Thursday, March 31, 2005
Guest speaker
Monday, March 28, 2005
Home improvement poll
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Kitchen personality quiz link
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Sunday, March 13, 2005
HGTVPro toilet discussion link
I am tired of the current clogging all the time. Do you have any alternate recommendations?
Viva Terra
I received another organic and eco-friendly catalog recently; it has linens and home accessories and products. Link: www.vivaterra.com
Friday, March 11, 2005
Book review
Building a Cool House for Hot Times Without Scorching the Pocketbook We've all heard that TV commercial that goes, "Don't leave home without it." Well, if you're thinking about building a home and want to do it right, "Don't build your home without it (this book.)" Author Joy V. Smith describes herself as a resident of Florida, which is "hot and humid with possible hurricanes and subsequent loss of power." Whoo-eee! Means lots of air-conditioning, right? No! Author Smith set as one of her housing goals a home that didn't need to rely on air conditioning. In Florida? Sounds impossible. But it isn't. Because Author Smith did her homework, you don't have to. She put several years into gathering the information that goes into a low-maintenance, high-comfort home -- even one in Florida! How do you find the right location? house plans? the right builder? the right financing. Author Smith knows, because she slogged through the process step by step; and she documents it, so you don't have to. She kept a diary of the building process - a day-by-day account of who did what and how it turned out. Just thinking about all that activity made me want to take a nap, a long one. Thank goodness Author Smith did all the leg work -- all I had to do was read about it, which was exhausting enough. But those things have to be done, and Smith tells how, when and where. Anyone serious about building a house -- in Florida or anywhere else -- will save a lot of time, money, effort and energy by studying this modest-sized (61) page book. It will repay your efforts many times over. --
Jean Goldstrom
Editor, http://whortleberrypress.com/
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Architect discussion
There's an interesting discussion going on on the HGTV Pro.com website:
Who Should Design My Residence?
People are going to residential designers instead of architects to design their homes. What do you think about this?