2009
I'm so glad the new year is here! Did everyone make resolutions? I don't really call them resolutions, more like goals for the year I suppose ... )Plus a cazillion house goals - pull up the disgusting purple carpet downstairs, do stained concrete floors, install concrete counter tops, paint downstairs, paint the hallway upstairs, etc etc etc [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:54:00
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Re: Underground Water Tank in Gulf
Mondo,In the Gulf region one of your biggest problems, if you have a steel or concrete tank, is corrosion ... structural steel is often galvanized then epoxy painted, above ground concrete painted with siloxanes, and below grade concrete foundations are often completely "tanked" with a bithuthene.Thomas Hunt [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 15:02:00
Polished Concrete Floor Painted
by Mikkan Drane The sight of an old gray slab truly is not such a good thing to see, ... of it. However, unlike the acid staining that is so hard to control, painting concrete polished floor ... it. Before you can start painting on your concrete polished floor, the area must be prepared first [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 03:25:22
Before and After
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. We had a great time with our three kids (young adults). My daughter was on a training trip (swimming) ... have plants or paths, however, we do have new stucco, new concrete entrance, new paint, new fence ... concrete, but I was good.Hmmm . . . this concrete and rebar is pretty interesting. I like the industrial [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 17:27:00
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
How do I get Paint to stick to concrete?
Paint Wont Stick? This week, a curious customer from Houston, Texas contacted us with questions about striping in a parking garage ... and warehouses that have smooth concrete surfaces. Her pedestrian path of travel, near the main ... via etching to create a surface which the paint will properly bond. The best procedure to use [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 21:59:27
Where Can I Get This?
Most of us use tiles for bathroom walls. The benefits are obvious- easy to clean, quite heat resistant, low maintenance, ... for kitchen counter tops but using it for bathroom walls just makes perfect sense as the bathroom ... these days such as - waterproof paint, waxed concrete and even glass painted on the underside [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 01:50:56
Where Women Create
I just finished reading this new magazine this morning--every single word of it--and I've got to say I love it. Fabulous, indeed ... the ceiling and painting it, painting the walls, staining the concrete floor (I was going to put in tile until I saw a slab that had been stained and heard how easy it was--two artists live [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 17:34:35
Solid Surface Bathroom Walls?
Most of us use tiles for bathroom walls. The benefits are obvious- easy to clean, quite heat resistant, low maintenance, ... these days such as - waterproof paint, waxed concrete and even glass painted on the underside ... for kitchen countertops but using it for bathroom walls just makes perfect sense as the bathroom [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 01:52:52
Strategic Management Revision
Case Analysis: Resene Paints Introduction This paper will be focusing on Resene Paints in particular ... , paint for concrete. Today, the firm is an international company with four manufacturing operations [more...]
Date: 2008-08-27 17:16:40
DIY Entry #10: Painted Dance Floor
Brooke submitted this fabulous and incredibly unique idea, a temporary painted dance floor! ... . But I have painted concrete slabs to look like ballroom floors, and it washes off! My mom always painted our windows with tempera paint for the holidays growing up. She added dish soap to the paint to ensure [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 16:30:11
Adventures in maintaining a concrete hull.
Simon and I painted the Polar Bear white after several hard days' graft of sanding in Wales. It was originally blue ... with sanding disks was literally 100 times faster in removing the old paint. Then, after ... on a concrete hull. Our new plan of attack was to sand it down all the way to the concrete on the lower half [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 21:15:00
Things are coming along
I don't have pictures to post yet, but I should have some by tomorrow night or Wednesday. I'm torn though....I'm tempted to wait until the house is all painted (tomorrow) and the concrete is poured ... up so we decided to paint all the way to the floor). She did an amazing job. I painted over the taping [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 01:43:37
Tips On Remodeling Your Kid’s Bedroom
Tips On Remodeling Your Kid’s Bedroom By Alix Montoya | January 17, 2009 by Alix Montoya Your kids, however cute and cuddly they are right now, ... . The bedroom furniture has to match colors with everything else. Paint their dresser according ... concrete like nobody ever does concrete before . Find out more about concrete floor polishing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 18:05:00
How to get rid of paint on concrete floor
Hello everyone. I just found this forum and thought I would ask you experts this question. How would I remove paint, I think its oil based from the concrete floor before I install ceramic tiles. I don't want to use any professional sander. I want to do it by hand. Any suggestions [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 04:08:18
Garage Concrete Floor Painting
Garage and concrete floors can be made to look neat and well kept by painting it. The right material for this is epoxy paint or coating. This may prove hard sometimes but with proper technique [more...]
Date: 2008-11-15 20:11:07
Hacienda Salinas house and lot in Lahug Cebu City
Hacienda Salinas The music of nature. A paradise in the City. Life can be filled with simple joys like these ... , Balcony, 1 Car garage Structure: Reinforced Concrete Exterior Wall: Painted, Plastered Interior ... Centralized water system Perimeter fence Landscaped Gardens Concrete subd. Roads Waste water treatment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:57:52
Art Space Talk: Matt Small
Matt Small-- also known as Matty-- is a traditional urban artist who paints directly onto used pieces of found metal and other objects ... are painted on found- objects such as concrete and metal, using household materials like gloss or poster paint, which he applies very thickly. By giving each portrait names such as Ahmed, Andre and Terry [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 02:30:28
Soap opera
The other day one of the home-oriented publishing companies released some impressive literature on baths and kitchens for the consideration of lifestyle journalists such as myself. Two books contain hundreds of photographs of swell interior designs loaded with glass tiles, oiled bronze fixtures, decoratively painted concrete floors [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 16:36:04
Showcase: You! week 6 - win a free book!
Last time I asked for your favorite frugal site. Moneysaving Mom received votes from Jamie, Dana, and Amy @ The Q Family ... out these tips: Use spray adhesive to cover a worn out desk pad and press a towel on top of it. It’ ... ’t you think?) Paint concrete blocks a bright color and stack with holes in front to organize office [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 15:08:58
Extreme Room Makeover
Okay, maybe not as “professional” but it’s mine! Remember, I began painting my bedroom a chocolate color? Done. Remember, I wanted to paint the concrete after ripping up the carpet in the bedroom? Well, went ... in the house). Done. Was going to wait till the fall to finish up the trim work…picked it up at Lowes [more...]
Date: 2008-07-06 21:16:31
Recommendations anyone? (Portland, OR metro area)
We are about to undertake the task of doing some remodeling on our house and I could use any advice or recommendations of contractors. Here's what we're looking to do in the next couple of months... Painting (exterior/interior) New wood fence Concrete patio Hardwood floor refinishing Kitchen cabinets & countertops If you're [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 18:41:17
4 Easy Little Touches Anyone Can Do To Their Home
When it comes to home renovation, many people are under the impression that it means big projects that are costly ... get concrete paint to give it a whole new color. Bricks can also be cleaned or even painted to given them ... that can have a big impact on your kitchen. 2. Redo your bathroom floor. Bathroom floors take a lot of abuse [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 13:07:36
I’ve been tagged. Oh, joy.
Seriously, I don’t mind; I just can’t resist a good, sardonic title. Heh. Soooo, long about six weeks ago, the smart and groovy (in that order) ... you what or where.I’ve beenpublished and won awards for my fiction and poetry.I like to paint concrete statues for gardens. It’s a meditative thing, very relaxing. It’s also nice to see the finished [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 06:00:05
Youth Room Environments
We've been doing some serious remodeling for the past 9 months on our youth room at The Well. It's finally coming together!Environments communicate ... to couches for seating; Christian clip-art stencils to black-and-white photos of our students ... -pong table to Nintendo Wii; stained blue carpet to painted concrete and rugs. It feels like a totally [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 16:42:00
Modern kitchen design
Since we have started our married life we have always dreamt of building ourselves a dream kitchen that would be just perfect ... concrete or a painted surface for an added touch. Granite countertops are a perennial favorite among ... be it the cabinets, countertops, flooring, tiles and the kitchen appliances should have a glimpse [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 12:12:03
A Few Design Ideas For Your Kids’ Room
by Alix Montoya As parents we know our children will grow up someday ... out more about concrete floor polishing and experience the beauty of polished concrete for yourself. ... . Try painting a new color for his dresser to match a new wall or everything else. Try replacing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 08:17:06
Welcome To Hell
"After some 20 years of teaching mostly minority youth Greek, Latin, and ancient history and literature in translation (1984-2004) ... to have op-eds as news stories on the front page. Newsweek and Time became organs for paint ... in the concrete. California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 23:26:49
How to paint a bedroom.
My little grandson was helping his daddy paint a bedroom over the weekend b0711a99264bdc5dca1ded848cd62490.jpg Its easy when you know how. ... it all a coat of paint to seal it first. e74dff221be3f00732363412aea60e3e.jpg And no - I didn’t make this mess - it was daddy. Nanny says that daddy was always painting and mixing concrete [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 11:55:31
Reflecting on Climate Change
A radical plan to curb global warming and apparently reverse climate change caused by our rampant burning of fossil fuels since the ... be expensive and intrusive and points out that diluted white latex paint can increase the reflectivity of porous surfaces, such as concrete, by ten percent. “An even better deployment than painting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 13:00:47
Needle Felting
Here's a close-up of the type of needle felting I'm adding to my Revision quilt (see last post) ... board, gutters and stucco patch. The whole surface needs a coat of stucco, and then paint. Once ... of concrete hauled away and a load of green waste removed. I guess we should have waited a while; I didn't [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 06:27:00
Snowed In
Notice that the dog has kicked off one of her booties? She really regretted that once she realized how cold the ground was. Ugh ... into this pillar with her cart. Weird Concrete Post in the Middle of Fabric Depot At least they had the decency to paint it red. Yes, it’s a concrete pillar, the same height as the bolts of fabric [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 08:42:54
sneak peek: abigail ahern
i still can’t get over how natural abigail ahern looks in her ahhhh-mazing home. doesn’t she just look like she belongs in the photo above? ... like a painting. The concrete chair is one of the first things I ever brought for the house - we had no money ... and work as we generally eat downstairs on the lower ground floor. The ostrich table I love it [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 17:00:16
Home Flippers Still Out There, Still Need License
You would think anyone flipping homes right now is a daredevil given the market conditions ... with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board (CCB). This includes roofing, siding, painting, carpentry, concrete, on-site appliance repair, heating and air conditioning, home inspections, tree service [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 15:15:00
Dedication...
Sometimes, we talked about keeping the faith or being dedicated to living out our lives heroically for a certain cause ... managed to create art by a public beach guerilla-style. They managed to paint over a plain looking concrete block and changed it into a giant-size Rubik's Cube that now sits along the shore [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:13:00
Signs in the Concrete
I went for a bit of a walk today in my neighborhood. Here are some of the signs I found. Not so much transit, but planning related ... Google Bus Stop. At the place where Google kids hop on the bus, someone painted this into the concrete ... AdI'll post more interesting things I found later, but I thought the signs and stencils were funny. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 02:50:00
Rip it out and start over.
The school franchise that is buying the place I work sent down people to survey the school, measure it up, ... of remodeling. They ripped out EVERYTHING you’d think of, left a hulking slab of concrete, then came ... on paint fumes while people work in rooms where I teach. Considering they were measuring walls to knock [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 13:00:37
back to the city
by Rachael We woke and our bamboo bed had not disintegrated, despite being held together by a piece of string ... ! The contact paper floor covering was peeling back in strips big enough to trip you up, the grubby paint was peeling off the concrete walls, the toilet was blocked and the handbasin….well, there wasn’ [more...]
Date: 2008-12-20 05:42:26
When foreclosure makes things better…maybe
The former home of Dave’s Used Car Lot, Marina, and Weed Arboretum is looking pretty spiffy in its new coat of paint ... all the concrete in back with KoolDeck, getting rid of the hideous work sheds, pulling up all the flooring ... , contrary to my speculation that they were just sanding and painting the interior. The back yard [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 22:28:08
How to Remove Old Linoleum
by Ramona Mackgil Are you thinking about removing linoleum in your home? It’s not easy, but doable ... the initial layer of linoleum. If the underlying floor is made of concrete it can be relatively ... paint scrapers or razor blades to remove the old adhesive. This is fine on concrete, but wood [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 09:22:58
caressing nothing
eye eye amp sand, a little lightto block the light, we paid to havethis work done but it never gotdone, house car etcetera, ourreality principle, ... , hurry up and expire,computers and humans each,enaction, embodied and concrete,voxels ... engine,thermochromic paint, eventsthat have changed the course of history, silicon collaborators, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 01:15:00
Yosemite Park and a Luxury Lodge
Yosemite is probably the most famous of all American National Parks and has a long history of catering to every level of visitor including those ... to the valley floor and over 95% of Yosemite’s 3000 square kilometres are still wilderness. The Yosemite ... of concrete painted to resemble the famous Californian wood. Completed in 1927, Ahwahnee includes [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 15:00:52
Light Snow, Bike Riding, Feeling Sick
... rock-hard narrow ruts, wet areas were now slick ice, and previously loose sand was hard as concrete fun ... of some spray paint designed for frosting windows, a replacement light bulb for the ceiling fan in my bedroom [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 02:57:12
Anatomy of a medical office
Today was the opening day for my new office. There is so much to say, I don't even know where to start! ... structurally.Unfortunately the foundation was cement so the plumber had to trench out concrete ... in the exam rooms, more paint and pictures in the waiting room. I am looking for a fun, bright area [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 03:55:00
Loft-Style Living
When my friend Katie first told me she was moving into a one-bedroom loft rather than the townhouse she had been considering, ... kitchen Warm hues. Katie’s loft has concrete walls and floors. And although expanses of solid concrete ... s because one wall is painted a warm, sandy brown color and large pieces of artwork adorn many [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 12:00:10
Return to Marrakech
by Melanie in On the Road: Morocco, Workshops Marrakech is calling. Maryam and I have been emailing ... ’s master bedroom ceiling will be aglow with a decorative treatment inspired by this pillow ... in Marrakech A concrete bedroom floor will be painted with an intriguing labyrinth pattern [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 17:02:57
Jaguars & the New Year
We are so proud of all our classmates. Stella and Jamie won the Geo Bee in our classroom. Jamie represented our class in the school bee ... with these concepts over the next few weeks. Please try to find as many concrete experiences ... and designed houses, even painting them! Science is rather "shocking" this unit. Your student should [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 14:49:32
Problem solved
The boys have been complaining for the past hour or two that they are bored ... be much more fun if they slid on my painted concrete floor in the tv room that way, on condition ... What do you wanna do?” “I dunno. What do you wanna do?” I’m a bad mom. I told them my garage [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 02:02:48
A way to Decorate a Designer Kid’s Room.
A spray on bed liner is possibly the most well liked form of bed liner. Get more about automotive paint ... the roughest use. Concrete blocks are going to scratch and scar your pricey spray on liner. Since ... her. So treat her to the bedroom restoration that shell hold dear her full life long making her room [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 06:15:25
Smart Speed Bumps Flatten for Slow Drivers
Here’s another one for the “Why didn’t I think of this” archives ... imaging that these smart speed bumps would be much more expensive than your regular slab of concrete and yellow paint, so I wouldn’t expect to see these in every parking lot and residential area any [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 20:54:34
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