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General Grant, Re-historic, Bungalow House Plans
December 19, 2010
The General Grant is a house that was built to accommodate the desires of these particular homeowners. Once the plan had been designed and construction began we quickly realized what a great plan it was across the board for more than just this family. This house was built in Fort Collins, Colorado and has the open spaces like most of our plans and yet has it’s own unique touches and flavors.
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Autodesk Project Dragonfly Getting Started (Part I)
December 19, 2010
http://www.homestyler.com Learn how to start a new design, use the Designer, and add or modify rooms, walls, and areas in your Project Dragonfly design (now Autodesk Homestyler).
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Log Cabins, a Real Necessity in the Current Economic Climate
December 17, 2010
In the current economic climate log cabins has become more than never a real cost effective alternative against renting an office, self-storage unit or even a bigger home in case the family has group up. That’s why at Cedexx Log Cabins (http://www.logcabinbuildings.co.uk)we’ve dedicated our time and efforts in finding a real solution to the current economical difficulties for small companies or self-employed people, also for the extra living space required by a new member in your family, playrooms, study rooms or workshop.
At Cedexx Log Cabins, http://www.logcabinbuildings.co.uk, we’ve developed a wide range of small log cabins that can be used as a home office, study room, workshop, playroom, gym, sauna or even to accommodate unexpected guests, starting from 3×3 m (9.84×9.84 ft) up to 8×5 m (26.24×16.40 ft) our range of log cabins can be supplied in 28, 34 or 44 mm log thickness, along with roof shingles, wood protector, double glazed windows and doors and many more optional extras.
Home Office / workshop
Is no need to spend a fortune on renting an office when you can have a log cabin from as low as £1000 in the comfort of your own garden from where you can start working while you are keeping an eye on your kids.
So why not to save a fortune (at least £3000-£4000/year) and work from your own home dedicating more time to your family and friends but also to your job?
Playroom / study room
Many kids enjoy the ‘rustic’ charm of a log cabin and they can make a wonderful addition to their playground. Proper sitting, construction and maintenance of your log cabin can protect your investment and give you and your family many years of enjoyment.
Log Cabins for living / Holiday home
At Cedexx Log Cabins we have developed a wide range of mobile log homes dedicated to accommodate a small, medium or big family, with wall thicknesses starting from 90 mm (9 cm), double glazed windows and doors we can guarantee the complete satisfaction of our customers, with prices starting from as low as £9995 you can have a superb log home, for temporary or permanent living.
Bespoke Log Cabins, http://www.bespokelogcabins.co.uk
It’s hard to believe that you won’t find something in our products range to suit your needs but anyway you should know that we also do bespoke log cabins, so even if is a small log cabin from 1×1 m or a large log home or log restaurant we can do it and unlike some of our competitors we won’t charge you extra for this.
Log Cabins
http://www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/log-cabins-a-real-necessity-in-the-current-economic-climate-739233.html
Success Depends on Carrying Over Your Marketing Message to the Retail Floor
December 17, 2010
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I decided to spend a day in the yard raking up the last of my fall leaves. Not wanting to lose my belt-clipped cell phone during the process, I removed it, placed it on the counter and did my best to corral the leaves that ultimately would fill 23 yard bags.
After completing my chore, I went to retrieve my phone, but instead of finding it on the counter where I had left it, I found it submerged in the dog’s water dish at my feet. It seems that the vibrating ring tone gave my cell phone just enough mobility to walk to the edge of the counter and take the plunge into the drink.
Replacing the phone involved a sales procedure I’m sure all marketers would like to mimic, but very few can. It involved me setting an appointment with a sales consultant, who actually understood the various cell phones being offered and the service plans that were available- a 45-minute visit with the sales consultant and me walking out the door not only with a new phone and higher-priced service plan, but also an entirely new commitment to a broadband wireless Internet service via the mobile phone network.
Compare my experience to another high-tech consumer shopping experience that will be repeated over and over this holiday season: shoppers seeking an HDTV from Santa. Many walk into an electronics store after seeing an ad in the newspaper or a commercial on television convinced that they want the high-def viewing experience but fuzzy on the details. They engage in a conversation with a sales associate who may be selling HDTVs one day, computer peripherals the next and maybe even a kitchen range the next. Customers ask questions, sales associates do their best to answer, but things get murky -so much so that as many as 30 percent of HDTV owners don’t sign up to receive an HD signal via cable or satellite, according to a recent article in USA Today.
Oh how the Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung and other HDTV manufacturers must pine to create a sales experience involving their products like the one I had buying my new cell phone!
Consider this: In 2006, total spending on advertising in the United States will exceed $150 billion, according to an article from Metrics 2.0. Yet once an ad runs in a newspaper or magazine or a commercial is played back on television, the amount of control a marketer can exert on messaging, consumer education, and influencing a purchasing decision dissipates rapidly. How many marketers get a little queasy thinking about the money they’ve spent on an ad that motivates a consumer to go to a store to buy their product, only to have those shoppers redirected by a sales associate into buying a competitor’s product? Compare that to my friendly sales associate who educated and influenced my cell phone purchase in an environment that the cellular service provider controlled.
While it’s not practical for all the HDTV manufacturers or those of other products to offer their products in their own stores where they control the sales process as thoroughly as my cell phone salesman, it is important that marketers begin to see retail stores as a communications medium, according to a recent MediaPost.com article.
In “In-Store Media Significant Influence on Purchase Decisions,” author Jack Loechner quotes Joe Pilotta, vice president of research for BIGresearch, as saying that “the store is a medium of communications” and “media has relevance and influence on a purchase decision.”
That’s where digital signage can stand in for a knowledgeable sales consultant like the one I encountered. Digital signage can carry through the marketing message transmitted in newsprint or on TV to the point of purchase, relieving to a large degree, the nausea that strikes marketers who wonder what happens when they’re ads are no longer present to influence events.The Bigresearch study quoted in the article found that in-store TV influenced or greatly influenced 10 percent of adults 18 years old and up in making purchasing decisions. The tie between in-store TV and digital signage is obvious. What might not be as obvious is that digital signage can play a strategic role for marketers and retailers when it comes to shelf coupons and special displays, which influenced or greatly influenced shoppers 39.5 percent and 35.5 percent of shoppers, respectively. Digital signage plays in this space particularly in terms of shelf coupons when set up with the right software and hardware to do double duty as an interactive kiosk.
What’s needed to pull off this carry though in marketing messages to the store floor is deep sixing old attitudes and concepts about marketing and planning ways to use digital signage strategically to re-enforce and expand upon the print and broadcast ads that currently command the biggest share of the marketing budget. Doing so may soon mean the difference between success and failure.
David Little
http://www.articlesbase.com/multimedia-articles/success-depends-on-carrying-over-your-marketing-message-to-the-retail-floor-79346.html
Energy Efficient Homes: Paving Ways for a Carefree and Healthy Living
December 13, 2010
The construction of new homes offers the opportunity to adjoin ecological features that ensure ideal settings for energy effective living. Every individual craves for a healthy living and considers home as the best place of safety. Energy Efficient Homes provide the most favorable healthy surroundings along with great energy savings. Home is the place where a person looks for some relaxation and spends time with family. The right lifestyle is depicted by the secured kind of investments made by a family. The use of attractive yet energy efficient homes provide maximum exposure to electricity savings. There are aspects of life that need to be maintained in order to attain balance in terms of physical, spiritual and mental health. This altogether makes one feel the sense of total wellness.
Energy Efficient Homes have certain advantages as compared to other usual homes. These edifices reduce huge construction costs and wastes. They also reduce callback and warranty problems. Energy efficient homes normally spend approx 20 to 30 percent of total energy expenditure and reduce heat loss by fifty percent in contrast to housings that are not energy efficient. A self sufficient home earns a higher real estate value for itself and also reduces the amount of carbon emissions. A well maintained Energy Efficient Home retains heat adhering to a warmer atmosphere for generations to come.
We provide a wide range of Eco Homes in Ireland and around which abide by the rules of energy efficient home policies. The most common standards include insulation, tuning the thermostat down, solar orientation etc. There is a popular saying in science, “Energy conserved is energy generated”. Solar Panels and other renewable sources of energy are among other sources of conserving energy in Energy Efficient Homes. Limiting the air leakage is a leading factor in conserving heat and hence reducing energy wastage. This in turn helps in controlling air quality and humidity.
The construction of Energy Efficient homes requires the right combination of few factors such as the electrification system, the foundation, wall structure, roofing along with the ventilation. Altogether they present the most ecological, economical, energy efficient and healthy dwellings. A correctly planned housing project involves low costs and well orientation. For detailed information on our Energy efficient home schemes, log on to http://www.techstore.ie/Renewable-Energy/Energy-Efficient-Homes/Energy-Efficient-Homes.htm
Aidan Doran
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/energy-efficient-homes-paving-ways-for-a-carefree-and-healthy-living-273080.html
Electric Floor Heat- An Unseen Comfort
December 13, 2010
Designing the layout of a future home ranges from a very simple process to an extremely complex endeavor based upon the resources and vision of those who within will ultimately reside. Despite the level of intricacy, however, kitchens, bathroom, bedrooms, and family gathering areas are characteristic of all plans while functionality and comfort are the overriding goals. Prized is the finished product conducive to living, laughter, and the making of lasting memories. Although functionality often lies in the basic structure, comfort truly goes beyond in details both visible and hidden. Amidst the wealth of available comforts is a revolutionary system of electric floor heat that boasts an array of desirable applications. Whether modest or expansive, kitchens and bathrooms are ideal settings for the unseen luxury of electric floor heat.
Although widely diverse in dimension and layout, color and texture, functionality and style, and personal finishing touches, kitchens across America are universally built upon floor coverings resistant to the perils of spilled foods, pet tracks, and shoe marks that signify a thriving home and the activities of everyday life. Types of flooring made to endure such heavy traffic, however, are cold and uncomfortable to the touch of bare feet and fail to emanate the feeling of warmth that should characterize all that is associated with a kitchen space. Electric floor heat offers an innovative solution to chilly tile or nippy hardwood through the installment of radiant heat products above the subfloor and below the surface covering. In addition to being compatible with tile and hardwood, electric floor heat also works effectively with granite, marble and other stone varieties as well as with vinyl. Imagine the coziness of early morning breakfasts, enhanced enjoyment of creative cooking, the soothing warmth of midnight snacks, and meaningful conversations with family and friends lingering in contentment. Allow radiant electric floor heat transform such appealing visions into a luxurious reality.
The blare of radio music or consistent buzzing of a morning alarm signifies a wakeup call to meet challenges and pleasures of the day ahead. Despite the overwhelming desire to remain curled up in cozy blankets, avoid cold bathroom floors, and fulfill so often unmet needs for rest, the demands of life beckon and the willful mind overcomes instinctual desires. Installation of electric floor heat in bathroom areas can play a soothing role in the sometimes unpleasant nature of this daily routine. With radiant heat, the shock of frigid floors can be avoided when Mother Nature calls in the middle of the night. After a long, rejuvenating soak in a jetted tub, step down onto a surface radiating invisible warmth to maintain the level of relaxation reached. For children who love to turn bath time into a session of play and fun, sliding, splashing, and wet bathroom floors present no hazards associated with electric floor heat. Rather, this trustworthy product only makes departure cozier to tiny, withered toes. The radiant heat elements used in transmitting ideal temperatures through an assortment of flooring varieties operate at a low-voltage rate, making electric floor heat an extremely safe yet appealing alternative to chilly encounters upon first touch. Incorporating radiant heat into bathroom surfaces can transform daily routines into spa like experiences.
Ideal in any setting, but especially pleasurable in kitchen and bathroom environments, electric floor heat elevates the quality of life of all who enjoy tossing restrictive shoes and moving about barefoot within the privacy of home. Indulge the feet and soothe the emotions with radiant elements created to effect a lasting sense of encircling warmth and wellbeing.
George Finnerin
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/electric-floor-heat-an-unseen-comfort-133737.html
Hillside Walkout House Plans by Donald Gardner Architects
December 11, 2010
A collection of our homes that have walkout basements. These popular house plans are designed for slopping lots and most maximize the view.
http://www.dongardner.com/Hillside_Walkout_House_Plans.aspx
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THE NANTAHALA HOUSE PLAN # 06383 BY GARRELL ASSOCIATES,INC. ( Board & Batten Elevation) GA3
December 11, 2010
This version of “The Nantahala” has a Board & Batten exterior coupled with rustic accents.A wrapping covered rear porch provides a panoramic view to the rear of this masterfully designed plan. This Ranch style home is a split bedroom plan providing private spaces.Nantahala plan # 07330. Visit our website for similar plans, The Lake Timber Cottage # 07094 & The Brookbridge Cottage # 06401 at www.garrellassociates.com or call 1-877-215-1455
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Pictures of Traditional Country House Plan Walkthrough Video – HPG-1635-1
December 11, 2010
http://www.HousePlanGallery.com – 601-264-5028 – In this video, we take you for a walkthrough of the floorplan of our Award-winning Traditional Country Style Home Design – HPG-1635-1. If you have any questions about this house plan, just let us know…
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Log Cabin Kits Ready For Use
December 10, 2010
What is a log cabin? This abode is known to be a tiny house made out of logs. From the name itself, a log cabin is a log house that simple in nature. These infrastructures were built in both cities as well as rural areas all over the world that has a rich source of timber. With log cabin kits, you can now construct your own cabin instantaneously!
What is a log cabin? This abode is known to be a tiny house made out of logs. From the name itself, a log cabin is a log house that simple in nature. These infrastructures were built in both cities as well as rural areas all over the world that has a rich source of timber.
These log homes were built first by Swedes in the US back in the year 1638. At present, the location where the cabins are now standing is called Wilmington, Delaware. They were primarily used as animal shelters, coops as well as other practical uses.
These Log cabins have reached the peak of their elaboration as well as complexities during the 18th due to its Adirondack style. With this, a lot of lodges were built during the later part of 19th as well as in the early 20th century in most of the areas under the United States Park Service.
In the 1930′s, a lot of cabins were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps as a place to stay in for the Forest Service as well as the Park Service. On Mount Hood, the Timberline Lodge was built as a dedication for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
During the same year, the biggest log cabin in the world was built in a resort located at Montebello, Quebec, Canada. It is often called “log chateau” before. At current, it is popularly known as Chateau Montebello Hotel.
Moreover, at present, log homes are known to be the log cabin’s modern version. It is a home usually built with pre-milled logs. When looking at the exterior of the house, the logs are visible. However, as for the interior, sometimes the logs are not seen. Due to modern technology as well as design techniques, these cabins are now mass produced throughout Scandanavia as well as Eastern Europe. They usually use pre-cut squared logs that were already milled for easier self-construction. In most rural areas and some suburban regions, these log homes are famously used. In Western America, log homes with stones are mostly seen in resorts. In addition, log cabin kits are known by the major consumers in the logging industry, especially in the western part of the US. As for people in Europe, they use log cabins there for their gardens, cottages as well as summerhouses.
Furthermore, if you want to see an original hand crafted log cabin kit, you can visit The Museum of the American West (MAW) which is located in Lander, Wyoming. The Museum of the American West is known as a historical working museum which provides its visitors with great demonstrations that is related to West America. The logs used originated from the actual Wind River Mountains. Moreover, these logs are known as standing beetle killed dead trees.
Aside from this, the logs used for the cabin kits are made to be skip peeled which reveals their unique patterns as well as designs of boring pine beetle bark. There are also various designs as well construction choices you can choose from. The logs’ corners may be squared or beaver cut. Plus, the only logs used are the hand notched. Once these logs are assembled, they are then numbered as well as taken apart so that they can be ready for shipment in their destined location.
There are various types of Log Cabin kits:
Wolverine – 16 inches by 18 inches equipped with ½ lofts. Starting price is $13,000.
Timberwolf – 20 inches by 24 inches equipped with ½ lofts. Starting price is $15,900.
Grizzly Log – 24 inches by 34 inches equipped with plenty of rooms. Starting price is $19,800.
Custom built log cabins are also sold. The price of the design is free. Only the amount and thickness of the logs are being priced. You need to view the logs first before a price can be settled.
Thus, log cabins are a favorite of many hikers and climbers especially during the summer and winter seasons. Not only do they provide refreshing air they also make you feel in touch with nature.
David H. Urmann
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/log-cabin-kits-ready-for-use-457580.html