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
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Ingite Conference at La Fuente Church Matagalpa
A team of 4 from PRMI met up in Matagalpa Nicaragua to work with La Fuente church over the first weekend in January 2009 ... that stored and distributed farm fertilizer: Concrete floors, terraced concrete slabs and a slight ... . Sounds echoed off the concrete wall, and wall mounted fans keep the place relatively cool even [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 16:58:14
Iraq: They call this freedom
It can be hard to believe that it is approaching 2000 days since the beginning of the occupation of Iraq ... with concrete walls hiding from view; the stores. the only thing every one sees is concrete walls ... as I trace my steps back and forth in a corporate commercial building on the third floor next [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 00:26:32
Evangelism Training in Nicaragua
Today, I’d like to share with you the report about our Evangelism Training Ministry in Nicaragua at the beginning of January ... : Concrete floors, terraced concrete slabs and a slight slope to lower a slab to a level appropriate ... to allow cargo trucks to back in and be enclosed. Sounds echoed off the concrete wall, and wall mounted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 14:14:38
Norwegian doc drops a few lies on exfil
Noted lying douchebag and terrorist mouthpiece Dr. Mads Gilbert has returned to his native Norway. but not before spreading some more BS propaganda ... . The low-density composite case can survive penetration into a one-foot hardened concrete wall. Upon ... a "behind-the-wall" threat prosecution with a highly localized lethal footprint. The warhead case [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 03:18:21
Bluff Farm House by Richard Cole Architecture
Australian architect Richard Cole designed the Bluff Farm House, which is located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia ... under the shade of the tree. The sleeping areas are contained within encasing precast concrete walls ... . A palette of raw materials; concrete, galvanised steel, sandstone, recycled timber and plywood add [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 12:44:59
Rust Removal Tips: Do it to Believe It
Rust can be found everywhere, your favorite accessories, bikes, gears, furniture, steel utensils, walls, even on concrete walls and a lot more to mention, we sometimes loose valuable objects because of rust stains, with out proper treatment or rust removers, rust build up on your objects might lead [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 08:30:06
Iraqis Want Green Zone Gone
by Steve Soto It looks like we just wasted hundreds of millions of dollars building a fortress in Baghdad ... , there will be no green zone,” he added. “The separation by huge walls makes people feel angry.” . . . . He said the concrete walls that divide it from the rest of the city would be taken down slowly, “depending [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 23:04:08
Under Construction Nike Dunks
Designer Yassir Rais showed off his latest custom Dunks at the Customsnkr.com blog post linked here ... is a gray concrete wall. While Rais may have been creating a simple pair of custom sneakers, the symbolism ... the mixture of a unfinished brick wall with a cracked concrete surface. Rais says these Dunks [more...]
Date: 2008-09-20 11:00:03
M house / Architecture W
Architects: Architecture W Location: Nagoya, Japan Project Team: Michel Weenick, Yukiko Iwanaga, Brian White Client: ... the design of the house. A hybrid structural system made up of simple reinforced concrete, concrete ... is tied into additional retaining walls to carve out an independent apartment that is a modern take [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 19:00:43
DIY: Lightbulb Wall Hook
Make a concrete Lightbulb Wall Hook for an industrial design look by just following the steps at instructables ... , but I found my trusty old scribe to be invaluable in this. - plastic tub to mix the concrete in. I used an empty five pound tub of spreadable margarine. - a scrap of wood to mix the concrete [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 15:44:56
Decorating with MY Art
January 15th, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment Because everyone — even me — has some artistic ability ... house, in New Jersey, was made of reinforced poured concrete. Built in 1926, it was one of several in town that was formed with reinforcement mesh, concrete forms, and poured concrete. The walls, floors [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 16:23:53
Graphic Concrete.
Graphic Concrete.Using the 'Graphic Concrete' of Helsinki, now you can add images, patterns, photos, colors and textures to both interior and exterior concrete walls and flooring. Graphic Concrete ... technology (based on a patented invention by interior architect Samuli Naamanka) method allows concrete [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 15:08:00
The Prayer Chapel / debartolo architects
Architects: debartolo architects ltd. Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Project team: Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, J ... engineering Contractor: arthur porter construction Landscape Design: michael boucher landscape ... on a pinwheel of four black-concrete monolithic walls. Each wall anchors a corner of the ‘glass box’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 00:00:06
Drift Bay House / Kerr Ritchie Architects
Architects: Kerr Ritchie Architects Location: Queenstown, New Zealand Project year: 2007 Contractor: Barker Construction Constructed Area: ... to have the resilience of an institutional building. Robust concrete floors to collect the sun, profiled insitu concrete walls and Strandboard are softened with a shiny plastic glowing screen wall [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 12:24:58
Basement Floor Waterproofing Methods
If basement floor waterproofing wasn’t overlooked on such a regular basis, ... , then the soil becomes too saturated. As the home settles, walls crack, protective coatings applied ... in the concrete walls and floors. Without proper preparation, torrential rains could cause flooding [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 15:09:22
Cementious Concrete Repair
Definition of Cementitious Concrete Repair Any repair material in which main constituent is cementTypical Uses for Concrete Repair Products Repairing concrete, damaged floors, walls, ceilings, freezer floors, bridge structures, bridge decks, car park columns and piers, tidal situations, steps and stairs etc read more [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 10:12:21
The Best in Passive Solar Materials
Of the five elements of passive solar design, two deal primarily with materials ... , are not created equal. Windows that are double- or triple-glazed with low-e coatings and efficient frames ... . Take a Trombe wall, for example. It is typically a thick concrete wall (up to 16?) with a layer [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 02:42:08
Awesome Concrete Modest House Design in High Desert
A concrete walls need for this modern exciting residence. The “no-maintenance, no-nonsense, inexpensive materials” of the exterior walls are above all a line of defense for that comfortable world, protection against a landscape of extremes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 00:51:27
Design links for the week
Bammmmm! via FFFFound! If you don’t want to miss any of the links shared, you can of course follow me on my Tumblelog if you are a Tumblr user ... . Birds gallery Cute and lovely drawings. Concrete art Permanent decoration on concrete. Graffe Wall [more...]
Date: 2008-10-05 15:44:55
Bedroom
So last night I bought some gray paint called brushed aluminum from Benjamin Moore ... on the wall but the wall is made of concrete and I don't really have a way of experimenting with nails [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 19:39:00
AE#10: Porous Masonry Walls
While masonry is often perceived as impenetrable, a suitable material for keeping out wind and rain, it is actually by nature porous, ... the "gutter-rat" (the architect's term for standard concrete blocks) appear lighter than it really ... or concrete -- by designing walls that allow light, air and water to penetrate. The most famous examples [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 17:15:00
Wrecking and building
Made it back to the new farm to start demo for the new seedling room ... be clearer! We’re turning half of the lower level, with its poured concrete floor and concrete block walls [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 00:08:50
Man and machine
CBS headlines its story “How Technology Won Sadr City Battle”, though the story itself doesn’t say that ... concrete walls to limit the maneuver of militias. Building that wall couldn’t be done from 10,000 ... . That required a man to go out and dodge bullets. “It was literally concrete barrier by concrete barrier [more...]
Date: 2008-10-13 18:55:04
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
Fill
In addition to showing off their Muppetology, I notice that my new blogging colleagues like to post purty pictures of their bright, ... and generally snotty weather in recent memory. To make matters more depressing, my family and I have a concrete retaining wall that’s in the process of being replaced, which means half our yard has been turned [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 09:06:17
By Ron Beasley Now there has been increasing talk that the Iraqis want the US out of their country soon ... contractors and foreign workers who live inside. He said the concrete walls that divide it from the rest ... he added. “The separation by huge walls makes people feel angry.” Dabbagh acknowledged that getting rid [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 17:34:48
First time at Sultan Shoal
Somehow, lighthouses exude a special charm because of their architecture and also due to the fact that they provide direction by the shining of light ... construction work going on.Upon reaching Sultan Shoal, we landed on a floating pontoon ... high tide of course.Against the walls of this concrete lagoon were many different types of nerites [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 15:13:00
Soon and Sooner
By Ron Beasley Now there has been increasing talk that the Iraqis want the US out of their country soon ... contractors and foreign workers who live inside. He said the concrete walls that divide it from the rest ... he added. “The separation by huge walls makes people feel angry.” Dabbagh acknowledged that getting rid [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 00:52:33
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
Look Before You Leap
The Olympics have been pretty inspiring, haven’t they? All that jumping, running, swinging and vaulting… especially the vaulting ... yet, some of the concrete retaining wall had already been built. One fine day (this was during ... . No, this is where you sorta leap over an obstacle, usually a wall or something, while using one or both arms [more...]
Date: 2008-08-20 11:00:56
Onion Reports On Strange Evolutionist Behavior
Paleontologists and genetic researchers are calling it a miracle: Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain ... Of Species and founder of the modern evolutionary movement—made manifest on a concrete wall in downtown ... to see the mysterious stain, which appeared last Monday on one side of the Rhea County Courthouse [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 21:00:32
stuck.
Our welcome home gift to The Netherlands has been 48 hours of incessant rain and near darkness ... further north than I do, but having just come from a land where sunlight manages to shine through concrete walls, you can forgive me for thinking this place is dark. Don’t worry mes amis, I will get over [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 08:58:54
Mint Collection
I could live here. In the heart of San Francisco, the old San Francisco Fire Department firehouse has been turned into 25 luxury residences that ... with exposed concrete walls and plaster finishes, over-sized industrial windows with generous downtown views, acid-stained concrete floors with high-gloss finishes, and oh so much more. Seriously, go check [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 17:58:00
Most Expensive Luxury Interiors
You have just spent $80 million on that luxury property you have always desired. Now it’s time to fit the interior out in a suitable fashion ... and I suspect Elvis Presley would have been a big fan. Price – this particular table is cast in epoxy ... concrete walls and only one opening with a steel door and special locking systems, equipped [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 08:30:00
BCD in NYC Holiday Special, Part III (or is it??!)
by XaniThinking back on this trip, Sunday is a little hazy. It's been almost a month (oops!) since our visit, and the details are hard to conjure up. ... table covered in white paper. The rest of the space was totally stark-- concrete floors, blank walls ... and eggs (Stone-ground antebellum grits from South Carolina's Anson Mills, eggs cooked any style) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-22 18:45:00
Boundary effects
Seth Godin struck a chord with his post on boundaries ... ) and decorative. I asked why they didn't use tall concrete walls and was told, "we feel safer ... to build a wall between the United States and Mexico? I'm sure we can all name other examples [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:30:29
Iraqi candidates stumping for Jan. 31 provincial elections
BAGHDAD, Iraq — If any single image can capture Iraq’s precarious position, suspended between dictatorship and democracy, it’s the campaign posters that are pasted on towering concrete blast walls throughout Baghdad ... , office seekers are pledging to create jobs, stamp out violence and build a “modern” Iraq. “ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 03:28:28
Ah, it's not picturesque, not aesthetically attractive!
It’s all about the textures this morning. I am on a texture kick, photographing walls, grass, bottles, concrete, water, you name it, and I’m taking a picture. Here you can see some of the fine handiwork of convicts. Working on the premise of “make it fit”, these guys seemed to just shove any old bit of sandstone in to finish [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 22:00:00
Screwing Around: Identifying Different Screw Heads
This past weekend we spent some time at our local hardware store in search for some special screws and drill bits ... into a concrete wall (strangely, a very popular spot for midnight trysts according to the regular appearance of various prophylactic wrappers). We had never drilled into concrete, so we asked the folks [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 18:10:00
Positivity: ‘Guardian angel’ rescues girl
From New Brunswick, Canada: Published Saturday September 13th, 2008 When Michayla Benjamin walks past the home of Shawn Shephard, ... splash of colour he had seen disappeared, his vision blocked by his jeep that was parked in the driveway ... the culvert’s concrete walls, rocks and debris. Shephard still can’t believe she even made [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 02:25:32
Academic Nuance Or Fanaticism?
This is a guest post by Modernity Despite the sometimes wall-to-wall coverage of the Middle East and the hyper scrutiny to which Israel is ... , a big concrete wall, gun wielding “militants” and the obligatory funeral, but is that really ... and the separation fence. This position emerged at the annual TUC Congress in Brighton this week [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 09:56:21
Lucky Me
Some times my good fortune even surprises me.We still own our motorhome and it is sitting in the driveway until the time I am willing to sell it ... at a reasonable price but "I found one", period!It was sitting on the concrete retaining wall ... to replace the retaining nuts. Someone must have found it after it had blown off and placed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 18:32:00
Green Guerillas - A New Twist on Tourism
The WWII Victory Garden is making a comeback! Everywhere, in big cities and small towns, people are talking about planting their own gardens ... , green sproutings carefully tended in tiny plots, or in abandoned lots tucked between concrete walls ... , get off at its Union Square stop, walk a couple of blocks to the BART stop at Market & Powell [more...]
Date: 2008-08-05 19:58:51
Ahead of Provincial Elections, Iraq’s Parties Embark on Paper-and-Glue Battle
By Jafar Jani There is a new type of war going on these days in Iraq. But instead of involving guns and bombs, it’s a battle of paper and glue ... . Parties have especially taken advantage of the countless concrete walls that surround the capital ... up with pen or magic marker, or even covered up with mud or paint. Sometimes, a poster is glued on top [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 13:34:00
That Aint Right
Poor Freeway Park, the best park in this city (a park as a work of urban theory), is being destroyed at this very moment. See for yourself: [ -4 ... .jpg The wonderful/magical/mysterious bushes are now just stumps and an ugly chain-link fence has been mercilessly bolted to the concrete wall. It's so ugly, so cruel to the eyes and imagination [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 17:36:37
A Little Home Construction
Blocks for the security wallThe whole property used to belong to Roberto's grandparents, but over the years, ... , is developing her part of the property a bit more and putting up a 3 meter concrete block wall ... from electronics to construction signage. The floor of her house is made from concrete blocks that were used [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 12:14:00
Tanishq retail store / Pompei A.D
The New York based practice, Pompei A.D., was hired to design the firsts Tanishq stores in the U.S ... beings are similar in that we are products of nature but have spent our lives refining ourselves ... the tops of white concrete and terra-cotta colored plaster walls with a wall of plants cutting the space [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 19:00:18
Fearless
It’s time to step-Up and live BOLD in the face of a sinful generation, a secular culture and a sleeping church ... you for your work. I’m making you as impregnable as a castle, Immovable as a steel post, solid as a concrete block wall. You’re a one-man defense system against this culture, Against Judah’s kings and princes [more...]
Date: 2009-01-23 17:33:30
Texture Tips - TWIP
Photo and post by Lisa Bettany 50mm, f/4, 1/80, ISO 200. Lurking around every corner is texture ... , rotting wooden fences, rusty hinges, chipped paint on window sills, and corrugated metal doors. It’ ... textures together, i.e., blades of grass breaking through a heavy concrete wall, can also provide [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 10:49:17
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