Small House Construction, Design, and Renovation Blogs

Small House Society > Resources Summary. Below are personal blogs and online journals of people working on constructing, renovating, ... . Through sharing stories, photos, videos, floor plans, and other details about the process, others ... on the Victorias cottage but it’s been changed a lot. I’ll try to get a plan up soon.” The Jewel Box Home [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 00:50:07

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Cal-a-Vie: French Romance in Southern California

Remember this house designed by Cote de Texas Top Designer #7 Gerrie Bremermann?   The house is owned by Terri and John Havens, of New Orleans ... on a massive restoration and remodeling, turning the picturesque property into a French dream.  California ... trek to France each year to collect furniture, construction materials and even buildings to bring [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 07:30:00

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

Help Me Strip My Foreclosure

Remove Yourself—Candiria Touch what you can’t have While i have what you can’t touch for now My friend, ... and what is a fixture of real estate. In architectural design, it is possible to create construction drawings ... stripped the house before they left. I mention all this because a reader sent me a Craigslist [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:30:53

Meeting of the Tiny Minds

The internet is a great way to get connected to other people ... books, plans, and seminars on tiny house design and construction. You might be wondering ... works with Jay and is a true entrepreneur. In addition [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 06:01:13

Capsule house designed for an indigent family

.fullpost{display:inline;}While people would to build something like build a house, they want different from other and look unique design, ... appreciates its functionality, as well as low maintenance and construction cost.The plan of this bungalow is based on a square, where internal and external spaces are combined. The capsule containing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:50:00

Role of Real Estate Players in Dream Home Planning and Execution

by katie George A home is where you spend your life, your own place to calm down and revitalize yourself. A sweet home is dream of every people ... be when playing with siblings and dolls during childhood or making a sand house on beach. Sometimes people ... a dream house. You don’t have to worry about the architecture, designs, construction, furnishing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 17:06:13

Role of Real Estate Players in Dream Home Planning and Execution

by katie George A home is where you spend your life, your own place to calm down and revitalize yourself. A sweet home is dream of every people ... be when playing with siblings and dolls during childhood or making a sand house on beach. Sometimes people ... a dream house. You don’t have to worry about the architecture, designs, construction, furnishing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 17:07:01

Single Women Buying Homes - The Phenomenon

I was taking a look at my list of San Francisco clients that are looking for a home or have recently purchased a home and I realized ... twice as many homes as single men Single women make up more than one-third of the growth in real ... houses, condos, TIC’s, lofts, fixer-uppers, new construction, Victorian architecture, modern design [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 09:47:01

Deconstructing the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool

What a concert yesterday. I don't ever remember watching an outside concert for the inauguration. I guess we have had them before ... . When Pierre L'Enfant drew up a plan for a city 10-miles square and centered on the Congress House ... was sited by the McMillan Commission and designed by architect Henry Bacon. Construction [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:48:00

Mister Stanley Wouldn't Be Happy, As Couple Attempts to Tear Down the Historic Marcus House

The Marcus House, as it looked during construction in 1938 Much of what you should know about Stanley Marcus' former house on Nonesuch Road can ... for a demolition permit with the Texas Historic Commission (and not the city, as originally mentioned ... -designated historic structure, the city won't be able to stand in front of the bulldozers [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 03:07:52

Using Arduinos for multi-touch tables to save budgets...

This article was about spending cuts but this caught my eye.. ... ... ...Faust says that typical exhibit designs and construction can be expensive--and that exhibits break ... in-house. (Open-source software and networks are developed by computer experts who believe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 08:00:41

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

a dream, our goal.

I know I have talked about (many times in this blog) how hubby wants to own his home someday, his own dream home ... in any of his home decoration and interior/exterior designs choices because ... . We will definitely visit the site when our dream house starts its construction. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:24:33

The Heterogeneous Home

By Ryan Aipperspach, Ben Hooker, Allison Woodruff _____ In the course of conducting research on domestic life, ... by others as well. For example, the modern housing landscape has been critiqued as offering limited ... with uniform construction, ceiling height, and lighting are symptomatic of designs that deal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 22:58:59

Romero house / at103

Architects: at103 / Julio Amezcua + Francisco Pardo Location: Queretaro, Mexico Project Team: Jorge Vazquez, Arturo Peniche Constructed Area: ... The proposal responds to an specific program for a 4 members family. The design is developed ... the house, considering the use of materials and the program that each box contains. The stone [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:00:00

RoBeau Constructions

RoBeau Constructions Posted by aimesi on October 20, ... /Caemlyn/126/143/22 Aimesi Design modern interactive furniture. Over 500 wonderful articles ... Constructions. I love the prefabs, great Malls and shops. And the best you can choose the house [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 10:50:46

TREND: FIRST LADY FASHION

In honor of tomorrow's inauguration, we've gone back through the years and picked some pieces inspired by the wonderful women of the White House ... Schouler. We've selected a two-piece outfit that is constructed with hallmarks of 60s geographic design [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 01:02:00

Magical realism

Boing Boing readers predict the next five years and beyond ... design group who condense their projects into downloadable manuals, such as the Walking House ... marketeer gets their comeuppance / announcing the construction of a cooled beach in Dubai. Nice headline [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 00:45:14

$156,529 :: 10677 Rain Springs St, Nampa ID, 83687

$156,529 :: 10677 Rain Springs St, Nampa ID, 83687 More Information One This House 4 beds, 2 ... OUR DUST…UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Beautiful single story home with split bedroom design and 3 car garage! ... [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 02:13:51

Obama team's surprise pick: Times New Roman font

Goodbye, Gotham, hello, Times New Roman! The latest addition to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team should certainly be a familiar (type) ... speech is actually a Gryffindor House necktie from the "Harry Potter" franchise ... .' These are designs that are half-way between a warm, humanist 'old style' and an elegant, constructed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 00:23:16

Modulex: Legos for grown-ups

In the 1960s, the designer of the modern Lego brick formed a new company to make a product for adults called Modulex. In the early 1960's Godtfred was building a new house and, naturally, he tried to model ... of 6:5, was different than standard European construction modules of 1:1. Rather than contend with the problems [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 20:23:08

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