Living House Roots in Portland

Building one's own house is the kind of personal Odyssey that relatively few of us will tackle in any real sense, ... residents Dustin and Garrett Moon, the house they are building is much more than a customized place ... Council's Green Building Challenge standards, which means their house must generate its own energy [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 03:59:21

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Decided to build a house

Yes folks, we’ve decided to build a house… There’s a few reasons.. For one, the government is kind enough to offer us $24,000 for a new home ... !  The down side, it’s a bit of a commute to work. We started looking around at house designs here at Home ... ; land package.  Now for the uninformed, house & land packages are usually where the builder [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 12:18:17

Capsule house designed for an indigent family

.fullpost{display:inline;}While people would to build something like build a house, they want different from other and look unique design, ... appreciates its functionality, as well as low maintenance and construction cost.The plan of this bungalow is based on a square, where internal and external spaces are combined. The capsule containing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:50:00

An Updated Kitchen

We starting building our house when our daughter wasn’t quite 3.  She’s almost 18 now.    We were young (well, not that young, we married late), and had just moved back to Houston after living a year and 1/2 in Ft. Worth for Ben’s job.  We bought a lot in West University to build our dream house on and in order to save money on architects, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:45:00

Popular Toys for Preschoolers

If you are searching for new toys for your preschooler, you will be pleasantly surprised with all the choices available ... . There are many toys that allow them to play house or to pretend they are building a new house or tall skyscraper ... . Some systems also teach writing, art, science and other subjects. There are laptop designs as well [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:00:48

the house

Erin asked about how we plan on living in such a small space with an expanding family.Main Level (pictured above): 670 sq. ft.Loft (not pictured) ... about building the house ourselves is that we get to design it to fit the way we live.*Smaller bedrooms allow ... ceilings in the house, but instead decided to build a loft area that will be used as a guest [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:42:00

Baptists always have the best stained glass ...

I doubt that's universally true, but I like the line --- used by an acquaintance when talking about First Baptist Church in Humeston at a time when ... down their old buildings and building a new joint house of worship that incorporated glass ... occurance for someone who while he was neither born in a log cabin nor walked miles barefoot through [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:08:00

How to build a gingerbread house

This was among the Top 5 articles on Bob Vila’s website: How to Build a Gingerbread House. Man, that guy knows everything! You can download plans for different models of gingerbread houses, including A-Frame, Colonial, Saltbox and Side Gable. I didn’t even know the last three of those house types existed, so Lord knows [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 12:32:11

Quick Tour of Downtown's Trinity Auditorium

Are you connected to this project or just being nosy, Flickr user Pdodog? Either way, Mr ... (they continue to assure everyone the building will house a hotel) with a condo building (currently ... : "The current owners have proposed to turn the building into a luxury boutique hotel." Early plans called [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:29:31

Block House Construction Guidelines for You

Blockhouse is basically a structure of heavy timbers for military defense. It is made up of squared timbers with a projecting upper story ... block house plan. It is useful when building on a narrow block as the house is intended to suit ... . All desire to have house built which may include qualities such as comfort, durability, strength [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 22:00:48

A House

Lately I have been dreaming about the house I want to build. Originally I wanted a Spanish style house with a tile roof, but I just don't think that is suitable for this climate. What I would really like is an old style southern plantation kind of house [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 05:20:00

Offshoring to India

I’m writing this article for those of you that know NOTHING about how software works because I believe that you need to know the possible ... s take a minute and bring you up to speed. Building software is just like building a house or anything ... and the tester make sure everything works according to the blueprints. If it doesnt work properly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:36:02

Little-Known Facts About the White House

(Illustration of President Andrew Jackson’s inauguration celebration at White House courtesy Library of Congress) To commemorate Barack Obama’s historic inauguration as he becomes the first African-American ... in Stafford County, VA, be used to build the White House and other notable DC buildings, including [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:00:50

Cai Guo-Giang Courtyard House by Studio Pei Zhu

This Residence for an artist calls for the restoration of a historically significant classical Chinese Siheyuan Courtyard House in Beijing, with a new building addition within its compound. “The house is about 200 years old. Here, we have had the budget to create a house that belongs to old beijing and to the modern city. It is simple [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 22:56:59

Floating House by MOS

Floating House by MOS Building our homes is definitely the most exciting thing to do with our lives ... - home source - detroit electric - winglet personal transport - futuristic city - three wheeled ... concrete dome house - Vectrix ZEV - eco-friendly grey water - unique small home - building a mini [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:07:35

A Sunday Conversation with Heavy Water Experiments

This week we are having an in depth conversation with a long time Ripple friend ... , coz' this is an interview that you're not gonna' want to miss!When I was a kid, growing up in a house ... that time of building tents inside any given room in the house out of sheets and futons—a perfect setting [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 09:33:00

Best Of The Day!

Local Artist and All-Round Kutie-Pie Gemma Jones' upcoming exhibition at Outre Gallery - 10th April 2009Local Mum and Designer Deluxe Beci Orpin's neat, cute house on Design SpongeSomeone you might know is building a house (or at least trying to!) over here.New printables just listed today from The Small Object - find those here.Gorgeous Lal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:24:00

The Availability of Foreclosed Houses has made Habitat Change its Methods

Till 2009, Habit for Humanity followed its own beaten track of putting deserving families into the right houses. It collected donations to purchase land and then build the house from the foundation by using ... to do some rethinking. It is now planning to refurbish the old abandoned house in addition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 11:19:54

Talking About McRee Town

Jackie Jones introduces her presentation.Yesterday afternoon St ... , demolished six blocks of historic brick homes and apartment buildings that housed primarily low-income ... more than two hundred buildings on the eastern half of the McRee Town neighborhood in Saint Louis [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 17:28:00

Britain’s Eleco (ELCO) Offers Recession-Proof Profit Stream

Building suppliers aren't exactly popular right now. Today, US housing market data revealed existing home prices fell by a record 9.5% in August ... by subsidiary Bell & Webster, which has just opened a new facility at Haveringham. Work for the public sector should provide some defence against the slowdown of house building that affects 14 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 14:59:22

Jump gives Engine the right Design

The well-known UK communications and marketing group Engine would definitely be pleased with their decision of hiring Jump Studios for designing its new five-storey building on Great Portland Street. The building ... that could house and appeal to a vast range of tastes and cultures. The designers have used [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 14:11:47

Pack It Up

Not many design books come equipped with tales of swashbuckling derring do, highly profitable skullduggery, and inventive repurposing ... of the engaging historic-house-centric memoirs No Voice From the Hall: Early Memories of a Country House Snooper ... buildings. (For an article by Harris about his career trajectory, go to Building Design Online.) Small [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 05:17:11

Phantom of the Opera House

_3723 The Sydney Opera House is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world ... architect who conceived the Opera House, died in his sleep without ever having seen his completed ... more than a set of preliminary drawings - but the sketches were so compelling that one judge called [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:50:24

Make Every Inch Count, but Leave Room for 30 Buddhas

Efficiency. Not a word that usually makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside ... , since the Gottfrieds’ restoration of their 1915 Craftsman home elevated the house’s status ... is the like-minded program of Build It Green.) In a recent house tour, David showcased the home’s efficient use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:54:38

The House

The House Mr. A wants to refinance. I want to move.   If not now, in two years when he leaves the new job.  I am a rolling stone ... of my childhood, my parents talked about the dream house they were going to build.  They built it when I was 16 ... .    I have imagined my house for a variety of styles of homes available in our town.  I could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:32:35

"Consider it Poetry of Architecture"

I had been unimpressed by the architecture of San Francisco, seeing in the motley houses and buildings some individual charm but lacking in coherence, ... is, in reality, an Arts and Crafts collaboration. As such, it shows another side to Brown's character ... simplified shingled homes of Russian Hill helped to create an idiom of domestic architecture [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 20:13:00

Things I Am Doing Lately/Things I Want to Be Doing Right Now

THINGS I AM DOING LATELY1. Watching my walking stick insect's third parthenogenetic wave being launched and misting their imaginary Vietnamese rain ... (and other) house designs and floor plans, and deciding on which house he will build ... did not somehow get into my third floor study although I keep hearing mouse sounds and the cat looks [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 15:58:00

A Strawbale House?

A Strawbale House? Author: Mrs. M / Category: framing, home building, insulation, methodology, trends This concept is new to me: ... other home: a concrete basement or slab, a wooden joist floor, a sill with wood studs that support ... . I mean… hay?? When I think of hay, I think of dusty, moldy, scratchy bales of yellow hay. Hay gets wet [more...]

Date: 2008-09-20 23:18:04

Fez, Morocco Real Estate: An Ancient City Gets Attention

The online journal Nuwire investor has just written an interesting piece on Fez. The writer is Yemisrach Kifle. Photographs, Suzanna Clarke ... back to the fourteenth century," said Suzanna Clarke, whose book A House in Fez: Building a Life ... in the ancient medina.The restored courtyard of the house renovated by ClarkeRestoring old properties [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 06:19:00

My Talk at the launch of the Lewes Pound

My Speech at the Launch of the Lewes Pound (reconstructed from my notes, ... house they had build because the trend among celebrities then was to live in smaller houses than each ... , what we might call ‘The Age of Cheap Oil’, one’s economic success, sense of wellbeing and personal [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 06:26:38

Fire Press Release

ISSUING OFFICER: Bob Green/Battalion ChiefDATE OF INCIDENT: 1/13/2009INCIDENT TYPE: Structure FireINCIDENT ADDRESS: 1528 E Boone Ave ... or to the occupants of the building. This particular house was divided into two apartments; an upper unit which ... electrical repairs can be completed. The owner, who resides in the upper portion of the duplex, may [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 23:33:00

All There Is to Be (is Green)

All There Is to Be The convenient truth: taking better charge of what we already have By Dwight Young | From Preservation | January/February 2008  ... . Didn't one of the Three Little Pigs build his house of straw, And didn't it make the Big Bad Wolf ... to go ahead and repeat it: If your whole house is made of hay, what happens when a cow decides to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:51:11

House Destruction

About three and a half years ago, Mr. Cowboy and I set out on an adventure. We started building a house ... . Cowboy contracted out was the imitation stucco on the front of our house. This stuff was supposedly indestructible. It would not mold, rot, break, tear, fall of your house, it was perfect [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 05:12:34

When the Truth Finally Hits Home

I am finally stressed out about the economy.I found myself awake at 1: ... . The construction companies are slowing down, nobody is building houses or remodeling like they were two years ... the day away. I could search for cheap do-it-yourself projects and put on my tool belt.What I can't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 23:40:00

Volunteers Build A House To Celebrate Obama’s Inauguration

By Akshay Bhansali It’s clear. The pulse of Chalmette, Louisiana, is racing today. Yes, the fervor of a new era in American politics certainly kick-started things Tuesday. The president’s sermon whipped many into a frenzy. But there is an added electricity in the air: Word of mouth has spread through St. Bernard Parish, from Arabi all the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 03:54:46

The Worthless Wardrobe

Nearly five years ago we moved from one of the western states to one of the Great Lakes States ... original plan was to build this house as soon as we arrived, so we would have only had our furniture in storage for about six months while the house was being built and we lived in the little house where [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:00:00

Darwin in Sydney

On 12th January, 1836, HMS Beagle anchored in Sydney Cove. Darwin made the following observations about life in Sydney Town ... ; the number of large houses just finished and others building is truly surprising; nevertheless every ... me more, than not readily being able to ascertain to whom this or that carriage belonged.Many of the older [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 13:32:00

Toronto Janitors Organize for Rights, Respect and Justice

(By John Riddell from The Bullet) As darkness falls in Toronto and tens of thousands of office workers pour out of the downtown skyscrapers, ... the office towers and readies them for the next day’s activity. These buildings house Canada’s richest ... insurance, no Canada Pension Plan, no job-accident coverage. The Ontario government views them as self [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 18:20:36

Sen. T.W. Palmer Residence

In reply to DOJ: 1915: This attractive building saw many uses over its short 41 year lifetime ... in January 1926 to make way for the construction of a "modern office building" to house the real estate ... was purchased by George Washington University to house their Law School. After 5 years, the law school moved [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 05:09:57

Eat Your... Citrus Sweets

The End. Today marks the end of my 6-month stint here at Accidental Hedonist. It has all gone by too fast, but that's how it goes ... at Our Farm Adventure, where my fiancee Laura and I are learning how to build our own house, start a farm, and live off the grid in northeast Georgia. Citrus Sweets Once again, I painstakingly searched [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 19:28:32

On the importance of bungalows. What started off as a vaguely modernist-inspired house-building programme (see The Daily Mail book of Bungalow Plans) gradually evolved into a populist building movement ... , searching through pattern books for the floor plan that would fit their circumstances. The Irish [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 14:06:06

Green Jobs Training: Asheville GO!

“My neighborhood’s crazy.” Waylon said, “there’s drugs, alcohol, violence, stolen motor vehicles, robbing, ... watermelon, Delario and Darius put away shovels they were using to build a green house. D, Waylon’s co ... , and ecosystem restoration. The first half of each day is dedicated to introductions and trainings [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 22:24:19

A Peek inside the Pantry

Day2pantry by Val Webb My significant other, The Perfect Man, designs and builds homes ... is a house that quietly comforts and nourishes the people who live within its walls. When it comes to square ... she built next to her house. She's always my first stop during our downtown farmers market season [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 17:39:27

Welcome to Washington! Visitors Center Opens Late & Hugely Over Budget

ABC's Tom Shine from Washington, DC: I hope Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid can find the time to give the auto execs a tour of the new 621 million ... ." Phillip Kennicott, writing in the same paper this morning calls "it is a historic and aesthetic ... buildings." While House and Senate leaders congratulate each other over a project that is hundreds [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 14:58:30

Stop building to help housing prices recover?

So many plans and ideas are being floated to repair the country's economic situation. David Reilly of the Wall St ... Test." There is currently more than 10 months of home inventory. Homeowner vacancy rates are at historic highs of about 2.8%, compared with pre-bubble levels of about 1.7%, according to the U.S. Census [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 19:37:46

4 Reasons Homeowners Build Green

4 Reasons Homeowners Build Green Green home building is a big deal these days and it seems like more and more homeowners are jumping on the green ... are thinking of their environmental impact. To reduce toxins. You might be surprised at how much toxic stuff goes into building a house. Everything from paint to carpet can be letting off toxic fumes [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 17:29:18

The House That Death Built (Jun, 1937)

view additional pages The House That Death Built by Dean S ... as it takes to build your house. When hammers are quiet, then death will come.” Frantic, desperate ... to pungent ground, you can see the house, gabled and gaunt, rising wraith-like against a blue [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:08:19

A Change of Plans

I posted several weeks ago about our dream to build our house on the river...the shovels were ready to go ( ... change in plans by now)...and so...WE BOUGHT IT...this incredible almost 100-year-old farmhouse ... for that special one-of-a-kind farmhouse sink)...well...in the middle of the hunt for things with a history [more...]

Date: 2008-07-17 06:49:00

Bush library and ‘Freedom Institute’ to be housed in same building.

President Bush has repeatedly insisted that his think tank, or “Freedom Institute, ... : But in a White House interview this week, Laura Bush said the library design committee she chairs ... ” “won’t be used to promote a whitewashed perspective on his presidency.” Original plan, in fact [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:52:10

Only the BNP will safeguard British jobs

AS THE latest unemployment figures depressingly indicate, ... stays in the European Union, there is nothing that the Government can do to stop this influx of cheap ... and that means growing crops in our fields and not concreting them over to build houses for unwanted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 07:29:26

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