Having been an avid DIYer for more years than I’d like to admit, I’ve run into more than a few embarrassing situations. Even with measuring twice (nay, FIVE times) a board will still get cut too short now and again. Those kinds of incidences aren’t so much embarrassing as profanity-producing. No, I’m talking about stuff that is so mortifying you want to crawl in a hole. Case in point: Several years ago I decided to make a mosaic ‘Welcome’ sign to put in my garden. I cracked and broke the tiles into just the right sizes, glued them down with thinset onto my sub-straight, waited a day and then grouted it up. It looked great!
The sign was sitting on a bench in my garage, waiting to be installed when our friend Colin came over.
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A beautiful and highly sustainable home that requires a third of the cooling and half the heating of similar homes, the Thomas House, set on an 11 acre site in the Cascade foothills and overlooking Mt. Rainier and Everett City in Washington state is a perfect example of passive house design.
This comes partly simply from the cube-like shape, putting a compact four stories on a relatively smaller footprint. But the house, designed by Designs Northwest Architects, also boasts very high thermal insulation due to the construction with ICFs two layers of rigid foam insulation into which concrete has been poured.
In addition, the use of lots of glass also contributes to the homes energy efficiency. Wa
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Air conditioners are a nice convenience, but they’re not completely necessary for keeping your cool during the summer. They can be noisy and expensive to run. And as nice as cool air is, fresh air coming in the open windows carries the distinct advantage of making your house smell like summer and giving you free background music via the birds in your neighborhood.
While Lloyd has done a magnificent job of writing about improvements you can make to your home to cool it without air conditioning, I thought I’d focus on easy tips and tricks for cooling off. These quick, simple ideas will offer immediate relief from the heat, no matter how hot it gets.
5 Easy Ways to Cool Off
1. Keep a Spray Bottle in the Fridge Keep a small spray bottle full of water in the refrigerator. When you’re feeling hot, mist your face and neck a few times with the cold water for instant relief.
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Modern house interior decorating nowadays always concern with every room. Home interior decorating is a popular hobby and a great way to get creative and beautify your home. Room design is one of the rooms that people most thought about the item inside. It’s because they don’t want to lose their chance to beautify every single room in house interior with decorating. Whether you are decorating a room or the whole house?
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