to the listings, so if you're interested in being considered for a profile on american-architects please drop me a line at jh[at]world-architects[dot]com. My contact information can be <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/index.php?seite=world_contact_en&navigation=37578&root=26129&kanal=html">found here</a>.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/JH-NYC.jpg" title="guide to 21st century NYC architecture" alt="JH-NYC.jpg" /><br /><br />The second bit of good news is that I just signed a contract with <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/">W. W. Norton</a> for my first book, tentatively titled <span style="font-style: italic;">A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture</span>. Most likely the name will change to something like the mock-up above that reflects the book's focus on 21st-century architecture, featuring notable buildings in New York City from the building boom that occurred in the first decade of the new century. Look for the book to publish sometime in the winter of 2011. The guide will cover all five boroughs, featuring some obvious buildings like SANAA's <a href="http://www.archidose.org/Dec07/03/dose.html">New Museum</a> above but also lesser-known gems by local and not-yet-name-brand architects. Like my approach to american-architects.com, in this guide I'm trying to present a diverse array of the city's new architecture, not just attention-getting designs by well-known architects in Manhattan.<br /><br />My job at world-architects.com and book deal with Norton are both suitable extensions of my daily, weekly and archi-tourist web pages, which over the years have allowed me to keep abreast of new architecture and selectively present buildings, architects and books I appreciate. I'm excited about both and am optimistic as I move forward with each. You'll hear more about these undertakings off and on in the months and years to come, particularly for the latter, when in a forthcoming post I'll ask for your assistance in finding buildings for inclusion in the book.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-29394316334893179762009-10-15T09:24:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.600-07:00For a funny guy…he has some GOOD taste…<p align="center">A friend sent me a link to Actor Ben Stiller’s <span style="font-size:180%;">compound</span> for sale in LA </p><p align="center">~<span style="font-size:78%;">Thanks Vicky...waving !~</span></p><p align="center">A mere <span style="font-size:180%;">12.5 million clams</span> and this baby could be yours</p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">or better yet…mine!</span></p><p align="center">This is <span style="font-size:180%;">just</span> the outside and the Outdoor rooms...</p><p align="center">Meet me <span style="font-size:180%;">after the post</span> for a group defibrillator shock….</p><p align="center">My <span style="font-size:180%;">heart</span> just about stopped. <span style="font-size:78%;">This is my kinda pad!</span></p><p align="center"><em>just sayin’.</em></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">A sweet side entrance…<span style="font-size:180%;">Lovin’</span> the ivy.</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMnjkMmHI/AAAAAAAAFD4/5tuzm7Cs8y8/s1600-h/ben2%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben2" border="0" alt="ben2" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMoJt-6PI/AAAAAAAAFD8/7KgmlBdIafQ/ben2_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="432" /></a> </p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">Front? look at the <span style="font-size:180%;">basket weave</span> tile</p><p align="center">It's <span style="font-size:180%;">those</span> little things that float my boat</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMpIY5TUI/AAAAAAAAFEA/cqrCjHtAv9Y/s1600-h/ben5%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben5" border="0" alt="ben5" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMpbMbMxI/AAAAAAAAFEE/HCA_qof5qls/ben5_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="429" /></a> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMp7yUkzI/AAAAAAAAFEI/3YI6mPvctJs/s1600-h/ben%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben" border="0" alt="ben" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMqS0Rl6I/AAAAAAAAFEM/v-kK84uL32c/ben_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="424" /></a> </p><p align="center">The <span style="font-size:180%;">color</span>…the <span style="font-size:180%;">Urns</span>…</p><p align="center"><em>Oh!</em></p><p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMqixhCdI/AAAAAAAAFEQ/QGkqqN82KlA/s1600-h/ben9%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben9" border="0" alt="ben9" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMrAaITbI/AAAAAAAAFEU/d6TkKvfR2z8/ben9_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="430" /></a> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMrYq-0VI/AAAAAAAAFEY/JsMWn88btZ8/s1600-h/ben4%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben4" border="0" alt="ben4" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMr2VJWQI/AAAAAAAAFEc/LmG5IYZviGg/ben4_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="424" /></a> </p><p align="center">One of <span style="font-size:180%;">several</span> covered patio’s...</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMsUGs5UI/AAAAAAAAFEg/Weti6UXxDqs/s1600-h/ben1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben1" border="0" alt="ben1" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMs50IUzI/AAAAAAAAFEk/5lDXooT5R-s/ben1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /></a> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">…and</span> another</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMtflqbJI/AAAAAAAAFEo/wXbKwMIdrE4/s1600-h/ben3%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben3" border="0" alt="ben3" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMt5j2ZMI/AAAAAAAAFEs/dS4GtNo8jrI/ben3_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="430" /></a> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMuZIjx1I/AAAAAAAAFEw/ZTVBya5LstY/s1600-h/ben6%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben6" border="0" alt="ben6" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMuinlfMI/AAAAAAAAFE0/rmztIR57n4s/ben6_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="433" /></a> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Yep.</span></p><p align="center">One more…<span style="font-size:78%;">for your seating pleasure.</span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMvEnXL3I/AAAAAAAAFE4/bnLvGZNi5f8/s1600-h/ben7%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben7" border="0" alt="ben7" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMvnd_I-I/AAAAAAAAFE8/morYiw2TMa8/ben7_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="426" /></a> </p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMxJepl8I/AAAAAAAAFFA/dqmhJURKBBI/s1600-h/ben8%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="ben8" border="0" alt="ben8" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/StdMxtzmnEI/AAAAAAAAFFE/vidj-ab0aAQ/ben8_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="432" /></a> </p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">CLEAR!</span></p><p align="right"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://http//www.hollywoodspanishestate.com/index.htm">Found here</a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-89838933473378625402009-10-15T06:25:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:56:22.224-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StZSCjc3J5I/AAAAAAAAE88/tQCFE-Ogw5c/s1600-h/IMG_1282.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392587807652259730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 179px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/StZSCjc3J5I/AAAAAAAAE88/tQCFE-Ogw5c/s320/IMG_1282.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />I was speeding through the aisles of <a href=http://www.target.com/Victoria-Hagan-Design-Shopping-Directory/b?ie=UTF8&node=237121011>Target</a> yesterday, when something out of the corner of my eye stopped me in my tracks. A new supply of <a href=http://www.victoriahaganhome.com/about.php>Victoria Hagan</a> Designs.<br /><br />First the Jamie Clock. I was so taken I suddenly realized a clock was on the shopping list for my <a href=http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-room-redesign.html>new office</a>. Yes, I was right. Look how great it looks in the room, and one must keep track of time.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Staii3VUoAI/AAAAAAAAE9E/EiMPTevUSpA/s1600-h/IMG_1736-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392676323675381762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Staii3VUoAI/AAAAAAAAE9E/EiMPTevUSpA/s400/IMG_1736-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Then, Catherine Lamp. It's back in stock! I first spotted this lamp at Target last spring while working on my <a href=http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/04/kitchen-family-room-redesign-complete.html>Kitchen Redesign</a>. I couldn't believe its quality, that base is glass not plastic. I purchased it, placed on my kitchen counter, and wrote a <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/03/kitchen-family-room-redesign-little.html">post</a> about it.<br /><br />Well, you should click over to that <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/03/kitchen-family-room-redesign-little.html">post</a> and read the comments. One reader commented how she loved the lamp, "I'm on my way to Target right now." Next, another comment along the same lines. The resulting story goes to show it's a small world, <em>and</em> if you want this lamp you'd better head over to Target right now!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-80383303990871584922009-10-15T06:11:00.000-07:002011-03-21T21:18:03.581-07:00<div align="center">Eileen Naughton from my showroom attended the CharityWorks GreenHouse yesterday and said it was so fabulous, she went through it twice! I'm hoping to go next week, but in the mean time, I thought I'd share the highlights from the program she picked up.<br /><br /><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf-hUy8UI/AAAAAAAAAaM/HzFPt93ZYGg/s1600-h/CharityWorks+GreenHouse.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392814237757403458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf-hUy8UI/AAAAAAAAAaM/HzFPt93ZYGg/s320/CharityWorks+GreenHouse.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>This is the front cover of the book, with a great drawing of the house (of course, Eileen says it's much more gorgeous in person).<br /></p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf-ADJLnI/AAAAAAAAAaE/2WS0z36DaTE/s1600-h/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392814228824993394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 177px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf-ADJLnI/AAAAAAAAAaE/2WS0z36DaTE/s320/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+001.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>This is the "before" picture. Eileen tells me their goal had been to use 50% of the materials from this original house, and they actually used 97%! Isn't that incredible???<br /><br /></p><div align="center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf9sdlW2I/AAAAAAAAAZ8/-MGO9jzcGhg/s1600-h/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392814223567182690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 243px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf9sdlW2I/AAAAAAAAAZ8/-MGO9jzcGhg/s320/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+002.jpg" border="0" /></a> Here's our ad!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf9eaSzCI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/BaKsdh5GAnk/s1600-h/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+003.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392814219795287074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 244px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf9eaSzCI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/BaKsdh5GAnk/s320/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+003.jpg" border="0" /></a> Skip Sroka gave us a nice mention...<br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf88SkeCI/AAAAAAAAAZs/gLLiP9qZG_0/s1600-h/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+004.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392814210636085282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/Stcf88SkeCI/AAAAAAAAAZs/gLLiP9qZG_0/s320/CharityWorks+GreenHouse+004.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /></div><p align="left">... as did Susan Gulick, one of my oldest and dearest customers!<br /><br />I'm also pleased to see Dominion Electric Supply mentioned by so many of the designers, along with many products we carry:<br />Susan Gulick and her team consulted with Erin Schwartz in my showroom for their lighting design needs, and they used Jesco LED lights in their media room.<br />Skip Sroka listed us in his resources & special thanks area, mentioning LED Lighting by Jesco.<br />Barry Dixon utilized Lutron shades & Robert Abbey desk lamps.<br />Raji Radhakrishnan used Cree LLF Recessed LED Lights in her areas.<br />And our Kichler/Jesco rep, John Chapman, tells me they also used Kichler LED landscape lights outside.<br /><br />So we all need to get over there and see all this fantastic work!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-80302143527054220402009-10-15T05:21:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:36:22.040-07:00Fellow color blogger <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08120422467504478092">Rachel Perls</a> of <a href="http://hueconsulting.blogspot.com/">Hue</a> went on vacation recently (lucky duck!) and had the incredible foresight to line up guest bloggers in her absence.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SifTL4fQql0/StcU8vryCTI/AAAAAAAAEn8/3hwcJ7iQRto/s1600-h/October3_blog_banner.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 72px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SifTL4fQql0/StcU8vryCTI/AAAAAAAAEn8/3hwcJ7iQRto/s400/October3_blog_banner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392802112624265522" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://hueconsulting.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-praise-of-yellow-tips-for-how-to-use.html">Here's bossy color's contribution</a>, about yellow.<br /><br />Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-89685638251921707982009-10-15T05:21:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:31:40.481-07:00Fellow color blogger <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08120422467504478092">Rachel Perls</a> of <a href="http://hueconsulting.blogspot.com/">Hue</a> went on vacation recently (lucky duck!) and had the incredible foresight to line up guest bloggers in her absence.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SifTL4fQql0/StcU8vryCTI/AAAAAAAAEn8/3hwcJ7iQRto/s1600-h/October3_blog_banner.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 72px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SifTL4fQql0/StcU8vryCTI/AAAAAAAAEn8/3hwcJ7iQRto/s400/October3_blog_banner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392802112624265522" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://hueconsulting.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-praise-of-yellow-tips-for-how-to-use.html">Here's bossy color's contribution</a>, about yellow.<br /><br />Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-17504987196701184142009-10-15T03:03:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:17:42.985-07:00<div><b><i>apartment therapy</i></b> - an interior design blog is having their fifth annual contest called <a href="http://contests.apartmenttherapy.com/2009/color"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><b>"Room for Color 2009"</b></span></a>. In October they are looking for the most colorful, beautiful room on the planet.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>It's a good idea because adding color is one of the most affordable ways of changing a rooms character. But many of the folks are afraid of using color. Well as you can see from the examples below some of these folks really are not afraid at all.</div><div><br /></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1B3jCtII/AAAAAAAABSc/dekt0zYOESc/s1600-h/photo2_rect540.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1B3jCtII/AAAAAAAABSc/dekt0zYOESc/s320/photo2_rect540.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392767016262349954" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1BgaLwhI/AAAAAAAABSU/whmPylvTNdE/s1600-h/IMG_1737_rect540.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1BgaLwhI/AAAAAAAABSU/whmPylvTNdE/s320/IMG_1737_rect540.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392767010051179026" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1A1t-aPI/AAAAAAAABSM/VDE81iYlo8E/s1600-h/IMG_1053_rect540_rect540.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1A1t-aPI/AAAAAAAABSM/VDE81iYlo8E/s320/IMG_1053_rect540_rect540.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392766998591465714" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1AtV7xCI/AAAAAAAABSE/fsZ3QQmlgx8/s1600-h/DSC02506_rect540.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1AtV7xCI/AAAAAAAABSE/fsZ3QQmlgx8/s320/DSC02506_rect540.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392766996343145506" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1AOguY0I/AAAAAAAABR8/LROQo7-_V5o/s1600-h/1_rect540.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/Stb1AOguY0I/AAAAAAAABR8/LROQo7-_V5o/s320/1_rect540.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392766988066906946" /></a><b><i><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">photos courtesy of apartment therapy</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">You can see more entries at <a href="http://contests.apartmenttherapy.com/2009/color"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><b><i>Room for Color</i></b></span></a>. Check it out - you'll find lots of ideas. Some bold and crazy; and some simple yet sophisticated. </span></div><br /></i></b><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK38"></a><a name="OLE_LINK34"></a><a name="OLE_LINK28"></a><a name="OLE_LINK22"></a><a name="OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a name="OLE_LINK3"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK6"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK22"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK28"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK34"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK38"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.simplyeleganthomedesigns.com">Simple,Unique, Small House Plans Cottage, Craftsman and Modern Home Plans</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-10342738563544218942009-10-15T02:17:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:02.620-07:00HelpDoes anyone know who mills these fabrics? Or alternative places to purchase them? I need lots of yardage and better pricing than what I've got here.<br /><br />Bocce in Linen, available at <a href="http://www.calicocorners.com/product/designer+fabrics+for+the+home/shop+by+pattern/abstract+and+geometric/bocce+linen.do">Calico Corners</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/StaHCTjr0OI/AAAAAAAAKIA/GLbHh58ePno/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/StaHCTjr0OI/AAAAAAAAKIA/GLbHh58ePno/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392646077502181602" border="0" /></a><br />And this unknown <a href="http://ep5.eprevue.net/eprevuenet/LargeView.aspx?seclid=-1586035145--633911559956237500&SKU=3107-94&Catalog=768">pink and orange pattern</a>, available at Hickory Chair, as seen on these Suzanne Kasler chairs...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/StaIyLaJfkI/AAAAAAAAKIg/P1a716Dn2yM/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/StaIyLaJfkI/AAAAAAAAKIg/P1a716Dn2yM/s400/Picture+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392647999460048450" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/StaHDjv05_I/AAAAAAAAKIY/LyNpytHikhg/s1600-h/1555_10RM_BR.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sjuBZ3URnso/StaHDjv05_I/AAAAAAAAKIY/LyNpytHikhg/s400/1555_10RM_BR.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392646099027945458" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-73137958668143119162009-10-14T22:30:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:32.304-07:00Modern Meeting Room Office Interior Decorating<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Sta0IkgNCJI/AAAAAAAAB20/dKrspxn5Py8/s1600-h/meeting-room-design-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Sta0IkgNCJI/AAAAAAAAB20/dKrspxn5Py8/s400/meeting-room-design-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392695663153449106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Sta0HyIygWI/AAAAAAAAB2s/pMI83-GzfOg/s1600-h/meeting-room-design-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Sta0HyIygWI/AAAAAAAAB2s/pMI83-GzfOg/s400/meeting-room-design-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392695649633468770" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Sta0He_dejI/AAAAAAAAB2k/my5xMU1rG9s/s1600-h/meeting-room-design-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Sta0He_dejI/AAAAAAAAB2k/my5xMU1rG9s/s400/meeting-room-design-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392695644494068274" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Modern meeting room office interior decorating by Bosch & Fjord Architecture<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The collection is characterized by modern style and comfort. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bosch-fjord.com/" target="_blank">Bosch & Fjord</a> </span>architect have completed an interior design project for Lego Group’s Development Department in Billund. This is not about what is your conference or meeting room size, but this is about how to decorate your office room with ultra modern and new innovation style. The conference room office interior design gives an impression of the aesthetic sense of the management. In addition to the aesthetic qualities, a few other factors work in the back of the mind of interior designers. They try to design in a pattern which will make the conference participants comfortable as well as energizing.<br /><br />The overall design included a reception area, café and group of meeting rooms. The cafe itself is divided into three areas: dining, café, and lounge, which each area is embed with its own character and functionality.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-43218295897189514932009-10-14T22:28:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:32.777-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StazQ-7FLTI/AAAAAAAAB2c/a275z8nRkUM/s1600-h/Modern+bathroom+with+rain+shower+heads+By+Lacava2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StazQ-7FLTI/AAAAAAAAB2c/a275z8nRkUM/s400/Modern+bathroom+with+rain+shower+heads+By+Lacava2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392694708172827954" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StazQWHHy0I/AAAAAAAAB2U/s70xwfv7bsk/s1600-h/Modern+bathroom+with+rain+shower+heads+By+Lacava1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StazQWHHy0I/AAAAAAAAB2U/s70xwfv7bsk/s400/Modern+bathroom+with+rain+shower+heads+By+Lacava1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392694697217477442" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StazP4QuNKI/AAAAAAAAB2M/Bdd0lrXBtwU/s1600-h/Modern+bathroom+with+rain+shower+heads+By+Lacava.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StazP4QuNKI/AAAAAAAAB2M/Bdd0lrXBtwU/s400/Modern+bathroom+with+rain+shower+heads+By+Lacava.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392694689204679842" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Modern bathroom with rain shower heads By Lacava<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Rain shower heads are the epitome of modern bathroom cool. All these shower heads are perfect combination of functionality and beauty. Their unusual shapes are capable to amaze every person who likes modern and stylish things. Having a good shower head is one of the most important decisions you can make for your bathroom. Featuring contemporary styling, brass construction and a luxurious chrome finish, our selection of shower heads will look great and last for years to come.<br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-71651011990314332402009-10-14T22:26:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:53:46.749-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4soAfirknHk/SkG5UI3X5BI/AAAAAAAAAlE/I4q5S6Z2il4/s320/2348.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350761587921118226" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br />Faith Sheridan has my husband's favorite colors: Malachite and I call it a cinnamon.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://interior-house-decorate.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 293px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4soAfirknHk/SkG5xa_D7fI/AAAAAAAAAlU/tzfvEJfOMMU/s320/8.80979.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350762091001409010" border="0" /><br /></a></div><br />Bev & Mike<br /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT141">Landfair Furniture + Design gallery</span><br />Follow us on <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT142">Twitter</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-43034269389860722422009-10-14T22:25:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:33.038-07:00Remodeling Kitchen Ideas with Modern Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stayun71DTI/AAAAAAAAB2E/31gLmlk-HC4/s1600-h/Margot-new-kitchen-design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stayun71DTI/AAAAAAAAB2E/31gLmlk-HC4/s400/Margot-new-kitchen-design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392694117886397746" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StayuNsJemI/AAAAAAAAB18/UkGmMGDwYxc/s1600-h/kitchen-remodeling-ideas-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StayuNsJemI/AAAAAAAAB18/UkGmMGDwYxc/s400/kitchen-remodeling-ideas-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392694110841305698" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Staytv3H3PI/AAAAAAAAB10/fEuRKgqnC1w/s1600-h/galley-kitchen-remodeling-photos-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 244px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Staytv3H3PI/AAAAAAAAB10/fEuRKgqnC1w/s400/galley-kitchen-remodeling-photos-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392694102834273522" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Great ideas for remodeling your kitchen with modern design<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Remodeling or redesigning your kitchen should be fun and enjoyable. You can therefore completely change the look of your kitchen simply by changing the doors of your kitchen cabinets. Kitchen cabinets and complete kitchen remodeling have become some of the most popular do-it-yourself projects for homeowners. Kitchen cabinets can be made from dozens of woods including Oak, Maple, Pine, Cherry, Hickory, Poplar, Alder and Birch. There are three main types of kitchen cabinets: in-stock kitchen cabinets, semi-stock kitchen cabinets, and custom kitchen cabinets. <span id="more-1373"></span>The kitchen photos come from Scavolini as standard designs in their kitchen offerings that can be found <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.scavolini.us/cruscotto.asp">here</a></span>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-51818877266819570912009-10-14T22:18:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:33.506-07:00Modern Eco friendly Kitchen Decorating Ideas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StayGLMsJnI/AAAAAAAAB1s/C4kPlU6sP_4/s1600-h/eco-friendly-kitchen-design-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StayGLMsJnI/AAAAAAAAB1s/C4kPlU6sP_4/s400/eco-friendly-kitchen-design-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392693422977721970" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StayFirqZaI/AAAAAAAAB1k/rl10uXZb8qA/s1600-h/eco-friendly-kitchen-design-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/StayFirqZaI/AAAAAAAAB1k/rl10uXZb8qA/s400/eco-friendly-kitchen-design-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392693412101776802" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Modern eco friendly kitchen decorating ideas by Valcucine<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This elegant and simple ultra modern eco friendly kitchen design is presented from Valcucine. White kitchens look clean and inviting, and they’re often both modern and contemporary for decorating ideas and design kitchen at your homes. The use of special materials such as carbon, aluminum, steel or layered laminate, the very accurate planning of construction details. For cabinet doors in kitchens you can either dress up used cabinet doors by using a range of eco-friendly paints or you can use veneers that will give your cabinets a fresh look. <span id="more-1379"></span>For more info about Modern eco friendly kitchen visit the <a href="http://www.valcucine.it/" target="_blank">valcucine website</a> .<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-70782042286075044152009-10-14T22:13:00.020-07:002011-03-26T09:34:33.981-07:00Ethnic Living Room Interior Decorating<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stav3lN47GI/AAAAAAAAB1c/M3TvagfgE5s/s1600-h/ethnic-living-room-color-designs-4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stav3lN47GI/AAAAAAAAB1c/M3TvagfgE5s/s400/ethnic-living-room-color-designs-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392690973240781922" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stav3BIfAJI/AAAAAAAAB1U/TS_isohXuc4/s1600-h/ethnic-living-room-color-designs-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stav3BIfAJI/AAAAAAAAB1U/TS_isohXuc4/s400/ethnic-living-room-color-designs-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392690963554435218" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stav2YzygLI/AAAAAAAAB1M/Qy-Km2koLLs/s1600-h/ethnic-living-room-color-designs-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/Stav2YzygLI/AAAAAAAAB1M/Qy-Km2koLLs/s400/ethnic-living-room-color-designs-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392690952730214578" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Living room with Marco Polo furniture will always look quite exotic like the traveler live there even though he never left home. Interior decorating involves anything that has to do with the interiors of a house and its furnishings. If you plan to revamp the decor of your house, you need to keep in mind several attributes that contributes to the design, like the layout, furnitures, color and the theme. 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The signature paper featuring skulls in a reflective bronze, deep pile velvet on a incredible light-catching, iridescent base, using horribly expensive ink which changes colour as you walk past it – through reds, greens, blacks and golds – like an oil slick. 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As the story is told, a young New England bride in the late 1800s was faced with the seemingly overwhelming task of hand sewing the obligatory curtains for nine large windows gracing the front of her impressive Federal-style home on the town’s main street. “Make one corner beautiful at a time,” counseled a wise village elder. Convention not withstanding, the greatly relieved bride turned her efforts toward creating a livable sitting room for herself and her groom, the unused upstairs bedrooms getting attention in due time.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-34671409953508474792009-10-14T20:41:00.000-07:002011-03-23T09:57:12.576-07:00<title>HTML clipboard</title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"><meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"><h1 style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;" align="left"> <title>HTML clipboard</title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"><meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;font-size:100%;" >Get started with your home or apartment interior decorating project by learning the basics of interior design. Whether you want to transform a space yourself or hire an interior designer, try these tips for home design!</span></h1> <p style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;" > <img src="http://www.rentaldecorating.com/images-08/modernliving.jpg" lowsrc="http://www.blogger.com/Interior%20Design" longdesc="http://www.blogger.com/Interior Design and Decorating Ideas" alt="Learn Interior Design and Decorating Basics from Interior Designers" border="0" height="282" width="425" /></span></b></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 255);font-family:Bradley Hand ITC;" ><b>Learn basic interior design principles used by the designers! Get ideas to help in creating your own personalized living space. Find out how to create a floor plan and the basics on selecting furniture and room decorating.</b></span></p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79307203651910171712009-10-14T20:19:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:59:58.472-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXxCNGkgI/AAAAAAAAHfc/PWJ09D-JbMk/s1600-h/clayton+house.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664472483959298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXxCNGkgI/AAAAAAAAHfc/PWJ09D-JbMk/s400/clayton+house.JPG" border="0" /></a>This past weekend in Pennsylvania, I was happy to show some of my friends around one of my favorite places from childhood, <a href="http://www.frickart.org/index.php">Clayton House</a>: the original Frick mansion in Pittsburgh.<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXtH8BPpI/AAAAAAAAHfU/aVjpBWVShrc/s1600-h/gatepost.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664405303443090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXtH8BPpI/AAAAAAAAHfU/aVjpBWVShrc/s400/gatepost.JPG" border="0" /></a> The grounds house a really fine art museum, amazing antique car & carriage museum (recently renovated), an orchid filled conservatory, a playhouse turned giftshop (complete with bowling alley), a delicious cafe and wonderful grounds, not to mention a beautiful victorian home.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664395514718354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXsjeNKJI/AAAAAAAAHfM/X4HMoE9aejw/s400/well.JPG" border="0" />Many things on the property bare the name Clayton. The name is derived from Henry <em>CLAY </em>Frick: The 'ton' relates to the word town.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664233658124434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXjIgliJI/AAAAAAAAHek/zVAxsAMy-sM/s400/carriage+house.JPG" border="0" />Part of the carriagehouse.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664382571121442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXrzQNiyI/AAAAAAAAHe8/-eJvYwuutMU/s400/playhouse.JPG" border="0" />The playhouse was built for the children and is the size of a normal house. It held rooms for the children's toys as well as a bowling alley! Lucky kids! It now holds the giftshop: this is where you will start your tour.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664238005041762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXjYs-OmI/AAAAAAAAHes/HbneYzfZukI/s400/conservatory.JPG" border="0" />The conservatory lies next door.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664224657021122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXim-jmMI/AAAAAAAAHec/yM7f75EA1rM/s400/cafe.JPG" border="0" />Across the walkway is an old caretakers cottage which now houses a pretty great restaurant. We didn't get a chance to eat here but I highly recommend it based on past experiences.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664209404320706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXhuKB28I/AAAAAAAAHeM/6Eks0o0PqJ4/s400/administration+building.JPG" border="0" /> <div>This stone house is now part of the property but wasn't owned by the Fricks till after Helen's Death in the 1980s when it was bought by the foundation for the administration offices. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664380797344226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXrspT2eI/AAAAAAAAHe0/IndhHI_UnCc/s400/copper+bay.JPG" border="0" />The main house was renovated after the Frick's purchase of a typical Victorian which they renovated into a gracious family home. The only original piece left was the porte cochere seen here below an amazing stained glass & copper bay.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664393221966642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXsa7kizI/AAAAAAAAHfE/8UK7fCvXg8U/s400/post+detail.JPG" border="0" />A closeup of the port cochere columns.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392664217380012706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/StaXiL3lQqI/AAAAAAAAHeU/nt9tQ0Lker8/s400/back+door.JPG" border="0" />A shot of the backdoor to end the tour. If you find yourself in Pittsburgh, don't forget to visit, the interiors are spectacular!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-86703142221651128112009-10-14T15:06:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:36:24.588-07:00We have been really blue lately.<br /><br />It started out a couple of months ago, when we got our September Vogue issue. What is normally 10 lbs worth of magazine, the coveted issue is bare-thread and just ...wimpy. Then when we pick up our LA Times newspaper along with our latte in the morning, it is so thin one can browse through it in five minutes.<br /><br />So our blueness is even more accentuated when we heard that Southern Accents is closing. This is in addition to Gourmet, a fabulous food magazine. What is the world coming to?<br /><br />One can argue that the Internet kills the newspapers and magazine industry, but to us there is nothing more pleasurable than seeing the mailbox full of new magazines. Nothing beats holding a new stack of fresh magazines with delicious pictures to look at and glossy pages to hold.<br /><br />So may we ask for your support of the newspaper and magazine industry? It's not a lot of money to keep your subscription going. A subscription to Elle Decor, say, costs less than $10/year? The New York Times is more, but oh it's so worth it.<br /><br />We can not live in a world without things to read, stores to visit, beautiful things to look at. Let's do our part to keep our world from being more isolated than it is.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/StZNVDyPYUI/AAAAAAAABdA/juNqy2TC2-I/s1600-h/southernaccents.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 220px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392582628011368770" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/StZNVDyPYUI/AAAAAAAABdA/juNqy2TC2-I/s320/southernaccents.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com