Kitchen Remodeling
"This is a very small house built on the triangle site where the river and the road were crossed..."
"Whether you are a Homeowner, Paving Contractor, Landscaping Contractor, Landscape Architect, Designer, Dealer or Paving Stone Manufacturer"
notice how kitchen blends in with the formal pillars of adjacent dining room. Open and yet contained.
"You’ve chosen a window manufacturer, you’ve selected the frame material, and you’ve decided on casements rather than double-hungs. But how do you specify glazing?"
"“You need to assume that the building will get wet, somehow, at some point in time. Stuff happens. So you need a moisture-tolerant design. The question is, how much water should a building component be able to handle?"
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"As a general rule, water shouldn’t be allowed to pool within 10 feet of a foundation."
"In this 3-car garage with second floor one bedroom apartment the clipped hip roof, deep gable-roof overhangs and exposed rafter ends are most evocative of the Craftsman style."
"Gravel and other porous materials are rarely the first choice for driveways, which is unfortunate as they have definite benefits over concrete or asphalt."
"HIGH QUALITY, SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR SOIL & WATER PROBLEMS"
"Henrybuilt’s Bar Block ($5,000) cantilevers almost eight inches beyond the edge of an island to become a bar. The other side faces the kitchen and has storage units that can function as drawers or as bays"
"ECOSE Technology reduces binder embodied energy by up to 70%, and does not contain phenol, formaldehyde, acrylics or artificial colors used to make traditional fiberglass insulation."
"Steve’s Garage: Join—or start—a building science discussion group to learn and share green building ideas"
Extreme weather possibly linked to climate change, as well as construction on less stable ground, have provoked unprecedented foundation failures in houses nationwide.