Category Archives: Eclectic Homes
Better, Smarter Smoke Detectors Push All the Right Buttons
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on October 16, 2019
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Smoke alarms, which are becoming a standard and necessary feature of each house and apartment, do not do the job very well. They typically emit a high-pitched tone when activated, and it is difficult to tell which direction the tone is coming from. When there’s a passion, knowing where that passion is happening is the […]
10 Problems Your House May Be Trying to Show You
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on October 10, 2019
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Your home is attempting to tell you all sorts of things. How it seems; how it smells. And there are lots of visual cues to tip you off that something is not perfect. “Everything is shifting all of the time, expanding and contracting at different rates, responding to heat, wind and rain. A house is […]
The Way to Make an Inventory, Whether You Organized or Not
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on October 3, 2019
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You may be surprised to understand that losing all of my earthly possessions was the simple part of having an arsonist put my home on fire. The hard part was wrangling with the insurance company while attempting to construct a new property. Perhaps you have noticed those insurance advertisements where a insurance adjuster is at […]
Patio of the Week: Year-Round Gazebo Glory in Toronto
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on September 30, 2019
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Interior designer Karen Sealy longed to change her tight Toronto backyard into a garden she can use yearlong, spending as many months as possible outdoors. Enlisting help from a crane was only the start; Sealy changes up the style of her garden escape. Below we’ll have a gander in its jaunty summertime 2013 style, together […]
29 Home Projects to Make You a DIY Superstar
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on September 16, 2019
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Even though home improvement knowledge gets passed down from generation to generation, many of us still somehow figure out how to punch a dozen holes in the wall while searching for a stud, or screw up something as simple as painting the walls. And while many dream of being a true DIY guru, it’s not […]
Basement of the Week: Modern Style Converts an Concrete Box
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on September 13, 2019
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This Minneapolis couple needed more living room: a distance where they could hang out together, in which they could amuse, something which could double as a guest suite. But their lot size and town restrictions would have left an improvement hard, if not impossible. The solution for their 1914 bungalow put below ground. “While the […]
We Can Work It Out: Living (and Fixing) Together
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on September 7, 2019
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I’d been married over a decade when I said to my sister, Torey, my regret that my husband, Paul, never washed. Torey’s jaw fell. “Whaaaaaat?” “I said he doesn’t do any cleaning” “You have got to be kidding me,” she explained. “He is always cleaning” “Whaaaaaat?” This was my turn with the disbelief. As though […]
Could Techies Buy a Home Fixing California that is Floating?
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on September 5, 2019
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Imagine working and living on a floating community 12 miles off the coast of Northern California. Blueseed, a Palo Alto start-up founded in 2011 by Max Marty and partly backed by Mike Maples of Floodgate, wants to make that a reality. The crazy idea is that foreign-based companies and their workers may set up shop […]
An Indian High-Rise Trips the Light Fantastic
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on September 1, 2019
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Looking up at the 17th floor of a certain residential tower in Malad, a suburb of Mumbai in India, a few citizens frequently wonder what the heck is going on up there. At night the brightly colored interiors glow vibrantly in each colour of the rainbow. Some nights all the rooms are bathed in blue; […]
Desire a Gem of a Surface Material? Luxury Agate's a Dazzler
- Posted by Sook1951
- Posted on August 26, 2019
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When I was a child, there was not anything sexier and more particular than a geode. Bear in mind those round stones, boring on the outside, but if you cracked them open, an eye-popping centre of glistening crystals and swirls of colours shone through? Who would have thought, staring at the miniature, artful world encased […]
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