They’re Not Popping Like They Use To
A report from Florida Today. “In today’s tough housing market, sometimes it takes some creative thinking to sell your house. Scott Bernard is having a picture-coloring contest and giving away his house in Sebastian ... , like many people who bought homes before the housing market soured, said he could not sell his house [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 14:54:39
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Studio Spotlight: Narrow House
Narrow House, a Spanish design firm, was kind enough to send in some of their beautiful, and award winning work, ... for their house wine." 3 more designs after the jump! Nh1 "There are hundreds of producers of olive ... House we try very hard to surprise our clients so we decided that instead of the doing the usual [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 03:38:24
What's in the Bill?
Both House and Senate have been at work today to create an alternative bailout bill after the modified Paulson plan went down in a surprising House ... , even if they plan to hold the assets for years." House Republican leader John Boehner has already ... narrow defeat of the original bill. House Republicans leaders quickly embraced the revised package [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 06:15:49
Kengo Kuma’s MUJI Houses
Kengo Kuma has taken the understated, elegant aesthetic of Japanese retailer Muji and applied it to two newly designed prefabricated houses ... . In addition, the house has several internal windows that allow you to peek through to other rooms ... house starting at around $200,000 USD. Yanko offers more details: The Window House is based [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 17:24:02
Fennell Floating House
With the icebergs melting and the oceans water levels increasing I’d sure be interested in living in a floating house. Architect Robert Harvey Oshatz has done his best to design this modern Fennell House. Completed in 2004 the spectacular wooden house features a facade that resembles with the shapes and curves [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 10:25:11
Listing real estate the Bloodhound way: How we do open houses
Alas, not every visitor to BloodhoundBlog has the sublime gifts to preen at length about the salutary benefits of a carefully-cultivated humility ... more old school that you, but we try to not be “lazy, stupid and cheap.” We try to price ... houses from ABetterListing.com: We hold Open Houses every week until the home is sold. Why? Because [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 05:01:32
House Waterproofing
With the house back home already finished the renovation. I am so excited to go home next year ... for that one so, I hope it will turn out just fine. So are you looking for a Home Foundation Repair company? I came ... but it worries me that after the huge house renovation there are still needed to be done. Must [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 01:00:59
What Gregory House has to teach us about the banking crisis
I'm a bit of a fan of the medical TV series House. The brilliant main doctor, Gregory House, himself disabled as a result of a misdiagnosis, ... is desperate and Something Must be Tried, but House backs himself to diagnose accurately, except [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:42:02
Moving
13:365 Two days before Christmas, it became official..we bought a house! Who could ask for a better Christmas present. I honestly thought we would never be able to buy a house, not any time soon anyway..while I didn’t have a “real” job. Seem I don’t need to get one now LOL <–That’s our house. Bit of a bargain [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:54:01
Some People Did A Nice Job In Spending Some Money
The Star Phoenix reports from Canada. “The city has been buzzing about housing since the beginning of 2007, ... in Saskatoon history,’ said Janzen.” “‘Last year, we had 10 buyers for each house,’ says Gary Busch ... it. But in late May, friends of theirs put a house on the market, and eventually dropped the $260,000 asking [more...]
Date: 2008-08-13 15:17:09
Weekend Open House Report
The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 533_Steiner.jpg ... Pitch: "Situated near Alamo Square Park this classic Victorian condo offers all the charm of the era ... to trendy & delicious restaurants, transportation and shopping." Open House: Saturday 10/25, 1-4 [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 15:30:05
The House That Death Built (Jun, 1937)
view additional pages The House That Death Built by Dean S ... as it takes to build your house. When hammers are quiet, then death will come.” Frantic, desperate ... to pungent ground, you can see the house, gabled and gaunt, rising wraith-like against a blue [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:08:19
Weekend Open House Report
The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 345435_5_0.jpg ... : "Located on a premier tree-lined block in Pacific Heights, this spectacular modern Victorian hm ... including hdwd flrs, soaring clngs, skylights!" Open House: Sunday 10 August, 2-4 345363_4_0.jpg [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 15:30:04
Weekend Open House Report
The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 826-stanyan.jpg ... modern design. Top-lvl flat w/ wide Indonesian oak flrs leading to a loft-like living & dining room ... no less. Come by, step back into San Francico history." Open House: Saturday 10/11, 1-4; Sunday [more...]
Date: 2008-10-11 15:10:05
Gingerbread Competition results are in
(Cross-posted from the SketchUp blog) Having spent some time perusing the entries for the SketchUp Gingerbread House Design Competition, ... ... First Prize Gingerbread House by Skeat An absolutely beautiful use of the base model ... construction. This is a gingerbread house that aficionados – analog and digital alike – can admire. It's also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 23:23:40
Houses Bigger Than Their Egos
The Sacramento Bee reports from California. “‘Welcome,’ says the letter dated May 20, 2005 ... But we had a chance to get a hell of a lot better deal than that.’” “On Jan. 15, 2008, the house went ... and her family had missed eight payments. O’Hagan lives today in a rented town house in Woodland [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 22:24:49
Weekend Open House Report
The weekend open house slog is nigh, and we're here to help, as always. Agents, have a listing of your very own? Hustle! 2008_12-1-Federal.jpg ... ." Open House: Sunday, 12/14 2008_12-3-Chenery.jpg Location: 3 Chenery St, Glen Park Size ... , transportation, google bus, coffee houses/restaurants. Victorian home has a very flexible floor plan [more...]
Date: 2008-12-13 21:30:04
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 ... of the house - allow the design to accommodate a variety of site and program conditions while also [more...]
Date: 2008-10-15 19:00:43
1967 Modern House For Sale in Tewin
Do you remember the 1964 House For Sale in London that we scooped last week? Today we have another one ... . Designed and built in 1967 by architect Colin Huntley, this beautiful three-bedroom terrace house ... remodeling by STUDIO Blueboat who had the mission to make the living-room/dining-room larger and to move [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 11:50:20
Millbare House in London
Modern architecture and construction works with a philosophy of maximizing resources and yet adding that minimalist design to capture elegance and understated class. The Millbare contemporary house in North-West England captures the essence ... us if you like it. - via Momoy a Millbare House in London [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 20:54:34
Solaleya Makes Weird Houses Feel Normal
Solaleya Dome Home Photo Solaleya makes highly efficient homes. They showed off their designs at West Coast Green last week. The thing is, they look a bit like landed UFOs. Not that dome houses are exactly new, but they also aren't the most common of house forms. Even so, I have to admit I totally wanted to live [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 16:51:22
Parliament House
(c)hobartdaily.com - Parliament House Hobart One of the nice things about living in a place like Hobart is that things are more relaxed in a lot of ways including security. I can walk by Parliament House a metre from the front door and no one cares. Try doing that at the Whitehouse and i am sure you wouldn’t get far! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:30:41
Fighting to protect their house from flames
It took three years for Jim Phung, 47, to remodel his six-bedroom home on Heather Ridge Drive in Yorba Linda ... % sure my house would be burned down,” Phung said, noting that the hills near his home were on fire ... the fire, but their neighbors were not so lucky—their house was almost fully engulfed in flames [more...]
Date: 2008-11-16 05:21:17
The Hillclimber House in LA
Up until now, I was dead sure houses can’t climb, but the talented people from Kovac Architects made me reconsider my position. In the Pacific Pallisades of Los Angeles, they managed to design a house with a contour ... accents and wood, they managed to create a refined minimalist but modern design with classic accents. It’ [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 21:36:52
Cleaning Up A Mess Called ‘Hurricane Greed’
Some housing bubble news from Wall Street and Washington. Bloomberg, “Builders in the U.S. broke ground in May on the fewest houses in 17 years. Housing starts fell 3.3 percent to a 975,000 pace from a revised 1.008 million in April, the Commerce Department said today in Washington. The reading was the lowest since March 1991 [more...]
Date: 2008-06-17 18:31:21
Government Whiskey
With four million people crowded into D.C. today for today’s inauguration, open house at the White House is out of the question — but it wasn’t always. SF Chronicle ... Jackson, “the People’s President,” holds an open house. About 20,000 people trample mud and horse [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:24:54
Little-Known Facts About the White House
(Illustration of President Andrew Jackson’s inauguration celebration at White House courtesy Library of Congress) To commemorate Barack Obama’s historic inauguration as he becomes the first African-American ... in Stafford County, VA, be used to build the White House and other notable DC buildings, including [more...]
Date: 2009-01-20 12:00:50
Web 2.0 at the White House
(Photo: Look close at that lower-left corner, folks: at long last, the American President has a blog.) ... of President Barack Hussein Obama, I was stopped in my tracks by a visit to the White House homepage ... and summaries of all the offices and entities that fall within it. About the White House A concise [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:17:23
It Was Getting Like California
The East Valley Tribune reports from Arizona. “The mortgage crisis is emptying out East Sierrita Road ... there was a bundle of houses selling for around $200,000 down south on Hunt Highway. Dora and Tony liked ... , Dora said she saw nearby houses going for $170,000. Then $150,000. Property records show the houses [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:18:09
Wrap Up
I’ll post my round up tomorrow morning. I’m so dead tired already. Later this afternoon, I did general cleaning in the house. As in the whole house ... . Are you fairly capable when it comes to fixing things around the house, car or work [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 12:26:03
Buyers In A Sharply Declining Market
Readers suggested a topic on where the housing bust is headed ... to buy houses in Palos Verdes and Manhattan Beach without stretching too hard in the mid 1990s.” One observed, “In the town of Bakersfield, I have been purchasing my house for 16 years [more...]
Date: 2008-06-28 14:11:10
Stunning Architectural Project : The Queen Anne House by Blip Design
Designed by architect Jim Burton of Blip this recently built house is located in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood ... remodel with a two-pronged approach, and an affinity for two very different genres. This amazing house has 4 bedroom/3.5 bathroom, and 4322 sq.ft. is is currently for sale at $2.4 million [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 17:49:14
Obama & Government 2.0
New White House Website I don’t discuss my political views in public very often, ... m teaching a web design class this semester, I’d also like to comment on the redesigned White House website ... be facile to point to the redesign of the White House website as an example of that change (see old [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 06:10:51
Obama’s Transparency Problem
Obama’s Transparency Problem Posted by Oliver Marks @ 11:29 pm Categories: Uncategorized Tags: White House, Obama, Collaboration, Groupware, ... - collaboration tools the superstar Obama team have been using are unacceptable to White House lawyers. The 1978 Presidential Records Act requires White House documents to become publicly available five [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:29:42
I Did The Right Thing Not Buying A House, Now What?
Reades suggested a topic on opportunity in the housing bust. “Let’s talk about how to profit from the bust.” “The group of moneyed investors guided by a Wall Street friend of mine (are) currently buying REO single family houses by the dozen from banks at 10% off list [more...]
Date: 2008-07-13 18:22:11
Official Obama White House Web Page Debuts with Partisan Bush Attacks
So much for the example of class and good wishes extended at every opportunity by President Bush! ... by Rahm Emanuel, now White House Chief of Staff, using the phrase “last eight years” as a pretext ... White House Web Site Becomes Partisan Hit Sheet Photobucket side by side comparisons of class vs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 05:34:25
Rare Find: A Sears Roebuck Mail Order House
Last weekend, I took a road trip over the Cascade mountains to Moses Lake, a small town about 150 miles east of Seattle ... mail order home! Who cares about pumpkins - show me the house! Camera in hand, we ventured out to the “white house,” an original 1910-ish Sears home, which is one of 75,000 mail-order homes built [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 22:22:04
2009 Housing Market Prediction
Worst Housing Prediction for 2008 “Existing-Home Sales to Trend Up in 2008″ — Headline of a National Association of Realtors press release, Dec ... can be induced to pay above-average prices for houses and take on more debt when layoffs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:50:03
Novi home for sale sad story
Novi Real estate Novi sellers tips About a year and a half ago I went out on a listing appointment ... kitchen, and bathrooms where my sellers did not. The other two were really close. I left the house ... me they had gone with another agent that was going to list their home over a $125,000 more than the house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:37:11
Garbage Truck Crashes Into Washington House
This has not been a good news week for homes in the Pacific Northwest. First, there was the Portland, OR house that slid down a hill ... years ago, calling it their dream home. See more photos of the house in this slide show. Photo [more...]
Date: 2008-10-09 20:54:56
Floating House in Ontario, Canada
If you ever thought that building a home on water is easy stuff, you got that wrong. There’ ... Magazine, who bring you the latest news in Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture and Architecture [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 08:05:49
Gingerbread architecture for all
Date: 2008-12-16 02:31:00
Trying to Understand Cats
As humans we keep pets in our home because they evoke affection or curiosity and often are given a special status as companions for members of the ... and allow it to become familiar with the house gradually. By giving the cat its own room, it will start ... to the rest of the house, it will automatically go into ‘its’ room to relax. Then in time the cat [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 07:54:21
I Never Liked Grout Cleaning
by William Borris I am not a housekeeper. Never was, never will be. Ever since I was a small tyke, my mother always tried to make me tidy up my room ... the breadwinner in the house, I believe I have things to do that are more important than trivial cleaning ... in the cleaning of the house, but in return, I’m the one responsible for fixing all the broken [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 02:23:29
Home Improvement Ideas: Landscaping
by Alix Montoya There is no better way to enhance your home’s appearance than by properly landscaping the front yard ... ll be surprised at how your house’s value sky rockets with a properly kept yard. Studies reveal ... . If you are planning to sell your house, you are going to need to make an impression on your buyers as soon [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:42:47
Education Stimulus: Where Will It Go?
Education Week has a promising look at what House Democrats are proposing in terms of economic stimulus for the schools: ... , the House Republican leader, issued a statement Jan. 15 saying he was “disappointed” with the bill. The plan “appears to be grounded in the flawed notion that we can simply borrow and spend our way [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 05:28:49
Light and indoor plant care in winter.
Care of house grown plants in northern latitudes during winter can be tricky. There are several challenges that must be met on a regular basis ... cold. In addition to the sunny window it may be necessary to add to the light. One way ... light. Be sure to choose these for the “shady” parts of the house. Certain ferns are a good choice [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 04:21:54
Massive Changes
Again! While neither Jess or I could be at the house to document the action - our amazing crew demolished the darkroom and removed the old duct work ... this old house” project to a 1 week “extreme home makeover” episode…they don’t use plans on that show ... and the furnace! The other good news was someone actually took the old fridge home with them, so [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 05:02:06
Running fast from the world out there.
New Years (especially this one) seemed like a good time to go on a long walk (we went camping in the Santa Cruz Mountains,) ... . Right now, I'm sick of the suburbs. I'm sick of living in my cookie cutter box of a house there. This house was our first home purchase and, even so, there is really nothing about it that excites [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 10:06:34
Weekend Open House Report
Time now for another edition of the Curbed Open House Report, wherein we run down the best of the primo weekend pickins'. Something we missed? ... with modern sensibility. Handsome facade, gorgeous remodel, meticulous attention to detail, quality ... and is graced with preserved period elegance throughout. Three bedroom, 1 bathroom, formal dining room, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 23:47:57
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