Category: Fireplaces

Jun - 23
2019

11 Kids' Beds Built in Dreamland

It is often difficult for kids to go to bed. Make bedtime more enticing with a canopy fit for a princess, a tucked-away bunk bed that feels just like a key fort or a bed wrapped in a playhouse. The…

Jun - 20
2019

Tune In to the Music of Architecture

It is a truism that structure is, as Goethe so famously noted, “frozen music” Just as in music, design has rhythm, beat, cadence, tone, style, etc.. And just as in music, structure can be gotten slowly, fast, forcibly, gently, sweetly,…

Jun - 08
2019

15 Couches That Dare to Be Different

I really don’t know youpersonally, but I’ll wager that we have nearly identical couches: some edition of brownish (mine is Otter), beige or grey. Two or three cushions and a cushioned arm to lean up against. However, it does not…

Feb - 10
2019

Stair Nosing

“Nosing” generally indicates the edge of a stair tread that extends beyond the riser; it can also refer to some strip inserted to the border of a plank to provide a protective edge or a decorative appearance, or to hide…

Jan - 21
2019

How to Help Your Trees Weather a Storm

It seems there is no limit to big, bad and ugly weather occasions. When big storms hit with wet snow, heavy rains or gale-force waters, trees suffer. Mature trees are susceptible for any number of motives, and when an older…

Dec - 23
2018

Butt Hinge

A butt hinge joins a door and a jamb in the surfaces which abut. The plates of a butt hinge hook to the wood with screws and take the weight of the swinging door by pivoting on a pin. 360…