
You will love this dramatic design of modern stairs. It’s awesome for a stairs that exist to simply accomplish the function of going up or down floors can manage to be so stunning and chic. great job for the designer of this stairs. via

Selkirk Ledge is a massive Shingle Style country home located on Cape Ann, north of Boston. The home’s setting is picturesque – it overlooks the Atlantic Ocean on one side and on the other side offers views of the Annisquam River and a historic lighthouse. The homeowners, who also have residences in Moscow and Luxembourg, were in search of a gathering place where they could be close to their children who were attending school in the U.S. Selkirk Ledge intrigued them with its detailing...

Icynene spray foam insulation was used in concert with other energy efficient technologies such as solar power as part of a “whole-house” approach to building Connecticut’s first net zero energy home. Construction on the 3600 sq ft New England Farm House Style home was completed in November 2009 resulting in a house requiring no fossil fuels for heating and hot water, no net electrical usage from the utility company and no emissions from fuel burning equipment. Icynene was applied in the...

Mount Fuji Architects Studio design a beautiful architecture in Shizuoka, Japan. he have designed the modern minimalist house called PLUS house . The site locates on mountainside of Izu-san, where Pacific Ocean can be looked down on the south. it is incredibly difficult to detail a building so that it appears this simplistic and pure. The architects have done a great job. No visible fixings on the stair handrail, no visible window frames, no hinges or architraves on the doors, no fixings on the balcony...

The Irvine Company announced that the grand opening of “The 2010 New Home Collection” resulted in an astounding 70 home sales — the largest number of new home sales on The Irvine Ranch since 2006. More than 10,000 visitors toured the highly anticipated 2010 New Home Collection – a series of 25 consumer-inspired floorplans by many of California’s most-respected homebuilders – located throughout eight neighborhoods in the acclaimed Villages of Woodbury and Woodbury East. The new homes...

Structure Studios announce that 2D AutoCAD® files can now be imported directly into VizTerra landscape design software. Within minutes, a standard 2D AutoCAD file can be transformed into a fully interactive 3D presentation. The latest update introduces a new feature which allows information from DWG files, the native file format for Autodesk’s AutoCAD software, to be copied directly into VizTerra projects. This feature also allows for DXF files to be imported. This new feature makes it easy...

The PB-550 advanced filter filtration system uses a two stage filtration process that puts you in compliance with the new 2010 E.P.A. mandatory standards for dust control when using power tools to cut, grind or sand. The first stage of filtration uses our easy to install twist on filters that are made from a non-woven Spun Bond Polyester material that is sprayed with a synthetic Teflon coating, capable of capturing dust particles as small as .5 micron. The 2nd stage filtration uses a Hepa certified...

Steel reinforcement specialist Hy-Ten, has achieved sales of 10, 000 tonnes for their innovative Bamtec floor slab reinforcement system this year, roughly equivalent to their record breaking year of 2007. This represents a real increase in market share for Bamtec in a sector that some commentators estimate has shrunk by 40 percent. Hy-Ten is the exclusive licensed manufacturer in the UK and Ireland for the Bamtec system which originated in Germany. Bamtec is a high productivity alternative to slow...

Perry Snell’s waterfront mansion, considered as one of the most beautiful homes in Florida, was just listed for $18 million, in the St Petersburg/ Tampa Bay area. Alona Dishy with Realty Executives, who specializes in high end, historic and waterfront homes in the Tampa Bay area, is representing the ownership. Built in the 1920’s on Brightwaters Blvd, (famed multimillion dollar homes that hug the waterfront within minutes of ritzy downtown area) on manicured grounds with six hundred feet...

Select-Arc, Inc. has introduced a carbon steel, all position, flux cored electrode specially developed to raise welding performance and increase productivity. Encore is the new, made-in-America electrode that features a positive arc transfer that is deep penetrating, smooth and stable, with less smoke and spatter than imported electrodes. The fast freezing slag assures incomparable out-of-position weldability but, unlike most E71T-1 wires, Encore provides better arc starting and produces excellent...