New Fix-It-Yourself Manual: How to Repair, Clean, and Maintain Anything and Everything In and Around Your Home

November 16, 2008 Filed Under: Home Improvement

The indispensable bible for keeping a home in tip-top shape, it is the time- and money-saver every homeowner needs. It functions as a repair manual, an evaluation guide, a compendium of household hints, an emergency reference, and a homeowner’s encyclopedia. Over 3,000 illustrations. View product detail on Amazon.Com

Modern Beach House in Truro by ZeroEnergy Design

February 4, 2010 Filed Under: Architecture
Modern Beach House in Truro by ZeroEnergy Design

Planning for the extreme variation in occupancy was an issue the designers dealt with from the start. The home is split into a ˜Living Bar’ and a ˜Sleeping Bar.’ The Sleeping Bar is the expansion module with numerous bedrooms & bathrooms to accommodate the entire family. The Living Bar includes the living and dining areas, as well as a secondary master bedroom – all that the couple needs when the children are away. This programmatic... 

OLTRELUCE “Design and cutting edge technology”

June 24, 2009 Filed Under: Architecture, Construction, Home Improvement
OLTRELUCE "Design and cutting edge technology"

The Oltreluce project was created to bring together contemporary design and the most advanced technology applied to residential doors and windows. The Oltreluce line is characterised by extremely reduced dimensions for the aluminium part, which gives more space to the glass surface. This line was designed based on the “retractable casement” concept that has a single visible aluminium strip as the casement (the part of the window unit that can... 

S&P Launches Condo Indices; Adds Seasonally-Adjusted Data to its Suite of S&P/Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices

November 20, 2008 Filed Under: Real Estate

Standard & Poor’s, the world’s leading index provider and publisher of the widely followed S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, announced today that it will launch new indices designed to track condominium prices in five major metropolitan areas in the United States — Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Standard & Poor’s also announced that it will publish seasonally-adjusted versions of the... 

DuPont Introduces Sorona Renewably Sourced Fiber

June 18, 2009 Filed Under: Construction
DuPont Introduces Sorona Renewably Sourced Fiber

DuPont announced that Sorona® renewably sourced fiber is now available for the commercial carpet industry. Carpet made with DuPont™ Sorona® fiber offers customers uncompromised performance plus the added benefit of an environmentally sustainable offering. Sorona® polymer for commercial carpet is 37 percent renewably sourced by weight. Carpet made with Sorona® can contribute to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) credits in... 

Classic Californian house with a sunny disposition

January 10, 2010 Filed Under: Architecture, Real Estate
Classic Californian house with a sunny disposition

Find your place in the Californian Sun! Set in around 653sqms of lush & lovely tank-watered north-facing gardens, this solid-brick Californian Bungalow offers a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom floorplan, fine formal rooms & endless space to extend. Graced with gorgeous period detail including baltic pine floors & decorative ceilings, this period perfect beauty features separate lounge & dining rooms plus a rear sun-lobby opening to a paved... 

Classic Sleep 206431 Dutchess Softside Midfill Mattress – Top Only

May 4, 2008 Filed Under: Home Improvement

Classic Sleep 206431 The Dutchess Softside Midfill Matress ensures an exquisite sleep surface that can only be described as heavenly. This mattress will keep you warm in summer and cool in winter, and features our unique design to ensure your sleep enjoyment year after year. Features: -Available in Twin, Full, Queen, King, and California King sizes -Plush, cloud-soft pillowtop -Real natural lambs wool warms you in the winter / cools you in the summer... 

The Veronica Chair by cate-nelson

January 30, 2011 Filed Under: Home Improvement
The Veronica Chair by cate-nelson

The Veronica Chair is a contemporary seating furniture that has been designed by The Eskilstuna, Sweden based design duo of Cate Högdahl and Nelson Ruiz-Acal from cate&nelson, This chair was firstly exhibited and shown to the public at the 2009 Stockholm Furniture Fair. Veronica is a spacious low chair with ottoman. So nice and comfortable with beautiful aesthetic design. The chairs distinctive features are the loose, reversible cushions which... 

Black&Decker FSMVC 9.6-Volt to 18-Volt 90 Minute Slide Style Battery Charger

January 13, 2008 Filed Under: Construction

Black and Decker FSMVC Firestorm 9.6V -18V, Fast Slide Battery Charger features: Computerized charging optimizes charging of battery cells. Has an indicator light that indicates “charged”, “charging” or “defective pack”. Fast charging enables the user to recharge batteries quickly to continue their project. Charges all Firestorm¿ and Black and Decker Spring-loaded style batteries 9.6V through 18V. FSMVC Multi-voltage... 

The Hypervoxel Sculptural Chandelier by Tsunami Glassworks

August 2, 2010 Filed Under: Home Improvement
The Hypervoxel Sculptural Chandelier by Tsunami Glassworks

Another great and unique furniture for your home interior improvement is coming from Tsunami Glassworks, a Canadian glass blowing studio, This furniture studio desinger has created the Hypervoxel Chandelier. Hypervoxel is a free blown glass sculptural chandelier available in custom colors and sizes. The organic forms mimic weightless liquid floating in space. Versatile in configuration the Hypervoxel shows well in small or large groupings. This furniture...