Home Loan

When I went home for a vacation last month, I met some of my old friends again. It was so nice seeing some of them ... and distance! So we were chatting about our life, family and our plans. One friend shared how she wants to have her new house early next year. And since they are still applying for a home loan, I think the said [more...]

Date: 2008-07-31 14:06:38

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NYT 'House Conservative' Comes Close to Endorsing Obama

David Brooks, the "House Conservative" of the New York Times, should seriously consider putting his self-description as "conservative" in quotes at all times in order to comply with truth in packaging. I mean how conservative can you be when liberal sources are quoting you favorably, especially when you sound like, without quite saying so, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 15:58:17

The Roundup: Anyone Working This Week?

Any Marley Shelton fans in the house? … Republicans won’t like this, but it is a tremendous read … Hank Baskett sure has changed Kendra, ... agree: Megan Fox is the sexiest … Sidney Crosby, cheap shot artist? … good luck saying no to this … ... houses in New Jersey of athletes (Jimmy Rollins, Phil Simms) and others (Stephen Colbert). (Virtual [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 12:59:31

Ways of War

Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior member of Hamas exiled in Damascus, has another opinion piece out, this one, naturally, ... to the escalating crisis. They demand of the next White House a new paradigm of respect and accountability ... idleness, all lead rage in the Muslim world to be directed at the far enemy in addition to Israel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:03:02

Also in News…

There’s been a nice slab of movie-news the last couple of days. Time to do a catch-up on those stories we may have missed ... some weight to her frame for the new “Transformers” movie Sources in the film industry said that plans ... ? Christopher Nolan talks! An international trailer for the new Anna Faris comedy “House Bunny” has hit [more...]

Date: 2008-07-18 02:38:18

Ahh, cool.

Ahh, cool. July 9, 2008 in Places, problems | 4 comments This morning we finally got the air conditioning going at our apartment here in Boston ... by cheap window fans in every room. It’s amazing to me that most of my life has been lived without much benefit of AC. We didn’t have it in any of the three houses where I grew up in New Jersey. (Well [more...]

Date: 2008-07-09 13:23:49

Linea Creativity's and Colacril's shower panels will liven up your bathrooms

modern_shower_panel_1.jpg Recently I've taken an interest in home interiors. Not that I'm buying a new house or looking to refurnish this old one ... know when you will have that accidental meet with Mr. Right who also happens to have a big house and a bigger bank ... to the topic, I'm gonna be talking about Linea Creativity's collection of modern showe [more...]

Date: 2008-09-08 08:55:16

Best of the China Blogs: September 2

A daily look at what we’re reading. –Environmental authorities report that August 2008 was the best month for Beijing’s air in 10 years, ... but the question on many minds is: now what? Richard Spencer –Luxury train to nowhere: plans ... In a first, a Chinese fashion house goes to New York’s fashion week. GOLDENCHINABRANDS –A firsthand [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 18:52:00

Crisis may force approval of U.S. Treasury nominee

President Barack Obama’s nominee for U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, though tarnished by disclosures of his failure to pay taxes, ... markets, looks on track to be confirmed as Treasury secretary. The White House said on Tuesday ... it, the committee, the Finance Committee votes Thursday on Geithner,” new White House press secretary [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:37:50

A Busy Year Ahead

It’s a new year, and it looks like it’s going to be a busy one here in the Carter household ... of agonizing, we decided to do a major remodel of our current house rather than move. We love ... of selling our house and moving into a new one — plus the crummy real estate market makes that prospect iffy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 07:00:00

Cats are not Clutter

My new favorite place in the house is my desk. The home office has long been the lone repository of clutter left in my entire house and it's just ... this furniture - dreadful awful customer service so bad that I will never ever shop there again, ever, As God ... . It was exhausting to constantly clean around all my clutter! All that clutter turned even a [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 18:42:00

Lots of Lousy Houses Are On The Market

We know that high supply, low demand and more expensive credit have put downward pressure on prices ... crummy houses out there: NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Mold, maggots and piles of festering trash ... at all, they’re going for bargain basement prices that are hurting home values throughout [more...]

Date: 2008-08-23 13:22:55

Custom Home Building

Custom Home Building Categories: Uncategorized Purchasing homes today due to the economic turmoil the whole world is facing is definitely harder ... , has found a new residence in the White House. It’s quite an irony that an economic meltdown ... for most. Even if we have a new president inaugurated just this morning, I think the words [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:22:51

A Brief Walk Through High School Atmospheric Pressures and Other Necessary Areas of Interest

I feel like a little kid reading The Lord of the Rings or The Lost Years of Merlin when I read The Gunslinger series ... it was my mother’s room. I don’t begrudge my mother’s obsession with decorating her house ... were very New Age. I grew out of that fast. There were drawings on my closet walls–the only place [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:10:48

Open Thread: WBC provisional rosters

Provisional rosters for the sixteen countries taking part in the ‘09 version of the World Baseball Classic were released earlier this evening on MLB ... , and Dolphins Stadium. Update (7.42pm): The provisional rosters are up. In addition to A-Rod, Jeter ... tonight is the Devils, who are out in Nashville. I’ll be kicking it with the new episodes of House [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:00:08

THE WORLD today!

———————————————————————————1. Barack Obama wins Presidential Election and becomes the 44th President of the United States starting January 20 - Hope ... of Congress, in the House reaching 257 seats/up 21 seats remaining 178 seats for the Republican Party ... Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker as Chairman of the new White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:33:08

Good Riddance

Jump to CommentsNoon tomorrow, kids. The Chimpy Preznitzy officially ends at noon tomorrow. Can you believe it’s almost over?Original DVD cover ... out, and in these tough economic times many of them are scrambling to find new jobs. High-ranking White House ... administration have seen an already shaky job market collapse. The traditional avenues of [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:34:44

The Passive Home - No Heater Required

The idea that ones home needs to be a drafty place with a heater running all winter is being challenged in Germany with ... concern as I cope with asthma is the buildup of mold and overall bad air. This paragraph makes ... failed, because of stagnant air and mold. But new passive houses use an ingenious central ventilation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 11:39:13

Storybook Hair

Storybook Hair Fairytale is a young style with giant violet bow ... . I will check on that and report :D If you missed my earlier post or are new to House of Heart and Bewitched designs, there are free release packs available at both shops. This changes whenever new hairs [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 19:34:00

Year-End Pundits Weigh in (a series, part III)

*Okay, they're not "pundits," but they are my favorite charity ... and Crafts house in Pasadena. Dear Member: Happy New Year! The beginning of a new year gives us a fresh ... united even more in a coordinated journey to other worlds. (((It's European Space all the way [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:31:09

Forty Four

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 44 Which is more important, your honor or your life? Which is more valuable, your possessions or your person? ... is the White House’s new website, which will serve as a place for the President and his administration ... s journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the internet to play a role in shaping [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:04:06

Back To Basics Challenge

Here is another pic of those lovely baby ladybirds in our self-sown sunflower ... out storage plans or more long term goals and projects like plans for digging root cellarsA new op ... to us house. Below was one of the plants that benefitted from it. It is Balm of Gilead [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:00:00

Madonna’s Puss is for Sale

madonna-naked-pictures A (NSFW) thirty-year old full-frontal photograph of Madonna and what appears to be a small yak is now available to the ... highest bidder, thanks to Christie’s auction house in New York. People Magazine says The head of Christie’s photography department says Madonna was a financially strapped 20-year-old dancer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:30:34

New White House Website Lays Out Obama Administration’s Radical Leftist Agenda: Plan Includes Commitment to “Support for the LGBT Community” and “Reproductive Choice”

From the newly remodeled WhiteHouse.gov: Filed under Civil Rights: Support for the LGBT Community “While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:57:14

Welcome, freshmen

By Kate Sheppard The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Blue Green Alliance today hosted a meeting with several newly elected Democratic members of the House, welcoming the "next generation of green leaders." The four new members the groups touted come to the House with experience working on green issues in their home states: Debbie [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 12:44:19

Time to Redecorate the White House

Two days before the big day that often seemed as if it would never arrive and to many of us couldn’t come fast enough, President-elect Barack Obama and his family have officially moved into the Blair House ... t know that I’ve ever met a woman who didn’t look forward to moving into a new house, though I’ll concede [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 19:57:45

Boringly functional artwork in the service of marketing homes: If people can’t figure out what you’re selling, they won’t buy it

I wrote about the back side of that card last week ... small way, we launch a house in the same we someone else might launch a new car or a new kind of dishwasher or a new magazine. Those business-card-sized Open House cards will be distributed to 6,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 17:22:16

New House in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England

David, a prolific photographer of neighbourhoods around London, has snapped this new home in the town of Borehamwood ... with a neighbourhood full of older traditional homes.  If you like contemporary designs, but you don’t want to piss off your neighbours with something extremely modern, this is a reasonable compromise [more...]

Date: 2008-06-13 15:24:28

Dear Mr. President: Don’t Let the Canadian Prime Minister Go South on Global Warming When You Go North

When I mentioned around the office that Canada had proposed to our new President-to-be that the ever growing greenhouse ... with the creation of a new White House post to oversee and coordinate the administration's work ... -elect Obama. In addition, Canada is expected to significantly exceed its Kyoto targets, with tar sands [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:09:44

Our home... at last!

We moved out of our Bangkok apartment on December 11th. Where have we been since then? Five days in a Bangkok hotel ( ... , more cleaning. We got all new carpet, and if we weren't sure replacing the carpet was a good choice ... it "go" all over the house? Having new carpet (or any carpet at all!) has been a little piece of heaven [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:59:00

WebHostingRating

If we want to have a website, on of the most important thing is to buy a web hosting ... , tips to choosing domain and many articles related to webhosting. In addition to hosting reviews ... PostsWeb Hosting Rating at WebHostingRating.comDo you feel hard to searching for a new house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 00:25:08

New Things to Try in 2009

Over the holidays a friend and I brainstormed about ways to freshen a room without spending money. Rearranging things always comes to mind ... , I suppose there's always something new to try around the house. Another of my friends has gone to the public library for upholstery how-to books and she plans to tackle some small projects in February [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 08:39:00

Harry's {New} Room

Skona Hem SR Gambrel James Michael Howard When it comes to boy's bedrooms I personally prefer a classic navy and white scheme with some red thrown in and even some pale blue thrown in - see inspiration images above. I have always decorated ... as it has the most beautiful old ceiling in the entire house. With his move comes new curtains [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 13:07:08

Very Cool (Or Is That Warm?)

Very Cool (Or Is That Warm?) This won’t do me much good in Las Vegas, but it’s still pretty neat: a home that stays warm without a heater ... and mold. But new passive houses use an ingenious central ventilation system. The warm air going out passes side by side with clean, cold air coming in, exchanging heat with 90 percent efficiency. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 23:06:55

Twitter updates for 2009-01-17

Just discovered “The Usual Error.” Chapter 1 is online and from what I’ve read, so far so good. http://is.gd/ge6Z Nice blog design too! # @jbrotherlove - So does “open office plan” mean *not* a cube farm? Frankly I like my cube ... to the new house where there’s a NICE bathroom. in reply to sunluff # About to clean out the Roomba, start [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 04:59:59

The unicorn’s horn looks crooked

Yesterday, I mentioned http://usaservice.org and the significance of President Obama’s understanding and use of the web. Today, the new http://www ... for design, usability, and accessibility* on the web. The fact that these sites validate is big. So is the White House’s new creative commons license on site content. There are other observations being [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:55:42

Dream House Dreaming

It’s New Year and I am so into long range planning mode now, you see as an inspiration, ... or whatsoever. I also read that even the richest man in the country loves the house and the designs inside ... house represents, it clearly defines one to the other, you’ll never get tired of looking and scanning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 01:33:01

Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov

A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and his new administration officially came to life. One of the first changes is the White House's new website, which will serve as a place ... of Americans have powered President Obama's journey to the White House, many taking advantage [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:21:00

Home Ownership is Still the American Dream

home ownership is still the american dream I saw an ad in the paper featuring the new housing development we almost bought in March of 2007 ... their homes’ current value. No kidding when any down payment less than $175,000 already went down ... of all homes with mortgages will soon be under water. Yikes. But then I think about all these stats [more...]

Date: 2008-10-28 15:38:52

Pace of Jersey Teardowns slows

From the New York Times: A Slower Pace in Teardowns NO. 1 Teardown State ... since 2002, when the trust began keeping track of how many older houses in historic neighborhoods were being demolished to make way for new and often bigger houses. In August, the trust cited 85 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 13:32:31

Time to Redecore the White House

Two days before the big day that often seemed as if it would never arrive and to many of us couldn’t come fast enough, President-elect Barack Obama and his family have officially moved into the Blair House ... t know that I’ve ever met a woman who didn’t look forward to moving into a new house, though I’ll concede [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 19:57:45

Snydermill ‘09

We had a great weekend hanging out with the Jensens at Snydermill Lodge in Park City. It was so much fun! ( ... news first, so that you can scroll as long as you’re interested. We have an addition to our family! Last night we headed over to our awesome cousin, Amanda’s house and picked up our new boxer pup [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 06:08:10

Nicole Richie Sports ‘House of Harlow 1960′

Nicole Richie gets down to business and has a business lunch with manager Benny Medina at La Conversation in West Hollywood on Saturday afternoon. The 27-year-old reality TV star sported jewelry (headpiece, bangles, ring) from her new collection “House of Harlow 1960″. Nicole spoke of her jewelry designs on yesterday’s episode of The Ellen [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 03:21:55

LiveBlog: The Inaugural Parade of Inaugural Paradiness

5:11 - I think that's all we really need to say about the parade. That's actually much more than I thought could be said about the parade ... - Wow. The Obamas are in their new house. That's very exciting for some reason. 4:36 - Hey, look ... to the White House so he can start working on fixing this economy. 4:11 - They're getting back [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:25:26

True Beauty or True Beast?

ABC airs a new reality show tonight, calling it the “love child of America’s Next Top Model and Punk’d“ ... cash and a photo feature in People magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” issue.  The catch ... contestants and tries to help them clean up. True Beauty hostess Vanessa sends them inside their new house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:56:59

Our New President

Happy Inauguration Day!I was feeling ever so proud to see our two girls from San Francisco, ... to scribble notes, drawings during the event but hard to draw when one is so moved ... Lowery who brought some levity to this serious day. The new White House website here.Obama [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:17:00

Madrona Live/Work Conversion by Tyler Engle Architects

From Tyler Engle Architects: A storefront from the early 1900’s, which had served as a drug store, soda fountain, ... with and extensive art collection. Creating the modern equivalent of a traditional courtyard house, the new design centers around a large skylight over the living and dining areas.  A wood-clad service [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 11:29:58

Meta MoCo This Week

This week's MoCo picks. + Brad Pitt's Make it Right houses in New Orleans get built at TreeHugger ... . "13 of the world's top architects were commissioned to design green, sustainable houses and is building 150 of them.". modern_modular_the_shed.jpg + The Collins and Turner Bombala Farmhouse [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 20:19:06

Having A Great Credit Score Is Fundamental

by Jason Bishop A good credit score is fundamental in our financially forced order ... you from buying anything on hire buy, there are a count of things you can do to repair the problem ... mark, which will enable them to purchase a new car or their dream house. Paying off any old debts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 10:14:47

Casa Nuaanarpoq

Casa Nuaanarpoq Alternative Powered house in Taos New Mexico by Peter Walker ... creativity, simplicity and reliable technology into our modern living spaces. During a video shoot ... harmoniously with their environment. Edge Architects designs celebrate creativity and enhance the quality [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 04:19:37

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