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.comBlogger2029915501500tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-55956731888928830322009-09-01T22:24:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:03.374-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/Smvo6p3tSMI/AAAAAAAACX0/8nuQ0mizQhM/s400/Ambiente+Low+Pad+Bed+-+bedroom+design.jpg" alt="Ambiente Low Pad Bed, luxury bedroom design, master bedroom" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362635875684272322" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This new collection from Swiss-based <b>bed</b> manufacturer Superba originated from the drawings of successful German <b>furniture</b> designed Peter Maly. Peter Maly has created in the Low Pad <a href="http://absolute-bedroom-design.blogspot.com/">bed</a> a cheerful Pop revival. All he needed were some fresh colors and a flat headboard whose broad expanse is broken up by a few windows of light. View <b>bedroom</b> detail [<a href="http://www.digsdigs.com/">via</a>] <b>best bedroom design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-88059643574086988122009-09-01T21:09:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:09.316-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXzRmaLqI/AAAAAAAAAgY/GoplHA0rql0/s400/minimalist+chair.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXzRmaLqI/AAAAAAAAAgY/GoplHA0rql0/s400/minimalist+chair.jpg" alt="Desain Interior Rumah Modern Minimalis" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Meanwhile, if using a minimalist concept, because it made all the minimum requirements, so that empty space does not seem to be a little accent. For example, there is a table or chair that the traditional design.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-17554526936988484292009-09-01T21:09:00.001-07:002011-03-21T00:01:11.494-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXzRmaLqI/AAAAAAAAAgY/GoplHA0rql0/s400/minimalist+chair.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXzRmaLqI/AAAAAAAAAgY/GoplHA0rql0/s400/minimalist+chair.jpg" alt="Desain Interior Rumah Modern Minimalis" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Meanwhile, if using a minimalist concept, because it made all the minimum requirements, so that empty space does not seem to be a little accent. For example, there is a table or chair that the traditional design.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-90278709721086504602009-09-01T21:09:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:03.527-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXzRmaLqI/AAAAAAAAAgY/GoplHA0rql0/s400/minimalist+chair.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXzRmaLqI/AAAAAAAAAgY/GoplHA0rql0/s400/minimalist+chair.jpg" alt="Desain Interior Rumah Modern Minimalis" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Meanwhile, if using a minimalist concept, because it made all the minimum requirements, so that empty space does not seem to be a little accent. For example, there is a table or chair that the traditional design.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-24542317891835808752009-09-01T21:04:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:09.532-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXJdItATI/AAAAAAAAAgI/jeRu69I4V70/s400/frame+deco.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXJdItATI/AAAAAAAAAgI/jeRu69I4V70/s400/frame+deco.jpg" alt="Modern Interior Design Minimalist " border="2" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" >To look harmonious and pleasing to the eye, set the interior of the house should be harmonized with the building facade. If looking face wearing art deco, interior arrangement also does not run away from that style. Similarly minimalist model homes, interior was designed with a matching style. Although in practice, not rounded second wearing that style.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">For the interior living room, art deco-style application that many use round ornaments, boxes, or other geometric shapes, just enough to be an accent. For example, only used for TV cabinets or other display cabinets.</span><br /></div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-48116965848814333192009-09-01T21:04:00.001-07:002011-03-21T00:01:11.813-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXJdItATI/AAAAAAAAAgI/jeRu69I4V70/s400/frame+deco.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXJdItATI/AAAAAAAAAgI/jeRu69I4V70/s400/frame+deco.jpg" alt="Modern Interior Design Minimalist " border="2" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" >To look harmonious and pleasing to the eye, set the interior of the house should be harmonized with the building facade. If looking face wearing art deco, interior arrangement also does not run away from that style. Similarly minimalist model homes, interior was designed with a matching style. Although in practice, not rounded second wearing that style.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">For the interior living room, art deco-style application that many use round ornaments, boxes, or other geometric shapes, just enough to be an accent. For example, only used for TV cabinets or other display cabinets.</span><br /></div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-80129966344641102492009-09-01T21:04:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:03.675-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXJdItATI/AAAAAAAAAgI/jeRu69I4V70/s400/frame+deco.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I8KtJyP2dV4/SMkXJdItATI/AAAAAAAAAgI/jeRu69I4V70/s400/frame+deco.jpg" alt="Modern Interior Design Minimalist " border="2" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" >To look harmonious and pleasing to the eye, set the interior of the house should be harmonized with the building facade. If looking face wearing art deco, interior arrangement also does not run away from that style. Similarly minimalist model homes, interior was designed with a matching style. Although in practice, not rounded second wearing that style.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">For the interior living room, art deco-style application that many use round ornaments, boxes, or other geometric shapes, just enough to be an accent. For example, only used for TV cabinets or other display cabinets.</span><br /></div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-12757020027095836552009-09-01T21:01:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:12.133-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/8e25-modern-interior-design-black-and-white.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 236px;" src="http://www.imagecows.com/uploads/8e25-modern-interior-design-black-and-white.jpg" alt="Modern and comfortable interior Apartment with combining colors" border="2" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/ny/5-6-connecticut-modern-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 241px;" src="http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/ny/5-6-connecticut-modern-1.jpg" alt="Modern and comfortable interior Apartment with combining colors" border="2" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ecoliahomes.eu/images/article/image39.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 231px;" src="http://www.ecoliahomes.eu/images/article/image39.jpg" alt="Modern and comfortable interior Apartment with combining colors" border="2" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.trendir.com/archives/acova-mirror-radiator-fassane.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 280px;" src="http://www.trendir.com/archives/acova-mirror-radiator-fassane.jpg" alt="Modern and comfortable interior Apartment with combining colors" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Modern and comfortable interior Apartment with combining colors</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-73907893421494894682009-09-01T20:47:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:12.445-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.tootoo.com/37/73/37737a255ec38bb3643a054aecc1b097.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 390px;" src="http://imgs.tootoo.com/37/73/37737a255ec38bb3643a054aecc1b097.jpg" alt="Luxury House Interior Design" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Luxury House Interior Design<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We have benn in antique reproduction furniture and home decorative items about 10 years. 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We are willing to offer customer complete luxury house solution more and more.</span><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-58759885999738238942009-09-01T20:40:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.216-07:00Rak Tv Minimalist<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKBWHM7I/AAAAAAAACVs/b8n7RK2esp0/s1600-h/jadi+4.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKBWHM7I/AAAAAAAACVs/b8n7RK2esp0/s320/jadi+4.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKi499XI/AAAAAAAACV0/Gb3wPCx6_k8/s1600-h/jadi+1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKi499XI/AAAAAAAACV0/Gb3wPCx6_k8/s320/jadi+1.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKyPb58I/AAAAAAAACV8/vmRXaWeDrrA/s1600-h/jadi+2.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKyPb58I/AAAAAAAACV8/vmRXaWeDrrA/s320/jadi+2.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pLbYVnUI/AAAAAAAACWE/6h4Q31v_yJo/s1600-h/jadi+3.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pLbYVnUI/AAAAAAAACWE/6h4Q31v_yJo/s320/jadi+3.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br />Rak Tv minimalist<br />Bisa diaplikasikan pada rumah tinggal, perkantoran, villa dll.<br />hubungi kami untuk pemesanan dan detail spesifikasi<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tti9gi1ol0PKwpNbn5LwR5A"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><blink>Pesan produk ini</blink></span></a><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-30484864930609796212009-09-01T20:40:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.193-07:00Rak Tv Minimalist<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKBWHM7I/AAAAAAAACVs/b8n7RK2esp0/s1600-h/jadi+4.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKBWHM7I/AAAAAAAACVs/b8n7RK2esp0/s320/jadi+4.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKi499XI/AAAAAAAACV0/Gb3wPCx6_k8/s1600-h/jadi+1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKi499XI/AAAAAAAACV0/Gb3wPCx6_k8/s320/jadi+1.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKyPb58I/AAAAAAAACV8/vmRXaWeDrrA/s1600-h/jadi+2.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pKyPb58I/AAAAAAAACV8/vmRXaWeDrrA/s320/jadi+2.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br /><div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pLbYVnUI/AAAAAAAACWE/6h4Q31v_yJo/s1600-h/jadi+3.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_gaL05SEN8R0/Sp3pLbYVnUI/AAAAAAAACWE/6h4Q31v_yJo/s320/jadi+3.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><br />Rak Tv minimalist<br />Bisa diaplikasikan pada rumah tinggal, perkantoran, villa dll.<br />hubungi kami untuk pemesanan dan detail spesifikasi<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tti9gi1ol0PKwpNbn5LwR5A"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><blink>Pesan produk ini</blink></span></a><br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-17897064814693191252009-09-01T20:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.139-07:00Afterparty by MOSThis past weekend I strolled down to <a href="http://www.ps1.org/">P.S.1</a> with my wife and daughter to check out this year's Young Architects Program, <em><a href="http://www.ps1.org/exhibitions/view/296/" rel="nofollow">Afterparty</a></em> by <a href="http://www.mos-office.net/" rel="nofollow">MOS</a>. After seeing the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2009/01/ps1-afterparty.html">initial, competition-winning design</a> and the subsequent photographs from its opening, I wasn't expecting to like it in person, as the initial appeal gave way to questions about execution. But like it I did. Below are my impressions, with the words relating, in most cases, to the image-pairs directly above.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876988878/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2438/3876988878_c203a88a24.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876190739/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/3876190739_fe64485c76.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Afterparty</span> -- "after the party of a sort of high-formalism which has dominated academic discourse," in the architects' words -- does what the best YAP installations do, they make their presence known outside the concrete walls of the P.S.1 courtyard. Having previously only experienced Xefirotech's <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2005/07/ess-you-are_06.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sur</span> installation</a> in 2005, I'm convinced this is the way to go, because this external visibility is an expression of a scale compatible with the large, and otherwise empty courtyard.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876975290/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2465/3876975290_98845c18d0.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876979738/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2665/3876979738_18e88cd456.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><br />Where <span style="font-style: italic;">Sur</span> failed to hold its own in the void, <span style="font-style: italic;">Afterparty</span>'s "chimneys" anchor the space, shifting its center of gravity to the large seating area, while also tying its bulk to the two smaller spaces to the north (left in the overall view above). Basically the design is comprised of three zones: a seating area under the cluster of chimneys, a more open misting area over the path leading to the P.S.1 building, and the two smaller rooms, one open and also mist-covered and the other dark and intimate. This close-up of the geo-textile "skin" illustrates the installation's most contentious point: it looks like it's covered in hair. Yes, I'll admit there's a resemblance to <a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Snuffleupagus">Snuffleupagus</a> or a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth">woolly mammoth</a> -- two descriptions I've seen on a number of web pages -- but focusing on these similarities distracts from the positive aspects of the design.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876171573/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3532/3876171573_0c22d8ce7d.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876982024/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2634/3876982024_69a02d5bc1.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><br />So what are these positive aspects? One is the cooling the form and/or skin provide. I'm not even sure if the coolness that I felt on the 80-degree day was attributable to the supposed induction from the chimneys or just from the shade, but in either case it is the design that can be attributed. In the dense seating area the environment was very pleasant, though in other areas the mist is necessary to cool the body. I'm less inclined to believe that breezes are funneled up the chimneys to create breezes in the seating area; I think the openness below allows breezes in all directions and, when combined with the shade, drops the temperature a few degrees.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876963482/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3876963482_ee3c928048.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876177895/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3876177895_d0ae55a773.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><br />What the apertures atop the chimneys do allow, if not for warm air to escape, is daylight. A soft glow of natural light permeates the seating area. What seems dark when outside has a pleasing, even amount of light within. The heavy skin would otherwise make this space too dark, cooler but unwelcoming. The interiors of the chimneys are striking, a combination of the bright oculi, the tapered forms, the slender aluminum pipes and the dappled sunlight making its way through the geo-textile skin. Porous coverage overhead is a recurring part of the designs, but many canopies end up with too little shade, like <span style="font-style: italic;">Sur</span>, and therefore don't adequately fulfill that competition aim. By raising the openings high enough a decent amount of shade, and therefore cooling, is created.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876964348/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2550/3876964348_1376a5b38f.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876966446/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/3876966446_48d7dd498d.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><br />Counter to the shade and density of the seating area are the open areas covered by a mist that is generated by nozzles attached to the rings defining their openings. Here the skin engages the concrete wall between the main courtyard and the adjacent rectangular space, allowing larger spans without additional supports coming down to the ground. I could see these as popular areas for dancing during the summer Warm-Up parties at P.S.1.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876975942/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3604/3876975942_681f36afba.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876180029/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3876180029_e68024eb22.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><br />In their competition entry, MOS pointed out that Long Island City's industrial smokestacks were inspiration for their forms. Regardless, a striking profile is created, city-like in the variety of heights, sizes and the changing relationships of the chimneys to each other. I especially liked the view of them through the openings below.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876181345/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/3876181345_b5b794a25a.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876986874/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2548/3876986874_7f8b5c8833.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="333" height="500" /></a><br /><br />The structure is cheap -- aluminum pipe and fittings -- but the inner mesh skin helps to obscure this fact. Like spindly Gothic ribs, the curved sections of pipe define the spaces and the lines of force. The organic grid of chimneys works together to resist vertical and horizontal forces, certainly reminiscent of Gaudi's architecture in Barcelona. So the inspirations appear to be industrial smokestacks, Bedouin tents, and maybe the Gothic or Gaudi. Do these run counter to the aforementioned "high-formalism which has dominated academic discourse?" By formally incorporating these inspirations and using an attention-getting skin, the architects perpetuate the high-formalism, yet they replace the computer with the old-fashioned model. Considerations counter to high-formalism, namely sustainability (recyclable aluminum structure, chimney induction, lightweight construction) are offset by facts like the geo-textile's source: Indonesia. Nevertheless the result is experientially more transcendent than the photographs attest, sheltering yet reaching for the sky.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3876192239/" title="Afterparty at P.S.1 by archidose, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2657/3876192239_fab00d5e03.jpg" alt="Afterparty at P.S.1" width="500" height="333" /></a><br /><br />Leaving P.S.1's courtyard my appreciation of the shadows the chimneys cast on the concrete wall was tempered by a couple signs posted on the latter. One gave the details of the installation and the other listed the roughly 50 volunteers "who made this project possible." Based on what I've come across on other YAP installations, the people on this list supplied the free labor that made the project possible within the confines of the small $70,000 budget. I immediately thought of unpaid interns and other unfortunate practices in architecture, seeing this volunteerism as an extension of the same attitude, where creativity does not extend to finances. One could argue that the installation is not architecture, so it's acceptable to utilize volunteer labor. Also one could say that "if so-and-so doesn't volunteer their time, somebody else will." But that sort of logic is the same as "if I don't design this building, another architect will," even if that building does more harm than good. In other words, rooted in the how is the what, and the questions of each should ideally influence each other so <span style="font-style: italic;">neither's</span> results are harmful or exploitative.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79524346002005730412009-09-01T18:23:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.243-07:00More From Charlie on Big House Addiction<div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Too big, too expensive, too isolating, too pretentious,<br />too much.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Great tile from </span><st1:country-region style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Italy<br /></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> won’t fix that – neither will brushed nickel sconces.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">- <span style="font-size:85%;">Charlie, Resident North Shore of Chicago</span></span><br /></span></span></div><br />Charlie is back! Just yesterday he sent an update on his struggle with big house addiction.<br /><br />But first, to hear my nervous radio debut, click on <a href="http://inspiredgirlsguide.squarespace.com/balance-talk-radio/2009/8/26/design-inspirista-genevive-ferraro-plus-job-dishin-with-dear.html">Inspirista - Girls Night Out.</a> I talked too much, interrupted the radio hostess - who was delightful - and according to my husband, shared too much personal information. But I have always been open and trusting, and since I'm 50-years-old, those character flaws are here to stay.<br /><br />And now for the main attraction, here is Charlie:<br /><p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">I’ve progressed on my journey – and recently completed a level-headed inventory of my addiction.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">I only told half the story last time – the saucy part about addiction and excess. A <u>fair</u> inventory would include some items from the positive side of the ledger – so here’s an example of how the big house is a force for good….or is it?<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">August is the best month of the year. Camps are done, people get back from wherever they go in the summer, and everyone pushes to finish the summer with a bang.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">Our phone rings off the hook, our driveway is full of bikes and kids run wild all over the place.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">My wonderful wife treats our little guests with fruit, crackers and juice, and the big house is covered with empty bowls, cups, wrappers and leftover clothes from kids too excited to take them home. The big house is the late summer destination of choice for the elementary and middle school set.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">Across our street is a pond often lined with fathers and children fishing. There are trails and woods too. We see lots of friends walking, fishing, on bikes and in cars – and we often stop to chat. Great community interaction happens on our front sidewalk.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">At night, when we go to bed, we’ve got a routine where my wife and I visit each kiddo, tuck them in, and tell them how much we love them.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">After that, as the day ends, it always hits me: the big house is excessive – it’s dark and empty – like addiction. It takes 33 steps from tucking my boy in to the threshold of my bathroom – too big. My wife goes to one room, I go to another – too big. Too big, too expensive, too isolating, too pretentious, too much. Great tile from <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region> won’t fix that – neither will brushed nickel sconces.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">This leaves questions about the source of happiness: Is it the big house, or is it our lives, friendships and involvement in community that really makes us happy?<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">The answer is clear.<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">The next step is to develop a treatment plan for the addiction. If you <u>haven’t</u> suffered addiction in your family you should know that the only thing an addict hates more than change is the way things are – so the next step will be interesting…<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">…and I’m working on that. <o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">Thanks,<o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12;">Charlie<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Until next time!<br /><br />GenevieveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-62399327279534457922009-09-01T13:17:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.269-07:00[doc] Daniel Libeskind | Jewish Museum Berlin<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><img height="263" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp1wJr4Vh8I/AAAAAAAAFHA/wv3VFahZuks/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" width="474" /><br />avi | 341 MB | 720x400 | 25:45 | multi-language including English<br /><br />Video: Xvid 720x400 29.97fps 1063Kbps [Video 0]<br />Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps [Audio 1]<br />Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps [Audio 2]<br />Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 384Kbps [Audio 3]<br /><br /><b>Download</b><br /><br /><a href="http://hotfile.com/dl/13666310/f3d6d4d/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r00.html">http://hotfile.com/dl/13666310/f3d6d4d/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r00.html</a><br /><a href="http://hotfile.com/dl/13666368/3164a86/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r01.html">http://hotfile.com/dl/13666368/3164a86/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r01.html</a><br /><a href="http://hotfile.com/dl/13666422/a9337e4/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r02.html">http://hotfile.com/dl/13666422/a9337e4/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r02.html</a><br /><a href="http://hotfile.com/dl/13666281/f4cf105/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.rar.html">http://hotfile.com/dl/13666281/f4cf105/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.rar.html</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Interchangeble Mirror </b><br /><b><br /></b><br />http://rapidshare.com/files/27921670/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.rar<br />http://rapidshare.com/files/27932404/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r00 <br />http://rapidshare.com/files/27942490/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r01 <br />http://rapidshare.com/files/27946555/12of23.Daniel.Libeskind.-.Jewish.Museum.Berlin.r02<br /><br /><b>Rar Password</b><br />doxbox.bloger.hr<br /><br /><img height="697" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp1yuwNiDaI/AAAAAAAAFHE/XOGrPtdVBvw/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" width="450" /><br />click thumbnail to enlarge<br /><br /><a href="http://img257.imageshack.us/i/daniellibeskindjewishmu.jpg/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1074/daniellibeskindjewishmu.th.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp1zt_LCk8I/AAAAAAAAFHI/NxjJdokSIfc/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><br /><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp1z5iBAc4I/AAAAAAAAFHQ/gXcJiG3eLS8/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10BeZO8jI/AAAAAAAAFHU/0L40nsAqmek/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10SO6UhSI/AAAAAAAAFHc/8T5I47R9pGI/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10fmDI0GI/AAAAAAAAFHk/gx6Ty4SjMmw/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" /><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10jS2z6AI/AAAAAAAAFHo/9y5MVEG8OfY/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10pn_xhuI/AAAAAAAAFHs/7gigUyUoJ1s/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" /><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10tCqCbHI/AAAAAAAAFHw/oQ8uCLyCPTI/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" /><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10WhguLnI/AAAAAAAAFHg/ysfqPWkuy5Q/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp10-U6n2DI/AAAAAAAAFH0/pw9hze-3ffs/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_wSyLDVvCvE8/Sp11DJnvmVI/AAAAAAAAFH4/2OKGv1OfqII/%5BUNSET%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;" /><br /><br /></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; 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In addition to providing three tiers of incentives for separately metered homes that meet and exceed the EPA ENERGY STAR for New Homes guidelines, this program also provides additional incentives for lighting efficiency. For detached homes, the incentive for completing the EPA Advanced Lighting Package is $525 and for attached homes (townhouses, duplexes) the incentive is $325 per unit. BGE is working with the key players in the lighting market in its service territory to ensure that they are well informed about the program and associated incentives as they work with their builder clients. BGE will host an Advanced Lighting Package focused meeting on Wednesday, October 7th in Columbia, Maryland, which manufacturers and manufacturers reps are invited to attend. For more information on this event please contact Chiara D’Amore at cdamore@icfi.com. For more information on the BGE ENERGY STAR for New Homes Program, please visit: <a title="http://www.bgesmartenergy.com/" href="http://www.bgesmartenergy.com/">www.bgesmartenergy.com</a>.<br /><br /><br />Additionally, the following weblinks may come in handy:<br />Main BGE ENERGY STAR for New Homes Program page: <a title="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes" href="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes">http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes</a>. <br />Summary of builder incentives: <a title="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/how-participate#homebuilders" href="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/how-participate#homebuilders">http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/how-participate#homebuilders</a><br />List of participanting builders: <a title="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/participating-builders" href="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/participating-builders">http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/participating-builders</a>. <br />Map of BGE territory and associated zip code list: <a title="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/additional-resources" href="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/additional-resources">htt<a title="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/additional-resources" href="http://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/additional-resources">p://conservation.bgesmartenergy.com/residential/new-homes/additional-resources</a> </a><br />EPA Advanced Lighting Package website: <a title="http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=" href="http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=fixtures.alp_consumers">http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=fixtures.alp_consumers</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-52720444371763456152009-09-01T06:25:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.170-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Sp0g0MFylJI/AAAAAAAAG-g/oLvNf3dhxog/s1600-h/saint+germain.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376489611121038482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 274px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Sp0g0MFylJI/AAAAAAAAG-g/oLvNf3dhxog/s400/saint+germain.jpg" border="0" /></a> While in Paris (I can't believe we leave tomorrow!) <a href="http://www.habituallychic.blogspot.com/">Heather </a>and I will be staying in the charming Saint-Germain neighborhood. This apartment in Saint Germain, by <a href="http://www.galerieyvesgastou.com/">Yves Gastou</a>, mixes the best of both worlds: an 18th century townhouse with the most glamourous 1940s&50s furniture.<br /><em>apartment featured in the book 'Insider's Paris, an intimate tour'</em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-23154003715333022942009-09-01T05:30:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.290-07:00A chair to be re-done…ideas please<p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Found</span>, <span style="font-size:85%;">literally for a dime</span>, at the habitat homestore.</p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Man...I have found some </span><a href="http://coconutsandlimes.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-ex.html"><span style="font-size:78%;">cool finds</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;"> there!</span></p><p align="center">Someone <span style="font-size:180%;">lovingly</span> had it covered in</p><p align="center">a silver fabric</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T2rM_6yI/AAAAAAAAEpE/so3iZJwy0z8/s1600-h/chair0103.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="chair 010" border="0" alt="chair 010" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T2zmxUwI/AAAAAAAAEpI/8r4BZ9GgO9c/chair010_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /></a> </p><p></p><p align="center">Not <span style="font-size:180%;">my</span> thing…<span style="font-size:78%;">but I have a linen in mind</span>…maybe</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T3Ea-zUI/AAAAAAAAEpM/Rif4em9MZ4c/s1600-h/chair0024.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="chair 002" border="0" alt="chair 002" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T3j-Z6mI/AAAAAAAAEpQ/D4JaZnGb8XI/chair002_thumb2.jpg?imgmax=800" width="378" height="772" /></a> </p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">it does have <span style="font-size:180%;">exquisite</span> layers of <span style="font-size:180%;">paint</span>…and gesso...on the carved legs and arms</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T4Bel1qI/AAAAAAAAEpU/blt9WTzfkDc/s1600-h/chair0083.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="chair 008" border="0" alt="chair 008" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T4jN98_I/AAAAAAAAEpY/tqXayPs0PQY/chair008_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="517" height="772" /></a> </p><p align="center">and <span style="font-size:180%;">gorgeous</span> back</p><p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T45T5zEI/AAAAAAAAEpc/0sz4czW6uXw/s1600-h/chair0113.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto" title="chair 011" border="0" alt="chair 011" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T5JjZ2aI/AAAAAAAAEpg/Of5cTBNqMas/chair011_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="431" /></a> </p><p align="center">I don’t know that it is as <span style="font-size:180%;">old</span> as it looks…but it is <span style="font-size:180%;">wide</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Big butt</span> wide.</p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">comfy</span> wide.</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T5iXpPMI/AAAAAAAAEpk/xeSvuboOl1w/s1600-h/chair0093.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="chair 009" border="0" alt="chair 009" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T51WUejI/AAAAAAAAEpo/PRJvx9DsLFc/chair009_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="380" height="484" /></a> </p><p align="center">So...whad’ya <span style="font-size:180%;">think?</span></p><p align="center">Linen, duck cloth….something else all together?</p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">Give a gal an idea.</span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T6ePvSbI/AAAAAAAAEps/yO2rRvbPjXY/s1600-h/chair0033.jpg"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px" title="chair 003" border="0" alt="chair 003" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/Sp0T644bgLI/AAAAAAAAEpw/3eoRO-ltt_M/chair003_thumb1.jpg?imgmax=800" width="659" height="772" /></a> </p><p align="center"><em>Pretty please with a cherry on top.</em></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-34222834740492340002009-09-01T03:50:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.371-07:00Oil Rocks<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3480/3802977185_eef6a312f8_o.jpg" width="475" height="394" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: The offshore metropolis of Oil Rocks, Azerbaijan, via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Rocks"target="_blank"><i>Wikipedia</i></a>].</small><br /><br />There are a number of massive artificial peninsulas extending offshore from the Azerbaijani city of Baku. The most famous of these is known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Rocks"target="_blank">Oil Rocks</a>, and it is an offshore metropolis of semi-abandoned oil extraction platforms in the Caspian Sea. <br /><br />It even appears on a postage stamp.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2363/3802978125_c90216427c_o.jpg" width="300" height="416" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: The Oil Rocks postage stamp, via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Rocks"target="_blank"><i>Wikipedia</i></a>].</small><br /><br />As <i>Wikipedia</i> informs us:<ul>The facility is poorly maintained, with miles of roads now submerged beneath the sea. Around some workers' dormitories, the waterline now stands at the second-floor windows. Although a full one-third of the Oil Rocks complex's 600 wells are inoperative or inaccessible, operations have continued without a significant increase in investment. The site, despite its imperfections, still produces over half of the total crude oil output of Azerbaijan. The government has striven to attract foreign investment into Oil Rocks, resulting in several new additions being grafted onto the existing structure.</ul>These "new additions... grafted onto the existing structure" are at least partially responsible for the epic nature of the place, as it seems to push ever further outward into the tides and weather.<br /><br />Funded with private money, and created entirely for the purpose of extracting oil from the Caspian's shallow seabed, these and other <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&t=k&layer=x&g=oil+rocks&ll=40.085164,49.541473&spn=0.088258,0.180931&z=13"target="_blank">peninsular extensions</a> of Baku are functional urbanism at its most giddy: uni-purpose structures like something dreamt up by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Sea_Forts#Maunsell_Sea_Forts"target="_blank">Guy Maunsell</a>, by way of the obligatory reference to Constant's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3877144619/"target="_blank">New Babylon</a>. <br /><br />This <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&t=k&layer=x&g=oil+rocks&ll=40.299821,50.016117&spn=0.087979,0.180931&z=13"target="_blank">metropolis of platforms</a> would not be out of place in a design studio themed around micronations, the future of private urbanism, or even failed utopias. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2495/3877144881_c35b2f60d2_o.jpg" width="475" height="841" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Other artificial peninsular cities of Baku, seen from above. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3877937618/sizes/o/"target="_blank">View larger</a>! Via <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&t=k&layer=x&g=oil+rocks&ll=40.299821,50.016117&spn=0.087979,0.180931&z=13"target="_blank">Google Maps</a>].</small><br /><br />Oil Rocks, <a href="http://www.travel-images.com/az-oilrocks.html"target="_blank">we read</a> elsewhere, "is a full town on the sea: it has 200 km of streets built on piles and landfill... There are tall blocks of flats, a bakery, a cinema, a garden, [and] a school." There are also helipads, helping to shorten the journey from the city's outer architectural limits back to shore.<br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.statoil.ru/statoilcom/svg00990.nsf?opendatabase&lang=en&artid=7843FBCC81BF3FEC4125666C00499061"target="_blank">Statoil</a>, meanwhile, Oil Rocks "looks from the air like a cobweb scattered with large drops of water." Over-extending the metaphor a bit, they point out that a "closer inspection shows that the 'web' is made up of gangways across the sea, the 'spider' at its heart is the field centre and the 'water drops' are the many production installations." Structurally speaking, "Sand and stone were shipped out to create dry land, and steel pillars attached to the seabed as the foundation for huge living quarters." <br /><br />Of course, it would interesting to see if something similar could be created if only we could connect all the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/business/global/13ship.html"target="_blank">unused ships</a> of the global, recession-hit shipping industry together with gangways and thus institute our own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345460014?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0345460014">Armada</a> – but, until then, this is still absurdly interesting. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/3878870852_0d46b045c6_o.jpg" width="475" height="611" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Photos of offshore oil structures in the Caspian by <a href="http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1903/Greene/Greene.html"target="_blank">Stanley Greene</a>; spotted via <a href="http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/07/oil-rocks-neft-dashlari-neftyanyye.html"target="_blank"><i>Artificial Owl</i></a>].</small><br /><br />In a recent issue of John Knechtel's <i>Alphabet City</i>, called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262113252?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0262113252"><i>Fuel</i></a>, there is a proposal by architect <a href="http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/bios/maya_przybylski"target="_blank">Maya Przybylski</a> called "Occupying the Caspian Sea: A One Hundred Year Plan." Przybylski specifically addresses the derelict – or soon to be derelict – extraction platforms of the Caspian. She approaches the sea as if seeing it "through the filter of oil operations: concession systems, contract blocks, pipelines, tanker ports and routes, national boundaries, bathymetric and climatic conditions, and the oil fields themselves."<br /><br />Przybylski focuses, among many things, on the fact that the architectural remains of the extraction industry are being gradually recolonized by the region's wildlife. She writes, for instance, that "many birds have claimed abandoned oil rigs as resting points along their routes," and that "the offshore oil installations have become an important alternative sanctuary," both for birds and for fish. Indeed, "birds have begun to fly from rig to rig during their migration, avoiding contact with the shore altogether." In many ways, and for obvious reasons, I'm reminded of the <a href="http://www.ecorigs.org/"target="_blank">EcoRigs</a> project (about which I've written a short paper for a forthcoming issue of <a href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/upd/agakhan/newgeographies/"target="_blank"><i>New Geographies</i></a>), which seeks to turn abandoned oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico into new endoskeletons for specially curated ecosystems at sea. <br /><br />While Przybylski does not, in fact, mention Oil Rocks, this stilted metropolis-at-sea is quite easy to think of it when she writes that, "When the oil companies begin to wind down their operations, the key to the proposed renewal of the sea will be the reexploitation of the relics they leave behind." If Oil Rocks is one of these relics, then, in all of its sprawling, labyrinthine wonder, what could we do with it?<br /><br />Whether subject to historic preservation or transformed into a Dubai-style resort, what might Oil Rocks yet become?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-45071116726306981672009-09-01T03:30:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:15:48.947-07:00<div style="text-align: left; ">Last week we announced we are now selling house plans designed by Larson Brenner in Stillwater, Minnesota. We think that these designs are special in the way they cleverly pack function and convenience within a fairly modest floor plan. In order to convey that idea I am today beginning a series of postings on planning features. The idea is to illustrate good design principals by highlighting features on the plans. So this will be the first in the series.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; ">The floor plan shown below is the <a href="http://www.simplyeleganthomedesigns.com/prescott_shingle_cottage_house_plan.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><b><i>Prescott Cottage</i></b></span></a>, designed by Larson Brenner Architects. My comments are shown right on the plan. You can get a little better look by going to the Simply Elegant <a href="http://www.simplyeleganthomedesigns.com/Newsletter.html"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">Monthly Newsletter</span></i></b></a>.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/SpuuZNSjzhI/AAAAAAAABHg/uf0o9c5MzMQ/s400/prescott+cottage.jpg" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-8509435165049208802009-08-31T23:39:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:12.779-07:00Minimalist style of home design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vMZkeB-FKRs/SQmwNpBHNbI/AAAAAAAAAQA/d3gxrS5bi_Y/s320/design-rumah-minimalis.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vMZkeB-FKRs/SQmwNpBHNbI/AAAAAAAAAQA/d3gxrS5bi_Y/s320/design-rumah-minimalis.JPG" alt="Minimalist style of home design" border="2" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Minimalist style of home design is essentially a response to the situation triggered by the people who adopts minimalism as a protest over the state of society who do not appreciate the natural resources with an all-out to exploit natural resources for the things that are not necessary in daily life days. Minimalism movement is a movement 'back to basic' or return to simplicity, this movement is said to arise in America is something that can be considered positive from a movement of modern times.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-59023574942373584242009-08-31T23:32:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:13.277-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vMZkeB-FKRs/SQXBKb3Qx_I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/TGksHSGJ1BU/s320/desain-rumah-minimalis.bmp"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vMZkeB-FKRs/SQXBKb3Qx_I/AAAAAAAAAPQ/TGksHSGJ1BU/s320/desain-rumah-minimalis.bmp" alt="Minimallist Home Design" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Actually, minimalist design is not just an architectural style, but behind it, this style has the answer to the challenge of time to get 'the most out of something that at least'. It may be that this is a minimal development funds, or lifestyle that is minimized. This style is often used because of limited funds, but it becomes very interesting because with this limitation we are still able to follow the latest architectural fashion trend.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-669120467311815622009-08-31T17:12:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:49.448-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">Indoor Waterfalls Amazing Designs Picture</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxnulwmsfI/AAAAAAAABtA/pTgbjztDz5g/s1600-h/harmonic-environments-decorative-waterfall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 430px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxnulwmsfI/AAAAAAAABtA/pTgbjztDz5g/s400/harmonic-environments-decorative-waterfall.jpg" alt="Indoor Waterfalls Amazing Designs" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376286105281147378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxnuTbNe2I/AAAAAAAABs4/cjr7tgKUagI/s1600-h/harmonic-environments-decorative-waterfalls.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 350px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxnuTbNe2I/AAAAAAAABs4/cjr7tgKUagI/s800/harmonic-environments-decorative-waterfalls.jpg" alt="Indoor Waterfalls Amazing Designs" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376286100359576418" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Feast your eyes on these new amazing designs from <a href="http://www.harmonicenvironments.com/">Harmonic Environments</a>, “the premiere maker of<strong> indoor waterfalls</strong>“. Stylish, subtle and soothing, these products can turn a regular apartment into a dream house. Each waterfall is custom made. You can embed them in your doors, your walls, or simply make a water panel in order to separate a room. The possibilities are endless: you can choose the material that you want and also the color of the water. Graphics are also possible. Pick out a text or a drawing and it will be carved in the material. If you would like to make an online order, <a href="http://www.harmonicenvironments.com./contact.htm">here</a> is where you can get in touch with the manufacturers. There are very easy to install, so all that is left for you to do is sit back and enjoy the show.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-22249094113051583202009-08-31T17:08:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:34:49.792-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">Examples Photos of Stand Lights Corner Lamp Room Design<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxmTIeev7I/AAAAAAAABsw/Fc8TIJyjnKM/s1600-h/stand-lights+corner+lamp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 600px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxmTIeev7I/AAAAAAAABsw/Fc8TIJyjnKM/s800/stand-lights+corner+lamp.jpg" alt="Stand Lights Corner Lamp Room Design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376284534052405170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxmSn0-16I/AAAAAAAABso/T7Bh6cbdUlU/s1600-h/stand-lights+corner+lamp+design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nt1knDXPQbQ/SpxmSn0-16I/AAAAAAAABso/T7Bh6cbdUlU/s800/stand-lights+corner+lamp+design.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376284525288413090" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Created by Korean designer <a href="http://www.conceptji.com/project/stand_small.html">Ji Young Shon</a> the Stand 1/4 lights come in floor and table versions, and are designed to eliminate the amount of space that a normal light would require. What do you think is this is smart idea?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-21586888381613055772009-08-31T11:05:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.423-07:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367333916505281314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 251px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/SnyZwnw0EyI/AAAAAAAAG5M/ZOwJR-84n2o/s400/chateau+miromesnil.jpg" border="0" />Chateau Miromesnil is known for it's architectural beauty but also the wooded country in which it sits and its vegetable gardens (seen below). It has also been home to some famous characters. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367333922872357506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/SnyZw_e18oI/AAAAAAAAG5U/uYOmeX4vZgc/s400/garden.jpg" border="0" />The famous author Guy de Maupassant was born in the chateau in 1850 while his parents rented it for 3 years.<br />Earlier the chateau had been home to Armand-Thomas Hue de Miromesnil. Armand was made a Knight of the Holy Spirit Order by King Louis XVI and later tried to defend the King at his trial during the revolution. He also abolished the use of torture for those who were imprisoned for supposed crimes. He died here in 1792 and left his fortune to the peasants of his estate.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367333916598212546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/SnyZwoG-F8I/AAAAAAAAG5E/M2vbdMe1fnA/s400/chapel.jpg" border="0" />Of course the chateau has its own private chapel, as most ancient estates do. Solid and square -don't you think?<br />The chateau also acts as a bed and breakfast with very reasonable rates! Can you even imagine staying here? Heaven!<br />Visit the official website <a href="http://www.chateaumiromesnil.com/uk/presentation/presentation.htm">HERE</a><br />see information about renting rooms and photos <a href="http://www.chateaux-france.com/chahost.php?chateau=3013&l=EN">HERE</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-18172103568676635162009-08-31T10:20:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:28:03.393-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpwHI5oDMBI/AAAAAAAACPM/1Xdd1jKKbHw/s1600-h/smart-door_xyLqV_1822.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpwHI5oDMBI/AAAAAAAACPM/1Xdd1jKKbHw/s400/smart-door_xyLqV_1822.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376179904662679570" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">You no longer have to carry a bunch of home keys along wherever you go or worry about your home security. iHouse is here with the technologically advanced door that lets you open the doors with biometric readings. Yes, you read it correct, it first identifies your fingerprint and lets you enter your house, so obviously burglars won’t be able to open your hi-tech home doors. :)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">All you have to do is place your finger on the scanner to release the door’s lock, and you can program other fingers for operating the lights, activating the AC, lifting the window blinds and lots more. Not only this, your smart door lock is endowed with a cool feature of storing the data, date and time of the last 64 accesses, thereby giving you the information on who entered the residence during that period. If somebody in your family doesn’t have the clearance to enter the house at a given time, he or she can remotely, by making a call, via PC or pocket PC unlock a gate. Its number pad also enables you to open the door, but for that you gotta know the password. Now, that’s a smart door! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-4080145744334327462009-08-31T08:51:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:52:16.720-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sprn1nYFJBI/AAAAAAAADpA/Dd5YAtzsskQ/s1600-h/IMG_8670.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375864013509174290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sprn1nYFJBI/AAAAAAAADpA/Dd5YAtzsskQ/s200/IMG_8670.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sprn1foY80I/AAAAAAAADo4/n_zl488zTJ4/s1600-h/IMG_8676.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375864011430097730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sprn1foY80I/AAAAAAAADo4/n_zl488zTJ4/s200/IMG_8676.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />I would imagine looking at this Steelmaster Cabinet, which has spent the last several years hanging out in garages, does not inspire images of a beautiful work space.<br /><br />But look at all the wonderful drawers, just the right size for office supplies, small samples, catalogs, drawing materials and on and on! With the multitude of drawers and its size being just right for the left corner of the<a href=http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-room-redesign.html> room</a>...I absolutely have to make it look pretty!<br /><br />That should be possible, I mean, it came from <a href="http://www.henribendel.com/">Henri Bendel</a> for goodness sake. Oh? What was a Steelmaster cabinet doing living at <a href="http://www.henribendel.com/about/explore">Henri Bendel</a>? Well I imagine someone there found it as useful as I did once it became mine.<br /><br />For years it was perfect for housing all kinds of supplies used in making my sample garments. And how did it become mine? A friend snatched it up for me when they stumbled across a liquidation sale of goodies from the back rooms of Henri Bendel's Michigan Avenue Store, when sadly it closed.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Spth4c-JhII/AAAAAAAADpI/JPjB4kJ2-Sw/s1600-h/storefront.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375998202674250882" style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; WIDTH: 106px; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Spth4c-JhII/AAAAAAAADpI/JPjB4kJ2-Sw/s200/storefront.png" border="0" /></a><br />Let me get sidetracked for a moment...I <em>loved</em> that <a href="http://www.henribendel.com/about/hb_1895">store</a>, a boutique full of absolutely perfect finds. During the time Henri Bendel was open in Chicago I was studying fashion at<a href="http://www.artic.edu/"> SAIC</a>. I would walk the aisles lovingly adoring the new styles from favorite designers as the goods were hung on the racks...though I never once actually purchased anything there. Hum, too many customers like me and you can see why they closed.<br /><br />Anyway, fast forward. After I stopped working in fashion the cabinet became forgotten, collecting dust and grime. But I couldn't part with it, I guess I knew it would be needed again someday. After a good cleaning it is showing its promise. <br /><br />The next step, primer...and you know I'll keep you posted on the progress!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-29425685377163792942009-08-31T08:23:00.000-07:002011-03-21T21:18:05.865-07:00Happy Monday to all! This has nothing to do with lighting, but on a personal note, I can hardly contain my excitement for the weekend ~ I am walking 13.1 miles (a half-marathon) to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The race is in Virginia Beach this Sunday, and I've been training all summer for it, so I'm really excited!!!<br />But until then, I need to focus on work! So for today I wanted to share a few selections from the brand new Robert Abbey catalog. Our rep, Karen Wolf, dropped off our copy last week, and it is quite spectacular! If you're not familiar with this line, they have great designs at very reasonable prices. Here are my most favorite:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/SpvrPRteT9I/AAAAAAAAAWk/efWgVmeHGQM/s1600-h/ROA+002.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376149227881517010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 246px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/SpvrPRteT9I/AAAAAAAAAWk/efWgVmeHGQM/s320/ROA+002.jpg" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>I'm thinking about this chandelier for my parents' house. They've been wanting to update their dining room light for quite a while, and their existing fixture has the downlight feature, which we all really like.<br /></p><div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/SpvrO6CK9bI/AAAAAAAAAWc/F2xHw6lQG4s/s1600-h/ROA+001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376149221525878194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/SpvrO6CK9bI/AAAAAAAAAWc/F2xHw6lQG4s/s320/ROA+001.jpg" border="0" /></a> You know I'm a sucker for drum shades! But isn't the one on the top a bit different, with the candle tails showing beneath the shade?<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/SpvrOqrLJTI/AAAAAAAAAWU/vcJSkm5TXd8/s1600-h/ROA.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376149217402889522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 206px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YH_B1iq8i-4/SpvrOqrLJTI/AAAAAAAAAWU/vcJSkm5TXd8/s320/ROA.jpg" border="0" /></a> We have this ceiling fixture on display, and I just love it! Kind of retro and modern all at the same time!<br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-80497502003332260252009-08-31T06:51:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:32:37.411-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpvVfjPcOhI/AAAAAAAABvg/2fE-GKVFPNw/s1600-h/Menu+Monday+NEW!.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376125318209485330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 319px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 139px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpvVfjPcOhI/AAAAAAAABvg/2fE-GKVFPNw/s320/Menu+Monday+NEW!.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>This week is pretty much up in the air as far as our meal plans. For those of you that are regular readers, you know that my stepfather is terminally ill. It looks like today or tomorrow will be his last day with us. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Out of town family members are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">coming</span> in. We are not sure where everyone will be staying or when/where we will be eating or how even how many will be at the table. So I threw my regular menu plan out the window and am just focusing on having 3 simple meals per day. It is tempting to not plan anything, but in order to keep from frequenting the fast food <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">restaurants</span> and getting take out, I put together a very simple menu. <br /><br /></div><div></div><div>The beauty of this menu is that the meals for any day of the week can be swapped and used on another day; lunches and suppers are also interchangeable. <br /><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div>For example, if we have a houseful of company on Saturday night I'll whip up a bunch of pizzas that night instead of Friday. Or we will have a big <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">spaghetti</span> supper that night or maybe the bean soup. Whatever doesn't get used will be put into the freezer for a later date.<br /><br /></div><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div><strong>Breakfasts</strong></div><div></div><div><em><br /><br />Monday-- </em>Yogurt & Fruit</div><div><em>Tuesday-- </em>English Muffin with Peanut Butter, milk</div><div><em>Wednesday-- </em>Oatmeal, milk, fruit</div><div><em>Thursday-- </em>Fruit and Cottage Cheese</div><div><em>Friday-- </em>Yogurt & Fruit</div><div><em>Saturday--</em> Yogurt & Fruit</div><div><em>Sunday--</em> Scrambled Eggs with Cheese, English Muffins</div><br /><br /><div></div><strong>Lunch</strong><br /><br /><em>Monday--</em> Tuna Salad, Carrot Sticks<br /><em>Tuesday--</em> Tuna Salad, Cucumber and Green Pepper Slices<br /><em>Wednesday--</em> Turkey Sandwiches,<br /><em>Thursday--</em> Beef Stew, Bread, Salad<br /><em>Friday--</em> Spaghetti and Meatballs, Salad, Bread<br /><em>Saturday--</em> Bean Soup in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">crock pot</span>, Bread, Garden Salad<br /><em>Sunday--</em> Will probably have a family lunch/dinner out<br /><br /><br /><strong>Supper</strong><br /><br /><em>Monday--</em> <a href="http://farmhomelife.blogspot.com/2009/05/trixies-quick-and-tasty-mexican.html">Quick & Tasty Mexican Casserole</a><br /><em>Tuesday--</em> Leftovers from Monday<br /><em>Wednesday--</em> Beef Stew, Bread and Salad<br /><em>Thursday--</em> Spaghetti and Meatballs, Salad, Bread<br /><em>Friday--</em> If at all possible, <a href="http://farmhomelife.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-cheap-is-homemade-pizza.html">pizza</a><br /><em>Saturday--</em> Same as lunch -- soup, bread, salad<br /><em>Sunday--</em> Leftovers from meal out<br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">This post is linked to </span></em><a href="http://orgjunkie.com/2009/08/menu-plan-monday-aug-31st.html"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Org Junkie</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">.<br /><br /></span></em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-56739838284974410202009-08-31T04:54:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.580-07:00Digital Architecture LondonThe second upcoming event that I want to announce is <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/"target="_blank"><i>Digital Architecture London</i></a>, organized by <a href="http://www.ruairiglynn.co.uk/"target="_blank">Ruairi Glynn</a>. That will take place on Monday, September 21st, at the <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/buildingcentre/"target="_blank">Building Centre</a> here in London. "Introducing the latest developments in digital design practice," we read, "the conference will explore new spaces, social interactions, design and fabrication processes, and speculate on architecture’s post-digital futures." <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 23px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3496/3873662305_0811864448_o.jpg" width="475" height="136" border="0" alt="" />A related book – <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/book/"target="_blank"><i>Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands</i></a> – edited by Glynn and documenting the <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/hinterlands/"target="_blank">parallel exhibition</a>, will be released the same day.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/programme/"target="_blank">program</a> sounds amazing, and I'm really looking forward to this. The day's complete list of panelists looks like this: <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/rachelarmstrong/"target="_blank">Rachel Armstrong</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/tony-dunne/"target="_blank">Tony Dunne</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/marcos-cruz-speaking-on-biotechnology-panel/"target="_blank">Marcos Cruz</a>, and <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/rachel-wingfield/"target="_blank">Rachel Wingfield</a> will be discussing "Digital Architecture & Bio-Technology"; <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/usman-haque/"target="_blank">Usman Haque</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/matt-webb/"target="_blank">Matt Webb</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/tobi-schneidler/"target="_blank">Tobi Schneidler</a>, and <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/stephen-gage/"target="_blank">Stephen Gage</a> will look at "Digital Architecture & Interaction"; <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/brett-steele/"target="_blank">Brett Steele</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/patrik-schumacher/"target="_blank">Patrik Schumacher</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/marjan-colletti/"target="_blank">Marjan Colletti</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/alvin-huang/"target="_blank">Alvin Huang</a>, and <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/ daniel-bosia/"target="_blank">Daniel Bosia</a> will analyze "Digital Architecture & Form"; and <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/bob-sheil/"target="_blank">Bob Sheil</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/hanif-kara/"target="_blank">Hanif Kara</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/charles-walker/"target="_blank">Charles Walker</a>, and Michael Stacey will discuss "Digital Architecture & Fabrication." I will be speaking on a panel featuring <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/alan-penn/"target="_blank">Alan Penn</a>, <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/neil-spiller/"target="_blank">Neil Spiller</a>, and <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/2009/murray-fraser/"target="_blank">Murray Fraser</a>, and our topic will be "Digital Architecture & Space."<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 23px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2585/3874463802_6cec9cc0aa_o.jpg" width="475" height="237" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: Two projects from the <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/hinterlands/"target="_blank"><i>Hinterlands</i></a> exhibition: (left) <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/hinterlands/exhibitor/patrick-usborne/"target="_blank"><i>MatArc</i></a> by Patrick Usborne, (right) <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/hinterlands/exhibitor/crackology/"target="_blank"><i>Crackology</i></a> by Mayhem].</small><br /><br />Information about venue, timing, tickets, and more can all be found on the <a href="http://www.digital-architecture.org/london/"target="_blank">conference website</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-48013377651085548132009-08-31T03:53:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.599-07:00Optioning Architecture<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 23px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3448/3873476519_d1f4faae12_o.jpg" width="475" height="671" border="0" alt="" />This weekend in Lund, Sweden, Sir Peter Cook and Abelardo Gonzalez will be hosting the 2009 ASAE conference, the theme of which is <a href="http://asae09.blogspot.com/"target="_blank"><i>Communicating Architecture</i></a>.<ul>ASAE is an annual symposium at the <a href="http://www.arkitektur.lth.se/"target="_blank">School of Architecture</a>, Lund University, Sweden. It celebrates the beginning of the academic year. This year's ASAE will be a two-day event with lectures, seminar, critique, exhibition and more.</ul>I'm still pretty stunned to find myself listed as a speaker, alongside people like <a href="http://www.morphosis.com/"target="_blank">Thom Mayne</a>, <a href="http://www.odbc-paris.com/web/index.php?id_cat=4&id_contenu=15&p=projet_phare&lang=lang1"target="_blank">Odile Decq</a>, and <a href="http://www.xefirotarch.com/"target="_blank">Hernan Diaz Alonso</a>; but I'm also excited by the opportunity to bring blogs again into this sort of organized discussion. <br /><br />Unfortunately, I'll be speaking first thing Saturday morning! But I'll be giving a talk called "Optioning Architecture." There will be at least two major themes to be developed: <ul><b>1)</b> What are the options available to architects when it comes to <i>communicating</i> spatial ideas? Are renderings, plans, and diagrams still the most communicationally effective media to use (from the perspective of the interested public) or simply the most industrially useful (from the perspective of fellow architects and contractors)? What happens when, say, <a href="http://www.tschumi.com/"target="_blank">Bernard Tschumi</a>'s next building is not announced to the public via well-rendered images and a press release <i>but in the form of a novel</i>? There is also much to discuss here by inverting this scenario and asking: what happens when novelists, screenwriters, poets, and so on begin <i>creating buildings</i> to communicate their literary and narrative ideas, instead of producing texts? While this obviously risks repeating the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300063024?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0300063024">textualist arguments</a> of an earlier decade, it still seems worth asking what might have happened if <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/bloomsday.html">James Joyce</a>, for instance, had been a junior architect at <a href="http://kierantimberlake.com/home/index.html"target="_blank">KieranTimberlake</a>: what effect might his literary urges have had upon that firm's built output? Put another, slightly cheesy, way: if <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_series"target="_blank">Mervyn Peake</a> had been a successful architect, what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(castle)"target="_blank">strange and sprawling manor houses</a> might now exist somewhere in the English countryside? In any case, what, in the end, are the communicational options available to architects?</ul><img style="display:block; margin:20px auto 25px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/3873620781_67094fe386_o.jpg" width="475" height="60" border="0" alt="" /><ul><b>2)</b> What possibilities exist for "optioning architecture," in the sense that a book, short story, or screenplay can be "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(filmmaking)"target="_blank">optioned</a>" by Hollywood for production in another media? That is, what might happen to the world of architectural design if your final graduate thesis project was to be optioned by Steven Spielberg or David Fincher? Would this be similar, in some ways, to the relationship between Rem Koolhaas's co-authored graduate thesis project, "<a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=392"target="_blank">Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture</a>," and Rupert Thomson's under-appreciated novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400076595?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1400076595"><i>Divided</a> <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/divided-kingdom.html">Kingdom</i></a>? To what extent is the latter a <a href="http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=9145"target="_blank">novelization of the former</a>? Finally, would it be possible for someone from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamWorks"target="_blank">DreamWorks</a> to come along, see a new museum under construction in Chicago or Baltimore, and then <i>option it</i>, the way he or she might option a promising novel? Could you literally translate the spatial dynamism and implied narrative logics of a building – could you <i>option them</i> – into an act of mainstream cinema? How might such a process work – and is there a reason why this hasn't yet occurred (i.e. it would be a totally ridiculous thing to do)? </ul>Of course, there are other types of architectural <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_(finance)"target="_blank">options</a> that we could discuss here – but I'll be focusing on the two ideas described above. <br /><br />The complete conference line-up includes <a href="http://www.fpmod.com/"target="_blank">Florencia Pita</a>, <a href="http://davidgarciastudio.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">David Garcia</a>, <a href="http://parrishrash.com/"target="_blank">Drura Parrish</a>, <a href="http://www.withassistant.net/"target="_blank">Megumi Matsubara</a>, and <a href="http://www.forumaid.com/eng"target="_blank">Daniel Golling</a>. Read more on the <a href="http://asae09.blogspot.com/"target="_blank">conference blog</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-71934046805114858692009-08-30T22:36:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.331-07:00Creating The Formal Dining Room<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.hsu.edu/uploadedImages/CHH/dining%20room.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 490px;" src="http://www.hsu.edu/uploadedImages/CHH/dining%20room.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.visitingdc.com/images/white-house-state-dining-room.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 282px;" src="http://www.visitingdc.com/images/white-house-state-dining-room.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gg.ca/citadelle/images/02_dining_room.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 289px;" src="http://www.gg.ca/citadelle/images/02_dining_room.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Creating The Formal Dining Room..............<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="result_box" dir="ltr">Creating The Formal Dining room, how many people asked where to create a formal dining room in the house. They did not know that the formal rooms are special rooms and not make one with another room, Example above is a picture that can make the alloy when you will design the house, clean and orderly tables, chairs, must be really clean and there is no interference from another room. Terlabih you have a big house that house would have a formal dining room for family gatherings. Location of tables and chairs must be in accordance with how much room, so choose materials that fit with the size of your house dining room, making you look beautiful when viewed by relatives, friends who visit your home.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-74419026699522943232009-08-30T21:30:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.619-07:00Monday, Monday<span style="font-weight: bold;">My weekly page update:</span><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Aug09/31/image01sm.jpg" title="Montauk Residence in Montauk, Long Island, New York by Pentagram Architects " alt="image01sm.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://www.archidose.org/Aug09/31/dose.html">Montauk Residence</a> in Montauk, Long Island, New York by Pentagram Architects.<br /><br />This week's book review is <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/books/corbusier.html">Le Corbusier: in his own words</a></span> by Antoine Vigne and Betty Bone.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some unrelated links for your enjoyment:</span> <blockquote><a href="http://www.architecture-buzz.com/">architecture buzz!!</a><br />"Buzz by architects." (added to sidebar under blogs::architecture)<br /><br /><a href="http://bluearchitecture.wordpress.com/">Blue Architecture</a><br />The blog of "Eric McNeal, a licensed architect in the state of Colorado, a LEED Accredited Professional, and the Principal of the architecture firm <a href="http://www.s7garc.com/" target="_blank">S7g Architecture</a>." (added to sidebar under blogs::<s>architecture</s> offices)<br /><br /><a href="http://emergenturbanism.com/">Emergent Urbanism</a><br />"A blog about the new science of building cities." (added to sidebar under blogs::urban)<br /><br /><a href="http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/">hugeasscity</a><br />"Seductive congestion. It’s what the best cities are all about.*" (added to sidebar under blogs::urban)<br /><br /><a href="http://vegitecture.blogspot.com/">Veg.itecture</a><br />A spin-off site from Jason <a href="http://landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com/">Landscape+Urbanism</a> King that "focuses on the representation and implementation of green roofs, living walls, and vertical farming solutions from around the world." (added to sidebar under blogs::landscape+maps)<br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-73329516160672327292009-08-30T20:01:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:10.000-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/15q817r.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Small bathroom is not suitable anymore to use a dark bathroom tile. So, the bathroom will looks outdated and ugly, there are several tips on renovate an outdated bathroom. First and cheap way is used a special paint for tile, find a bright color for the tile. Below are the picture of before painting and after painting.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/1zd59b6.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2e1egrm.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Another tips is choosing a different tile style with colorful design, below are several colorful and <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-in-your-bathroom-with-art-tile.html">artistic</a> bathroom tile. This will make the bathroom looks new and fresh.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/2e0tds4.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/vo5w2d.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-70209528488004930332009-08-30T20:01:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:09.762-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/15q817r.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Small bathroom is not suitable anymore to use a dark bathroom tile. So, the bathroom will looks outdated and ugly, there are several tips on renovate an outdated bathroom. First and cheap way is used a special paint for tile, find a bright color for the tile. Below are the picture of before painting and after painting.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/1zd59b6.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2e1egrm.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Another tips is choosing a different tile style with colorful design, below are several colorful and <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-in-your-bathroom-with-art-tile.html">artistic</a> bathroom tile. This will make the bathroom looks new and fresh.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/2e0tds4.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/vo5w2d.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-88986462579870592322009-08-30T20:01:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:04.001-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/15q817r.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Small bathroom is not suitable anymore to use a dark bathroom tile. So, the bathroom will looks outdated and ugly, there are several tips on renovate an outdated bathroom. First and cheap way is used a special paint for tile, find a bright color for the tile. Below are the picture of before painting and after painting.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/1zd59b6.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2e1egrm.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Another tips is choosing a different tile style with colorful design, below are several colorful and <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-in-your-bathroom-with-art-tile.html">artistic</a> bathroom tile. This will make the bathroom looks new and fresh.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/2e0tds4.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/vo5w2d.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-34556371386161774252009-08-30T20:01:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:03.810-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/15q817r.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Small bathroom is not suitable anymore to use a dark bathroom tile. So, the bathroom will looks outdated and ugly, there are several tips on renovate an outdated bathroom. First and cheap way is used a special paint for tile, find a bright color for the tile. Below are the picture of before painting and after painting.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/1zd59b6.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - before" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2e1egrm.jpg" alt="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" title="Tips for Outdated Bathroom's Tile Renovation - after" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Another tips is choosing a different tile style with colorful design, below are several colorful and <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-in-your-bathroom-with-art-tile.html">artistic</a> bathroom tile. This will make the bathroom looks new and fresh.<br /></div><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/tips-for-outdated-bathrooms-tile.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i31.tinypic.com/2e0tds4.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/vo5w2d.jpg" alt="new bathroom tile suggestion" title="new bathroom tile suggestion" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-12861205029353193272009-08-30T19:34:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:13.613-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lawangarepstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/disain-interior-and-furnitur-588x563.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 325px; height: 310px;" src="http://www.lawangarepstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/disain-interior-and-furnitur-588x563.jpg" alt="Caring for Furniture" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Caring for Furniture<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" >tips on caring for your home furniture: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > - Protect furniture from direct sun, as if often exposed to continuous heat </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > can cause bleaching of the lining of furniture. For exterior or garden furniture can be used </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > furniture protective layer (coating), but this does not close the possibility of bleaching layer </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > when exposed to heat continuously. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > - Try to clean the surface of the furniture from dust that does not look dull. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > - Do not use cleaners that contain silicone. Will leave a layer of silicon that is difficult to </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > eliminated. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > - Change the position of furniture on a regular basis. It has to do with the sun so as not to cause </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > stripe on the furniture. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > - Try to always use a mat / table cloth to avoid scratches layer table. </span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" > For the record, for the classic furniture if it looks dull, the better it looks.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-13945375806803760842009-08-30T19:30:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:13.917-07:00<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq304/lawangarep-studio/3dmadiun.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://i458.photobucket.com/albums/qq304/lawangarep-studio/3dmadiun.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:78%;">3d Eksterior Home Design</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;">This residential project located in Madiun in East Java. We got a section for making 3d exterior house and to place this boarding. Front area (on the left picture) is a boarding residents parking on the right side while drawing a business space. The use of paint is dominated by white walls in most homes with a combination of gray old at the front. 2nd floor hallway to the house using an iron barrier with black holo.<br /><br />In the process we chose atmosphere renderingnya afternoon to give the impression of "cool" on the home besides the use of exterior shade trees in the area of the road. Red car we use as a counterweight to the final color combinations to life.<br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-66833047771148490802009-08-30T19:19:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:14.231-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://indobuilding.indonetwork.co.id/pdimage/12/612312_project_gal7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 322px; height: 283px;" src="http://indobuilding.indonetwork.co.id/pdimage/12/612312_project_gal7.jpg" alt="eksterior Home design" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >eksterior Home design</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-24662661092309887662009-08-30T19:16:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:32:37.566-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpsypJ31uoI/AAAAAAAABvY/s7KlmIwDDTk/s1600-h/pickles.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375946262802971266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 331px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpsypJ31uoI/AAAAAAAABvY/s7KlmIwDDTk/s400/pickles.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Cucumbers are very much like <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">zucchini</span>. You plant just a few plants and then before you know it you are overloaded with cucumbers. We are in the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">overloaded</span> stage and have been for the past 2 weeks. We had plastic grocery bags filled with cucumbers tucked here, there and everywhere on the kitchen counter. This weekend it got so bad that I was moving <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">cukes</span> every time I needed to prepare a meal so I had to do something. So, I made a triple batch of refrigerator pickles.<br /><br />These homemade refrigerator pickles are perfect thing to make if you've never canned anything before. Not only are they easy, they are remarkably tasty; so much so, that I seldom make the cooked kind of pickles anymore.<br /><br /><br /><strong>Ingredients</strong><br /><br />1 cup distilled white vinegar<br />1 tablespoon salt<br />2 cups white sugar<br />6 cups sliced cucumbers<br />1 cup sliced onions<br /><br /><br /><strong>Directions</strong><br /><br />In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring vinegar, salt and sugar to a boil. Boil until the sugar has dissolved, about 10 minutes.<br /><br />Place the cucumbers, and onions in a large bowl. Pour the vinegar mixture over the top. Transfer to jars and store in the refrigerator. * Do NOT keep these in the cupboard!<br /><br /><br />I've had good luck with these keeping a long time in the fridge. That much <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">vinegar</span> probably keeps about anything from spoiling. Please note, the photo above shows 3 batches of pickles. Once batch makes 2.5 pint jars very tightly packed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-72723148271504837962009-08-30T19:08:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:10.222-07:00Ideas for small spaces - living room<div style="text-align: justify;">The tiny and fabulous Manhattan <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/living%20room">living room</a> of Michelle Adams, a former domino magazine stylist and the mastermind behind the eco-friendly Rubie Green fabric range. Adams' decor was inspired by the JK Capri Hotel in Italy.<br /></div><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 336px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/So9VAz34qmI/AAAAAAAACdY/hNiPUxY3kuI/s400/Ideas+for+small+spaces+-+living+room.jpg" alt="living room, interior design, lamp" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372606352889260642" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">She uses this diminutive space to work on Rubie Green projects, stashing storage and clutter behind a curtain and hanging fabric samples above an inspiration board. She scored the Jonathan Adler Bel Air <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/lamp">Lamp</a> at his annual sample sale.<br /></div><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/So9T_k2UaoI/AAAAAAAACdQ/q5AvapoyTgk/s400/Ideas+for+small+spaces+-+living+room+-1.jpg" alt="living room, interior design, lamp" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372605232164661890" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The IKEA 'Lack' bookcase holds books, jewelry, and Adams' domino collection. The <b>bamboo chair</b> at the Pottery Barn/Williams-Sonoma outlet store and covered the seat cushion in Rubie Green's 'Mary' print. Photo by Patrick Cline, Real Living (Australia), July 2009.<br />Source [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8230585@N06">via</a>] <b>Home interior design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-38116923960396369172009-08-30T19:08:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:04.175-07:00Ideas for small spaces - living room<div style="text-align: justify;">The tiny and fabulous Manhattan <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/living%20room">living room</a> of Michelle Adams, a former domino magazine stylist and the mastermind behind the eco-friendly Rubie Green fabric range. Adams' decor was inspired by the JK Capri Hotel in Italy.<br /></div><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 336px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/So9VAz34qmI/AAAAAAAACdY/hNiPUxY3kuI/s400/Ideas+for+small+spaces+-+living+room.jpg" alt="living room, interior design, lamp" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372606352889260642" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">She uses this diminutive space to work on Rubie Green projects, stashing storage and clutter behind a curtain and hanging fabric samples above an inspiration board. She scored the Jonathan Adler Bel Air <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/lamp">Lamp</a> at his annual sample sale.<br /></div><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 330px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/So9T_k2UaoI/AAAAAAAACdQ/q5AvapoyTgk/s400/Ideas+for+small+spaces+-+living+room+-1.jpg" alt="living room, interior design, lamp" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372605232164661890" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The IKEA 'Lack' bookcase holds books, jewelry, and Adams' domino collection. The <b>bamboo chair</b> at the Pottery Barn/Williams-Sonoma outlet store and covered the seat cushion in Rubie Green's 'Mary' print. Photo by Patrick Cline, Real Living (Australia), July 2009.<br />Source [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8230585@N06">via</a>] <b>Home interior design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-82482722306690560282009-08-30T19:08:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.353-07:00Ideas for small spaces - living roomThe tiny and fabulous Manhattan living room of Michelle Adams, a former domino magazine stylist and the mastermind behind the eco-friendly Rubie Green fabric range. Adams' decor was inspired by the JK Capri Hotel in Italy.She uses this diminutive space to work on Rubie Green projects, stashing storage and clutter behind a curtain and hanging fabric samples above an inspiration board. She scored Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-12941637278980587412009-08-30T10:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.650-07:00<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/doilum/3856877536/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/3856877536_2bb2cde196.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doilum/3856877536/">Manchester Hilton</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/doilum/">Doilum</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> The Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel by <a href="http://www.iansimpsonarchitects.com/">Ian Simpson Architects</a>, 2007.</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-66590871819794085582009-08-30T08:23:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:14.559-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wb8.itrademarket.com/pdimage/01/656901_graphic5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://wb8.itrademarket.com/pdimage/01/656901_graphic5.jpg" alt="Bed Room" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Bed Room<br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >The bedroom is made of wood wrapped with melamine finishing doff, with a modern classic shades create an impression of warm and natural and elegant in your bedroom.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-586652672489989582009-08-30T08:13:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:14.898-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2635915007_d5e2427237.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2635915007_d5e2427237.jpg" alt="Design Interior Bad room" border="2" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:78%;" >Design Interior Bad room<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-46475623561538308192009-08-30T06:23:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:11.022-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/291mart.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alape provide a minimalist bathroom furniture with elegant design, the shape of the furniture make the bathroom looks elegant and luxurious, Alape, founded in 1896, produces good quality and innovative bathroom equipment products in metal and wood. On a base of different components such as wash-basins, but also complete wash-systems, mirrors and a large furniture range, for private and public use. Alape produces with around 200 employees at two production sites in Goslar. Since 2001</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2cgj3a0.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/npni9f.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/vpaivm.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/24gof7m.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-48671139100346442032009-08-30T06:23:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:10.814-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/291mart.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alape provide a minimalist bathroom furniture with elegant design, the shape of the furniture make the bathroom looks elegant and luxurious, Alape, founded in 1896, produces good quality and innovative bathroom equipment products in metal and wood. On a base of different components such as wash-basins, but also complete wash-systems, mirrors and a large furniture range, for private and public use. Alape produces with around 200 employees at two production sites in Goslar. Since 2001</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2cgj3a0.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/npni9f.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/vpaivm.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/24gof7m.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-11817608876217865742009-08-30T06:23:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:04.613-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/291mart.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alape provide a minimalist bathroom furniture with elegant design, the shape of the furniture make the bathroom looks elegant and luxurious, Alape, founded in 1896, produces good quality and innovative bathroom equipment products in metal and wood. On a base of different components such as wash-basins, but also complete wash-systems, mirrors and a large furniture range, for private and public use. Alape produces with around 200 employees at two production sites in Goslar. Since 2001</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2cgj3a0.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/npni9f.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/vpaivm.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/24gof7m.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-63721022817404166142009-08-30T06:23:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:04.412-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/291mart.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alape provide a minimalist bathroom furniture with elegant design, the shape of the furniture make the bathroom looks elegant and luxurious, Alape, founded in 1896, produces good quality and innovative bathroom equipment products in metal and wood. On a base of different components such as wash-basins, but also complete wash-systems, mirrors and a large furniture range, for private and public use. Alape produces with around 200 employees at two production sites in Goslar. Since 2001</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i32.tinypic.com/2cgj3a0.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/npni9f.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i26.tinypic.com/vpaivm.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/minimalist-alape-bathroom-furniture.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i27.tinypic.com/24gof7m.jpg" alt="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" title="Minimalist Alape Bathroom Furniture System" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-84102765140218396272009-08-30T05:49:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:11.422-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 496px; height: 341px;" src="http://i26.tinypic.com/i24opc.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>It's called "Ritual Bathroom architecture, a bathroom with red natural <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/05/luxury-bathroom-design-with-stone.html">stone</a> that reflects the traditional company's long-running examination of the washing and space theme, in which the focus of the product presentation is on the person. This provides an opportunity to add the dimension of human activity to the functional aspects of the bathroom, with mere space transformed into an action location, a stage-set for personal rituals. Elemental Spa is the third set from <a href="http://www.dornbracht.com/de/" target="_blank">Dornbracht</a> to feature a ritual bath, after MEM, a room scene, conveying the idea of spiritual regeneration and Tara.Logic, in which the focus of the ritual is on the body.</span><br /></div><br /><span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i28.tinypic.com/91kt42.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Elemental Spa thematizes the naturalness of water by making its effect visible in an old-fashioned way. The products and fittings developed specifically for this range are evocative of sources and watering places. The contemporary interpretation is produced by the exciting interaction between clear, reduced design language and a mix of old-fashioned and modern materials. Corten steel, copper and olivewood surfaces, on which water leaves its mark, contrasts with the contemporary look of marble, Corian and reflective glass. All six products in the Elemental Spa Architektur range bear their own mark and are more than mere objects thanks to their expressive design language and high-quality materials. The gentle flow of water also creates the sensation of standing under a natural source. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/fm2dky.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2vbjwjb.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 482px; height: 316px;" src="http://i25.tinypic.com/k0n9qs.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-45718026317006703232009-08-30T05:49:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:11.218-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 496px; height: 341px;" src="http://i26.tinypic.com/i24opc.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>It's called "Ritual Bathroom architecture, a bathroom with red natural <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/05/luxury-bathroom-design-with-stone.html">stone</a> that reflects the traditional company's long-running examination of the washing and space theme, in which the focus of the product presentation is on the person. This provides an opportunity to add the dimension of human activity to the functional aspects of the bathroom, with mere space transformed into an action location, a stage-set for personal rituals. Elemental Spa is the third set from <a href="http://www.dornbracht.com/de/" target="_blank">Dornbracht</a> to feature a ritual bath, after MEM, a room scene, conveying the idea of spiritual regeneration and Tara.Logic, in which the focus of the ritual is on the body.</span><br /></div><br /><span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i28.tinypic.com/91kt42.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Elemental Spa thematizes the naturalness of water by making its effect visible in an old-fashioned way. The products and fittings developed specifically for this range are evocative of sources and watering places. The contemporary interpretation is produced by the exciting interaction between clear, reduced design language and a mix of old-fashioned and modern materials. Corten steel, copper and olivewood surfaces, on which water leaves its mark, contrasts with the contemporary look of marble, Corian and reflective glass. All six products in the Elemental Spa Architektur range bear their own mark and are more than mere objects thanks to their expressive design language and high-quality materials. The gentle flow of water also creates the sensation of standing under a natural source. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/fm2dky.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2vbjwjb.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 482px; height: 316px;" src="http://i25.tinypic.com/k0n9qs.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-68668848883264143062009-08-30T05:49:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:04.952-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 496px; height: 341px;" src="http://i26.tinypic.com/i24opc.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>It's called "Ritual Bathroom architecture, a bathroom with red natural <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/05/luxury-bathroom-design-with-stone.html">stone</a> that reflects the traditional company's long-running examination of the washing and space theme, in which the focus of the product presentation is on the person. This provides an opportunity to add the dimension of human activity to the functional aspects of the bathroom, with mere space transformed into an action location, a stage-set for personal rituals. Elemental Spa is the third set from <a href="http://www.dornbracht.com/de/" target="_blank">Dornbracht</a> to feature a ritual bath, after MEM, a room scene, conveying the idea of spiritual regeneration and Tara.Logic, in which the focus of the ritual is on the body.</span><br /></div><br /><span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i28.tinypic.com/91kt42.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Elemental Spa thematizes the naturalness of water by making its effect visible in an old-fashioned way. The products and fittings developed specifically for this range are evocative of sources and watering places. The contemporary interpretation is produced by the exciting interaction between clear, reduced design language and a mix of old-fashioned and modern materials. Corten steel, copper and olivewood surfaces, on which water leaves its mark, contrasts with the contemporary look of marble, Corian and reflective glass. All six products in the Elemental Spa Architektur range bear their own mark and are more than mere objects thanks to their expressive design language and high-quality materials. The gentle flow of water also creates the sensation of standing under a natural source. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/fm2dky.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2vbjwjb.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 482px; height: 316px;" src="http://i25.tinypic.com/k0n9qs.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-45638799590845718902009-08-30T05:49:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:04.774-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 496px; height: 341px;" src="http://i26.tinypic.com/i24opc.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>It's called "Ritual Bathroom architecture, a bathroom with red natural <a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/05/luxury-bathroom-design-with-stone.html">stone</a> that reflects the traditional company's long-running examination of the washing and space theme, in which the focus of the product presentation is on the person. This provides an opportunity to add the dimension of human activity to the functional aspects of the bathroom, with mere space transformed into an action location, a stage-set for personal rituals. Elemental Spa is the third set from <a href="http://www.dornbracht.com/de/" target="_blank">Dornbracht</a> to feature a ritual bath, after MEM, a room scene, conveying the idea of spiritual regeneration and Tara.Logic, in which the focus of the ritual is on the body.</span><br /></div><br /><span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i28.tinypic.com/91kt42.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>Elemental Spa thematizes the naturalness of water by making its effect visible in an old-fashioned way. The products and fittings developed specifically for this range are evocative of sources and watering places. The contemporary interpretation is produced by the exciting interaction between clear, reduced design language and a mix of old-fashioned and modern materials. Corten steel, copper and olivewood surfaces, on which water leaves its mark, contrasts with the contemporary look of marble, Corian and reflective glass. All six products in the Elemental Spa Architektur range bear their own mark and are more than mere objects thanks to their expressive design language and high-quality materials. The gentle flow of water also creates the sensation of standing under a natural source. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i25.tinypic.com/fm2dky.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i29.tinypic.com/2vbjwjb.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://bathroomgallery.blogspot.com/2009/08/red-natural-stone-ritual-bathroom.html" target="_blank"><img style="width: 482px; height: 316px;" src="http://i25.tinypic.com/k0n9qs.jpg" alt="Red Natural Stone Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" title="Red Natural Stone ritual Bathroom Architecture from Dornbracht" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-47809434240801086452009-08-30T04:52:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:24.772-07:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sppz5VFMjzI/AAAAAAAAErU/3QpIB6nIO28/s1600-h/Bringtherain-Sidebar22.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 209px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375736533968785202" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Sppz5VFMjzI/AAAAAAAAErU/3QpIB6nIO28/s400/Bringtherain-Sidebar22.png" /></a><br /><div>I hold back from writing this because I am not sure if I want it to be told. My only reason to do so is to ask for prayer. I do not like attention or to feel that I am held in a spotlight. I deeply respect people who can sing solos and act on a stage, because I would rather you sit and poke my eyeballs than to do so. I am very comfortable sitting back and watching people. Even then I feel as if I draw unwanted attention to clap loudly or sway to the music or hold my hands up. It is a curse of being a true dork. So here I go....For about three weeks I have had stomach pains. I went and had an Upper GI and it showed a Hiatal hernia and spontaneous reflux. After a few days of taking Nexium I was not relieved and still having pain so I went back. The next day I was scheduled for a CT scan to look for lower digestive problems and cysts on my ovaries. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The day after the CT scan I recieved a call at 11:00 with the results. She told me that it looked like I have a tumor on my pancreas and that they made me an appointment with a surgeon at 12:15. I told her I was to teach a class at 2:00 and she said that they really wanted me to get into the doctor that day. The tone in her voice was evident that I needed to go. The surgeon was more positive and said that it is a posiblility that the spot on my pancreas could even be something that I have had from birth and just a weird thing that is not anything to worry about. Or, it could be a tumor. He did say that a lot of people can develop cysts that are nothing to worry about but the radiologist that read the films did not think it looked like it was just a cyst and was concerned enough that we need to check it out. I also have a 22 mm cyst on my ovary which is nothing of concern. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>My next step is that on Wednesday I have an appointment to schedule an endoscopic ultrasound. They will put an endoscope into your stomach that has an ultrasound thingy on it and can better see the spot on my pancreas. He also can biopsy it if it is suspicious. Then, we would go from there. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I covet your prayers. I understand to a small degree that I might have cancer and in the near future have surgery, go through radiation, and possibly chemo treatments. It is also possible that nothing is wrong. That one is not as believable with my symptoms, but it could be nothing major. I do know that I have a true relationship with Christ and can depend on Him to walk with me through whatever the future holds. It may be bad but that does not change who He is or His love for me. I pray nothing is wrong, but more than that I pray to stay in His will though whatever comes. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>When I was a teen I knew God's word and I often said and did what I knew to be right. In my heart I was on the fence with God. His word says that we can not be lukewarm. He spits us out of His mouth- <a href="http://www.openbible.info/topics/lukewarm_christians">Revelation 3:15-16</a>. I wanted God's insurance plan of where I would go if I died, but then wanted to choose my friends and life. I thought God would make my life holy and boring with really dorky friends. I finally came to the end of what I could do and had my life in such misery that He became my only hope. I was ready to do it His way. Is it easy- No. Do you still have problems- Absolutely. But, you have a friend that is there through each and every trial. Each trial produces endurance and discipline and teaches you more about who God is and how much He cares for you. I have that friend and assurance... do you? </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-47587257993833801072009-08-30T00:16:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:11.631-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0XOC_1KI/AAAAAAAABZw/QVuqW1vmt_o/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0XOC_1KI/AAAAAAAABZw/QVuqW1vmt_o/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374540778825569442" /></a>Red and Green Bathroom<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0I52FZvI/AAAAAAAABZo/yemBQn3wpmc/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0I52FZvI/AAAAAAAABZo/yemBQn3wpmc/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374540532884530930" /></a>Bright Yellow Modern Bathroom<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYz7Oe5jWI/AAAAAAAABZg/fErj9xBNUQI/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYz7Oe5jWI/AAAAAAAABZg/fErj9xBNUQI/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374540297906261346" /></a>Bathroom With Wood Paneling<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzlOIox2I/AAAAAAAABZY/wd43Xydqp1E/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzlOIox2I/AAAAAAAABZY/wd43Xydqp1E/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539919855765346" /></a>Painting is seen above an octagon shaped bathtub in the bathroom<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzSsfw7QI/AAAAAAAABZQ/UL7pT-SwboA/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzSsfw7QI/AAAAAAAABZQ/UL7pT-SwboA/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539601588317442" /></a>Bathroom in modern residence<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzH1FhhfI/AAAAAAAABZI/zYNsWujosyU/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzH1FhhfI/AAAAAAAABZI/zYNsWujosyU/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539414915614194" /></a>Bathroom sinks<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYy9KA7p9I/AAAAAAAABZA/VZhMQqlKOoE/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYy9KA7p9I/AAAAAAAABZA/VZhMQqlKOoE/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539231554938834" /></a>Bathroom faucet</div><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-86007318197431487352009-08-30T00:16:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:05.157-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0XOC_1KI/AAAAAAAABZw/QVuqW1vmt_o/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0XOC_1KI/AAAAAAAABZw/QVuqW1vmt_o/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374540778825569442" /></a>Red and Green Bathroom<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0I52FZvI/AAAAAAAABZo/yemBQn3wpmc/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpY0I52FZvI/AAAAAAAABZo/yemBQn3wpmc/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374540532884530930" /></a>Bright Yellow Modern Bathroom<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYz7Oe5jWI/AAAAAAAABZg/fErj9xBNUQI/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYz7Oe5jWI/AAAAAAAABZg/fErj9xBNUQI/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374540297906261346" /></a>Bathroom With Wood Paneling<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzlOIox2I/AAAAAAAABZY/wd43Xydqp1E/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzlOIox2I/AAAAAAAABZY/wd43Xydqp1E/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539919855765346" /></a>Painting is seen above an octagon shaped bathtub in the bathroom<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzSsfw7QI/AAAAAAAABZQ/UL7pT-SwboA/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzSsfw7QI/AAAAAAAABZQ/UL7pT-SwboA/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539601588317442" /></a>Bathroom in modern residence<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzH1FhhfI/AAAAAAAABZI/zYNsWujosyU/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYzH1FhhfI/AAAAAAAABZI/zYNsWujosyU/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539414915614194" /></a>Bathroom sinks<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYy9KA7p9I/AAAAAAAABZA/VZhMQqlKOoE/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYy9KA7p9I/AAAAAAAABZA/VZhMQqlKOoE/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374539231554938834" /></a>Bathroom faucet</div><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79561633748364290722009-08-29T22:46:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.383-07:00White floors Clean Your House<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/md-104.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 254px;" src="http://www.dezeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/md-104.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://x3b.xanga.com/f4fd644301c35119255684/w85754745.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 279px;" src="http://x3b.xanga.com/f4fd644301c35119255684/w85754745.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/2671059506_7890b73a4a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 422px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/2671059506_7890b73a4a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;" id="result_box" dir="ltr">White floors Clean Your House.............<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="result_box" dir="ltr">White floors Clean your house, Many houses in the world wearing the color red floor is suitable for large models or small house. What should you do if your house white floor you should always keep the floor clean of dirt and dust, like if your child playing on the floor clean.</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-42967350963273085282009-08-29T21:23:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:15.223-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wb4.itrademarket.com/pdimage/69/587469_scan_0051.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 300px;" src="http://wb4.itrademarket.com/pdimage/69/587469_scan_0051.jpg" alt="Interior home design - living room" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Interior home design - living room<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-3863619615958630172009-08-29T21:13:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:01:15.669-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wb8.itrademarket.com/pdimage/97/587497_scan_0052.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 324px; height: 409px;" src="http://wb8.itrademarket.com/pdimage/97/587497_scan_0052.jpg" alt="living room ome design" border="2" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:78%;" >living room ome design<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-82435281476229823092009-08-29T19:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.839-07:00Three DVDsRecently I saw a string of architecture-related documentaries, one on a famous building, one on a man straddling famous buildings, and one on the suburbs. Here's my thoughts on those three documentaries, all available on DVD.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/3dvd.jpg" title="..." alt="3dvd.jpg" /><br />[image description | image source]<br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001139ZJC?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001139ZJC">Radiant City</a> is the first of this trio that I watched. It is <a href="http://www.radiantcitymovie.com/">a documentary</a> on suburbia that is filmed in Canada (Calgary, Alberta) and made by Canadians, but its setting could be anywhere else in North America. Only the accents and occasional reference to "un-American" things belies the generic sprawl that is more often associated with Canada's neighbor to the south. The film is a mix of documentary and reality TV, with some of the usual experts and critics of suburbia (<a href="http://kunstler.com/">James Howard Kunstler</a>, <a href="http://www.dpz.com/">Andrés Duany</a>) comprising the first and some families living in a subdivision in the suburbs of Calgary making up the second. Both the commentary and the statistics flashing up on the screen were second nature to this reviewer, but the actions of the parents and children of sprawl as they went about their bored and detached lives was particularly humorous, a more scathing critique than the retread lines of Kunstler. Like other books and documentaries on the suburbs, New Urbanism is the alternative that is proffered, though its deficiencies (I've critiqued NU <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2004/03/new-urbanist-glen.html">elsewhere</a>, so I won't go into it here) point to the need for another alternative...besides cities themselves.<br /><br />Next I watched <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E5FYS8?ie=UTF8&tag=aweeklydoseof-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B001E5FYS8">Man on Wire</a>, the story of Philippe Petit's death-defying wire-walk between <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18528948@N00/sets/72157622033808694/">World Trade Center</a> towers one and two in the summer of 1974. The film combines interviews with Petit and others helping on the stunt with scenes of training in France beforehand, footage of earlier feats in Paris and Sydney, and recreations of the hours before rigging the wires from roof to roof. The documentary does a great job of building the suspense, even though we know the unharnessed Petit survives; after all, he's interviewed in the film. Even though the film was released seven years after the events of September 11, they are not mentioned; in many ways they are not relevant or significant for the story here, except that his stunt cannot ever be faithfully recreated. The fit of fearless wire-walker and Twin Towers is so perfect it seems hard to imagine that it didn't happen, but watching this documentary it's even more amazing that it happened at all. Relatively insignifant events (a security guard pacing, a glitchy walkie-talkie) are painted as if they would make or break the stunt. But this film, the numerous photographs, and the book by Petit on which this film is based are testimony to the daring spectacle. Of course without these documents only stories or descriptions of a speck in the sky would be conveyed, hardly satisfactory relative to what Petit did. His actions tame those of his current-day predecessors, of the celebrities hyping and prancing about their supposedly death-defying stunts that are actually drained of danger. Petit did the opposite: he snuck into a building in the middle of the night and risked his own life nearly 1,500 feet in the air, doing what he loved and trained for all his life.<br /><br />Lastly, <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.filmartmedia.com/products/view.html/the-edge-of-the-possible-special-edition;jsessionid=ma25nceiqcol?productId=3">The Edge of the Possible</a> is a ten-year-old documentary on the design and construction of the <a href="http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/">Syndey Opera House</a>, a masterpiece of architecture with a history almost as well known as its form. Almost everybody knows about the then young Dane Jørn Utzon (38) winning the competition in 1957; the rushed construction; the structural difficulties inherent in Utzon's design; and of course the architect's departure from the project in 1966, never to return to Sydney and see the project completed. But the details on the above tend to be blown out of proportion, particularly Utzon's resignation, which he describes here as amicable, not angry or bitter as is the norm in descriptions of it. Interviews with Utzon at his home in Denmark and archival footage of the construction make this documentary valuable -- and much more entertaining than a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House">Wikipedia entry</a> -- for those interested in the building. It was especially nice to see the various models made for the design, be it the roof structure, the house ceilings or the proposed plywood structure. While the quality and impact of the result is undeniable, the loss of Utzon at a crucial stage brings to the fore the need for a consistent guiding hand, a visionary if you will, but one more nuanced, more focused than today's "starchitect." Utzon moved himself and his office to Sydney in 1963; how many high-profile architects would to the same today?<br /><br />(Note <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.filmartmedia.com/products/view.html/the-edge-of-the-possible-special-edition;jsessionid=ma25nceiqcol?productId=3">The Edge of the Possible</a> is now available in a brand new Special Edition with an extended interview with Utzon, extra construction footage, and other bonus features.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-85159264414416873212009-08-29T16:42:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:24.911-07:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnC2Q2eaHI/AAAAAAAAErM/MY06KczVmSE/s1600-h/SouthernHospThriftyTreasurescopy.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 175px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 175px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375541867735574642" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnC2Q2eaHI/AAAAAAAAErM/MY06KczVmSE/s400/SouthernHospThriftyTreasurescopy.jpg" /></a> I picked up this frame for $3.00. It is larger than it looks in the photo. I needed a frame for the painting my aunt did of the home my mom grew up in. My grandfather built the home himself. It was a small two bedroom log cabin on the property of my grandmother's parent's home in Ellisville, Mississippi.<br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCgt2ASEI/AAAAAAAAErE/KAXrBCmRMjw/s1600-h/ct+room+008.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375541497561106498" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCgt2ASEI/AAAAAAAAErE/KAXrBCmRMjw/s400/ct+room+008.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCgfPJtUI/AAAAAAAAEq8/OyIM1HGFU2Y/s1600-h/ct+room+007.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375541493640049986" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCgfPJtUI/AAAAAAAAEq8/OyIM1HGFU2Y/s400/ct+room+007.JPG" /></a><br />I paid $5.00 for this frame, hoping to frame a very large photo that was done of me when I was three. It wasn't the correct size. This frame is very big and has beautiful coloring. I will have to frame a chalkboard or burlap board because it is too fabulous to let go.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCf3EfRFI/AAAAAAAAEq0/LjvxugVZQN4/s1600-h/ct+room+009.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375541482857907282" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCf3EfRFI/AAAAAAAAEq0/LjvxugVZQN4/s400/ct+room+009.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCfY1tsiI/AAAAAAAAEqs/maypmru--7E/s1600-h/ct+room+010.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375541474742874658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCfY1tsiI/AAAAAAAAEqs/maypmru--7E/s400/ct+room+010.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCe3dt2iI/AAAAAAAAEqk/dKJMnnRKmlE/s1600-h/ct+room+011.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375541465783851554" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnCe3dt2iI/AAAAAAAAEqk/dKJMnnRKmlE/s400/ct+room+011.JPG" /></a><br />I bought this painting for $4.oo to go in our turquoise bathroom. The lady said her father-in-law painted it. I think he was very talented. He didn't sign it, which is sad. The edges of the canvas are not painted. I need to frame it, don't I?<br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAoXQEUCI/AAAAAAAAEp0/0Cx_Im8MyQI/s1600-h/garage+sale+036.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375539429912104994" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAoXQEUCI/AAAAAAAAEp0/0Cx_Im8MyQI/s400/garage+sale+036.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAnzan9zI/AAAAAAAAEps/9_qbNtV4tcY/s1600-h/garage+sale+037.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375539420292708146" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAnzan9zI/AAAAAAAAEps/9_qbNtV4tcY/s400/garage+sale+037.JPG" /></a><br />Pillow for $1.00<br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAnlL6oXI/AAAAAAAAEpk/s5nByh_ppEU/s1600-h/garage+sale+034.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375539416472920434" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAnlL6oXI/AAAAAAAAEpk/s5nByh_ppEU/s400/garage+sale+034.JPG" /></a><br />Bass shoes for $2.00<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAnH5nrBI/AAAAAAAAEpc/TfcOKcwp-1Y/s1600-h/garage+sale+033.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375539408611552274" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpnAnH5nrBI/AAAAAAAAEpc/TfcOKcwp-1Y/s400/garage+sale+033.JPG" /></a><br />The oblong basket was $1.00. It will be perfect for rolls or breadsticks. The welcome sign was $1.00 and the eggs were $.50.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_ib9Z49I/AAAAAAAAEpM/JbxasISQP_0/s1600-h/garage+sale+019.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375538228585161682" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_ib9Z49I/AAAAAAAAEpM/JbxasISQP_0/s400/garage+sale+019.JPG" /></a> Pear candle was $.10. The lady said she HATED it when I came to buy it. I gave her a quarter and waited 10 minutes for change and got 5 penneys. I should have ran without getting change. I am not sure I really like it either, but for $.10 it is a great candle to burn.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_h4HD8RI/AAAAAAAAEpE/qpBwGzFew0I/s1600-h/garage+sale+022.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375538218961989906" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_h4HD8RI/AAAAAAAAEpE/qpBwGzFew0I/s400/garage+sale+022.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Two spatulas for $1.00. The bag of protectors to put under the feet of furniture was $.50.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_hj2uYaI/AAAAAAAAEo8/aqJ899Wycas/s1600-h/garage+sale+024.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375538213524758946" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_hj2uYaI/AAAAAAAAEo8/aqJ899Wycas/s400/garage+sale+024.JPG" /></a> Double ball bowling bag $5.00. My husband is sending it to his uncle that has started bowling.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_hMHzagI/AAAAAAAAEo0/ShKjw7xWlGU/s1600-h/garage+sale+026.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375538207153940994" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_hMHzagI/AAAAAAAAEo0/ShKjw7xWlGU/s400/garage+sale+026.JPG" /></a><br /><br />The chest was $30.00. I don't like the crackle finish so I will be painting it probably a blue to match my kitchen table.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_g4-EvfI/AAAAAAAAEos/ONchFc1oDG4/s1600-h/garage+sale+015.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375538202012859890" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm_g4-EvfI/AAAAAAAAEos/ONchFc1oDG4/s400/garage+sale+015.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-lhziOXI/AAAAAAAAEok/26TYaQJwBdQ/s1600-h/garage+sale+008.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375537182182357362" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-lhziOXI/AAAAAAAAEok/26TYaQJwBdQ/s400/garage+sale+008.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-lVLl_xI/AAAAAAAAEoc/lZyomNs0T38/s1600-h/garage+sale+009.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375537178793606930" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-lVLl_xI/AAAAAAAAEoc/lZyomNs0T38/s400/garage+sale+009.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-lL0S_yI/AAAAAAAAEoU/iL5eXi4FIZY/s1600-h/garage+sale+010.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375537176279973666" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-lL0S_yI/AAAAAAAAEoU/iL5eXi4FIZY/s400/garage+sale+010.JPG" /></a><br />Condiment server was $3.00 and it was new in the box.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-kzhmKkI/AAAAAAAAEoM/9piZrcwY5m4/s1600-h/garage+sale+011.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375537169759087170" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-kzhmKkI/AAAAAAAAEoM/9piZrcwY5m4/s400/garage+sale+011.JPG" /></a> The set of six bottles was $3.00.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-kVsJakI/AAAAAAAAEoE/IiaKHhHWLBs/s1600-h/garage+sale+012.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375537161750276674" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm-kVsJakI/AAAAAAAAEoE/IiaKHhHWLBs/s400/garage+sale+012.JPG" /></a><br />Two crib size quilts for $1.00 each. I was thinking of using them for making tote bags.<br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm90vEDliI/AAAAAAAAEn8/ViZsipf7eNA/s1600-h/garage+sale+002.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375536343927723554" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm90vEDliI/AAAAAAAAEn8/ViZsipf7eNA/s400/garage+sale+002.JPG" /></a><br />Full size quilt was $3.00. I can always use quilts.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm90cqatjI/AAAAAAAAEn0/JSJYH2wbv80/s1600-h/garage+sale+003.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375536338988348978" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm90cqatjI/AAAAAAAAEn0/JSJYH2wbv80/s400/garage+sale+003.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm9z0dGEPI/AAAAAAAAEns/6XQxzO_O1FU/s1600-h/garage+sale+006.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375536328195051762" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm9z0dGEPI/AAAAAAAAEns/6XQxzO_O1FU/s400/garage+sale+006.JPG" /></a> This is a square pillow sham- a really big one. I love the nubby fabric!<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm9zi0hHtI/AAAAAAAAEnk/NzE12nuJRQk/s1600-h/garage+sale+007.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375536323461455570" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm9zi0hHtI/AAAAAAAAEnk/NzE12nuJRQk/s400/garage+sale+007.JPG" /></a> Set of three candlesticks was $3.00.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm9zOvRgWI/AAAAAAAAEnc/e3YX1HKaT6Y/s1600-h/garage+sale+018.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375536318070751586" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/Spm9zOvRgWI/AAAAAAAAEnc/e3YX1HKaT6Y/s400/garage+sale+018.JPG" /></a><br />Visit Rhoda at <a href="http://southernhospitalityblog.com/yardsales-once-again/">Southern Hospitality </a>for more posts. Be prepared, Rhoda mentions that she is getting bored with garage sales lately. I just covered my ears. </div></div></div></div></div></div></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-59086877570412674082009-08-29T07:45:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:52:17.030-07:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><em><strong>Ashley</strong></em></span>, who entered by saying "love, love, love the Devi Bangles!<br />But then again, I think I'm falling for most of the jewelry!"<br /><br /><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Spk-GzWPRHI/AAAAAAAADnI/uAKMrACZZq4/s1600-h/DeviBangles-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375395916827018354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 131px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Spk-GzWPRHI/AAAAAAAADnI/uAKMrACZZq4/s200/DeviBangles-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="center">Congratulations Ashley! Here are some of the other pieces of <a href="http://www.stelladot.com/sites/isabellaandmaxrooms">Stella & Dot</a> jewelry Ashley could also select as her prize.<br /><br /></p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sphmz1o4gGI/AAAAAAAADlE/EmUrJmBkkkw/s1600-h/JennaPearl%26RibbonNEcklace-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375159196024602722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 135px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sphmz1o4gGI/AAAAAAAADlE/EmUrJmBkkkw/s200/JennaPearl%26RibbonNEcklace-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SphmzcO3_tI/AAAAAAAADk8/EysZvn9XKh4/s1600-h/JennaPearlEarrings-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375159189204631250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 176px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SphmzcO3_tI/AAAAAAAADk8/EysZvn9XKh4/s200/JennaPearlEarrings-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sphjd2Qzf7I/AAAAAAAADks/mFydijKQJP8/s1600-h/KellyCuffBlack%26White-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375155519700041650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 151px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 141px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sphjd2Qzf7I/AAAAAAAADks/mFydijKQJP8/s200/KellyCuffBlack%26White-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SphjKi3VF3I/AAAAAAAADkk/JvwVegMkdAg/s1600-h/KellyNecklaceBlack-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375155188075403122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 139px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SphjKi3VF3I/AAAAAAAADkk/JvwVegMkdAg/s200/KellyNecklaceBlack-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sphls2jMkJI/AAAAAAAADk0/BDiZBkT4EqM/s1600-h/bloomflowerring-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375157976498475154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/Sphls2jMkJI/AAAAAAAADk0/BDiZBkT4EqM/s200/bloomflowerring-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For those of you who didn't win, thanks for leaving your comments and helping me celebrate the addition of the <a href="http://www.stelladot.com/sites/isabellaandmaxrooms">Stella & Dot e-Boutique</a> to my blog. And remember, all orders placed through my boutique by September 30th qualify you for the <a href="http://www.stelladot.com/corporate/productcatalog?page=productdetail&sku=N1012S">Bonus Giveaway valued at $118</a>!<br /><br />Fianlly, I hope you'll visit the<a href="http://www.stelladot.com/sites/isabellaandmaxrooms"> Boutique</a> in the future when the jewelry urge hits!<br /><br />Thanks...Janell </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-81140508334921336112009-08-28T17:05:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:23.625-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://architectaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/modern-bedroom.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 231px;" src="http://architectaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/modern-bedroom.jpg" alt="Interior home design - bedroom" border="2" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:78%;" >Interior home design - bedroom</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-52214250560059751592009-08-28T17:00:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:24.905-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.aboutcabinet.com/uploadfile/newsimg/sizec/Bathroom-Interior-Decorating-Ideas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://www.aboutcabinet.com/uploadfile/newsimg/sizec/Bathroom-Interior-Decorating-Ideas.jpg" alt="Interior home design - bathroom" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Interior home design - bathroom<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-4404576369246289982009-08-28T16:57:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:25.249-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8k6ZA6j9FMU/R2nEk-pKGiI/AAAAAAAAAeo/AB5HsXGCAoE/s400/living+room.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8k6ZA6j9FMU/R2nEk-pKGiI/AAAAAAAAAeo/AB5HsXGCAoE/s400/living+room.jpg" alt="Interior home design - living room" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Interior home design - living room<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-23347380670801111582009-08-28T16:46:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:53:52.974-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dezeen.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/Smem5MpDmNI/AAAAAAAACVk/u08ueA6k7ow/s400/Matilde+House+-+luxury+home.jpg" alt="Matilde House, modern house design, luxury home design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361437382984046802" border="0" /></a>Matilde House designed by Ailtireacht Architects, located in Rathgar, Dublin.<br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 324px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/Smemw2jwr5I/AAAAAAAACVc/GG0Le4cixbE/s400/Matilde+House+-+luxury+home+-+exterior.jpg" alt="Matilde House, modern house design, luxury home design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361437239617302418" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SmemTY-H1pI/AAAAAAAACVU/eRzU64dJM4c/s400/Matilde+House+-+luxury+home+-+bathroom.jpg" alt="Matilde House, modern house design, luxury home design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361436733458601618" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SmemI83q9KI/AAAAAAAACVM/6i9GG0sJAEw/s400/Matilde+House+-+luxury+home+-+exterior+-+1.jpg" alt="Matilde House, modern house design, luxury home design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361436554116658338" border="0" /><br />Information from Ailtireacht Architects:<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The existing two-storey return was at a scale not befitting such a large <a href="http://best-modern-house-design.blogspot.com/">house</a> with cramped internal dimensions making the spaces unusable. Traditionally, Victorian returns consist of a series of functional and subservient spaces to the <b>mainhouse</b>. The design exploits this premise, in the creation of a series of generously proportioned multifunctional spaces, accommodating the contemporary needs not afforded by a typical <b>Victorian House</b>, spaces envisaged for working, playing, bathing and sleeping. The functional materiality of the proposal is selected in response to the existing condition of unpainted render at the rear terrace and the subordinate functional spaces contained therein. View <b>Matilde House</b> detail [<a href="http://www.dezeen.com/">via</a>] <b>modern house design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-28155847454783128692009-08-28T16:43:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:25.582-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://forum.kompas.com/members/martinus66-albums-gratis-desain-interior-rumah-picture2952-gratis-kitchen-set.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://forum.kompas.com/members/martinus66-albums-gratis-desain-interior-rumah-picture2952-gratis-kitchen-set.jpg" alt="Interior home design - kitchen set" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Interior home design - kitchen set<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-41404624169605742112009-08-28T11:48:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:32:37.833-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/Sr_VrSGp7YI/AAAAAAAABzM/tMs1jxsMQGA/s1600-h/Big+Pizza+Done.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386258618929245570" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/Sr_VrSGp7YI/AAAAAAAABzM/tMs1jxsMQGA/s400/Big+Pizza+Done.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Ever since we got married, Friday night has been Pizza Night in our house. My husband looks forward to pizza night more than you would ever know. It just seems like a fitting end to the work week. Plus it's nice to have a night off from cooking. Every once in a while George asks if I'll make something else on a Friday night and sure enough, like clockwork he calls mid afternoon to see if I can switch back to pizza. Funny guy.<br /><br />When we first married, we used to order pizza from the "local" pizza shop. When you live out in the country, you can forget all about the convenience of delivery. You have to hop in the car and drive over there yourself -- even in crummy weather. And then the pizza is lukewarm by the time you get it home because most of the time the pizza people put your order in right away instead of waiting 10 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">minutes</span> so you can get started on your way to pick it up.<br /><br />A couple of years ago after the umpteenth time of driving on icy roads to bring home a cold pizza I asked myself "would I rather be driving or cooking?". Cooking won out hands down so I started making homemade pizza for our pizza nights. Wait! What about my night off from cooking? I'll get to that in a minute.<br /><br />Although we switched to homemade pizza because believe it or not, it is actually more convenient to make dough from scratch, assemble all of the toppings and bake the whole darn thing than it is to drive to get our pizza, we also save a bundle of $$ by making our own pizza. Just this week I ran the numbers and discovered that while our homemade pizza is not quite as cheap as I thought it would be, but it is still a whole lot cheaper than pizza parlour pizza <em>and</em> it's a whole lot tastier.<br /><br />Here's my recipe and the cost break down for how we most often make the pizza. Please note, I usually use 1/2 whole wheat flour and add in flax seed meal which increased the cost. Because most people probably won't do that I didn't include it in the cost calculation:<br /><br />Easy <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Peasy</span> Pizza Dough<br /><br />*This dough is enough to make "pan pizza" (thick) crust for 2 large cookie sheets or two 16/18 inch pans. When I make this much dough, I also have enough to make 2 personal size thin crust pizzas for me too.<br /><br /><strong>Pizza Dough Recipe</strong><br /><br />9 Cups All Purpose Flour (1.19)<br />1/2 Cup Olive Oil (.72)<br />4 Tbsp Yeast (.54) ----You can also use 2 individual sized <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">pkgs</span> too<br />2 Tbsp sugar (.03)<br />2 tsp salt (.01)<br />2 and 2/3 cups of water (?)<br />______________________<br /><strong>Total Cost for Crust: $2.49</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Instructions</strong><br /><br />Mix 4 cups of flour, the yeast, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Heat the water and olive oil together until the mixture reaches 120 -130 degrees. Pour into the flour mixture and stir until well blended. Add in 2 to 3 more cups of flour and mix well. Turn out onto a flat surface and knead in about another cup to 2 cups of flour until the dough "turns". Shape into a ball and place into a large greased bowl. Cover and let the dough rise to about double in size.<br /><br />*A word about kneading dough: If you've never done it before, don't worry! It's very easy and does not take very long at all. <em>Don't be afraid of the dough or making pizza from scratch!</em> While it's difficult to explain the movements you need to make to knead dough, basically it is just squishing and folding the dough over on it's self with the heels of your hands all the while adding in a bit of flour each turn. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPLsaMaGyM">Here's</a> a good U<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">tube</span> tutorial on how to knead dough.<br /><br />Preheat your oven to 425 or 450 degrees. It is very important to have your oven preheated for this.<br /><br />Once your dough is risen to double in size punch it down to knock out all the air bubbles. Take it out of the bowl and divide into however many pizzas you want to make. (This much dough makes two very large cookie sheet sized "pan style" pizzas. You could also use 16 or 18 inches round pizza pans. If you do not like pan style crust you could probably get 3 thinner crust pizzas of the same size. I'm not sure of this because my husband would revolt if he didn't get thick crust pizza:) Roll the dough, or press with your hands (my preferred method) onto the greased cookie or pizza pan. Allow the dough to rest for 10 to 15 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">minutes</span>.<br /><br />Top with your families favorite toppings and bake for about 25 - 30 minutes or until the cheese is starting to get browned and the crust looks done.<br /><br />What about <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">prebaking</span>? Sometimes I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">prebake</span> the crust for about 6 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">minutes</span>, sometimes I don't. The only difference is that the crust is a little softer if you don't <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">prebake</span>, but it's still <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">thoroughly</span> cooked.<br /><br /><strong>Our Toppings of Choice and What They Cost</strong><br /><br />1.5 Cans Pizza Sauce (we like a lot $1.78)<br />2 lbs cheese (6.00)<br />2 cups of cooked ground beef (2.00)<br />1 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">sm</span> can mushrooms (.74)<br />1 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">sm</span> can pineapple (.64)<br />1/4 jar of green olives (.50)<br />1/2 medium onion (free from garden)<br />1/2 medium green pepper (free from garden)<br />tsp of basil, oregano and fennel seed (.35)<br />_______________________________<br /><br />Total Cost for Toppings $12.01<br />Total Cost for Pizza Night: $14.50<br /><br /><br />Please note: I usually use 1/2 whole wheat flour and add in flax seed meal which increases the cost. Because most people probably won't do that I didn't include it in the cost calculation. If you are looking to make your homemade pizza even cheaper, you could use vegetable oil in the crust, reduce the cheese and just do veggies for toppings.<br /><br />Now, what about my night off from cooking? Honestly this was my one reason for holding out on switching to homemade pizza. As much as I enjoy cooking, I wanted one night off a week where I didn't have to do anything in the kitchen. Here's my secret. I do all this work from start to finish in about 30 minutes minus the baking time and the time it takes for the dough to rise. For that amount of kitchen time, we get a delicious custom made pizza that tastes better than my favorite pizza parlour pizza AND I don't have to cook supper on Saturday! We just put the whole second pizza in the fridge and reheat it either for lunch or supper the next day. It tastes so good you would never know you are eating leftover pizza.<br /><br /><br /><br />I don't make homemade pizza because I'm a perfect little Suzy Homemaker. I do this on a weeknight; after I've worked<em> all</em> day, because it is easier (saving money is nice too). Homemade pizza does NOT take much time to make (nor does homemade bread for that matter). For me it really is less of a bother than driving to town and back. I also really like that fact that I can customize our pizza to suite our personal preferences. Every once in a while I will use one of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Walmart</span> take and bake cheese pizzas and top that with whatever we have on hand for days when I am just not in the mood to cook a single thing. And every 6 or 7 months we will pick up a pizza to go from the local place just because it sounds good. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">This post is linked to </span></em><a href="http://www.lifeasmom.com/2009/08/frugal-friday-take-financial-snapshot.html"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Frugal Friday</span></em></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span></em></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-30898511333030853432009-08-28T10:40:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:32:37.979-07:00I've always been the one that people would never dream of letting babysit their precious children. This is probably because I always joke about keeping them in a pet carrier, nailing down a top on their play pen and putting them on a leash. Of course I would probably* never do those things, it's just fun to tease.<br /><br />Well, this week I found out I "come by these <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">tendencies</span> honest" to quote Jed <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Clampett</span>. A little background information for you...<br /><br />When I was quite little and being naughty, my dad would always tell me the story of how his mother tied him to the table leg when he was naughty so he wouldn't get into any more trouble. Then he would lightheartedly tease me that he would do the same thing. One time he even went to the shop and brought in a rope and pretended like he was going to do it. We had a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">hilarious</span> time with him chasing his little Trixie that was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">shrieking</span> at the top of her lungs all over the house. My dad was usually very serious and not much into playing with us when we little so these times were a lot of fun.<br /><br />I always thought Daddy made up the part about his mother tying him to the table leg. This week I found out he did not.<br /><br />On my way back from an appointment Wednesday, I stopped in my hometown and visited one of my uncles. I hadn't seen him since I was a little girl. He is the same age now as Daddy was when he passed away; 74. It was so good to see him, but that's a whole '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">nother</span> post.<br /><br />Uncle Bud showed me all around his place and we looked over some old photos. In one photo he (Uncle Bud) age 3 or 4 was sitting on the ground near the front porch of their old farmhouse. On each side of him was a giant white rabbit. I was admiring his beautiful rabbits and noticed what looked like a clothesline tied to his waist. Upon careful inspection I discovered he was TIED to the front porch railing!<br /><br />When asked about it, he laughed and said his mother used to routinely tie the little kids to stuff to keep them out of trouble "it was usually, just us boys" he said. Apparently my dad was not kidding!<br /><br />I know, I know, today this mother would be in jail for child abuse, blah, blah, blah. My aunts and uncles grew up to be fairly normal, well adjusted adults that never gave into the temptation to tie their own children to anything as far as I know. I thought this was a hilarious piece of family history. And admit it, if you had 9 children wouldn't you be the least bit tempted to tie them to something?<br /><br /><br />Now that brings me to a couple of other stories that I always thought my dad made up.<br /><br /><strong>1. Daddy had an old uncle that only took a bath once a year.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Growing up, my dad had an old uncle that wore long johns all year round and only took a bath once a year come July when his wife couldn't stand the smell any longer (<em>any longer</em>? What was she thinking?!) When it was time for his once a year bath he would strip buck naked and take a bar of soap out to the river behind the house and wash up and put on fresh clothing. We usually heard this story when we were whining about not wanting to take our Sunday night bath. He swore this was true with the same vigor as the he did the being tied to the table story. Once I even asked Mom if it was true and she said she didn't doubt it; and that my dad had some real kooks in his family tree. Somehow I took that last part as a compliment. As a little kid, I took great pride in thinking I came from a very unusual family.<br /><br /><strong>2. My dad was born on in the kitchen -- on the table.</strong><br /><br />We usually heard this story whenever the Mom and a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">visiting</span> lady would get on the subject of labor and childbirth. I know the "in" thing nowadays is to have a natural home birth, but back then and in that area, only poor country people had their babies at home and my grandparents qualified as that. Besides, can you imagine riding in a farm wagon while in labor?! You would never make it to the hospital 12 miles away.<br /><br />The story goes that my dad was born on a freezing cold day in December right on the bare wood of the kitchen table. His mother labored in bed, but as it became closer to the time to push him out, she ordered that she be put on the kitchen table to save on laundry. After all, birthing a baby does generate a lot of laundry. According to my dad she did this because: it was freezing cold and all laundry had to be done by hand (remember the old metal washboard -- try cleaning a messy quilt on that and then wringing it out by hand).<br /><br />My dad's older sisters were still far too little to be of any help, his mother knew that she would not be up to doing the laundry before it needed to be done and they could not <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">afford</span> a hired girl to help. Her family lived quite a ways a way (by wagon) in a neighboring town so they could not be of any real help during this time. It was also a big deal to have my dad be born in the warmth of the kitchen. As it was in our own home, the kitchen was the warmest place. A water glass in a bedroom off the kitchen would be solid ice in a few hours. So keeping newborn babies warm was a very real consideration.<br /><br />I'm betting you my dad was telling the truth on this one. Given the same circumstances I would've done the same thing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-38272868273223982762009-08-28T08:23:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:44.861-07:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375035847870553666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 310px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Spf2oB9QnkI/AAAAAAAAG-Q/eYsOJQAmh2U/s400/Paris+Opera.jpg" border="0" /> <div>One of the things I hope to see while in Paris next week is the Paris opera house by Charles Garnier -especially the ceiling by Chagall (one of my favorite artists!). This sketch by Raoul Dufy depicts the opera house in 1924, long before Chagall started the ceiling - can't you see the similarities? How did he know what was coming?!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375036550791501474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 384px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 386px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/Spf3Q8irFqI/AAAAAAAAG-Y/kz5CRWhB92g/s400/chagall.jpg" border="0" />The Dufy sketch is part of the Phillips Collection here in DC.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-39117682243684518622009-08-28T08:08:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:11.839-07:00Furniture home Decor interior design 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1d1OMhUPzz8/SpfzxgFnSvI/AAAAAAAAB5I/SOM0zLK0cs4/s1600-h/Furniture+Home+Decor+.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1d1OMhUPzz8/SpfzxgFnSvI/AAAAAAAAB5I/SOM0zLK0cs4/s400/Furniture+Home+Decor+.jpg" title="Furniture home Decor interior" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375032712042597106" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Furniture home Decor interior</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-31459633253989779972009-08-28T08:08:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:05.324-07:00Furniture home Decor interior design 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1d1OMhUPzz8/SpfzxgFnSvI/AAAAAAAAB5I/SOM0zLK0cs4/s1600-h/Furniture+Home+Decor+.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1d1OMhUPzz8/SpfzxgFnSvI/AAAAAAAAB5I/SOM0zLK0cs4/s400/Furniture+Home+Decor+.jpg" title="Furniture home Decor interior" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375032712042597106" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Furniture home Decor interior</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-6618652743548255662009-08-28T07:17:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:12.173-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/Spfy-5sTjhI/AAAAAAAABhw/VrdIq6LABqY/s1600-h/HomeDesignTools.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375031842742439442" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/Spfy-5sTjhI/AAAAAAAABhw/VrdIq6LABqY/s320/HomeDesignTools.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">If you are building a new home, </span><a href="http://www.boninarchitects.com/servicesfees.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hiring an architect</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> for the design and project management of the home can make the whole process go smoothly. Here are 10 questions you will want to ask the architects you interview for your project:</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><ol><li>What does the architect see as important issues or considerations in your project? What are the challenges of the project?</li><br /><li>How will the architect establish priorities and make decisions?<br /></li><li>How busy is the architect?</li><br /><li>What sets this architect apart from the rest?</li><br /><li>How does the architect establish fees? When will fee payments be expected?<br /></li><li>What are the steps in the design process?</li><br /><li>How does the architect organize the process?</li><br /><li>What does the architect expect you to provide?</li><br /><li>If the scope of the project changes later in the project, will there be additional fees? How will these fees be justified?</li><li>What services does the architect provide during construction</li></ol></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bonin Architects & Associates offers full architectural design services, limited drafting services based on your project needs, and optional project management services. Our </span><a href="http://www.boninarchitects.com/servicesfees.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">architectural design services</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and fees are listed in detail on our website. Give us a call or send an email to tell us about your project and let's discuss how we can work together!<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><em>Questions courtesy Boston Society of Architects / AIA</em></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79049195709192686712009-08-28T07:17:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:05.579-07:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/Spfy-5sTjhI/AAAAAAAABhw/VrdIq6LABqY/s1600-h/HomeDesignTools.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375031842742439442" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/Spfy-5sTjhI/AAAAAAAABhw/VrdIq6LABqY/s320/HomeDesignTools.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">If you are building a new home, </span><a href="http://www.boninarchitects.com/servicesfees.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">hiring an architect</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> for the design and project management of the home can make the whole process go smoothly. Here are 10 questions you will want to ask the architects you interview for your project:</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><ol><li>What does the architect see as important issues or considerations in your project? What are the challenges of the project?</li><br /><li>How will the architect establish priorities and make decisions?<br /></li><li>How busy is the architect?</li><br /><li>What sets this architect apart from the rest?</li><br /><li>How does the architect establish fees? When will fee payments be expected?<br /></li><li>What are the steps in the design process?</li><br /><li>How does the architect organize the process?</li><br /><li>What does the architect expect you to provide?</li><br /><li>If the scope of the project changes later in the project, will there be additional fees? How will these fees be justified?</li><li>What services does the architect provide during construction</li></ol></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Bonin Architects & Associates offers full architectural design services, limited drafting services based on your project needs, and optional project management services. Our </span><a href="http://www.boninarchitects.com/servicesfees.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">architectural design services</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and fees are listed in detail on our website. Give us a call or send an email to tell us about your project and let's discuss how we can work together!<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"><em>Questions courtesy Boston Society of Architects / AIA</em></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-35039163117633470852009-08-28T07:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:45.018-07:00<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/doilum/3860500938/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2514/3860500938_5f291a01fa.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doilum/3860500938/">Chips</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/doilum/">Doilum</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> Chips at <a href="http://www.newislington.co.uk/">New Islington</a> in Ancoats, Manchester, England by <a href="http://www.alsoparchitects.com/">Alsop Architects</a>. The firm "prepared the strategic framework scheme design for New Islington" and was "commissioned by <a href="http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/">Urban Splash</a> to design the first of the proposed residential buildings -- Chips -- by the Ashton Canal at New Islington's southern periphery." Check out the developer's handy <a href="http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/documents/brochure/US_COMM_GUIDE_100019.pdf" target="_blank">commercial</a> and <a href="http://www.urbansplash.co.uk/documents/brochure/US_RESI_GUIDE_100019.pdf" target="_blank">residential</a> brochures in PDF form for more information on Chips.<br /><br />Recently Will Alsop announced he will be leaving his architectural practice to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/06/will-alsop-quits-architecture-painting">devote his time to painting</a> and to <a href="http://www.thestar.com/gta/columnist/article/681142">teach at Ryerson University</a> in Toronto, home to his <a href="http://www.archidose.org/May04/052404.html">Sharp Centre for Design</a>.</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-68781106847273233522009-08-28T06:08:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:52:17.331-07:00Giveaway Time + 'Geranium' by Benjamin Moore + Thanks Bedford Brown<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpasfimcAHI/AAAAAAAADik/_DInb0bPeFg/s1600-h/IMG_7213.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374672863177212018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 194px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpasfimcAHI/AAAAAAAADik/_DInb0bPeFg/s320/IMG_7213.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Look at this striking wall color which makes the whimsical white lamp just pop. This vignette captured my attention while touring a spectacular condo designed by <a href="http://www.streetofdreamspdx.com/developers-and-designers/bedford-brown.php">Bedford Brown</a> in Portland's 2009<a href="http://streetofdreamspdx.com/blog/?p=266"> Street Of Dreams</a>. In a <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/penthouse-dreaming-part-2.html">post</a> on the home show, which highlighted this room among many other favorite scenes, I asked "what exactly is this red+orange color? I must find out."<br /><br />Thank you Tony Loeffler of <a href="http://bedfordbrown.com/">Bedford Brown</a>, the team behind the design, for providing the answer in a comment on the post.<br /><br />The fabulous color is <a href="http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Benjamin-Moore-1307-Geranium-p/mpc0005687.htm">Geranium</a> by Benjamin Moore. Now I just have to figure out where I can place just the right amount of this color...somewhere in my home!<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpcTeU7BIhI/AAAAAAAADjM/pwhxo-AnfSs/s1600-h/gardenpartynecklace2-2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374786092023226898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpcTeU7BIhI/AAAAAAAADjM/pwhxo-AnfSs/s320/gardenpartynecklace2-2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />And if I were to coordinate jewelry with home decor I would most certainly select this <a href="http://www.stelladot.com/sites/isabellaandmaxrooms">Stella & Dot Garden Party Necklace</a> as the perfect accompaniment to any room painted Geranium! What piece of jewelry will you select should you win the <a href=http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/fabulous-stella-dot-giveaway.html> $150 Giveaway</a>? Enter now, the giveaway ends tonight!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-6200627495456977862009-08-28T04:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:45.182-07:00Procedural Destruction and the Algorithmic Fiction of the City<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2589/3686032101_abf97ac065_o.jpg" width="475" height="169" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: From <a href="http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/wiki/CityEngine/PaperCities"target="_blank"><i>Procedural Modeling of Cities</i></a> by <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292"target="_blank">Yoav Parish and Pascal Müller</a>].</small><br /><br /><small><i>Note: This is a guest post by <a href="http://rossignol.cream.org/"target="_blank">Jim Rossignol</a>.</i></small><br /><br />In 2001 <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=383292"target="_blank">Yoav Parish and Pascal Müller</a> spoke at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGGRAPH"target="_blank">SIGGRAPH</a> conference in Los Angeles, California, to present a mathematical city. Their presentation contained an algorithmic approach for modeling <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1278822"target="_blank">city-like topologies</a>. The results were remarkably realistic, and were one among a host of city-like generative systems to appear at the start of the decade. <br /><br />Another, Jared Tarbell's <a href="http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/"target="_blank"><i>Substrate</i></a> (pictured) remains a fantastic example of how a mathematical approach to generating apparently urban patterns can also be artful.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3649/3686032599_dc5a159684_o.jpg" width="475" height="353" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: From Jared Tarbell's <a href="http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/"target="_blank"><i>Substrate</i></a>].</small><br /><br />But it was looking at the work of Parish and Müller that inspired game designer <a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/ragdoll-metaphysics-introversi.html"target="_blank">Chris Delay</a> to develop his most recent project: the cryptic (and as-yet-unexplained) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(computer_game)"target="_blank"><i>Subversion</i></a>, of which little is known, other than it relies on large, procedurally generated cities for the backbone of its game world. <br /><br />Having already been burned by the problems of creating content "by hand," Delay set out to <a href="http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?t=2029"target="_blank">let algorithms do the work</a> of building buildings in his new game. Not only that, but he was determined to create an artistically interesting experience without artists.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 2px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2648/3686032769_2bf5a862ed_o.jpg" width="475" height="297" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/3686837706_b2e2dbd20a_o.jpg" width="475" height="297" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Images: From Chris Delay's <a href="http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?t=2029"target="_blank"><i>Subversion</i></a>].</small><br /><br />Of course, videogames have long been the home of procedurally generated landscapes where numbers and mathematical equations played the role of the visual designer. Early paranoid classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(video_game)"target="_blank"><i>The Sentinel</i></a> made use of these techniques to create an astonishingly atmospheric 10,000 levels in simple vector graphics, from just a few kilobytes of data. Other games have used similar techniques as a shortcut to creating solar systems and vast fractal landscapes. <br /><br />But when it came to <i>cities</i>, well, it took a long time for anyone to take up the challenge. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/3686032163_a76a4ddeb6_o.jpg" width="475" height="309" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(video_game)"target="_blank"><i>The Sentinel</i></a> by Geoff Crammond].</small><br /><br />Rather than opt for procedural techniques, game designers usually elect to build their cities by hand, often with startling results. The re-imagined contemporary New York that features in last year's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV"target="_blank"><i>Grand Theft Auto 4</i></a> required a small army of well-paid artists and designers to hand-craft the entire world. Their accomplishment is unmatched, but the cost to the company behind the project is in the tens—and perhaps hundreds—of millions of dollars. To build up a living city from blank polygons is one of the most expensive possible projects in game design.<br /><br />Delay, whose project is being undertaken with a tiny budget and by just a handful of staff based in Cambridge, UK, does not have the luxury of vast content teams. His vector-drawn city is far less realistic than <a href="http://www.rockstargames.com/"target="_blank">Rockstar</a>'s textured, heaving metropolis, but there's nevertheless a beauty to it. It's a kind of mathematical map of the essential urban environment: there are roads, sidewalks, and a no-man's land of corporate moats around great skyscrapers... <br /><br />Identify the key equation that define urban patterns, and you, too, can summon a city into existence. <br /><br />Delay has begun to show off how his cities emerge from the ground up in a series of videos, and he <a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/ragdoll-metaphysics-introversi.html"target="_blank">spoke to me</a> about the process. <br /><br />"I started out with road layouts, and then began to modify the parameters," he explained. "Sometimes you'll get lovely radial, spiral patterns, or you can tell it to create a really rigid Manhattan-style grid." One set of numbers delivers the block logic of American cities, another is rather more like the spirals of Medieval European sprawls. The two merge to create something even more believable. "Every subsequent layer builds on the previous layer," Delay points out, "so the very next layer looks for the spaces between layers, and makes judgments about 'is this likely to be a skyscraper, or to be a house?' Then you zoom in, and carry on. You do another procedural generation process for each layer of detail, filling in that world." <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2609/3863930009_5792f2d240_o.jpg" width="475" height="297" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: From Chris Delay's <a href="http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?t=2029"target="_blank"><i>Subversion</i></a>].</small><br /><br />A few weeks after speaking with Delay I attended <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/thrilling-wonder-stories.html"><i>Thrilling Wonder Stories</i></a>—a seminar at the Architectural Association in London, curated by <a href="http://www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com/"target="_blank">Liam Young</a> and BLDGBLOG—where I watched conceptual designer <a href="http://www.vulkanbros.com/intro.html"target="_blank">Viktor Antonov</a> explain how he had created a science-fictionalized Paris (for a now-cancelled videogame called <i>The Crossing</i>). <br /><br />Antonov approached the problem by altering just a few parameters in the standard architectural model. For instance, Antonov had noticed a few fundamental details about how the mid-nineteenth century neo-classical core of Paris had been constructed: big street-level floors, smaller attic spaces, complex chimney stacks. By increasing the emphasis on the lower floors, and stretching them out—and by emphasizing the height and complexity of the chimneys—Antonov was able to create a thematically consistent science fiction Paris. <br /><br />Simply by altering a few basic architectural parameters, he said, you were able to fictionalize the city, whilst at the same time retaining its fundamental identity. His designs were still recognizably—even mathematically—Parisian, in other words, but they were also otherworldly. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3579/3686837128_8546d86071_o.jpg" width="475" height="291" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: By <a href="http://www.vulkanbros.com/intro.html"target="_blank">Viktor Antonov</a>].</small><br /><br />This idea instantly connected back to Delay's project: what parameters would we need in order both to understand and create a science fiction Edinburgh, or Sao Paulo, or Vancouver? Identify the necessary fantasy logic within a procedural city-building system and you could recreate cities with their alternate identity in an instant. An accelerated future Moscow, or a retropunk Venice, instantly sprawling out of the monitor.<br /><br />And perhaps this is not such an outlandish thing to aim for—especially when you consider the speed at which procedural city projects have been appearing across the tech landscape. Could one of these cities potentially be refitted to allow for this type of radical tweak? <br /><br />Projects like Shamus Young's impressive <a href="http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940"target="_blank"><i>PixelCity</i></a>, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Corbetta"target="_blank">Marco Corbetta</a>'s <i>Structure</i> seem ripe for such strange fictions. Corbetta's system is particularly impressive in its verisimilitude: he aims to create a basic engine for rapidly generating the kinds of cities that games like <a href="http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/"target="_blank"><i>Grand Theft Auto 4</i></a> require, and consequently doing so for much cheaper.<br /><br />Could Corbetta's engine come with a Paris or a Barcelona preload, which could then be put through Photoshop-style filters for alternate reality logic in its architecture? A stronger skyline, weirder street furniture.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/3686032663_8f9b56f484_o.jpg" width="475" height="356" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: From Marco Corbetta's <i>Structure</i>].</small><br /><br />More exciting, at least for the thrill-seeking gamer in me, is the fact that Corbetta is aiming one notch higher than any of his peers: he's aiming to make these cities <i>procedurally destructible</i>. His site contains a demonstration video of neatly arrange office interiors and a domestic library being blown to pieces with a machine-gun. What good is an imaginary city if you can't go inside the buildings? What good is a virtual downtown if you can't go crazy with a bazooka? Corbetta's work preempts these questions.<br /><br />Further, it conjures visions of massive demolition exercises in parallel worlds—entering an Antonov-algorithm for neo-Rome, where gladiatorial escapades see us going through the walls of the coliseum and into the randomly generated plazas beyond. <br /><br />That, perhaps, is the greatest promise of procedural cities: that soon they'll be real enough that their destruction will seem like tragedy.<br /><br /><small>[Jim Rossignol is a games critic for <a href="http://offworld.com/"target="_blank"><i>Offworld</i></a>, an editor at <a href="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/"target="_blank"><i>Rock, Paper, Shotgun</i></a>, and the author of the fantastic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0472116355?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0472116355"><i>This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities</i></a>. A <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/this-gaming-life-interview-with-jim.html">full-length interview</a> with Rossignol appeared on BLDGBLOG in May, and he has written a previous guest post, <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/evil-lair-on-architecture-of-enemy-in.html"><i>Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds</i></a>].</small>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-61432943441992468852009-08-28T03:52:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:45.224-07:00City Laid Out Like Lizard<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2524/3864737332_37db4d7bf7_o.jpg" width="475" height="273" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3862120514/sizes/o/in/photostream/"target="_blank">View larger</a>].</small><br /><br />Last week, Josh Williams, formerly of <a href="http://la.curbed.com/"target="_blank"><i>Curbed LA</i></a>, emailed with an amazing link to an article, reportedly published back in 1934 by the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/"target="_blank"><i>L.A. Times</i></a>, about a race of "lizard people" who once lived beneath the city. <br /><br />"Did strange people live under site of Los Angeles 5000 years ago?" the article asks, supplying a bizarre treasure map through the city's undersides in the process. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:6px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2551/3863954003_a10078c196_o.jpg" width="475" height="670" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3862120912/sizes/o/"target="_blank">View larger</a>].</small><br /><br />Although you can read the article in full through <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3862120514/sizes/o/in/photostream/"target="_blank">these</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3862120912/sizes/o/"target="_blank">links</a>, I wanted to give you a taste of the story's strange mix of gonzo archaeology, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(film)"target="_blank"><i>Poltergeist</i></a>-like pre-Columbian cultural anxiety, and start-up geophysical investigation squad:<ul>So firmly does [a "geophysical mining engineer" named G. Warren Shufelt] believe that a maze of catacombs and priceless golden tablets are to be found beneath downtown Los Angeles that the engineer and his aides have already driven a shaft 250 feet into the ground, the mouth of the shaft behind on the the old Banning property on North Hill Street overlooking Sunset Boulevard, Spring Street and North Broadway.<br /><br />And so convinced is the engineer of the infallibility of a radio X-ray perfected by him for detecting the presence of minerals and tunnels below the surface of the ground, an apparatus with which he says he has traced a pattern of catacombs and vaults forming the lost city, that he plans to continue sending his shaft downward until he has reached a depth of 1000 feet before discontinuing operations.</ul>The article goes on to suggest that this ancient subterranean city was "laid out like [a] lizard"; we visit a Hopi "medicine lodge," wherein geophysical secrets are told; there are lost gold hoards; and, all along, the engineer's "radio X-ray" apparatus continues to detect inhabitable voids beneath the metropolis. <br /><br />"I knew I was over a pattern of tunnels," Shufelt is quoted, "and I had mapped out the course of the tunnels, the position of large rooms scattered along the tunnel route, as well as the position of the deposits of gold, but I couldn't understand the meaning of it."<br /><br />Perhaps this is what we'd get if Steven Spielberg hired Mike Mignola to write the next installment of <i>Indiana Jones</i>. <br /><br /><small>(Thanks to Josh Williams, and to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokoban/3818142158/"target="_blank">vokoban</a>, who originally uploaded the scan. Vaguely related: <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/hollow-hills.html"><i>The Hollow Hills</i></a> and <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mysterious-chinese-tunnels.html"><i>Mysterious Chinese Tunnels</i></a>).</small>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-10934404195832795592009-08-27T23:34:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:12.568-07:00Don't you just love "Mad Men"? Aside from the fabulous characters, clever dialogues and story lines, the set on the show is just awesome. They really got it down. Doesn't the wallpapers in the show make you just dizzy though? <br /><br />Things have changed since then obviously. Nowadays you most likely see wallpapers in the bathroom, powder room, hallway or just one wall. They are used as an accent or an exclamation point.<br /><br />We thought we show you some new patterns from Osborne and Little this spring. If you follow this post you'll see that this is our favorite wallpapers line. It's not for the faint-hearted though, as it's rather bold and daring. You'll have to have steady nerves to take on this line.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s1600-h/W6026-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901551876556562" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s320/W6026-07(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s1600-h/W6024-06(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901432286911954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s320/W6024-06(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s1600-h/W6023-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901308492436402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s320/W6023-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s1600-h/W6022-05(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901181457868914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s320/W6022-05(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s1600-h/W6020-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901017300478242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s320/W6020-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s1600-h/W6021-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374900890322828050" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s320/W6021-07(1).jpg" /></a> </p><br /><p>Osborne and Little wallpapers runs about$120-200 per roll. You can get a quote for specific pattern <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=33173487">here.</a> Note: the rolls is 11 yards x 22 wide, which covers about 55 sq feet. It is the equivalent of 1 1/2 American roll.<br /><br />You can see the rest of the collection and the colorways <a href="http://www.osborneandlittle.com/collections/search/?SelectedProductTypeID=1" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-36804166500442889342009-08-27T23:34:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:12.372-07:00Don't you just love "Mad Men"? Aside from the fabulous characters, clever dialogues and story lines, the set on the show is just awesome. They really got it down. Doesn't the wallpapers in the show make you just dizzy though? <br /><br />Things have changed since then obviously. Nowadays you most likely see wallpapers in the bathroom, powder room, hallway or just one wall. They are used as an accent or an exclamation point.<br /><br />We thought we show you some new patterns from Osborne and Little this spring. If you follow this post you'll see that this is our favorite wallpapers line. It's not for the faint-hearted though, as it's rather bold and daring. You'll have to have steady nerves to take on this line.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s1600-h/W6026-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901551876556562" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s320/W6026-07(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s1600-h/W6024-06(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901432286911954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s320/W6024-06(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s1600-h/W6023-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901308492436402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s320/W6023-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s1600-h/W6022-05(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901181457868914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s320/W6022-05(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s1600-h/W6020-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901017300478242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s320/W6020-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s1600-h/W6021-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374900890322828050" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s320/W6021-07(1).jpg" /></a> </p><br /><p>Osborne and Little wallpapers runs about$120-200 per roll. You can get a quote for specific pattern <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=33173487">here.</a> Note: the rolls is 11 yards x 22 wide, which covers about 55 sq feet. It is the equivalent of 1 1/2 American roll.<br /><br />You can see the rest of the collection and the colorways <a href="http://www.osborneandlittle.com/collections/search/?SelectedProductTypeID=1" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-5220529257405774232009-08-27T23:34:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:05.904-07:00Don't you just love "Mad Men"? Aside from the fabulous characters, clever dialogues and story lines, the set on the show is just awesome. They really got it down. Doesn't the wallpapers in the show make you just dizzy though? <br /><br />Things have changed since then obviously. Nowadays you most likely see wallpapers in the bathroom, powder room, hallway or just one wall. They are used as an accent or an exclamation point.<br /><br />We thought we show you some new patterns from Osborne and Little this spring. If you follow this post you'll see that this is our favorite wallpapers line. It's not for the faint-hearted though, as it's rather bold and daring. You'll have to have steady nerves to take on this line.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s1600-h/W6026-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901551876556562" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s320/W6026-07(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s1600-h/W6024-06(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901432286911954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s320/W6024-06(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s1600-h/W6023-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901308492436402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s320/W6023-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s1600-h/W6022-05(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901181457868914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s320/W6022-05(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s1600-h/W6020-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901017300478242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s320/W6020-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s1600-h/W6021-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374900890322828050" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s320/W6021-07(1).jpg" /></a> </p><br /><p>Osborne and Little wallpapers runs about$120-200 per roll. You can get a quote for specific pattern <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=33173487">here.</a> Note: the rolls is 11 yards x 22 wide, which covers about 55 sq feet. It is the equivalent of 1 1/2 American roll.<br /><br />You can see the rest of the collection and the colorways <a href="http://www.osborneandlittle.com/collections/search/?SelectedProductTypeID=1" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-15477172770193737812009-08-27T23:34:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:05.760-07:00Don't you just love "Mad Men"? Aside from the fabulous characters, clever dialogues and story lines, the set on the show is just awesome. They really got it down. Doesn't the wallpapers in the show make you just dizzy though? <br /><br />Things have changed since then obviously. Nowadays you most likely see wallpapers in the bathroom, powder room, hallway or just one wall. They are used as an accent or an exclamation point.<br /><br />We thought we show you some new patterns from Osborne and Little this spring. If you follow this post you'll see that this is our favorite wallpapers line. It's not for the faint-hearted though, as it's rather bold and daring. You'll have to have steady nerves to take on this line.<br /><br /><p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s1600-h/W6026-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901551876556562" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8e-ZMRxI/AAAAAAAABZQ/hjjsctvbhX4/s320/W6026-07(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s1600-h/W6024-06(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901432286911954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8YA4zHdI/AAAAAAAABZI/giQL-4rCHUI/s320/W6024-06(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s1600-h/W6023-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901308492436402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8Qzt5U7I/AAAAAAAABZA/9bMzCSeQ3cE/s320/W6023-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s1600-h/W6022-05(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901181457868914" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd8JaefqHI/AAAAAAAABY4/LWFSyLQ_UlU/s320/W6022-05(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s1600-h/W6020-01(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374901017300478242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd7_28UqSI/AAAAAAAABYw/59LjHa1JWPE/s320/W6020-01(1).jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s1600-h/W6021-07(1).jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 190px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374900890322828050" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spd74d6fexI/AAAAAAAABYo/Di-ehJBWMmg/s320/W6021-07(1).jpg" /></a> </p><br /><p>Osborne and Little wallpapers runs about$120-200 per roll. You can get a quote for specific pattern <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=33173487">here.</a> Note: the rolls is 11 yards x 22 wide, which covers about 55 sq feet. It is the equivalent of 1 1/2 American roll.<br /><br />You can see the rest of the collection and the colorways <a href="http://www.osborneandlittle.com/collections/search/?SelectedProductTypeID=1" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-72658957434705493032009-08-27T17:21:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:12.958-07:00The other day we came across an artitle about the danger of cheap food in Time magazine. The article talks about how our food has become so industrialized to make it as cheap as possible, and how we've endangered our environment and our health as a result.<br /><br />We probably can easily dismiss it as one of the many things that is better not to know-- as it only makes us depressed, really. Besides, what can one possibly do? It's not like you can grow chicken in your backyard, right?<br /><br />But the article did make us pause and think about what we do eat, and how by doing little things we can change our habits, and hopefully, do our part to help the world in the process.<br /><br />If you are interested in the article, click <a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html" target="_blank">here</a>. A note of warning: it's really, really long. Like 3,251 words long to be exact! And it makes you want to stop eating for a few days...<br /><br />So may we suggest looking at faux leather vs real leather when you decorate? We were doing a restaurant project a few months back and we discovered a great faux leather line from Silver State. No one heard of them, but if you follow this blog you'll know that we are suckers for small, boutique vendors that are not well-known.<br /><br />We ended up using the faux leather for the restaurant banquets and they turn out marvelous. Not only that, they are way cheaper too. Whereas real leather is sold by the square foot, faux leather is sold by the yard like fabric, which means you get way more for your money.<br /><br />What we like best about the collection is the colors. You might not be able to see the real colors here, but trust us, in person they just POP! The quality is really good too. It's very soft and supple, not plastiky at all...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s1600-h/fauxleather2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807930419237954" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s320/fauxleather2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnOw1DozI/AAAAAAAABYY/_JUIjLGvrjs/s1600-h/fauxleather1.jpg"></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s1600-h/fauxleather3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807719027764786" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s320/fauxleather3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s1600-h/fauxleather4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807610009074242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s320/fauxleather4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s1600-h/fauxleather6.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807501589850418" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s320/fauxleather6.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s1600-h/fauxleather7.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807379865067586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s320/fauxleather7.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s1600-h/fauxleather8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807253879433330" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s320/fauxleather8.jpg" /></a><br />The faux leather shown here sells for about $80-100/yard. You can find pricing information as well as the rest of the collection on our <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/c-13-faux-leather.aspx" target="_blank">faux leather </a>section. To see more of Silver State products, check out their <a href="http://www.silverstatefabrics.com/index.php?p_matter=collections" target="_blank">web site</a>. It's not a very well-designed web site though, so you have to click around a bit.<br /><br />Suggestion: these are awesome as wallpapers as well. You need to find a good and patient wallhanger, but they look amazing as wallcoverings, and they are very durable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79868488387478825532009-08-27T17:21:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:12.755-07:00The other day we came across an artitle about the danger of cheap food in Time magazine. The article talks about how our food has become so industrialized to make it as cheap as possible, and how we've endangered our environment and our health as a result.<br /><br />We probably can easily dismiss it as one of the many things that is better not to know-- as it only makes us depressed, really. Besides, what can one possibly do? It's not like you can grow chicken in your backyard, right?<br /><br />But the article did make us pause and think about what we do eat, and how by doing little things we can change our habits, and hopefully, do our part to help the world in the process.<br /><br />If you are interested in the article, click <a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html" target="_blank">here</a>. A note of warning: it's really, really long. Like 3,251 words long to be exact! And it makes you want to stop eating for a few days...<br /><br />So may we suggest looking at faux leather vs real leather when you decorate? We were doing a restaurant project a few months back and we discovered a great faux leather line from Silver State. No one heard of them, but if you follow this blog you'll know that we are suckers for small, boutique vendors that are not well-known.<br /><br />We ended up using the faux leather for the restaurant banquets and they turn out marvelous. Not only that, they are way cheaper too. Whereas real leather is sold by the square foot, faux leather is sold by the yard like fabric, which means you get way more for your money.<br /><br />What we like best about the collection is the colors. You might not be able to see the real colors here, but trust us, in person they just POP! The quality is really good too. It's very soft and supple, not plastiky at all...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s1600-h/fauxleather2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807930419237954" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s320/fauxleather2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnOw1DozI/AAAAAAAABYY/_JUIjLGvrjs/s1600-h/fauxleather1.jpg"></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s1600-h/fauxleather3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807719027764786" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s320/fauxleather3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s1600-h/fauxleather4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807610009074242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s320/fauxleather4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s1600-h/fauxleather6.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807501589850418" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s320/fauxleather6.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s1600-h/fauxleather7.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807379865067586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s320/fauxleather7.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s1600-h/fauxleather8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807253879433330" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s320/fauxleather8.jpg" /></a><br />The faux leather shown here sells for about $80-100/yard. You can find pricing information as well as the rest of the collection on our <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/c-13-faux-leather.aspx" target="_blank">faux leather </a>section. To see more of Silver State products, check out their <a href="http://www.silverstatefabrics.com/index.php?p_matter=collections" target="_blank">web site</a>. It's not a very well-designed web site though, so you have to click around a bit.<br /><br />Suggestion: these are awesome as wallpapers as well. You need to find a good and patient wallhanger, but they look amazing as wallcoverings, and they are very durable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-36066974105124354352009-08-27T17:21:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:06.331-07:00The other day we came across an artitle about the danger of cheap food in Time magazine. The article talks about how our food has become so industrialized to make it as cheap as possible, and how we've endangered our environment and our health as a result.<br /><br />We probably can easily dismiss it as one of the many things that is better not to know-- as it only makes us depressed, really. Besides, what can one possibly do? It's not like you can grow chicken in your backyard, right?<br /><br />But the article did make us pause and think about what we do eat, and how by doing little things we can change our habits, and hopefully, do our part to help the world in the process.<br /><br />If you are interested in the article, click <a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html" target="_blank">here</a>. A note of warning: it's really, really long. Like 3,251 words long to be exact! And it makes you want to stop eating for a few days...<br /><br />So may we suggest looking at faux leather vs real leather when you decorate? We were doing a restaurant project a few months back and we discovered a great faux leather line from Silver State. No one heard of them, but if you follow this blog you'll know that we are suckers for small, boutique vendors that are not well-known.<br /><br />We ended up using the faux leather for the restaurant banquets and they turn out marvelous. Not only that, they are way cheaper too. Whereas real leather is sold by the square foot, faux leather is sold by the yard like fabric, which means you get way more for your money.<br /><br />What we like best about the collection is the colors. You might not be able to see the real colors here, but trust us, in person they just POP! The quality is really good too. It's very soft and supple, not plastiky at all...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s1600-h/fauxleather2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807930419237954" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s320/fauxleather2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnOw1DozI/AAAAAAAABYY/_JUIjLGvrjs/s1600-h/fauxleather1.jpg"></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s1600-h/fauxleather3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807719027764786" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s320/fauxleather3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s1600-h/fauxleather4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807610009074242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s320/fauxleather4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s1600-h/fauxleather6.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807501589850418" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s320/fauxleather6.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s1600-h/fauxleather7.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807379865067586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s320/fauxleather7.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s1600-h/fauxleather8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807253879433330" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s320/fauxleather8.jpg" /></a><br />The faux leather shown here sells for about $80-100/yard. You can find pricing information as well as the rest of the collection on our <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/c-13-faux-leather.aspx" target="_blank">faux leather </a>section. To see more of Silver State products, check out their <a href="http://www.silverstatefabrics.com/index.php?p_matter=collections" target="_blank">web site</a>. It's not a very well-designed web site though, so you have to click around a bit.<br /><br />Suggestion: these are awesome as wallpapers as well. You need to find a good and patient wallhanger, but they look amazing as wallcoverings, and they are very durable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-86737059887727480272009-08-27T17:21:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:06.050-07:00The other day we came across an artitle about the danger of cheap food in Time magazine. The article talks about how our food has become so industrialized to make it as cheap as possible, and how we've endangered our environment and our health as a result.<br /><br />We probably can easily dismiss it as one of the many things that is better not to know-- as it only makes us depressed, really. Besides, what can one possibly do? It's not like you can grow chicken in your backyard, right?<br /><br />But the article did make us pause and think about what we do eat, and how by doing little things we can change our habits, and hopefully, do our part to help the world in the process.<br /><br />If you are interested in the article, click <a href="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html" target="_blank">here</a>. A note of warning: it's really, really long. Like 3,251 words long to be exact! And it makes you want to stop eating for a few days...<br /><br />So may we suggest looking at faux leather vs real leather when you decorate? We were doing a restaurant project a few months back and we discovered a great faux leather line from Silver State. No one heard of them, but if you follow this blog you'll know that we are suckers for small, boutique vendors that are not well-known.<br /><br />We ended up using the faux leather for the restaurant banquets and they turn out marvelous. Not only that, they are way cheaper too. Whereas real leather is sold by the square foot, faux leather is sold by the yard like fabric, which means you get way more for your money.<br /><br />What we like best about the collection is the colors. You might not be able to see the real colors here, but trust us, in person they just POP! The quality is really good too. It's very soft and supple, not plastiky at all...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s1600-h/fauxleather2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807930419237954" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnVfSXVEI/AAAAAAAABYg/MZXv3rlaJQk/s320/fauxleather2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnOw1DozI/AAAAAAAABYY/_JUIjLGvrjs/s1600-h/fauxleather1.jpg"></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s1600-h/fauxleather3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807719027764786" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnJLytbjI/AAAAAAAABYQ/nMxGHOW3VI0/s320/fauxleather3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s1600-h/fauxleather4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807610009074242" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcnC1qoOkI/AAAAAAAABYI/USIb91Uv6PQ/s320/fauxleather4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s1600-h/fauxleather6.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807501589850418" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm8hxeKTI/AAAAAAAABYA/eYytxPmEWxc/s320/fauxleather6.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s1600-h/fauxleather7.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807379865067586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/Spcm1cUBYEI/AAAAAAAABX4/CgpWvWJFV7k/s320/fauxleather7.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s1600-h/fauxleather8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374807253879433330" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpcmuG-tKHI/AAAAAAAABXw/fQ0Dhbd6Ffg/s320/fauxleather8.jpg" /></a><br />The faux leather shown here sells for about $80-100/yard. You can find pricing information as well as the rest of the collection on our <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/c-13-faux-leather.aspx" target="_blank">faux leather </a>section. To see more of Silver State products, check out their <a href="http://www.silverstatefabrics.com/index.php?p_matter=collections" target="_blank">web site</a>. It's not a very well-designed web site though, so you have to click around a bit.<br /><br />Suggestion: these are awesome as wallpapers as well. You need to find a good and patient wallhanger, but they look amazing as wallcoverings, and they are very durable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-25867277203511184392009-08-27T16:05:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:25.925-07:00<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">In the living room with a limited area, more suitable furniture filled with a light, thick seat, such as a sofa gives the impression weight. However, the precise selection of the sofa can make the living room full unimpressed.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8k6ZA6j9FMU/R3ezhzRl0eI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/oUIyYqKFp8o/s400/rt1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 270px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_8k6ZA6j9FMU/R3ezhzRl0eI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/oUIyYqKFp8o/s400/rt1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8k6ZA6j9FMU/R3eyzjRl0bI/AAAAAAAAAg4/N0WN0Zgw3MM/s400/rt4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 290px;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_8k6ZA6j9FMU/R3eyzjRl0bI/AAAAAAAAAg4/N0WN0Zgw3MM/s400/rt4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Election tips the couch for example with bright colors, choose a sofa with two-seaters, do not dwell on the couch standard size (usually 80cm wide) because it will make the narrow room, select the size of 60 cm or 50 cm, if the couch to be placed against the wall , choose a sofa without a back. This will also save space or a sofa without armrests.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79677227742385536502009-08-27T16:00:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:26.265-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.geocities.com/designastudio6/441471_92024536a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 317px;" src="http://www.geocities.com/designastudio6/441471_92024536a.jpg" alt="tips guest room with a soft impression" border="2" /></a>* The color space used in a lot of memorable soft through pastels, white, with colors that warm, but can also be reinforced with strong colors like black, red, green like the example above. Neutral colors like black, gray, brown and green does not damage the overall impression of the room, because these colors can be combined with other colors in the color scheme.<br />* The image transparently reflected light where the sun can come from outside and make the curtains stand out, showing her soft side.<br />* The sun from the outside into the main light source in this room with dark-light raises interesting.<br />* Raw material sofa, cushion, and the curtain was gentle, but that the material in this room material selected from 'dove' and not shiny. Impression shiny metallic visual sensationalism earned our eyes and minds as the impression of 'cold'. In this case the material is 'dove' helped support the soft impression of the room.<br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-7006352765493625192009-08-27T15:55:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:26.593-07:00Villa Rockledge is on the National Register Historic Places.<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/house-on-the-cliff-with-private-beach-1-554x369.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; height: 212px;" src="http://www.digsdigs.com/photos/house-on-the-cliff-with-private-beach-1-554x369.jpg" alt="Villa Rockledge is on the National Register Historic Places. " border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >This house is a very beautiful house because it was on the hill and the shore. Property began life almost a century ago and since that time is a precious gift to Hollywood people. It is situated on the edge of the international sea known as the paradise for artists, Laguna Beach. The main house features 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 9 fireplace, 2 kitchens, 2 balconies and 2 libraries. Almost every part of the magnificent residence is made by hand - from the thick cement foundations and retaining walls to the rough stone towers, Oceanside large open verandah and decorative chimneys. Each headed casement windows, heavy beams, hand-sanded mahogany floors, wrought-iron fence and the work of hourly jobs are the same. Villa Rockledge is on the National Register Historic Places.<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-89771109616771475002009-08-27T14:58:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.407-07:00Ok…Would anyone else…<p> </p><p align="center">…Fall <span style="font-size:180%;">right</span> into that tub </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">as</span> they were searching for the light <span style="font-size:78%;">so they could pee at 4 am</span>?</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpcBZJFNCtI/AAAAAAAAElU/vdwD7Xqnp7c/s1600-h/bb%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="bb" border="0" alt="bb" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpcBZXc54BI/AAAAAAAAElY/Umd-T6PHN_o/bb_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="484" /></a> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">…And</span> would any of your neighbors,</p><p align="center">Heck even your<span style="font-size:180%;"> family</span> members <span style="font-size:78%;">particularly the teen kind</span> </p><p align="center">take <span style="font-size:180%;">issue</span> with this?</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpcBZmw37rI/AAAAAAAAElc/LbzdNsMOOHc/s1600-h/bb1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="bb1" border="0" alt="bb1" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpcBZyWtskI/AAAAAAAAElg/QhTUkOGj4rI/bb1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="484" /></a> </p><p align="center"><em>…Juuust wonderin’</em></p><p align="center"><em></em></p><p align="center"><em> </em><span style="font-size:78%;"><em> </em>Photos: Coastal living</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-86948088481192528452009-08-27T14:22:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:13.158-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.homedecorators.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/Smt4HGkzVeI/AAAAAAAACXs/rWQthjLpmKY/s400/Emily+Canopy+Bedroom.jpg" alt="white bedroom, guest bedroom, kids bedroom" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362511844734096866" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From our Sweet Slumber Collection, the <b>Emily Canopy Bed</b> Set is perfect for your little <b>girl's bedroom</b> or for a <a href="http://absolute-bedroom-design.blogspot.com/search/label/guest%20bedroom">guest bedroom</a>. The fully-welded construction of this <b>bed</b> has a durable white powder coat finish for lasting beauty. Set includes headboard, footboard, frame and canopy kit. View <b>Emily canopy bed</b> detail [<a href="http://www.homedecorators.com/">via</a>] <b>best bedroom design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-69166448643768595392009-08-27T14:22:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:06.498-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.homedecorators.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/Smt4HGkzVeI/AAAAAAAACXs/rWQthjLpmKY/s400/Emily+Canopy+Bedroom.jpg" alt="white bedroom, guest bedroom, kids bedroom" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362511844734096866" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From our Sweet Slumber Collection, the <b>Emily Canopy Bed</b> Set is perfect for your little <b>girl's bedroom</b> or for a <a href="http://absolute-bedroom-design.blogspot.com/search/label/guest%20bedroom">guest bedroom</a>. The fully-welded construction of this <b>bed</b> has a durable white powder coat finish for lasting beauty. Set includes headboard, footboard, frame and canopy kit. View <b>Emily canopy bed</b> detail [<a href="http://www.homedecorators.com/">via</a>] <b>best bedroom design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-40549513353871406342009-08-27T07:08:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:49.530-07:00<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c_hRC5auJLA&autoplay=&fs=1&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&rel=0&autoplay=&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" width="480" height="415" id="myytplayer"></embed> <div style="font-size:0.9em;"> <a href="/watch/869987-the-apartment-theme-song-jealous-lover">"The Apartment" theme song (Jealous Lover)</a>- Watch more <a href="http://vodpod.com">Videos</a> at Vodpod.</div><br />The theme song from the great 1960 film starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine is "Jealous Lover" - a song I love dearly and played about 100x on the piano while home this past weekend. The film won five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-34552884965067560112009-08-27T06:55:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:52:17.353-07:00In answer to my question yesterday...yes! The living room is being redesigned to become my office. I sorely need one and with no other available rooms in the house, I'm moving in.<br /><br />This is the TRUE before picture, taken while house hunting last summer.<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpXpZXwZ3vI/AAAAAAAADes/nB85RSVsso0/s1600-h/IMG_3910.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374458352419593970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 154px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpXpZXwZ3vI/AAAAAAAADes/nB85RSVsso0/s200/IMG_3910.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Not long after moving in it looked like <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-living-room-attends-price-my-space.html">this</a>. The room made me smile every time I walked by...<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpXl40FCj-I/AAAAAAAADek/azG74-JET54/s1600-h/IMG_1151.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374454494551773154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpXl40FCj-I/AAAAAAAADek/azG74-JET54/s200/IMG_1151.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />...on the way to my 'office' located at the kitchen nook table. This started to get old until one day it occurred to me I had options!<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYHJjPFItI/AAAAAAAADhM/K8JYUA7PrDc/s1600-h/IMG_8536.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374491065971974866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYHJjPFItI/AAAAAAAADhM/K8JYUA7PrDc/s200/IMG_8536.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />The new space (I tried to write 'office' here, but the word just doesn't match the space I am envisioning!) will provide comfortable seating to lounge in while attempting to think creative thoughts, a large table to work on designs and to write at, storage for samples and supplies, and plenty of new lighting to see it all by.<br /><br />While some items have been repurposed and others sold, there are aspects of the room that cannot be changed. Starting with the 'wallpaper' design. For one, I love it and two, painting it took <em>way too long</em> to NOT incorporate into the new plan. So this is where the room begins.<br /><br />The geometric design was laid out on graph paper and transferred onto the fireplace wall. Then each shape was filled in with contrasting paint, one...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYZTdeA5dI/AAAAAAAADiU/SjS-VBpsUAA/s1600-h/IMG_1071-2.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374511027431990738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 134px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYZTdeA5dI/AAAAAAAADiU/SjS-VBpsUAA/s200/IMG_1071-2.JPG" border="0" /> <br /><p align="center"></a>after another...<br /><br /></p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYazHWML8I/AAAAAAAADic/et0RNcN86m8/s1600-h/IMG_1095-6.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374512670761037762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 108px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYazHWML8I/AAAAAAAADic/et0RNcN86m8/s200/IMG_1095-6.JPG" border="0" /> <br /><p align="center"></a>after another.<br /><br /></p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYIyllJu9I/AAAAAAAADhU/LDiy5IQ1WnY/s1600-h/IMG_1183.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374492870487686098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 94px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpYIyllJu9I/AAAAAAAADhU/LDiy5IQ1WnY/s200/IMG_1183.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />While<em> I</em> figure out the next step of this Living Room Redesign, don't <em>you</em> forget to enter the <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/fabulous-stella-dot-giveaway.html">Stella & Dot Jewelry Giveaway</a>, which ends on Friday!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-57099696870517769212009-08-27T03:13:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:26.614-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/home-interior-design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 206px;" src="http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/home-interior-design.jpg" alt="Home Interior Design" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Home Interior Design</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-83666449438517479842009-08-27T02:57:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:26.995-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thikaa.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/interior-design.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 309px;" src="http://thikaa.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/interior-design.jpg" alt="college major interior-design" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >college major interior-design<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-14694036153478425392009-08-27T01:32:00.001-07:002011-03-17T01:43:06.474-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px; height: 370px;" alt="Living Room Pictures_1" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY78aA7hnI/AAAAAAAACb4/azD_S-uJ1Pg/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_7.jpg" /></a></div><br />These are the sample Pictures of living Room Interior design that can become the idea in designing, remodeling, redecirating, or renovating your old house. The model of the living room, the choice of furniture, the arrangement of furniture, the shape of furniture, the lighting design, and the choice of color can inspire you in planning a modern futuristic houise or other buildings.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px;" alt="Living Room Interior Design_2" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY78zIJeuI/AAAAAAAACcA/HfMXoNIu_Q8/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_8.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px;" alt="Living Room Idea_3" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY77lJBx_I/AAAAAAAACbw/-7bFIfQTcA4/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px;" alt="Living Room Idea_3" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY77LnCzOI/AAAAAAAACbo/qKGdPoYfu_U/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_5.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-71533277293633544902009-08-27T01:32:00.000-07:002011-03-16T21:48:15.592-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px; height: 370px;" alt="Living Room Pictures_1" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY78aA7hnI/AAAAAAAACb4/azD_S-uJ1Pg/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_7.jpg" /></a></div><br />These are the sample Pictures of living Room Interior design that can become the idea in designing, remodeling, redecirating, or renovating your old house. The model of the living room, the choice of furniture, the arrangement of furniture, the shape of furniture, the lighting design, and the choice of color can inspire you in planning a modern futuristic houise or other buildings.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px;" alt="Living Room Interior Design_2" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY78zIJeuI/AAAAAAAACcA/HfMXoNIu_Q8/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_8.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px;" alt="Living Room Idea_3" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY77lJBx_I/AAAAAAAACbw/-7bFIfQTcA4/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://home-interiordesignideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img style="width: 446px;" alt="Living Room Idea_3" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hjLO3myE9wI/SpY77LnCzOI/AAAAAAAACbo/qKGdPoYfu_U/s400/living+room+decor+design+Ideas_5.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-91325867813086151302009-08-27T00:10:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:13.367-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyWtaIpjI/AAAAAAAABY4/d_o7PwqXQNY/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyWtaIpjI/AAAAAAAABY4/d_o7PwqXQNY/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374538571040990770" /></a>Bathroom interior design (jacuzzi bath)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyBHJx96I/AAAAAAAABYw/cUW4zazk5Ys/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyBHJx96I/AAAAAAAABYw/cUW4zazk5Ys/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374538199994595234" /></a>Bathroom Area in Home<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYx0AgSg6I/AAAAAAAABYo/MCNUVDxJ0KQ/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYx0AgSg6I/AAAAAAAABYo/MCNUVDxJ0KQ/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374537974871655330" /></a>Dark Contemporary Bathroom</div><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-42720287066089885152009-08-27T00:10:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:06.671-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyWtaIpjI/AAAAAAAABY4/d_o7PwqXQNY/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyWtaIpjI/AAAAAAAABY4/d_o7PwqXQNY/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374538571040990770" /></a>Bathroom interior design (jacuzzi bath)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyBHJx96I/AAAAAAAABYw/cUW4zazk5Ys/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYyBHJx96I/AAAAAAAABYw/cUW4zazk5Ys/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374538199994595234" /></a>Bathroom Area in Home<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYx0AgSg6I/AAAAAAAABYo/MCNUVDxJ0KQ/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYx0AgSg6I/AAAAAAAABYo/MCNUVDxJ0KQ/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374537974871655330" /></a>Dark Contemporary Bathroom</div><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-57490822717802296282009-08-26T23:15:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:13.803-07:00We love round dining tables, mainly because they are cozy and pretty. People say round tables make for more intimate conversation, but we don't think that's the case. It's not like you can't have an intimate conversation with a square table or a rectangular table!<br /><br />At any rate, we think round tables are sexier and they fit better in a small room or a kitchen nook. Here are five of our favorites:<br /><br />This one is a perential classic. It is called a Versailled Pedestal table and it's from <a href="http://www.nicholsandstone.com/" target="_blank">Nichols & Stone.</a><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525099987039010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmGl0l8yI/AAAAAAAABXo/96HlFN_WKPM/s320/diningtable6.jpg" /> This one is made of solid iron. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniturela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525034116231618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmCwbxMcI/AAAAAAAABXg/BH4dwSTuL-c/s320/diningtable5.jpg" /></a> This one has a stone base with a top that can be custom-finished. It's from <a href="http://www.hickorychair.com/" target="_blank">Hickory Chair</a>.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s1600-h/diningtable4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524577561122482" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s320/diningtable4.jpg" /></a> We love this one. It's from <a href="http://www.olystudio.com/" target="_blank">Oly Studio</a>. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s1600-h/diningtable3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524489712528930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s320/diningtable3.jpg" /></a> We sell tons of these. It's fabulous in a black glossy finish. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniurela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.</a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s1600-h/diningtable1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 168px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524352377605442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s320/diningtable1.jpg" /></a> If you need pricing information for any of the above, <a href="mailto:sales@insideavenue.com">drop us a line</a>.<br /><br />Check our post on some <a href="http://insideavenue.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-made-dining-chairs-from-jessica.html">fabulous dining chairs </a>that you can use with these tables.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-49922382278826021822009-08-26T23:15:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:13.576-07:00We love round dining tables, mainly because they are cozy and pretty. People say round tables make for more intimate conversation, but we don't think that's the case. It's not like you can't have an intimate conversation with a square table or a rectangular table!<br /><br />At any rate, we think round tables are sexier and they fit better in a small room or a kitchen nook. Here are five of our favorites:<br /><br />This one is a perential classic. It is called a Versailled Pedestal table and it's from <a href="http://www.nicholsandstone.com/" target="_blank">Nichols & Stone.</a><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525099987039010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmGl0l8yI/AAAAAAAABXo/96HlFN_WKPM/s320/diningtable6.jpg" /> This one is made of solid iron. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniturela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525034116231618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmCwbxMcI/AAAAAAAABXg/BH4dwSTuL-c/s320/diningtable5.jpg" /></a> This one has a stone base with a top that can be custom-finished. It's from <a href="http://www.hickorychair.com/" target="_blank">Hickory Chair</a>.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s1600-h/diningtable4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524577561122482" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s320/diningtable4.jpg" /></a> We love this one. It's from <a href="http://www.olystudio.com/" target="_blank">Oly Studio</a>. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s1600-h/diningtable3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524489712528930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s320/diningtable3.jpg" /></a> We sell tons of these. It's fabulous in a black glossy finish. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniurela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.</a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s1600-h/diningtable1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 168px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524352377605442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s320/diningtable1.jpg" /></a> If you need pricing information for any of the above, <a href="mailto:sales@insideavenue.com">drop us a line</a>.<br /><br />Check our post on some <a href="http://insideavenue.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-made-dining-chairs-from-jessica.html">fabulous dining chairs </a>that you can use with these tables.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-77247818197573913112009-08-26T23:15:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:07.075-07:00We love round dining tables, mainly because they are cozy and pretty. People say round tables make for more intimate conversation, but we don't think that's the case. It's not like you can't have an intimate conversation with a square table or a rectangular table!<br /><br />At any rate, we think round tables are sexier and they fit better in a small room or a kitchen nook. Here are five of our favorites:<br /><br />This one is a perential classic. It is called a Versailled Pedestal table and it's from <a href="http://www.nicholsandstone.com/" target="_blank">Nichols & Stone.</a><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525099987039010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmGl0l8yI/AAAAAAAABXo/96HlFN_WKPM/s320/diningtable6.jpg" /> This one is made of solid iron. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniturela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525034116231618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmCwbxMcI/AAAAAAAABXg/BH4dwSTuL-c/s320/diningtable5.jpg" /></a> This one has a stone base with a top that can be custom-finished. It's from <a href="http://www.hickorychair.com/" target="_blank">Hickory Chair</a>.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s1600-h/diningtable4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524577561122482" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s320/diningtable4.jpg" /></a> We love this one. It's from <a href="http://www.olystudio.com/" target="_blank">Oly Studio</a>. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s1600-h/diningtable3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524489712528930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s320/diningtable3.jpg" /></a> We sell tons of these. It's fabulous in a black glossy finish. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniurela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.</a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s1600-h/diningtable1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 168px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524352377605442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s320/diningtable1.jpg" /></a> If you need pricing information for any of the above, <a href="mailto:sales@insideavenue.com">drop us a line</a>.<br /><br />Check our post on some <a href="http://insideavenue.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-made-dining-chairs-from-jessica.html">fabulous dining chairs </a>that you can use with these tables.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-88025523577489927912009-08-26T23:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:06.897-07:00We love round dining tables, mainly because they are cozy and pretty. People say round tables make for more intimate conversation, but we don't think that's the case. It's not like you can't have an intimate conversation with a square table or a rectangular table!<br /><br />At any rate, we think round tables are sexier and they fit better in a small room or a kitchen nook. Here are five of our favorites:<br /><br />This one is a perential classic. It is called a Versailled Pedestal table and it's from <a href="http://www.nicholsandstone.com/" target="_blank">Nichols & Stone.</a><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 314px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 314px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525099987039010" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmGl0l8yI/AAAAAAAABXo/96HlFN_WKPM/s320/diningtable6.jpg" /> This one is made of solid iron. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniturela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374525034116231618" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYmCwbxMcI/AAAAAAAABXg/BH4dwSTuL-c/s320/diningtable5.jpg" /></a> This one has a stone base with a top that can be custom-finished. It's from <a href="http://www.hickorychair.com/" target="_blank">Hickory Chair</a>.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s1600-h/diningtable4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524577561122482" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYloLojFrI/AAAAAAAABXY/PTXwRU7Qy7M/s320/diningtable4.jpg" /></a> We love this one. It's from <a href="http://www.olystudio.com/" target="_blank">Oly Studio</a>. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s1600-h/diningtable3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524489712528930" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYljEXz7iI/AAAAAAAABXQ/01AbFfE9eFg/s320/diningtable3.jpg" /></a> We sell tons of these. It's fabulous in a black glossy finish. It's from <a href="http://www.noirfurniurela.com/" target="_blank">Noir.</a> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s1600-h/diningtable1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 168px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374524352377605442" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYlbEwnTUI/AAAAAAAABXI/fjXvbBvAs6k/s320/diningtable1.jpg" /></a> If you need pricing information for any of the above, <a href="mailto:sales@insideavenue.com">drop us a line</a>.<br /><br />Check our post on some <a href="http://insideavenue.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-made-dining-chairs-from-jessica.html">fabulous dining chairs </a>that you can use with these tables.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-33937422200912772252009-08-26T22:58:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:14.218-07:00Candice Olson is everywhere nowadays. First she did furniture , then rugs, then lamps and now fabric for Kravet.<br /><br />We love the Candice Olson show on HGTV. The problem with too much licensing, though, is that you kinda lose that originality that got people to like you in the first place. Remember Pierre Cardin or Halston, anyone? Also a great designer does not neccesarily makes the best product maker. There are many factors involved, such as manufacturing, distribution and other business issues that can impact how the products actually turn out.<br /><br />So we have to say, we're not that impressed with the fabric collection from her. It's okay... It's kinda ordinary, actually. Most of the stuff we've seen before and it's like, heh...<br /><br />We thought we show you some of the more interesting ones:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521471034381698" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s320/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521393763186034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s320/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521327205382594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s320/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521254359303394" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s320/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521202633404002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s320/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg" /></a><br />Most of the patterns retail for $119/yard (you can get it for less at the <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/">upholstery fabric </a>store on our site). To see the rest of the collection,<a href="https://www.e-designtrade.com/search/fabresults.asp?Code=FAB&roy=CAO-Candice+Olson&Price=All&Page=1&x=6&y=23" target="_blank"> click here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-2279454029624111832009-08-26T22:58:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:14.013-07:00Candice Olson is everywhere nowadays. First she did furniture , then rugs, then lamps and now fabric for Kravet.<br /><br />We love the Candice Olson show on HGTV. The problem with too much licensing, though, is that you kinda lose that originality that got people to like you in the first place. Remember Pierre Cardin or Halston, anyone? Also a great designer does not neccesarily makes the best product maker. There are many factors involved, such as manufacturing, distribution and other business issues that can impact how the products actually turn out.<br /><br />So we have to say, we're not that impressed with the fabric collection from her. It's okay... It's kinda ordinary, actually. Most of the stuff we've seen before and it's like, heh...<br /><br />We thought we show you some of the more interesting ones:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521471034381698" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s320/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521393763186034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s320/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521327205382594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s320/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521254359303394" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s320/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521202633404002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s320/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg" /></a><br />Most of the patterns retail for $119/yard (you can get it for less at the <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/">upholstery fabric </a>store on our site). To see the rest of the collection,<a href="https://www.e-designtrade.com/search/fabresults.asp?Code=FAB&roy=CAO-Candice+Olson&Price=All&Page=1&x=6&y=23" target="_blank"> click here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-15666259215832478712009-08-26T22:58:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:07.463-07:00Candice Olson is everywhere nowadays. First she did furniture , then rugs, then lamps and now fabric for Kravet.<br /><br />We love the Candice Olson show on HGTV. The problem with too much licensing, though, is that you kinda lose that originality that got people to like you in the first place. Remember Pierre Cardin or Halston, anyone? Also a great designer does not neccesarily makes the best product maker. There are many factors involved, such as manufacturing, distribution and other business issues that can impact how the products actually turn out.<br /><br />So we have to say, we're not that impressed with the fabric collection from her. It's okay... It's kinda ordinary, actually. Most of the stuff we've seen before and it's like, heh...<br /><br />We thought we show you some of the more interesting ones:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521471034381698" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s320/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521393763186034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s320/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521327205382594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s320/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521254359303394" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s320/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521202633404002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s320/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg" /></a><br />Most of the patterns retail for $119/yard (you can get it for less at the <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/">upholstery fabric </a>store on our site). To see the rest of the collection,<a href="https://www.e-designtrade.com/search/fabresults.asp?Code=FAB&roy=CAO-Candice+Olson&Price=All&Page=1&x=6&y=23" target="_blank"> click here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79280747683744236072009-08-26T22:58:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:07.299-07:00Candice Olson is everywhere nowadays. First she did furniture , then rugs, then lamps and now fabric for Kravet.<br /><br />We love the Candice Olson show on HGTV. The problem with too much licensing, though, is that you kinda lose that originality that got people to like you in the first place. Remember Pierre Cardin or Halston, anyone? Also a great designer does not neccesarily makes the best product maker. There are many factors involved, such as manufacturing, distribution and other business issues that can impact how the products actually turn out.<br /><br />So we have to say, we're not that impressed with the fabric collection from her. It's okay... It's kinda ordinary, actually. Most of the stuff we've seen before and it's like, heh...<br /><br />We thought we show you some of the more interesting ones:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521471034381698" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYizW621YI/AAAAAAAABXA/efOmd9LiMYA/s320/candiceolsonfabric5.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521393763186034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiu3D99XI/AAAAAAAABW4/x2WG96BwtDs/s320/candiceolsonfabric4.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521327205382594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYiq_HWecI/AAAAAAAABWw/SUVEBTNqaUc/s320/candiceolsonfabric3.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521254359303394" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYimvvfhOI/AAAAAAAABWo/PgRiYj_h6Io/s320/candiceolsonfabric2.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s1600-h/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374521202633404002" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NQajpCqZxkg/SpYijvDE7mI/AAAAAAAABWg/GOqhY0dLLvA/s320/candiceolsonfabric1.jpg" /></a><br />Most of the patterns retail for $119/yard (you can get it for less at the <a href="http://www.insidefabric.com/">upholstery fabric </a>store on our site). To see the rest of the collection,<a href="https://www.e-designtrade.com/search/fabresults.asp?Code=FAB&roy=CAO-Candice+Olson&Price=All&Page=1&x=6&y=23" target="_blank"> click here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-1381123523535774212009-08-26T12:57:00.000-07:002011-03-21T21:18:06.067-07:00I wanted to be the first to offer my congratulations to our two newest ALA certified Lighting Specialists! Erin Schwartz, in my Chantilly showroom, and Toni Bonvicini, recently promoted to Arlington's assistant showroom manager, just completed their exams and both passed with flying colors! ALA is our American Lighting Association, and I've always believed it's very important for our people to get certified. So I'm very proud of these two for completing it. Kudos to Erin & Toni!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-79849625236034370612009-08-26T10:55:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:28:03.737-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWEsSW4lqI/AAAAAAAACPE/8WiUBBJNWXw/s1600-h/star-wars-room-decor-582x854.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 357px; height: 453px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWEsSW4lqI/AAAAAAAACPE/8WiUBBJNWXw/s400/star-wars-room-decor-582x854.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374347626713487010" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">It is not uncommon for people to have a few collectibles or action figures of their fantasy world idols. But is THIS for real? Don’t say we didn’t warn you about this one. This ultimate star wars fan home by Cho Woong just overflows with collectibles and action figures from the Star Wars saga.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWDI1TKmcI/AAAAAAAACO0/FfYBY2A7VsQ/s1600-h/star-wars-theme-582x401.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWDI1TKmcI/AAAAAAAACO0/FfYBY2A7VsQ/s400/star-wars-theme-582x401.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374345918106212802" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWC3p8YZtI/AAAAAAAACOs/o1rm9tq7y0Q/s1600-h/star-wars-workspace-582x776.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWC3p8YZtI/AAAAAAAACOs/o1rm9tq7y0Q/s400/star-wars-workspace-582x776.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374345623000082130" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWCn0dvF8I/AAAAAAAACOk/yM7EqlH94sU/s1600-h/star-wars-theme-room-582x423.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWCn0dvF8I/AAAAAAAACOk/yM7EqlH94sU/s400/star-wars-theme-room-582x423.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374345350946428866" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWArCsPd4I/AAAAAAAACOU/VnwFIkLDDYE/s1600-h/star-wars-collectibles-582x495.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpWArCsPd4I/AAAAAAAACOU/VnwFIkLDDYE/s400/star-wars-collectibles-582x495.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374343207281719170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV-souoPmI/AAAAAAAACN8/3i6QCTfTSPg/s1600-h/star-wars-theme-home-582x387.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV-souoPmI/AAAAAAAACN8/3i6QCTfTSPg/s400/star-wars-theme-home-582x387.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374341035648892514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV9da8JV9I/AAAAAAAACNk/HrpQJBivxfg/s1600-h/star-wars-fan-home-582x803.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV9da8JV9I/AAAAAAAACNk/HrpQJBivxfg/s400/star-wars-fan-home-582x803.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374339674737825746" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8kgBhz4I/AAAAAAAACNU/JSzQnhCGS6Q/s1600-h/star-wars-home-582x395.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8kgBhz4I/AAAAAAAACNU/JSzQnhCGS6Q/s400/star-wars-home-582x395.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374338696850034562" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8UGXzCKI/AAAAAAAACNM/oNMGNuQ91wQ/s1600-h/star-wars-collection-582x938.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8UGXzCKI/AAAAAAAACNM/oNMGNuQ91wQ/s400/star-wars-collection-582x938.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374338415086209186" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8N4YMkeI/AAAAAAAACNE/tq2PX6AXngA/s1600-h/star-wars-home-collection-582x890.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8N4YMkeI/AAAAAAAACNE/tq2PX6AXngA/s400/star-wars-home-collection-582x890.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374338308250571234" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8EMOJhpI/AAAAAAAACM8/-AAsV7F1DeE/s1600-h/star-wars-figurines-582x388.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV8EMOJhpI/AAAAAAAACM8/-AAsV7F1DeE/s400/star-wars-figurines-582x388.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374338141778445970" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV5ppEgzXI/AAAAAAAACMM/0oqf33zysps/s1600-h/star-war-collectibles-582x387.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV5ppEgzXI/AAAAAAAACMM/0oqf33zysps/s400/star-war-collectibles-582x387.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374335486642933106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV5pc6qe-I/AAAAAAAACME/GtKAllynx-w/s1600-h/star-wars-bathroom-582x440.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpV5pc6qe-I/AAAAAAAACME/GtKAllynx-w/s400/star-wars-bathroom-582x440.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374335483380399074" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-60802304901778011292009-08-26T10:45:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:50.553-07:00Fill Those VoidsWalking around the Nolita/Bowery area a few weeks ago, I passed by some sites to catch up on construction progress. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, I saw either little or no progress, a clear sign of the troubles plaguing the realms of architecture, construction and development. These sites include:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sperone Westwater Gallery on the Bowery by Norman Foster</span><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/voids1.jpg" title="Sperone Westwater Gallery by Norman Foster" alt="voids1.jpg" /><br />[site photo by archidose; right image <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2009/07/22/battle_of_the_bowery_hot_karl_beating_lord_norm_to_the_top.php">source</a>]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bowery Hotel by FLANK</span><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/voids0.jpg" title="Bowery Hotel by FLANK" alt="voids0.jpg" /><br />[site photo by archidose; bottom image <a href="http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/green_building_competition_for_new_york_city_announces_winning_projects/">source</a>]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nolita Townhouse by Diller Scofidio + Renfro</span><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/voids2.jpg" title="Nolita Townhouse by Diller Scofidio + Renfro" alt="voids2.jpg" /><br />[site photo by archidose; right image <a href="http://dsrny.com/">source</a>]<br /><br />Some quick research on the web (i.e. <a href="http://curbed.com/">Curbed</a>) indicates that Foster's gallery is moving ahead sloooooowly (<a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2009/08/18/construction_watch_hot_karl_still_winning_bowery_battle.php">if uncertainly</a>), FLANK's Bowery developer is in the throws of <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2009/03/31/delayed_bowery_hotel_project_is_latest_foreclosure_victim.php">foreclosure</a>, and the Nolita Townhouse has made zilch progress since <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2008/04/08/scofidio_digs_in_at_277_mott.php">last April</a>. All three projects would be welcome additions to the area, so I'm hoping they don't end up like Diller + Scofidio's earlier Slow House, never to get past foundation work:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/voids3.jpg" title="Slow House by Diller + Scofidio" alt="voids3.jpg" /><br />[Slow House by Diller + Scofidio | image <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A6952&page_number=2&template_id=1&sort_order=1">left source</a>, <a href="http://performactiva.blogspot.com/2007/10/lectura-14-diller-scofidio-renfro-01.html">right source</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-88312171435537425332009-08-26T10:35:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:50.588-07:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374337637933551650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 395px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/SpV7m3QKkCI/AAAAAAAAG9w/Gtyu7W_VsOw/s400/cabinet.jpg" border="0" />I recently came across this amazing all in one kitchen system. Made in Italy by <a href="http://www.meneghiniarredamenti.com/">Meneghini</a>, the <a href="http://www.meneghiniarredamenti.com/inglese/minicucina.html">mini-kitchen</a> fits into a wood or lacuqered cabinet that looks like a piece of furniture. However, it opens up to reveal 2 electric rings, a sink and faucet, a fridge and 2 storage compartments - magic!<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374337648316433746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 392px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/SpV7nd7oxVI/AAAAAAAAG94/qzHWHmCQ2aE/s400/kitchen+open.jpg" border="0" />I think a cabinet like this would be great for a mountain or beach cottage - or maybe a city studio apartment in NYC where one doesn't cook at home. I immediately thought of the beach huts that Meg at <a href="http://pigtown-design.blogspot.com/2009/08/beach-houses-uk-v-us.html">Pigtown</a> talked about last week as a perfect place for one of these contraptions.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374337652059507122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 208px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HhVGrCGT1uE/SpV7nr4DibI/AAAAAAAAG-A/N3J1W5FPUE4/s400/mini+kitchen.jpg" border="0" />I especially love this image of the item in wood with a mirrored top. What do you think? Good or bad?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-52737534189865118042009-08-26T09:31:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.431-07:00Beachcombing…<p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjQyGHyhI/AAAAAAAAEkc/MJuL2CS09gU/s1600-h/shell%5B5%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; WIDTH: 461px; DISPLAY: block; FLOAT: none; HEIGHT: 352px; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; BORDER-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="7539800001" border="0" alt="7539800001" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjRVOKtfI/AAAAAAAAEkg/Tgal0mANFIw/shell_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="381" height="323" /></a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo: Peter Essick/Aurora</span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Shelling Beaches</span>….the West coast of this <span style="font-size:180%;">fine</span> state is known for some of the best…</p><p align="center">A shellers <span style="font-size:180%;">mecca.</span></p><p align="center">Walking the beach…and <span style="font-size:180%;">stooping</span> down to search for one of these mobile homes of the sea</p><p align="center">is engaging in an <span style="font-size:180%;">ancient</span>... noble pursuit. </p><p align="center">they are amazing and <span style="font-size:180%;">perfect</span> these little vessels of the sea.</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjR6JiGHI/AAAAAAAAEkk/a9FmunFxSZg/s1600-h/shell1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="shell1" border="0" alt="shell1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjSMIcIyI/AAAAAAAAEko/HPHYIxzeIEs/shell1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="484" height="484" /></a> </p><p align="center">At <span style="font-size:180%;">our </span>beaches <span style="font-size:78%;">listen to the ownership in that sentence…sheesh</span>.</p><p align="center">we certainly can find <span style="font-size:180%;">gifts from the sea</span>…</p><p align="center">but not the <span style="font-size:180%;">bounty</span> of shells over on the west coast.</p><p align="center">The other day I opened the door to a beautifully <span style="font-size:180%;">simply</span> wrapped package</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjSVsAYKI/AAAAAAAAEks/Uz7cszhmmmw/s1600-h/shells%20001%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="shells 001" border="0" alt="shells 001" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjSl7ntyI/AAAAAAAAEkw/Gv-hCqOIo_s/shells%20001_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="395" height="269" /></a> </p><p align="center">tied in twine and topped with the smallest most darling</p><p align="center">little <span style="font-size:180%;">mobile home of the sea</span></p><p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjS6MK0pI/AAAAAAAAEk0/IJCOxNWGQ1M/s1600-h/shells%20002%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="shells 002" border="0" alt="shells 002" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjTtLIgkI/AAAAAAAAEk4/8qM6Mm3H5L0/shells%20002_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="363" /></a> </p><p align="center">Inside was a <span style="font-size:180%;">beautifully</span> crafted mirror </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">with two little hooks for keys and such</span></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjT7-EhvI/AAAAAAAAEk8/WxDzCykBQT8/s1600-h/shells%20007%5B4%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="shells 007" border="0" alt="shells 007" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjUNecq1I/AAAAAAAAElA/Oj0QG8oFUuw/shells%20007_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="263" height="327" /></a> </p><p align="center">It came from fellow blogger <a href="http://cherylsshells.blogspot.com/2009/08/for-linda.html">Cheryl</a>….and was <span style="font-size:180%;">just</span> what our keys needed</p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjUUBDCII/AAAAAAAAElE/NXdy9R4_dnE/s1600-h/shells%20010%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="shells 010" border="0" alt="shells 010" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjUhIi9VI/AAAAAAAAElI/HqELt9UbgIU/shells%20010_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="340" height="484" /></a> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;">Perfect.</span></p><p align="center"><em>Thank you Cheryl!</em></p><p align="center"><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjU86LfBI/AAAAAAAAElM/72tFG07TEcY/s1600-h/shells%20003-1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; DISPLAY: inline; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px" title="shells 003-1" border="0" alt="shells 003-1" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IGnJh8-4aYs/SpVjVBi7CBI/AAAAAAAAElQ/8G9d0aKzmjg/shells%20003-1_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="644" height="326" /></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-26025881600596304142009-08-26T07:16:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:52:17.660-07:00<div align="center">Fall is coming and with it my next Redesign project.<br />The <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-living-room-attends-price-my-space.html">Living Room Redesign</a>!<br /><br />Any guesses as to what this photo has to do with....<br /><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpU89Mnl6bI/AAAAAAAADdk/m-vvX_yYnFI/s1600-h/IMG_8536.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374268752393529778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpU89Mnl6bI/AAAAAAAADdk/m-vvX_yYnFI/s200/IMG_8536.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a>...this photo?<br /><br /></p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpVCSbL6k6I/AAAAAAAADds/h0oVMfsxP4U/s1600-h/IMG_1151.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374274614639367074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 196px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpVCSbL6k6I/AAAAAAAADds/h0oVMfsxP4U/s200/IMG_1151.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"></a><br />While you think about it <em>scroll</em> down to my <a href="http://isabellaandmaxrooms.blogspot.com/2009/08/fabulous-stella-dot-giveaway.html">Stella & Dot Giveaway</a>.<br /><br />There is no guessing required there to enter to win $150 of<br /><em>make me smile</em> jewelry from my <a href="http://www.stelladot.com/sites/isabellaandmaxrooms">e-boutique</a>!<br /><br />Good luck...Janell </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-11639457543788441512009-08-26T07:05:00.000-07:002011-03-26T09:53:53.298-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tolo House</b>, a <b>holiday home</b>. Designed by Alvaro Leite Siza, located in Lugar das Carvalhinhas - Alvite, Cerva Parish, Ribeira da Pena Commune, Vila Real District.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.archdaily.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SpVCFnFG_pI/AAAAAAAACfI/sM2NTkHu-K4/s400/Tolo+House.jpg" alt="luxury home design, recident house design, interior design, exterior house design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374274394493746834" border="0" /></a><br />Architects: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Alvaro Leite Siza</strong><br />Client: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Luís Marinho Leite Barbosa da Silva </strong><br />Location: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Lugar das Carvalhinhas - Alvite, freguesia de Cerva, Ribeira da Pena District</strong><br />Site Area: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">1000 sqm</strong><br />Constructed Area: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">180 sqm</strong><br />Contractor: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Óscar Gouveia</strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"> </strong><br />Landscape: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira</strong><br />Materials: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Concrete</strong><br />Services: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">GOP</strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"></strong><br />Project Start: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">2000</strong><br />Project Complete: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">2005</strong><br />Photographers: <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Alvaro Leite Siza / F&S Guerra</strong><br /><br /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SpVB79RVCHI/AAAAAAAACfA/2QwFwHCfTe8/s400/Tolo+House+-+exterior-1.jpg" alt="luxury home design, recident house design, interior design, exterior house design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374274228651886706" border="0" /><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SpVBwOv55nI/AAAAAAAACe4/wfkt69k7PRo/s400/Tolo+House+-+living+room.jpg" alt="luxury home design, recident house design, interior design, exterior house design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374274027185104498" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b>holiday home</b> with three <b>bedrooms</b>, a social <b>bathroom</b>, a living room, a <b>dinning room</b>, a small <b>kitchen</b> with a support washbasin, pantry, and even a small outdoor swimming pool.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This road leads to the northern higher part of the lot. The roof functions simultaneously as pavement support for the gardens: similar to the traditional threshing floors and patios in the northern regions of the country with hilly terrain.<br /></div><br /><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/SpVBiG4wthI/AAAAAAAACew/DAAvLp5Mj5g/s400/Tolo+House+-+exterior.jpg" alt="luxury home design, recident house design, interior design, exterior house design" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374273784556598802" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The terrain’s instability together with modest economic resources gave rise to a house with triple function: the <a href="http://best-modern-house-design.blogspot.com/">home</a> itself and its <b>interior</b> space; the organization of outdoor leveled patios corresponding to the roofs of various levels which permit the outdoor use of the garden; and finally, the creation of a pedestrian link between the paths of the upper and lower levels that border this lot. The <b>exterior</b> stairs that create a link between the patios mirror the <a href="http://best-modern-house-design.blogspot.com/search/label/interior%20design">interior</a> stairs that have the same function of linking the designed compartments that are also developed through levels. In this way, the <a href="http://best-modern-house-design.blogspot.com/search/label/exterior%20house%20design">exterior</a> stairs correspond to the <b>interior</b> ceilings.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">source [<a href="http://www.archdaily.com/">via</a>] <b>modern house design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-6424315153564407662009-08-26T00:05:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:14.422-07:00What To Do With Bathroom Decorating Ideas<br /><br />The last place that anyone wants to think about redecorating is the bathroom. In many cases we will have every other room in the house completely redesigned and redecorated for the purpose of making our place to show. There are many remodeling projects and ideas that we use to help turn our home into the showcase that we want it to be, however in many cases we neglect the bathroom when we are going through and doing all of these projects. We need to look at all of the different projects and possibilities of things that we can do with the bathroom. In many cases we will want incorporate the bathroom into the rest of the house. We do not want to make it seem as if it is isolated from the rest of the house. This room is a place that will have a lot of traffic and you do not want to have to go and use it.<br /><br />Where To Look<br /><br />There are a wide variety of sources when it comes to bathroom decorating ideas. Look around and try to find ideas by simply looking at what other people have done to their bathrooms. You can get inspiration from different places and different rooms in your house as well. Try to find inspiration from a variety of different sources. Look at magazines as well as different periodicals for ideas. There are also decorating books as well as library books that you can use.<br /><br />New Ideas<br /><br />When you make a list of what it is that you want to do while you are contemplating what to do as far as bathroom decorating, make sure to think about all of the different possibilities as well as all of the different aspects of the room that you will need to incorporate. Such as what to do with the shower, will you want a new window treatment or should you use paint or wallpaper. All of these things need to be taken into consideration as well as how much do you want to do. You can do just a few simple changes or else you can go and completely start from scratch. Remember it is your bathroom and it should reflect what you want to do as well as what you wan to see when you go into that room. Consider all of your options as well as what you want to accomplish in order to make this room just as inviting as all of the other rooms in your house.<br /><br />Adam Peters is a consultant who writes on many consumer topics for <a href="http://www.home-decorating-reviews.com/">home-decorating-reviews.com</a> Find more publications about interior design schools at his website.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-66792350281427359232009-08-26T00:05:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:07.645-07:00What To Do With Bathroom Decorating Ideas<br /><br />The last place that anyone wants to think about redecorating is the bathroom. In many cases we will have every other room in the house completely redesigned and redecorated for the purpose of making our place to show. There are many remodeling projects and ideas that we use to help turn our home into the showcase that we want it to be, however in many cases we neglect the bathroom when we are going through and doing all of these projects. We need to look at all of the different projects and possibilities of things that we can do with the bathroom. In many cases we will want incorporate the bathroom into the rest of the house. We do not want to make it seem as if it is isolated from the rest of the house. This room is a place that will have a lot of traffic and you do not want to have to go and use it.<br /><br />Where To Look<br /><br />There are a wide variety of sources when it comes to bathroom decorating ideas. Look around and try to find ideas by simply looking at what other people have done to their bathrooms. You can get inspiration from different places and different rooms in your house as well. Try to find inspiration from a variety of different sources. Look at magazines as well as different periodicals for ideas. There are also decorating books as well as library books that you can use.<br /><br />New Ideas<br /><br />When you make a list of what it is that you want to do while you are contemplating what to do as far as bathroom decorating, make sure to think about all of the different possibilities as well as all of the different aspects of the room that you will need to incorporate. Such as what to do with the shower, will you want a new window treatment or should you use paint or wallpaper. All of these things need to be taken into consideration as well as how much do you want to do. You can do just a few simple changes or else you can go and completely start from scratch. Remember it is your bathroom and it should reflect what you want to do as well as what you wan to see when you go into that room. Consider all of your options as well as what you want to accomplish in order to make this room just as inviting as all of the other rooms in your house.<br /><br />Adam Peters is a consultant who writes on many consumer topics for <a href="http://www.home-decorating-reviews.com/">home-decorating-reviews.com</a> Find more publications about interior design schools at his website.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-8819128181208441672009-08-25T23:08:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:27.334-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.va-software.com/images2/werz3d1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 482px; height: 362px;" src="http://www.va-software.com/images2/werz3d1.jpg" alt="Virtual Architecture - 3d Home" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Virtual Architecture - 3d Home</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-9593728451186773202009-08-25T22:57:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:27.683-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chiefcanada.com/images/large-emerald.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 470px; height: 299px;" src="http://www.chiefcanada.com/images/large-emerald.jpg" alt="Chief Architect 3D Home" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Chief Architect 3D Home<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-57302961319018420412009-08-25T22:43:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:28.012-07:00<span style="font-size:85%;">Anticipating the entire family space with 126m2 land area is not impossible. Storey house with living room, family room, dining room, kitchen, bathrooms, maid's room, drying and washing, a master bedroom complete with bathroom, bedroom, carport and a garden in which are situated on the ground floor. While the upper floor there is a child's bedroom, a living library, mosque, bathroom and balcony.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_S1mp6wo-Fqw/RlL7Civ11gI/AAAAAAAAABM/tY7ImBdsLYQ/s320/sketsa+ide.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 213px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_S1mp6wo-Fqw/RlL7Civ11gI/AAAAAAAAABM/tY7ImBdsLYQ/s320/sketsa+ide.jpg" alt="Elite is only visible to 126m2" border="2" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_S1mp6wo-Fqw/RlL6Tiv11fI/AAAAAAAAABE/UiMPghvZ-e0/s320/atas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 454px;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_S1mp6wo-Fqw/RlL6Tiv11fI/AAAAAAAAABE/UiMPghvZ-e0/s320/atas.jpg" alt="Elite is only visible to 126m2" border="2" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />Elite is only visible to 126m2</span></div><span style="font-size:85%;">Caption:<br />A. Parking J. Rear garden<br />Teras B. K. Main Bedroom<br />C. Living Room L. Bathroom Main Bedroom<br />D. M. Kitchen Children Bedroom<br />The dining room E. N. Mushola<br />F. Downstairs bathroom O. Library<br />G. Drying and Wash P. Bathroom Top<br />H. Q. maid's bedroom Balcony<br />I. Family Room</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-52128227904661215822009-08-25T22:40:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:28.338-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rumah.com/images_listings/2007/11/14/27e76e18dced5ad4df66be81a2a7c270.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 257px;" src="http://www.rumah.com/images_listings/2007/11/14/27e76e18dced5ad4df66be81a2a7c270.jpg" alt="Design of residential land area of 60 type: 9 x 12 m2 " border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Design of residential land area of 60 type: 9 x 12 m2<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The house was designed by astudio be home around 60m2. It's not perfect 60m2. Here seen various features of this house. Among others;<br />- Demarcation line 4 feet from the road<br />- Having a carport<br />- Has the look attractive enough style 'minimalist'<br />- Having a double door (butterfly model fight)<br />- It has two bedrooms that can be added 3<br />- Having a rear garden which is a relief behind<br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-87375312462094798422009-08-25T19:19:00.000-07:002011-03-20T23:59:28.666-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Have the desire to build dream house? Take your passion, because persuasion friends or relatives who already had houses. Or 'lust' following the model homes are the trend. Do you have built up a house with difficulty, even not in accordance with your soul and even make your own does not belong.<br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_40UtVBfPjo8/SNYXGhWvnJI/AAAAAAAAAWU/Fxrh0Ykm_XE/s200-R/rumah_tipe60_render.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 195px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_40UtVBfPjo8/SNYXGhWvnJI/AAAAAAAAAWU/Fxrh0Ykm_XE/s200-R/rumah_tipe60_render.jpg" alt="dream home design" border="2" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >dream home design<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />First thing you should notice is your activity. If you are busy category, as was the night came home from work and go to work to the morning, so automatically you more activity in the room. Therefore make your bedroom as comfortable as possible, or focus on building houses in your room.</span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-66308818221002267082009-08-25T18:54:00.002-07:002011-03-21T21:31:14.636-07:00Classic all - white kitchen<img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/So9QpTX-4iI/AAAAAAAACdI/UHd1BkGJl-I/s400/Classic+all-white+kitchen.jpg" alt="interior design, kitchen, lamp" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372601550982013474" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When New York <b>interior designer</b> Victoria Hagan bought her <b>house</b>, “a real fixer-upper” in Connecticut, she could see it had serious potential. The <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/kitchen">kitchen</a>, with its view of Long Island Sound and an enormous old stove, was a space to fall for. To increase all three, she raised the ceilings and installed new cabinets and Carrara marble countertops. The farm sink and faucet are from Waterworks; <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/lamp">lighting</a>, Urban Archaeology. Photo by Scott Frances, architecturaldigest.com.<br />Source [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8230585@N06/">via</a>] <b>home interior design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-22096933818763960872009-08-25T18:54:00.001-07:002011-03-18T05:27:07.817-07:00Classic all - white kitchen<img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_et1byNF3Y70/So9QpTX-4iI/AAAAAAAACdI/UHd1BkGJl-I/s400/Classic+all-white+kitchen.jpg" alt="interior design, kitchen, lamp" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372601550982013474" border="0" /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When New York <b>interior designer</b> Victoria Hagan bought her <b>house</b>, “a real fixer-upper” in Connecticut, she could see it had serious potential. The <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/kitchen">kitchen</a>, with its view of Long Island Sound and an enormous old stove, was a space to fall for. To increase all three, she raised the ceilings and installed new cabinets and Carrara marble countertops. The farm sink and faucet are from Waterworks; <a href="http://classic-interior-design.blogspot.com/search/label/lamp">lighting</a>, Urban Archaeology. Photo by Scott Frances, architecturaldigest.com.<br />Source [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8230585@N06/">via</a>] <b>home interior design</b>.<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-55710883312790882192009-08-25T18:54:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.475-07:00Classic all - white kitchenWhen New York interior designer Victoria Hagan bought her house, “a real fixer-upper” in Connecticut, she could see it had serious potential. The kitchen, with its view of Long Island Sound and an enormous old stove, was a space to fall for. To increase all three, she raised the ceilings and installed new cabinets and Carrara marble countertops. The farm sink and faucet are from Waterworks; Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-17949988844470632062009-08-25T14:49:00.000-07:002011-03-20T02:59:25.057-07:00There's a snake in my garden!Cameron was taking out our backyard pond when he heard a frog croaking. He looked in the brush and this snake had the frog halfway in his mouth and the little frog was screaming his head off. So, we got to go snake hunting to get him out of our pond area. I am guessing it is a Garter snake, but I don't know. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpRdAakszsI/AAAAAAAAEnU/i3fdP8PWdCE/s1600-h/snake+014.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374022517074480834" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpRdAakszsI/AAAAAAAAEnU/i3fdP8PWdCE/s400/snake+014.JPG" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpRdABC-xlI/AAAAAAAAEnM/-c_oFsu29Is/s1600-h/snake+010.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374022510222165586" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zCryn6S1LpE/SpRdABC-xlI/AAAAAAAAEnM/-c_oFsu29Is/s400/snake+010.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-49302078519786856402009-08-25T13:58:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:50.784-07:00Landscapes of Quarantine: Call for Applications<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3451/3858781806_050aee979e_o.jpg" width="475" height="475" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: President Nixon addresses <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3858001299/"target="_blank">quarantined astronauts</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11"target="_blank">Apollo program</a>; via <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/"target="_blank">NASA</a>].</small><br /><br />I'm incredibly excited to announce not only that BLDGBLOG will be living in New York City this fall, but that my wife and I will be hosting a design studio there called <i>Landscapes of Quarantine</i> – the results of which will be the subject of a public exhibition at <a href="http://www.storefrontnews.org/"target="_blank">Storefront for Art and Architecture</a> in early 2010. <br /><br />Meeting one evening a week this autumn in Manhattan, from October 6 to December 5, 2009, up to 14 studio participants will discuss the spatial implications of quarantine, each developing an individual design project in response to the studio theme.<br /><br />Quarantine is both an ancient spatial practice and a state of monitored isolation, dating back at least to the Black Death – if not to Christ's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312199511?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312199511">40 days</a> <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23565245"target="_blank">in the desert</a> – yet it has re-emerged today as an issue of urgent biological, political, and even architectural importance in an era of global tourism and flu pandemics. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2447/3858010889_d80d271449_o.jpg" width="475" height="186" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: "Fear of Flu" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/notionscapital/3495481577/"target="_blank">Mike Licht</a>].</small><br /><br />Quarantine touches on serious constitutional issues associated with involuntary medical isolation, as well as on questions of governmental authority, regional jurisdiction, and the limits of inter-state cooperation. Quarantine is as much a matter of national security, public safety, and agricultural biodiversity as it is an entry point into discussions of race, purity, and unacknowledged discrimination. <br /><br />Quarantine is also a plot device increasingly seen in novels and films – from the aptly named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(film)"target="_blank"><i>Quarantine</i></a> and Albert Camus's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679720219?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0679720219"><i>The Plague</i></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)"target="_blank"><i>I Am Legend</i></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812975928?ie=UTF8&tag=bldgblog-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0812975928"><i>The Last Town on Earth</i></a> – even as it has become a source of arcane technical debate within plans for Martian exploration and Antarctic drilling rights. <br /><br />The design implications of quarantine stretch from the ballast water of ships to the way we <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/this-diseased-utopia-10-points-on-swine.html">shape our cities</a>, from the clothes in travelers' suitcases to stray seeds stuck in the boot treads of hikers. Quarantine affects the pets we keep, the programs we download, and the machines we use in food-processing warehouses, worldwide.<br /><br />Quarantine is about managing perimeters, controlling influence, and stopping contamination. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/3858839888_80e8f5b665_o.jpg" width="475" height="600" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Cages for the laboratory testing of rats and mice by <a href="http://innoviveinc.com/quarantine.php"target="_blank">Innovive</a>].</small><br /><br />So how do we treat quarantine <i>as a design problem</i>? <br /><br />Whether we design something to demonstrate that the very notion of quarantine might not be possible; whether we produce actionable plans for quarantine units, ready for implementation by the World Health Organization in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_zone_(environment)"target="_blank">hot zones</a> around the world; whether we create quarantine-themed graphic novels, barrier-based urban games, or a series of ironic public health posters to be mounted around the city, how can we design for quarantine? <br /><br />Quarantine also offers fertile territory for investigation through cartography and cultural documentation. After all, if we mapped the contents and locations of quarantine facilities worldwide, designed infographics to analyze the spread of invasive species, or recorded the oral histories of the quarantined, what sorts of issues might we uncover? <br /><br />Bringing these very different techniques, media, and approaches together in the confines of a dedicated design studio will give participants an exciting opportunity to explore the overlooked spatial implications of quarantine. <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3468/3858793684_57302c8109_o.jpg" width="475" height="704" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: A poster for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(film)"target="_blank"><i>Quarantine</i></a>, directed by John Erick Dowdle].</small><br /><br />We have already confirmed a fantastic list of participants, whose backgrounds include architecture, photography, illustration, games design, sound, landscape, food, and more; we are now opening the studio to a general call for interested participants. <br /><br />The brief – which you can <a href="http://www.ediblegeography.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Landscapes-of-Quarantine-Call-for-Applications.pdf"target="_blank">download here</a> as a PDF or that you <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bldgblog/3859024382/sizes/l/"target="_blank">read as a JPG</a> on Flickr – explains more; but potential applicants will be working with a truly stellar group as they meet once a week this fall and produce work eligible for inclusion in the "Landscapes of Quarantine" exhibition to be held at <a href="http://www.storefrontnews.org/"target="_blank">Storefront for Art and Architecture</a> in early 2010. <br /><br />If you are interested, please <a href="http://www.ediblegeography.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Landscapes-of-Quarantine-Call-for-Applications.pdf"target="_blank">download the brief</a> – which includes all necessary application info – and contact us at futureplural @ gmail by September 19, 2009.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 6px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2635/3858054577_2e660d31f7_o.jpg" width="475" height="383" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Australian <a href="http://www.daff.gov.au/aqis/quarantine/naqs/pubs/torres-strait"target="_blank">quarantine signage</a>].</small><br /><br />For ease of reference, I have decided to include the studio brief in full below:<ul><b>Landscapes of Quarantine</b> is an independent, multi-disciplinary design studio, based in New York City, consisting of eight Tuesday evening workshops, from <b>October 6 to December 5, 2009</b>, in which up to 14 participants will gather to discuss the spatial implications of quarantine. Quarantine is an ancient spatial practice characterized by a state of enforced immobility, decontamination, and sequestration; yet it is increasingly relevant—and difficult to monitor—in an era of global trade, bio-engineering, and mass tourism. <br /><br />Studio participants will explore a wide variety of spatial and historical examples, including airport quarantine facilities, Level 5 biohazard wards, invasive species, agricultural regulations, swine-flu infected tourists confined to their hotel rooms, lawsuits over citizens' rights to resist involuntary quarantine, horror films, World Health Organization plans for controlling the spread of pandemics, lunar soil samples, and more. <br /><br />During the studio, participants will develop individual design projects in response to the problem of quarantine, with guidance and inspiration provided by readings, screenings, group discussions, and an evolving line-up of guest speakers and critics. These projects will then be eligible for inclusion in "Landscapes of Quarantine,” an exhibition hosted by the internationally renowned <a href="http://www.storefrontnews.org/"target="_blank"><b>Storefront for Art and Architecture</b></a> in early 2010.<br /><br />By the end of the studio, each participant will have produced a complete design project. This could range from the speculative (plug-in biosecurity rooms for the American suburbs) to the documentary (recording the items and animals detained for quarantine on the U.S./Mexico border), and from the fantastical (plans for extra-planetary quarantine facilities) to the instructional (a field guide to invasive species control).<br /><br /><b>Landscapes of Quarantine</b> is looking for applicants who are intrigued by the spatial possibilities and contingencies of quarantine, and who already possess the technical skills necessary to produce an exhibition-quality final design project or installation in their chosen medium. We hope to hear from people at all stages of their careers—from graduate school to retirees—and from a wide variety of design backgrounds. We are particularly excited to announce that we have already confirmed a select group of talented participants from fields as diverse as architecture, illustration, gaming, photography, and sound design. <br /><br />The studio is both unaffiliated and independent (there is no college credit), and it is also free (though applicants will be responsible for all costs associated with producing their final project). We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis until Friday, <b>September 18, 2009</b>, or until all studio positions have been filled. To learn more, and to submit an application, please email <b>futureplural @ gmail</b> with the information listed below.<br /><br /><ul><b>1)</b> Name<br /><b>2)</b> Email address<br /><b>3)</b> Telephone number(s) <br />Please indicate the best time to reach you<br /><b>4)</b> Mailing address<br /><b>5)</b> Education<br />• University/college name and country<br />• Dates attended<br />• Degree <br /><b>6)</b> Current affiliations and/or employment<br /><b>7)</b> 50-word (maximum) bio<br /><b>8)</b> Publications and/or personal blog <br /><b>9)</b> Portfolio<br />Attach a PDF of no more than 8 pages, or supply a link to online work<br /><b>10)</b> 300-word (maximum) statement of interest in the topic of quarantine<br /><b>11)</b> Candidate’s declaration<br />By submitting your application, you declare the following:<br />• I certify that the work submitted is entirely my own and/or my role is clearly stated<br />• I declare that all the statements I have provided are correct<br />• I agree that, if accepted into the studio, I will participate fully, attend all studio meetings unless previously discussed with the studio directors, and produce a finished final design project<br /><b>12)</b> Email addresses for two references</ul><br /><i>Landscapes of Quarantine</i> is produced and organized by <b>Future Plural</b>, a project-based, independent design lab launching in October 2009 from a temporary base in New York City. <b>Future Plural</b> is Geoff Manaugh (<a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/">BLDGBLOG</a>) and Nicola Twilley (<a href="http://www.ediblegeography.com/"target="_blank"><i>Edible Geography</i></a>).</ul>Finally, a major motivation behind starting Future Plural and hosting the <i>Landscapes of Quarantine</i> studio is to found a new institution without permanent location, dependence on grants, or academic affiliation. After all, as bloggers, why can't we create our own groups, faculties, cultural spaces, and more? By bringing people together, on a project-by-project basis, to explore ideas and issues in a cross-disciplinary environment, we hope to demonstrate that, even in a time of recession, there is a broadly shared enthusiasm for creating something new.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-73575238908262508122009-08-25T12:32:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:14.989-07:00<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#666666;">If you think you’re living sustainably and are up for a little challenge, check out “</span><a href="http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/"><span style="color:#666666;">Consumer Consequences</span></a><span style="color:#666666;">”, an interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth. Consumer Consequences is part of American Public Media's™ special series, "Consumed," which explores whether the modern American lifestyle is </span><a href="http://www.boninarchitects.com/"><span style="color:#666666;">sustainable</span></a><span style="color:#666666;"> in the long run.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#666666;"><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/SpQ9hlzFC9I/AAAAAAAABf4/ZO2AgOSzQBM/s1600-h/earth.jpg"><span style="color:#666666;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373987902651173842" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 120px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 122px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/SpQ9hlzFC9I/AAAAAAAABf4/ZO2AgOSzQBM/s320/earth.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#666666;"><br /></span><div><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Consumer Consequences asks a series of questions about your lifestyle, and as you play, it will show you how many "Earths" of natural resources it would take to sustain all 6.6 billion humans… if everyone lived like you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">The impact of your lifestyle is calculated based on the "ecological footprint" model created by American Public Media’s research partner, Redefining Progress</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">.</span> </span> </p><p><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Consumer Consequences lets you compare your lifestyle with other players and gives you a chance to modify your choices and reduce your footprint.</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Ready to play? </span><a href="http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Click here</span></a></span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373987814870655794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/SpQ9ceykozI/AAAAAAAABfw/4QyJPo_WGKI/s400/j0437340.jpg" border="0" /><br /></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-588892292750654532009-08-25T12:32:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:08.046-07:00<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#666666;">If you think you’re living sustainably and are up for a little challenge, check out “</span><a href="http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/"><span style="color:#666666;">Consumer Consequences</span></a><span style="color:#666666;">”, an interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth. Consumer Consequences is part of American Public Media's™ special series, "Consumed," which explores whether the modern American lifestyle is </span><a href="http://www.boninarchitects.com/"><span style="color:#666666;">sustainable</span></a><span style="color:#666666;"> in the long run.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#666666;"><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/SpQ9hlzFC9I/AAAAAAAABf4/ZO2AgOSzQBM/s1600-h/earth.jpg"><span style="color:#666666;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373987902651173842" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 120px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 122px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/SpQ9hlzFC9I/AAAAAAAABf4/ZO2AgOSzQBM/s320/earth.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="color:#666666;"><br /></span><div><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Consumer Consequences asks a series of questions about your lifestyle, and as you play, it will show you how many "Earths" of natural resources it would take to sustain all 6.6 billion humans… if everyone lived like you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">The impact of your lifestyle is calculated based on the "ecological footprint" model created by American Public Media’s research partner, Redefining Progress</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">.</span> </span> </p><p><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Consumer Consequences lets you compare your lifestyle with other players and gives you a chance to modify your choices and reduce your footprint.</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Ready to play? </span><a href="http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumerconsequences/"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Click here</span></a></span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373987814870655794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 132px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EY2zERkuvIg/SpQ9ceykozI/AAAAAAAABfw/4QyJPo_WGKI/s400/j0437340.jpg" border="0" /><br /></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-44386618584668813002009-08-25T12:20:00.000-07:002011-03-21T00:52:17.961-07:00Street Banners As Wall Art<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpNwnh72cUI/AAAAAAAADcM/AIZFjAjWVOE/s1600-h/IMG_8515.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373762604809744706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 134px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpNwnh72cUI/AAAAAAAADcM/AIZFjAjWVOE/s200/IMG_8515.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpNwnPpTrwI/AAAAAAAADcE/vi35pB3c29k/s1600-h/IMG_8510.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373762599900131074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 99px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpNwnPpTrwI/AAAAAAAADcE/vi35pB3c29k/s200/IMG_8510.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Using Street Banners as art is a <strong>Trend I Love</strong>! A great site to find an outstanding inventory of street banners from cities around the world is <a href="http://www.betterwall.com/index.php">Better Wall</a>. Do you have a favorite city, museum or artist? I bet there is a street banner to match.<br /><br />This is my favorite banner (favorite city+great artist+great memories) and the story behind it. The Flying Circus street banner, by artist <a href="http://www.kentonnelson.com/">Kenton Nelson</a>, originally hung above the streets of San Francisco. This banner celebrated the opening of Crissy Field in 2001, while I was enjoying living in this special city. Crissy Field was originally a marsh and later an airfield as part of the <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/presidio-of-san-francisco.html">Presidio Army Base</a>. Finally the area was restored by the <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/crissy-field.html">Golden Gate National Park Conservancy</a> to the outstanding park, natural area and historic site that it is today.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/our-work/crissy/">Crissy Field</a> runs from the Marina District to <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/fort-point.html">Fort Point</a> at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, with a trail along the way. If you ever find yourself in San Francisco you <em>must</em> find a few hours to wander along the bay taking in the spectacular scenery and salty air.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpN44VUB70I/AAAAAAAADck/KHywAeIcxW0/s1600-h/_warmingHut_2943.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373771689572298562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 187px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpN44VUB70I/AAAAAAAADck/KHywAeIcxW0/s200/_warmingHut_2943.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Near the end of the path is the Warming Hut, a casual spot to grab a really good panini sandwich and a warm coffee...even in summer you'll probably be chilled by the time you reach this spot!<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpN439KGvcI/AAAAAAAADcc/v_haZPwDGJo/s1600-h/WarmingHut.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373771683088219586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 78px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpN439KGvcI/AAAAAAAADcc/v_haZPwDGJo/s200/WarmingHut.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpN43TwMC0I/AAAAAAAADcU/kyOoF0wZesk/s1600-h/_warmingHut_2945.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373771671973661506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpN43TwMC0I/AAAAAAAADcU/kyOoF0wZesk/s200/_warmingHut_2945.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />It was on one of my frequent walks in Crissy Field that I spotted a Flying Circus street banner hanging on a wall in the Warming Hut.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpOBvmhQYGI/AAAAAAAADcs/sda1Zv4OLHk/s1600-h/Friendship.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373781435177001058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 134px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YCuDuVA8jD8/SpOBvmhQYGI/AAAAAAAADcs/sda1Zv4OLHk/s200/Friendship.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I immediately looked for the price. Ouch. Then a conversation with a man working at the Warming Hut resulted in a bit of a scoop. One last banner was rolled up in the back, if I was interested he could sell this one to me at a discount due to some wear on the edges. Well yes, please bring it on out! (A bit of wear? It is a street banner...shouldn't it have at least a <em>bit</em> of wear?!) It looked completely fabulous to me and this is how I was finally able to take home the banner I had been dreaming about for months.<br /><br />And speaking of dreaming...scroll down to the <a href="http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/presidio-of-san-francisco.html">Stella & Dot Giveaway</a> post below and enter to win $150 of your selection of dreamy jewelry! Good luck...JanellUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-13824252210630112812009-08-25T09:15:00.000-07:002011-03-18T04:54:50.825-07:00<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/7468702@N02/3847649578/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3509/3847649578_0c9aaf33a1.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a><br /> <span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7468702@N02/3847649578/">door handle</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/7468702@N02/">d.teil</a>.</span></div> <p class="flickr-yourcomment"> A door handle detail in <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Bauwerke_von_Gottfried_B%C3%B6hm">Gottfried Böhm</a>'s Maria in den Trümmern (Chapel of Madonna in the Ruins) in Cologne, Germany, 1950.</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-35368090673113954562009-08-25T06:44:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:32:38.140-07:00Morning Glories are one of my favorite vining flowers. This year I planted several different varieties. Here are a few of my favorites.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrsZVFYxI/AAAAAAAABvQ/6xNYsSPC6eA/s1600-h/4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373897928329224978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrsZVFYxI/AAAAAAAABvQ/6xNYsSPC6eA/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrbJMQWFI/AAAAAAAABvI/yNrXeeJ2cg8/s1600-h/2.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrSzShCTI/AAAAAAAABvA/hPLqVasvl-s/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373897488621177138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrSzShCTI/AAAAAAAABvA/hPLqVasvl-s/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrJZkf9XI/AAAAAAAABu4/BfNVZNdy4Mc/s1600-h/5.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrCOHOBDI/AAAAAAAABuw/U484y93jAWI/s1600-h/3+Close+up.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373897203763774514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 373px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dAjvgBCYSFY/SpPrCOHOBDI/AAAAAAAABuw/U484y93jAWI/s400/3+Close+up.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-55864323099358146592009-08-25T06:14:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:15:49.111-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I have been a big proponent of what I call "common sense green". I hate to see people do things for the sake of being green - but are not really green at all. Anyway I came across some useful information on the fine homebuilding blog regarding some green "myths". The article identifies a number of common strategies that <b><i>do not necessarily save you much energy</i></b>. Those include the following:</div><div><ol><li>furnace tune ups</li><li>sizing furnace correctly (not oversizing)</li><li>basement duct sealing</li><li>floor insulation</li><li>caulking and weatherstripping</li><li>window replacements</li><li>tankless gas water heaters</li><li>cooling your attic</li><li>changing furnace filters monthly</li><li>opening your refrigerator quickly</li><li>using drapes to insulate windows</li></ol></div><div>You should read the entire article if you want further information. See the following link:</div><a href="http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/8954/how-not-to-save-energy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;"><b>http://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/8954/how-not-to-save-energy</b></span></a><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><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><span><span><span><span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:";font-size:10.0pt;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><a href="http://www.simplyeleganthomedesigns.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#993300;">Simple,Unique, Small, Creative and Green House Plans</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OhlZn97QoCI/SpPmXU_7TdI/AAAAAAAABHI/JNAG1YAshvA/s200/exterior-detail-square.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373892068831350226" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-26564424075624959702009-08-25T00:02:00.002-07:002011-03-26T09:28:04.059-07:00Black and White Two Pavilions House Design by Johannsen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpOOUSNX3tI/AAAAAAAACLU/ieDTa6IQV5E/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-1-554x341.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpOOUSNX3tI/AAAAAAAACLU/ieDTa6IQV5E/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-1-554x341.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373795259519590098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">This Northbridge house is designed by Johannsen + Associates and located near the Spit Bridge to North Sydney. Black and white house design has two pavilions which looks like wings joined to the entry stairwell. A steel, timber and glass staircase intersects the entry foyer which is the hinge of the split level wings. The house’s design uses plenty of eco-friendly techologies like passive heating and cooling, natural ventilation, solar pool heating and rainwater tanks. With a protected central courtyard, shady terraces and a sunny pool loggia, the outdoor spaces open to different parts of the site and garden. The entertaining level is one large fluid space that takes in a panoramic vista over Middle Harbour. Finely detailed joinery elements define and give character to the living, dining and kitchen areas.</span>-(<a href="http://www.digsdigs.com">via</a>)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpOOT-tRhwI/AAAAAAAACLM/QLj8h7BFj7o/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-2-554x403.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpOOT-tRhwI/AAAAAAAACLM/QLj8h7BFj7o/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-2-554x403.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373795254284683010" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpOOTtotGHI/AAAAAAAACLE/KnAssGIl688/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-3-554x415.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpOOTtotGHI/AAAAAAAACLE/KnAssGIl688/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-3-554x415.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373795249702115442" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONtDOw6cI/AAAAAAAACK8/j52jUn2Z6Uw/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-4-554x404.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONtDOw6cI/AAAAAAAACK8/j52jUn2Z6Uw/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-4-554x404.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373794585483995586" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONsmZoMwI/AAAAAAAACK0/tSxy0K-NfX4/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-5-554x405.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONsmZoMwI/AAAAAAAACK0/tSxy0K-NfX4/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-5-554x405.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373794577744933634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONsQUSBGI/AAAAAAAACKs/4I1bfeWzRao/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-6-554x679.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONsQUSBGI/AAAAAAAACKs/4I1bfeWzRao/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-6-554x679.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373794571816928354" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONr3WImTI/AAAAAAAACKk/1kes1OBb624/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-7-554x738.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONr3WImTI/AAAAAAAACKk/1kes1OBb624/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-7-554x738.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373794565113813298" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONrXK9ESI/AAAAAAAACKc/-jeUM4YNtNU/s1600-h/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-8-554x431.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_EcnS4VWJ3Mg/SpONrXK9ESI/AAAAAAAACKc/-jeUM4YNtNU/s400/black-and-white-two-pavillions-house-design-8-554x431.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373794556476985634" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-14251472501220577852009-08-25T00:02:00.001-07:002011-03-21T21:31:15.249-07:00Top Bathroom Tile Ideas for the Chic Woman<br /><br />Coming up with bathroom tile ideas is not as difficult as you may think. A little knowledge on tile types, a dash of imagination and a little bit of patience are all you need to create your dream bathroom. First, you need to think about the materials you want for your bathroom. Here is a list of all the different types of bathroom tiles:<br /><br />- The Ceramic Kind - It's non-porous, durable and affordable making it a practical tile for the bathroom. It's resistant to water so it's safe to walk on when wet. Ceramics are very easy to clean and maintain. When combined with a slip-resistant surface, this makes it the best bathroom idea so far.<br /><br />- Travertine Tile - This is formed by shifts in the earth's crust. It produces a uniform surface unlike the other marbles and is ideal for bathroom walls and floors.<br /><br />- The Granite Kind - This is the most durable and easiest to clean. It can also withstand wear and tear.<br /><br />- Glass - Once expensive, it is now affordable in the market. It can be used in different bathroom wall styles - as a border or as mosaics. What makes this different from the other tiles is that it has a unique reflection when light hits glass. If you are going for that bold, contemporary look, you might want to use uniform colored stained convex glass pieces. When these are combined in plaster they make a wonderful glass mosaic.<br /><br />- The Slate - These tiles have an anti-slip finish which makes it an ideal choice for bathroom wall and especially floors. You may also install these in showers, tubs or floors.<br /><br />- Marble - The Marble is a type of natural stone. It is commonly known for its textured appearance. An advantage of natural stones is that they have their own distinct color and texture.<br /><br />Bathroom Tile Shapes and Accent Pieces<br /><br />When it comes to shapes and sizes, there are definitely a lot of choices. Common shapes are squares, rectangles, hexagons and octagons. Feel free to play with accent pieces to make a good design. Accent pieces may sometimes be narrow tiles or small diamond-shaped tiles.<br /><br />Colors to Reflect your Mood<br /><br />Another consideration is the color. Each color reflects a certain emotion. Below is a list of some of the most commonly used colors in decorating bathrooms.<br /><br />- Warm colors such as peach and yellow are fun. This makes your bathroom feel cozier and have a country-look about it.<br /><br />- Light colors such as beige and white are neutral colors and may make your room appear larger than it really is. These colors are always in style.<br /><br />- Colors such as blue, green and violet create the ambiance of serenity and calmness.<br /><br />- Black and red colors are considered bright colors and will add drama to your room. Since it absorbs light, it may make your room appear smaller than it really is. Bright colors are good for rooms that have plenty of windows and natural lighting passing through it. This helps balance the ambiance lighting in the room.<br /><br />Bathroom Tile Ideas<br /><br />You can use any of these styles when decorating your bathroom:<br /><br />- You can use a single color scheme for ceramic bathroom floor tile and pair it with a tile border of a different color. You can use alternate colors if you like for the tile border.<br /><br />- Another way would be to use the same color of ceramic tile for your floor and wall, you can also use different tile sizes for an interesting visual effect for your room. You may also align the tiles either on your wall or floor diagonally.<br /><br />- If you want to use a certain color, try experimenting with it. Just add decorative tiles of your favorite shade of color or if you like, use different shapes, textures and borders.<br /><br />- Another technique is to use contrasting tile and grout colors. To preserve grout colors, apply sealers to grout lines.<br /><br />- All it takes is a little knowledge and some imagination. Standard blends help enhance the surface design of your bathroom dcor and thus giving it a modern look. Gradients give your room a dramatic effect.<br /><br />Get the latest on <a href="http://www.bathroomremodelingidea.info/">bathroom tile ideas</a>.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-66864254958969100422009-08-25T00:02:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:27:08.241-07:00Top Bathroom Tile Ideas for the Chic Woman<br /><br />Coming up with bathroom tile ideas is not as difficult as you may think. A little knowledge on tile types, a dash of imagination and a little bit of patience are all you need to create your dream bathroom. First, you need to think about the materials you want for your bathroom. Here is a list of all the different types of bathroom tiles:<br /><br />- The Ceramic Kind - It's non-porous, durable and affordable making it a practical tile for the bathroom. It's resistant to water so it's safe to walk on when wet. Ceramics are very easy to clean and maintain. When combined with a slip-resistant surface, this makes it the best bathroom idea so far.<br /><br />- Travertine Tile - This is formed by shifts in the earth's crust. It produces a uniform surface unlike the other marbles and is ideal for bathroom walls and floors.<br /><br />- The Granite Kind - This is the most durable and easiest to clean. It can also withstand wear and tear.<br /><br />- Glass - Once expensive, it is now affordable in the market. It can be used in different bathroom wall styles - as a border or as mosaics. What makes this different from the other tiles is that it has a unique reflection when light hits glass. If you are going for that bold, contemporary look, you might want to use uniform colored stained convex glass pieces. When these are combined in plaster they make a wonderful glass mosaic.<br /><br />- The Slate - These tiles have an anti-slip finish which makes it an ideal choice for bathroom wall and especially floors. You may also install these in showers, tubs or floors.<br /><br />- Marble - The Marble is a type of natural stone. It is commonly known for its textured appearance. An advantage of natural stones is that they have their own distinct color and texture.<br /><br />Bathroom Tile Shapes and Accent Pieces<br /><br />When it comes to shapes and sizes, there are definitely a lot of choices. Common shapes are squares, rectangles, hexagons and octagons. Feel free to play with accent pieces to make a good design. Accent pieces may sometimes be narrow tiles or small diamond-shaped tiles.<br /><br />Colors to Reflect your Mood<br /><br />Another consideration is the color. Each color reflects a certain emotion. Below is a list of some of the most commonly used colors in decorating bathrooms.<br /><br />- Warm colors such as peach and yellow are fun. This makes your bathroom feel cozier and have a country-look about it.<br /><br />- Light colors such as beige and white are neutral colors and may make your room appear larger than it really is. These colors are always in style.<br /><br />- Colors such as blue, green and violet create the ambiance of serenity and calmness.<br /><br />- Black and red colors are considered bright colors and will add drama to your room. Since it absorbs light, it may make your room appear smaller than it really is. Bright colors are good for rooms that have plenty of windows and natural lighting passing through it. This helps balance the ambiance lighting in the room.<br /><br />Bathroom Tile Ideas<br /><br />You can use any of these styles when decorating your bathroom:<br /><br />- You can use a single color scheme for ceramic bathroom floor tile and pair it with a tile border of a different color. You can use alternate colors if you like for the tile border.<br /><br />- Another way would be to use the same color of ceramic tile for your floor and wall, you can also use different tile sizes for an interesting visual effect for your room. You may also align the tiles either on your wall or floor diagonally.<br /><br />- If you want to use a certain color, try experimenting with it. Just add decorative tiles of your favorite shade of color or if you like, use different shapes, textures and borders.<br /><br />- Another technique is to use contrasting tile and grout colors. To preserve grout colors, apply sealers to grout lines.<br /><br />- All it takes is a little knowledge and some imagination. Standard blends help enhance the surface design of your bathroom dcor and thus giving it a modern look. Gradients give your room a dramatic effect.<br /><br />Get the latest on <a href="http://www.bathroomremodelingidea.info/">bathroom tile ideas</a>.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-84791027679862996222009-08-24T23:58:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.519-07:00Konsep Perumahan Islami<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/07/04/1943012p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />BARANGKALI pertanyaan ini kerap terlontar. Seperti apa rumah islami itu? Banyak pengembang menurunkan konsep islami ini dalam bentuk dan desain rumah. Seperti, dinding bertabur ukiran kaligrafi, mushala di dalam rumah, ada keran khusus untuk berwudu, hingga kamar mandi yang tak boleh menghadap kiblat.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Tak hanya itu. Pengembang perumahan juga membuat bagian dalam rumah tertutup sehingga orang lain tak bisa melihat dari luar. Tapi, di bagian luar rumah tidak dipagari. “Dengan begitu, penghuni tetap bisa bersosialisasi dengan para tetangga,” kata Denny Ernadie, pengurus Yayasan Az-Zikra yang juga mengembangkan rumah islami.<br /><br />Kompleks perumahan umumnya dilengkapi masjid, mushala, atau taman pendidikan Al-Quran (TPA). Sedangkan di kolam renang umum, ada pembatas antara pria dan wanita. “Bisa saja melakukan pengaturan jam pemakaian,” imbuh Nasrullah, Direktur Utama Orchid Realty.<br /><br />Suasana religius lebih hidup lagi dengan adanya kegiatan rutin salat berjamaah dan pengajian di masjid. Perumahan Bukit Az-Zikra lebih ekstrem lagi: melarang penghuninya merokok, dan penghuni perempuan harus menutup aurat.<br /><br />Demi menjalankan kehidupan pada nilai-nilai agama, semua transaksi pembelian atau penjualan rumah menganut prinsip dan akad syariah. “Itu yang diutamakan Orchid,” kata Nasrullah.<br /><br />Otomatis, hanya bank-bank syariah yang bisa memberikan kredit kepemilikan rumah (KPR). “Kami bekerjasama dengan BTN Syariah, BNI Syariah, dan BRI Syariah,” kata Denny. Namun, pasar juga menjadi pertimbangan. <br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-5407172123837311732009-08-24T23:58:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.499-07:00Konsep Perumahan Islami<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/07/04/1943012p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />BARANGKALI pertanyaan ini kerap terlontar. Seperti apa rumah islami itu? Banyak pengembang menurunkan konsep islami ini dalam bentuk dan desain rumah. Seperti, dinding bertabur ukiran kaligrafi, mushala di dalam rumah, ada keran khusus untuk berwudu, hingga kamar mandi yang tak boleh menghadap kiblat.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Tak hanya itu. Pengembang perumahan juga membuat bagian dalam rumah tertutup sehingga orang lain tak bisa melihat dari luar. Tapi, di bagian luar rumah tidak dipagari. “Dengan begitu, penghuni tetap bisa bersosialisasi dengan para tetangga,” kata Denny Ernadie, pengurus Yayasan Az-Zikra yang juga mengembangkan rumah islami.<br /><br />Kompleks perumahan umumnya dilengkapi masjid, mushala, atau taman pendidikan Al-Quran (TPA). Sedangkan di kolam renang umum, ada pembatas antara pria dan wanita. “Bisa saja melakukan pengaturan jam pemakaian,” imbuh Nasrullah, Direktur Utama Orchid Realty.<br /><br />Suasana religius lebih hidup lagi dengan adanya kegiatan rutin salat berjamaah dan pengajian di masjid. Perumahan Bukit Az-Zikra lebih ekstrem lagi: melarang penghuninya merokok, dan penghuni perempuan harus menutup aurat.<br /><br />Demi menjalankan kehidupan pada nilai-nilai agama, semua transaksi pembelian atau penjualan rumah menganut prinsip dan akad syariah. “Itu yang diutamakan Orchid,” kata Nasrullah.<br /><br />Otomatis, hanya bank-bank syariah yang bisa memberikan kredit kepemilikan rumah (KPR). “Kami bekerjasama dengan BTN Syariah, BNI Syariah, dan BRI Syariah,” kata Denny. Namun, pasar juga menjadi pertimbangan. <br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-13228065715191534712009-08-24T23:57:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.570-07:00Perumahan Islami: Dari Kaligrafi sampai Kolam Renang Muslim<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/08/15/1553259p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Sejatinya, apa itu perumahan dengan nuansa Islami? Banyak pengembang mewujudkan konsep Islami ini dalam bentuk dan desain rumah. Contoh, dinding rumah bertabur ukiran kaligrafi, mushala di dalam rumah, ada keran khusus untuk berwudhu, hingga kamar mandi yang tak boleh menghadap kiblat.<br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Sementara itu, PT Mustika Hadiasri, pengembang Villa Ilhami, mewujudkan konsep Islami lewat arah rumah yang semua menghadap ke kiblat. Jadi, “Penghuni tidak perlu geser kiri-kanan jika ingin menyesuaikan kiblat,” kata Dedi Mustofa, Manajer Promosi Villa Ilhami.<br /><br />Namun, fasilitas perumahan juga tidak boleh sembarangan. Menurut Nasrullah, Direktur Utama CV Fadillah Utama Berkat, pengembang The Orchid Reality, perusahaan properti mesti serius membangun segala fasilitas yang menunjang rumah Islami.<br /><br />The Orchid Realty, misalnya, menyediakan fasilitas pendidikan bernapaskan Islam. “Harus ada sekolah atau pendidikan Islami. Kami juga menyediakan tempat belajar Al Quran,” ujar Nasrullah. Yang juga wajib dihadirkan di kompleks perumahan Islami sudah barang tentu masjid.<br /><br />Fasilitas-fasilitas semacam itu, Nasrullah bilang, mesti disediakan oleh para pengembang. Pasalnya, warga yang tinggal di perumahan dengan konsep Islami itu benar-benar menginginkan perkembangan beragamanya. “Tidak hanya sekadar tinggal di satu rumah,” kata Nasrullah.<br /><br />Fasilitas lainnya yang bisa dikembangkan adalah membangun kolam renang bernuansa Islami. Caranya dengan memisahkan kolam untuk laki-laki dan perempuan, “Termasuk menyediakan pakaian renang Muslim,” kata Nasrullah. Dengan begitu, orang akan semakin tertarik membeli rumah Islami.<br /><br />Tidak hanya itu, pengembang juga harus mampu membangun suasana kehidupan bertetangga yang sakinah. Suasana religius lebih hidup lagi dengan adanya kegiatan rutin shalat berjemaah dan pengajian di masjid. Atau bisa juga lewat kegiatan siraman rohani, diskusi, hingga konsultasi keagamaan.<br /><br />Perumahan Bukit Az-Zikra yang terletak di kawasan Sentul, Bogor, lebih ekstrem lagi soal kehidupan sehari-hari penghuninya. Mereka melarang penghuninya merokok, dan penghuni perempuan harus menutup aurat.<br /><br />Namun, Kepala Riset Jones Lang Lasalle Anton Sitorus menyatakan, konsep dan fasilitas bernuansa Islami tidak begitu saja membuat para konsumen tergiur untuk membeli. Sebab, calon pembeli tetap memerhatikan kelengkapan perumahan, baik dari aspek legal, maupun fasilitas.<br /><br />“Apakah benar-benar seperti ditawarkan?” katanya.<br /><br />Selain itu, faktor terpenting selalu menjadi pertimbangan pembeli adalah lokasi.<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-29075894183224150782009-08-24T23:57:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.549-07:00Perumahan Islami: Dari Kaligrafi sampai Kolam Renang Muslim<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/08/15/1553259p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Sejatinya, apa itu perumahan dengan nuansa Islami? Banyak pengembang mewujudkan konsep Islami ini dalam bentuk dan desain rumah. Contoh, dinding rumah bertabur ukiran kaligrafi, mushala di dalam rumah, ada keran khusus untuk berwudhu, hingga kamar mandi yang tak boleh menghadap kiblat.<br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Sementara itu, PT Mustika Hadiasri, pengembang Villa Ilhami, mewujudkan konsep Islami lewat arah rumah yang semua menghadap ke kiblat. Jadi, “Penghuni tidak perlu geser kiri-kanan jika ingin menyesuaikan kiblat,” kata Dedi Mustofa, Manajer Promosi Villa Ilhami.<br /><br />Namun, fasilitas perumahan juga tidak boleh sembarangan. Menurut Nasrullah, Direktur Utama CV Fadillah Utama Berkat, pengembang The Orchid Reality, perusahaan properti mesti serius membangun segala fasilitas yang menunjang rumah Islami.<br /><br />The Orchid Realty, misalnya, menyediakan fasilitas pendidikan bernapaskan Islam. “Harus ada sekolah atau pendidikan Islami. Kami juga menyediakan tempat belajar Al Quran,” ujar Nasrullah. Yang juga wajib dihadirkan di kompleks perumahan Islami sudah barang tentu masjid.<br /><br />Fasilitas-fasilitas semacam itu, Nasrullah bilang, mesti disediakan oleh para pengembang. Pasalnya, warga yang tinggal di perumahan dengan konsep Islami itu benar-benar menginginkan perkembangan beragamanya. “Tidak hanya sekadar tinggal di satu rumah,” kata Nasrullah.<br /><br />Fasilitas lainnya yang bisa dikembangkan adalah membangun kolam renang bernuansa Islami. Caranya dengan memisahkan kolam untuk laki-laki dan perempuan, “Termasuk menyediakan pakaian renang Muslim,” kata Nasrullah. Dengan begitu, orang akan semakin tertarik membeli rumah Islami.<br /><br />Tidak hanya itu, pengembang juga harus mampu membangun suasana kehidupan bertetangga yang sakinah. Suasana religius lebih hidup lagi dengan adanya kegiatan rutin shalat berjemaah dan pengajian di masjid. Atau bisa juga lewat kegiatan siraman rohani, diskusi, hingga konsultasi keagamaan.<br /><br />Perumahan Bukit Az-Zikra yang terletak di kawasan Sentul, Bogor, lebih ekstrem lagi soal kehidupan sehari-hari penghuninya. Mereka melarang penghuninya merokok, dan penghuni perempuan harus menutup aurat.<br /><br />Namun, Kepala Riset Jones Lang Lasalle Anton Sitorus menyatakan, konsep dan fasilitas bernuansa Islami tidak begitu saja membuat para konsumen tergiur untuk membeli. Sebab, calon pembeli tetap memerhatikan kelengkapan perumahan, baik dari aspek legal, maupun fasilitas.<br /><br />“Apakah benar-benar seperti ditawarkan?” katanya.<br /><br />Selain itu, faktor terpenting selalu menjadi pertimbangan pembeli adalah lokasi.<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-57428884038394713312009-08-24T23:53:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:15.584-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYt83iudKI/AAAAAAAABYY/jPDPaoHsWFE/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYt83iudKI/AAAAAAAABYY/jPDPaoHsWFE/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374533729038267554" /></a>Side view of a small bathtub with flowers kept near the mirror<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYuJlrMvvI/AAAAAAAABYg/7TjK_OdYBGk/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYuJlrMvvI/AAAAAAAABYg/7TjK_OdYBGk/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374533947580268274" /></a></div>Side view of a small bathtub placed near the window with towels hung on the rods.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-40889675371746240572009-08-24T23:53:00.002-07:002011-03-18T05:27:08.479-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYt83iudKI/AAAAAAAABYY/jPDPaoHsWFE/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYt83iudKI/AAAAAAAABYY/jPDPaoHsWFE/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374533729038267554" /></a>Side view of a small bathtub with flowers kept near the mirror<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYuJlrMvvI/AAAAAAAABYg/7TjK_OdYBGk/s1600-h/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 322px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HC4htGO_mIQ/SpYuJlrMvvI/AAAAAAAABYg/7TjK_OdYBGk/s400/Bathroom_Ideas.jpg" border="0" alt="Bathroom Ideas"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374533947580268274" /></a></div>Side view of a small bathtub placed near the window with towels hung on the rods.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-90406546936858799442009-08-24T23:53:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.613-07:00Dapur Modern<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/08/20/1017019p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Fungsionalitas dan efisiensi jadi fokus utama dalam mendesain sebuah dapur pintar. Desain yang pintar jadi solusi dalam memberikan kemudahan pengguna dapur beraktivitas menyiapkan dan mengolah makanan.<br /><br />Dapur pada foto memiliki layout ruang yang unik, dimana dapur terhubung langsung dengan ruang makan dan ruang keluarga. Hubungan antarruang ini dioptimalkan dengan mendesain kitchen set double line.<br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Satu kabinet berbentuk L menempel ke dinding dapur dan kabinet yang lainnya diletakkan di antara dapur dan ruang makan. Fungsinya sebagai penghubung antara kedua area ini. Antara keduanya diberi jarak 2,2m, sehingga sirkulasi saat bekerja menjadi lancar.<br /><br />Kabinet berbentuk L memiliki panjang 6,3m. Sebuah sink dengan dua bak cuci, lengkap dengan pengeringnya menempati salah satu sisi work top. Pemilihan sink berukuran besar disesuaikan dengan aktivitas pemilik rumah yang senang memasak.<br /><br />Demikian pula dengan kompor tanam empat tungku yang berada di sisi lain work top. Kompor ini memungkinkan aktivitas memasak lebih banyak di saat bersamaan. Home appliances lain, seperti oven, microwave dan kulkas - dengan pintu side by side - di tertanam di dalam kabinet. Dapur jadi lebih rapi.<br /><br />Kabinet yang satunya memiliki ukuran lebih kecil. Panjang kabinetnya 2,4m. Kabinet ini multifungsi. Bagian atas kabinet berfungsi sebagai meja saji dan breakfast table, sementara bagian bawahnya berfungsi sebagai storage. Kabinet ini menggunakan finishing high gloss panel, sehingga warna merah kabinet nampak mengilap dan mewah. Table top-nya menggunakan bahan solid surface dengan warna hitam.<br /><br />Sementara handle dan frame pintu kabinet menggunakan bahan aluminium. Perpaduan ketiga warna itu sangat serasi, mewah, sekaligus modern. Garis-garis geometris dan detail yang simple pada kabinet juga semakin mempertegas gaya modern kitchen set. (iDEAonline/<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-20282062135510943732009-08-24T23:53:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.592-07:00Dapur Modern<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/08/20/1017019p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Fungsionalitas dan efisiensi jadi fokus utama dalam mendesain sebuah dapur pintar. Desain yang pintar jadi solusi dalam memberikan kemudahan pengguna dapur beraktivitas menyiapkan dan mengolah makanan.<br /><br />Dapur pada foto memiliki layout ruang yang unik, dimana dapur terhubung langsung dengan ruang makan dan ruang keluarga. Hubungan antarruang ini dioptimalkan dengan mendesain kitchen set double line.<br /><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Satu kabinet berbentuk L menempel ke dinding dapur dan kabinet yang lainnya diletakkan di antara dapur dan ruang makan. Fungsinya sebagai penghubung antara kedua area ini. Antara keduanya diberi jarak 2,2m, sehingga sirkulasi saat bekerja menjadi lancar.<br /><br />Kabinet berbentuk L memiliki panjang 6,3m. Sebuah sink dengan dua bak cuci, lengkap dengan pengeringnya menempati salah satu sisi work top. Pemilihan sink berukuran besar disesuaikan dengan aktivitas pemilik rumah yang senang memasak.<br /><br />Demikian pula dengan kompor tanam empat tungku yang berada di sisi lain work top. Kompor ini memungkinkan aktivitas memasak lebih banyak di saat bersamaan. Home appliances lain, seperti oven, microwave dan kulkas - dengan pintu side by side - di tertanam di dalam kabinet. Dapur jadi lebih rapi.<br /><br />Kabinet yang satunya memiliki ukuran lebih kecil. Panjang kabinetnya 2,4m. Kabinet ini multifungsi. Bagian atas kabinet berfungsi sebagai meja saji dan breakfast table, sementara bagian bawahnya berfungsi sebagai storage. Kabinet ini menggunakan finishing high gloss panel, sehingga warna merah kabinet nampak mengilap dan mewah. Table top-nya menggunakan bahan solid surface dengan warna hitam.<br /><br />Sementara handle dan frame pintu kabinet menggunakan bahan aluminium. Perpaduan ketiga warna itu sangat serasi, mewah, sekaligus modern. Garis-garis geometris dan detail yang simple pada kabinet juga semakin mempertegas gaya modern kitchen set. (iDEAonline/<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-4010659194910013092009-08-24T23:52:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.661-07:00Lemari Kaca di Kamar Mandi<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/03/17/1622088p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Area penyimpanan (storage) yang memadai mutlak diperlukan dalam setiap ruangan. Tanpanya banyak barang akan berserakan dan tidak berada pada tempatnya. Menyediakan storage di ruangan relatif sempit, bisa menjadi tantangan tersendiri. Di kamar mandi misalnya.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Kamar mandi biasanya menempati lahan yang tidak terlalu besar. Padahal tidak sedikit juga barang-barang yang memerlukan storage. Mulai dari perangkat mandi, seperti handuk hingga pernak-pernik seperti sabun, shampo, sikat gigi, dan sebagainya.<br /><br />Untuk menampung semua barang keperluan mandi tersebut, siapkan sebuah lemari. Tak perlu membayangkan lemari kayu yang masif dan tampak berat. Coba pikirkan desain modern, ringan, dan transparan. Bentuknya bisa seperti storage yang ada di foto ini.<br /><br />Bentuk lemari ini terbilang sederhana. Cukup buat cerukan berukuran 40cmx40cmx240cm (PxLxT). Agar tampilannya lebih modern dan tidak kaku, gunakan kaca sebagai rak dan pintu lemarinya. Lengkapi storage dengan lampu di bagian atas. Jadilah area penyimpanan yang pas untuk kamar mandi Anda.<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-63763809159334755082009-08-24T23:52:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.639-07:00Lemari Kaca di Kamar Mandi<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/03/17/1622088p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Area penyimpanan (storage) yang memadai mutlak diperlukan dalam setiap ruangan. Tanpanya banyak barang akan berserakan dan tidak berada pada tempatnya. Menyediakan storage di ruangan relatif sempit, bisa menjadi tantangan tersendiri. Di kamar mandi misalnya.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Kamar mandi biasanya menempati lahan yang tidak terlalu besar. Padahal tidak sedikit juga barang-barang yang memerlukan storage. Mulai dari perangkat mandi, seperti handuk hingga pernak-pernik seperti sabun, shampo, sikat gigi, dan sebagainya.<br /><br />Untuk menampung semua barang keperluan mandi tersebut, siapkan sebuah lemari. Tak perlu membayangkan lemari kayu yang masif dan tampak berat. Coba pikirkan desain modern, ringan, dan transparan. Bentuknya bisa seperti storage yang ada di foto ini.<br /><br />Bentuk lemari ini terbilang sederhana. Cukup buat cerukan berukuran 40cmx40cmx240cm (PxLxT). Agar tampilannya lebih modern dan tidak kaku, gunakan kaca sebagai rak dan pintu lemarinya. Lengkapi storage dengan lampu di bagian atas. Jadilah area penyimpanan yang pas untuk kamar mandi Anda.<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-71605989309375522802009-08-24T23:51:00.001-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.708-07:00Bergaya ala Kamar Mandi Hotel<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/06/10/2140485p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Kamar mandi telah menjadi salah satu ruang untuk relaksasi. Tidak sekadar untuk membersihkan diri, kamar mandi juga dapat menjadi ruang untuk melepaskan penat.<br /><br />Membangun kamar mandi sekaligus sebagai tempat pelepas penat tentu membutuhkan kerja ekstra. Dua hal utama yang dibutuhkan adalah fasilitas saniter, dan suasana yang nyaman. Jika dua hal ini terpenuhi, maka kamar mandi di rumah pun bisa serasa kamar mandi hotel atau resor.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Dalam membangun kamar mandi, saniter memang merupakan kebutuhan utama. Sebuah kamar mandi dapat dikatakan nyaman, jika fasilitas di dalamnya dapat menunjang kebutuhan penggunanya. Dalam hal menuju fungsi relaksasi bergaya modern, sebuah kamar mandi membutuhkan area mandi shower dan bak rendam. Keberadaan air hangat menjadi hal mutlak lainnya.<br /><br />Mendandani rumah, terkadang tidaklah sesulit yang kita kira. Inspirasi bisa datang dari mana saja. Bagi mereka yang sering mendatangi spa atau sauna, tak akan asing dengan kursi panjang di kamar mandi. Ide ini ternyata cukup menarik diaplikasikan di rumah. Lihat saja kamar mandi di foto berikut.<br /><br />Tidak harus difungsikan sebagai tempat menikmati hangatnya mandi uap. Di kamar mandi, di rumah, kursi panjang ini bisa digunakan sebagai tempat meletakkan handuk. Atau sebagai tempat duduk, bagi Anda yang biasa mengoleskan body lotion sesudah mandi. Kehadiran si kursi panjang ini bisa menjadi aksen menarik untuk kamar mandi Anda. Meski sepele, keberadaannya memberikan suasana atau nuansa berbeda dari kamar mandi biasa. (www.ideaonline.co.id<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-37991747046180693702009-08-24T23:51:00.000-07:002011-03-14T06:14:07.686-07:00Bergaya ala Kamar Mandi Hotel<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ASIN/?tag=lowonganpeker-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ><img alt="tittle" src="http://www.kompas.com/data/photo/2009/06/10/2140485p.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />Kamar mandi telah menjadi salah satu ruang untuk relaksasi. Tidak sekadar untuk membersihkan diri, kamar mandi juga dapat menjadi ruang untuk melepaskan penat.<br /><br />Membangun kamar mandi sekaligus sebagai tempat pelepas penat tentu membutuhkan kerja ekstra. Dua hal utama yang dibutuhkan adalah fasilitas saniter, dan suasana yang nyaman. Jika dua hal ini terpenuhi, maka kamar mandi di rumah pun bisa serasa kamar mandi hotel atau resor.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Dalam membangun kamar mandi, saniter memang merupakan kebutuhan utama. Sebuah kamar mandi dapat dikatakan nyaman, jika fasilitas di dalamnya dapat menunjang kebutuhan penggunanya. Dalam hal menuju fungsi relaksasi bergaya modern, sebuah kamar mandi membutuhkan area mandi shower dan bak rendam. Keberadaan air hangat menjadi hal mutlak lainnya.<br /><br />Mendandani rumah, terkadang tidaklah sesulit yang kita kira. Inspirasi bisa datang dari mana saja. Bagi mereka yang sering mendatangi spa atau sauna, tak akan asing dengan kursi panjang di kamar mandi. Ide ini ternyata cukup menarik diaplikasikan di rumah. Lihat saja kamar mandi di foto berikut.<br /><br />Tidak harus difungsikan sebagai tempat menikmati hangatnya mandi uap. Di kamar mandi, di rumah, kursi panjang ini bisa digunakan sebagai tempat meletakkan handuk. Atau sebagai tempat duduk, bagi Anda yang biasa mengoleskan body lotion sesudah mandi. Kehadiran si kursi panjang ini bisa menjadi aksen menarik untuk kamar mandi Anda. Meski sepele, keberadaannya memberikan suasana atau nuansa berbeda dari kamar mandi biasa. (www.ideaonline.co.id<br /><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5258031989602593089.post-29412854966890143412009-08-24T23:50:00.003-07:002011-03-21T21:31:15.808-07:00Bathroom Remodeling Ideas For Those With Small Bathrooms<br /><br />If you have a small bathroom that seems really cramped and overcrowded, there are a number of things that you can do to improve this situation. Some of these bathroom remodeling ideas are simple and inexpensive, while others will take a bit more planning and money in order to implement them.<br /><br />One of the easiest bathroom remodeling ideas to implement, as well as one of the least expensive, is to repaint your bathroom. If your bathroom is a darker color, this makes it appear smaller, so you should repaint it in a lighter color. This holds true with the flooring as well, it doesn't cost a lot to change your bathroom flooring and it can make a big impact.<br /><br />Since many of us do not take baths, you can also remove a large bathtub and replace it with a shower stall. If you do like to take baths, a corner bathtub might be a good option to take up a bit less space in the bathroom while still allowing you the option to have a bath when you want one.<br /><br />Big floor cabinets to hold sinks can also take up a lot of space. One of the bathroom remodeling ideas that many people with small bathrooms use is to replace these with a pedestal sink and a few wall shelves placed in an area of the wall that would otherwise not be used.<br /><br />Most people like to have some sort of mirror in the bathroom so they can check and make sure they look okay before they go out to face the world. Mirrors on the wall can also make a room look larger if they are placed correctly, and they can save you some space over standing mirrors.<br /><br />Among the small bathroom remodeling ideas that many people might not think of, you can also change your bathroom door. If your door swings into the bathroom like most standard doors, this means you can't put anything in the door's path. However, if you replace the door with sliding pocket doors you will have more usable space in your bathroom.<br /><br />Whatever changes you are planning to make with the larger items in your bathroom, it might be best to play around with some scale drawings or a computer program to find the best layout and make sure any new purchases would really fit into the space you have available.<br /><br />Clint Steiner - Get more remodeling tips and <a href="http://csteiner27.livejournal.com/882.html">Wall to Wall Bathroom Rugs</a> ideas.<br /><br />Collection of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bathroomideaspictures.blogspot.com/">Bathroom Ideas</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com