Brick Ranch House
Brick Ranch House October 10, 2008 By: Debra Category: Ranch House History Ranch style houses are pretty similar in looks. Their key elements include a single story, low roofline, simple floor plan, and attached garages. They also may have had sliding glass doors that open onto a patio or courtyard, shuttered windows [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 13:17:45
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Hope all yawl had a happy nappy holiday thus far. I just wanted to spread a little cheer before I go back into history, economics, sex or politics ... his hair and oiling his scalp – and if he has dreds, a lil grooming.2 A brick (or brick for each toilet in his house). One brick in the toilet, well you would not believe how much on his water bill [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 18:41:00
Boogie Fever, I Got To Boogie Down
Posted by Gidge Uriza I didn’t have any plans for New Years Eve, but when QXI Gears invited me over for an informal get together with friends, ... I wanted to wear something festive even if it wasn’t a “formal” event. Digit Darkes Nicole dress with it’s bright splashes of color was exactly what I wanted. Shes a Brick, House She's a Brick [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 05:03:13
Earthquakes...life saving information
Hi,Just wanted to share this information with everyone. I thought it was important to know. I did have a very small earthquake at my house earlier this year. It really scared me. It felt like the bricks on my house were closing in on me. The ceiling shook in the house, three times. This was just not a good feeling at all [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 05:10:00
A Scarecrow Empire
Central to the effectiveness of any form of security is its ability to project power and to exponentialize its apparent sphere of influence beyond the verifiable boundaries of its control; to dupe people, essentially. Territory – as a material of power – succeeds in part not only because it marks its authority with [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 01:59:00
Signs of spring.
The gardenias, lilac trees, and azaleas are all showing small buds. I can't tell you how happy I was to see signs of life out there ... aggressive hairy-looking "feet" that want to cling to the brick side of our house. The problem is that I left ... who've worked at the same electrical supply company for 20 years. Just smacking their gum and filing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 18:32:00
Create More Space in Your House with Terraces
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines ... walls, cement slabs or paving with the careful arrangement of pots of plants. Dwarf trees growing [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 16:14:09
Create More Space in Your House with Terraces
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines ... walls, cement slabs or paving with the careful arrangement of pots of plants. Dwarf trees growing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 14:29:49
Summer Blockbuster: Turf War depicted in Style
Perhaps some of you missed the amazing recent Style Weekly cover story written my Nicole Ellis, ... just ankle-high. He loves his house, a one-story, brick-and-stone cottage his father built with his own ... . This was a farm.”Archer looks up and points across his driveway to an open field. “The boy that owns that now … [more...]
Date: 2008-07-22 12:16:00
i want my own garden
i dunno if i’m still under the “high” of seeing so much nature around me, or if it’s that i’m just starting to get influenced by my hosts, but i wanna live in a brick house and have my own garden with maybe 1 or 2 fruit trees and lots of veggies and just be ... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 02:38:04
A splash of color
A splash of color Filed under: 2nd garden--2008, Roses — Pam/Digging @ 5:33 am Yesterday and today I moved rock ... to the wheelbarrow to the back yard to the raised bed where I’m adding a low retaining wall to tame ... good against the golden brick of the house. Knock, knock. Anybody home? Some wrens [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 10:33:05
Crossed Swords - Adder Ladies & the Dawn of Ra 15
Crossed Swords Adder Ladies & the Dawn of Ra 15 The swinging EmeraldCity’s most flamboyant bohemian district in the flower power era is an entertaining inner suburban underworld of vice, drugs and corruption. The decaying structures surrounding the old docklands - rows of dilapidated terrace houses and multistory brick flats, leaky-roofed mansions, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 11:46:00
200 Spruce St. Alcoa TN $132,900.
This great almost all brick ranch home has many updates and a fantastic level yard ... ! The kitchen is updated with pretty counter tops, tile flooring and newer appliances. You will love all of the cabinet space! The garage was enclosed to make a nice sized family room and is currently being used [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 15:56:27
Large Landscaping Project II - Recapping
I managed to find some previously-lost pictures which describe the scene a bit better ... : The brick paving wound around the entire house, from the driveway to the patio at the “back ... , we moved to paving, then lawns, complete with irrigation - and lots of that. We also picked up another [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 21:31:45
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) ... , they are building beautiful stuccos in West University, but back then, the typical new house was a red brick [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 16:45:00
Terraces As Outdoor Rooms
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 15:19:23
Terraces As Outdoor Rooms
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 15:18:43
Terraces As Outdoor Rooms
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-10-19 12:06:24
Who Owns Your Great Idea?
The New York Times: Peter Zummo, a senior double-majoring in design and mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, ... as a brick to build housing in developing countries. The director of the office, Charles Rancourt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 23:20:25
Microsoft and Sun: Clash of the Titans?
Cross-posted from the Singularity Watch: So I’m going along, minding my own business, ... anarchic. It’s something that would have had Ayn Rand painfully shitting brick houses. I love this kind [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 14:29:57
The Many Uses and Faces of a Terrace
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 14:20:38
Heard Thru Grapevine: Motown Celebrates 50th With Podcast
I’ll bet you wondered how I knew? Well, the ABC-tv affilliate in Chicago reports that Motown is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a series ... from “My Girl” to “Love Hangover” to “Brick House.” Some of the podcasts will also look at Motown [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 17:23:54
The Many Uses and Faces of a Terrace
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 14:25:51
The Many Uses and Faces of a Terrace
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 19:01:56
All you need to know about a Power Washer
by JR Rooney Power washers are divided into 4 basic subcategories: light-duty electric; residential gas powered; heavy-duty gas powered; ... , trucks, swimming pools, farm equipment * Cleaning houses, decks, fences, brick, concrete * Blasting mud [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 20:46:44
Create More Space in Your House with Terraces
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 16:46:57
Create More Space in Your House with Terraces
by Kent Higgins In these times when the costs of building make large houses extremely expensive, ... of brick or cement blocks or lattice roofs. Whichever method you choose for your home, using vines [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 14:25:37
Too many projects
I have a LOT of stuff I want to do. I simply don’t have the time, space, and money to do everything I’d like to do ... : A) Flagstone (or brick?) walkway around the side of the house and across the back patio area B) Retaining wall ... retaining wall to match the rest of our fencing D) Design a custom carputer for the Supra to fit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:05:05
The Outdoor Kitchen Grill Elevates your Way of Entertaining Guests
If grilling food and hanging outside is a large part of how you entertain, then you definitely want to invest in an outdoor kitchen grill ... option. Usually housed within concrete, an outdoor chimney or brick, the look of a built-in outdoor ... but others may have colored enamel coatings too. What You Could Get With an outdoor kitchen grill [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 14:26:49
Former Packer Brett Favre Lists WIsconsin House
SELLER: Brett FavreLOCATION: Shady Lane, Ashwaubenon, WIPRICE: $475,000SIZE: 3,000 square feet (approx.) ... . 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths and 1st floor laundry. Enjoy the formal dining room w/ FP & wet bar ... the brick-faced house includes 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and a concrete driveway leading to the generously [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 15:01:00
Back to School House Tour
As Julia says, "Who doesn't love a good house tour? ... , with old stone walls, brick paving and potted plants. In summer it is overflowing with geraniums ... sisters and their impressive collection of antiques and curiosities. "The building is of brick [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 08:54:08
Full Circle
Ok...A) it is wicked cold outside. So cold that the water pipes at my house are frozen and therefore, ... red bricks. I'm talking one of those ginormous concrete bricks they make interior walls [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 22:15:00
Afghan Girls Defy Islamic Subjugation
We can only hope they will grow up to be proud apostates! Or at least Islamic apatheists ... miles from their mud-brick houses up in the hills.The girls burst through the school’s walled [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 05:00:00
Cultural ignorance
Cultural ignorance Sometimes I despair. As I was driving over to my parents’, I heard a radio ad for some kind of housing development offering “your choice of exterior finish — brick, stone, or stucco.” Clearly, whoever wrote the copy for that ad has no knowledge [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 21:30:55
READ HOUSE HOTEL
In reply to Cameron Hill: 1864: BRICK BUILING IN LEFT SIDE OF PICTURE IS THE READ HOUSE HOTEL. WHICH STILL IN BUSINESS IN THIS SAME LOCATION. IT'S IN A NEWER BUILDING OF COURSE. MOST OF THE TOP [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 23:30:16
David Lereah profiled in WSJ
Former National Association of Realtors chief economist David Lereah is profiled in The Wall Street Journal ... -bedroom, 5½-bathroom brick house has lost about 20% of its value in the past two years. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 13:00:00
Saturday’s Eagle Nest - 10/18/2008
Alaska Samuel Lund recently became an Eagle Scout but to do so, he had to do an extensive service project ... an interlocking stone pathway for the Fallbrook Land Conservancy at the Palomares House. Daniel ... , he covered 500 square feet with brick pavers around planter boxes at Fallbrook Street Elementary [more...]
Date: 2008-10-19 01:06:49
Blockage
Change, Obama-style—the social media/open White House stuff—hit a bit of a brick wall this week, but it was mostly silly stuff. See Jeff Zeleny's piece in The New York Times about Obama's hard-won [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 19:27:00
DeLong: Comments at Quigley Housing Finance Symposium
Moderator: Case Papers: Leamer, Shiller Discussants: Hall, Wilcox, DeLong Date: October 31, 2008 Brad DeLong's Comments: ... by using high interest rates as a brick with which to hit the housing sector on the head, and also credit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 23:41:40
RC JOURNAL: A Gutted City
Many people have a problem envisioning what extreme economic failure looks like in a Western country. Enter Detroit ... . They even steal the brick off the sides of some of these houses. Street dealers traffic in furnaces [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 00:19:18
FFF- New
Sarah's theme for Fav Foto Friday this week is "New" ... out of our old house...there was a lovely bricked patio, but no yard! We are in HEAVEN!Old backyard… New [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 07:00:00
Time and Space
As long as I can remember I have been drawn to abandoned buildings, corroded weed-covered cars, churches whose bricks have crumbled upon each other, dilapidated barns, and houses that have been left to ruin. I look at them and wonder. Who worked there? Did they drive that car to the prom? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 06:07:57
Runaway—1728 Advertisement for the Recovery of an Indian ServantJill...
Runaway —1728 Advertisement for the Recovery of an Indian Servant Jill McDonough …… ... back to Pinckny Street, this narrow brick house with its new porch. Over the cobbled pavers. Neat [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:36:00
Labyrinth: the commitment
On Sunday, I got inspired to uncover the walkway I had created right after we added on to the house ... garden and all of my plantings with this brick, and I probably ought to go in and dig out the rest ... to recover it. It was a lot easier than I thought: all I had to do was pry up each brick, get the moss off [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 22:38:09
Floral Park: A Lesser Known Little India
Floral Park: A Lesser Known Little India Posted at January 15th, 2009 1:29pm ... , and is made up of wide, quiet streets lined with small brick houses with yards. It also happens [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 21:46:25
CALL FOR ART EXHIBITION PROPOSALS - April 11, 2009
Artists are invited to apply for an exhibition in the Project Space for its 2009-2010 calendar year ... in the basement of the historic Loudoun House, is 29' x 20' with concrete and brick walls that are painted white, and a gray painted concrete floor. There is one doorway. The ceiling has exposed pipes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 09:40:00
Daily Photo - Bricks
Bricks More from the Anping Tree House. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 14:22:31
brick house
old post but i love this. Translate: 2009-01-19 Inspiration [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 23:48:47
As You Know, Bob 8
The cat lady’s tiny bungalow was nearly hidden by overgrown shrubbery and sat well back from the line of newer brick homes, ... of the fence in front of the dilapidated house like spinach on a hobo’s teeth. The wafting aroma ... as she unlatched the rickety gate and stepped onto the detritus of what was once a concrete pathway [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 15:14:00
All-Poetry Library Proposed
From the Story: San Francisco, often seen as a literary haven, ... of Kim Mahler, modeled on New York’s Poets House and London’s Poetry Library. Along with a brick [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 14:41:31
