Posted November 19th, 2011
by Lilly Kibble
I had not heard about Moab, Utah, until a friend emailed me the home he is selling there. First of all, gotta love Utah. We used to ski there every year when our children were younger and I fell in love with the state. In fact, that may be when my love affair with second homes blossomed, at SnowBird. So when I heard about Moab, I perked and poked.
The closest city is Grand Junction Colorado 1 1/2 hours away by car. Salt Lake is about 4 hours away by car, north. Theres a local airport with regular flights from Denver.
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Tags: Home, Second Home Posted in Home Design Tips
Posted November 18th, 2011
by Bethany Rolph
Did you know that the average homeowner turns on the heat, or cranks up the cold, 1500 times per year?
Of all the things we could automate and rarely do, temperatures seem too tempting a candidate to pass up.
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Posted November 15th, 2011
by Patrick Eldershaw
Cape Town based Martine Jackson is the creative co-director of the Carrol Boyes brand as well as a ceramicist in her own right. Ceramics remains a great passion for Martine, who was introduced to it by her late mother, ceramicist Barbara Jackson.
Distinctive organic shapes adorned with repetitive patterns are the hallmark of Martine Jackson’s one-of-a-kind, hand-built ceramic pieces. This is reflected in Curve, her debut range of ceramics for Carrol Boyes.
She draws inspiration primarily from nature from the earth with its myriad textures, mountain contours and organic patterns, regular or irregular. Althou
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Tags: Boyes, Carrol Boyes, Martine Jackson Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted November 12th, 2011
by Patrick Eldershaw
Are you finding yourself in the middle of an earwig accumulation. Earwigs though are pests usually are not considered to be very much problematic but however the truth that they will cause injury to your garden is of concern and so as to add to this reality the concept of getting pests around you is enough so that you can take action.
An interesting strategy is to draw birds to your garden. Birds feed on pests and help care for the issue quite naturally without introducing any chemical substances which will assist shield your garden.
Moisture atmosphere is like having a home for earwigs subsequently lower moisture as much as you’ll be able to and particularly around the basis of the house can prove to be very helpful. Read full post…
Tags: Earwigs Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted November 11th, 2011
by Bethany Rolph
Television is a very good medium to share information to the public at large. With programs that educate while entertaining we can increase the attractiveness of the community to learn, and use of new developments in their daily activities. Many people expected in the late 90s that the television will be totally obsolete and replaced by personal computers in a decade. Well, this is the year 2011 and we still can say it has not happened. Certainly, television today is very different from what we ve got the time. During the day -to-day, interactive television has not been taken yet and the set of Xbox entertainment incapable or YouTube streaming.
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