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How Long Should Things Last Around the House

Posted 08 September 2008 | By Derrick | Categories: home | No Comments

14 inspectingwindowh 300x300 How Long Should Things Last Around the HouseAmerican Home Shield says it receives the highest number of claims from policyholders with faulty plumbing – though the company pays out more money fixing or replacing broken down central AC units than on any other products or system. The following is the average life expectancy AHS puts on some of its most commonly covered items.

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Hay Stack Houses

Posted 31 August 2008 | By Derrick | Categories: DIY, design, home, life | No Comments

23818 1 468 300x225 Hay Stack HousesThe small house is made from wood and straw. Inside a desk and chair sit on top of some straw bails and a blanket and pillow denote a bed. The house is only one of 13 projects that are part of the ‘vijverberg vi’ exhibition in tytsjerk. the exhibit is curated by dutch art historian ankie boomstra, who personally selected the 13 participating artists.

Creativity With Newspaper

Posted 22 August 2008 | By Derrick | Categories: art, green | No Comments

15 300x217 Creativity With NewspaperA beautiful use of newspapers by creating a public installation which highlights the environmental result of yesterday’s news by Sumer Erek for Creative City.

RoofRay

Posted 14 August 2008 | By Derrick | Categories: home, technology | No Comments

roofray RoofRayAlternative energy is on everyone’s mind these days, so what can you do about it? One way to analyze and evaluate your potential for solar installations at your home or business is RoofRay, the online solar array tool that uses Google Maps to view your property from above, so you can accurately assess whether solar panels will work for you.
Get information such as Power per square foot,
Total Peak Power, etc. before you begin the quote process.

Spherical Tree House

Posted 09 August 2008 | By Derrick | Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments

treehouse Spherical Tree HouseThe “Spherical Tree House” concept borrows heavily from sailboat construction and rigging practice. It’s a marriage of tree house and sailboat technology. Wooden spheres are built much like a cedar strip canoe or kayak. Suspension points are similar to the chain plate attachments on a sailboat. Stairways hang from a tree much like a sailboat shroud hangs from the mast. Spherical architecture has many unconventional features. Conventional buildings separate walls, ceiling and floor with hard lines. In a sphere the walls and ceiling merge into one. The function changes but the form remains the same. It is a unified structure with one continuous wall. I call this uniwall construction. There are only 2 sides to a sphere, inside and outside. Spheres, Eve and Eryn, are available for overnight rental.  We are approximately 30km north of Parksville on Vancouver Island along the Inland Island Hwy (#19), near Qualicum Bay. The acreage is on private property close to Horne Lake Caves, Georgia Strait and Mount Washington. Come experience an enchanted coastal rain forest…. your comfortable, gently swaying, restful sphere awaits.