When I bought my first old house on the outskirts of Nashville, I wasnt sure what to do with it. A complete newbie with any kind of restoration or renovation, I knew that my 1901 gem deserved to bask in its old glory, but there was so much to be done that a starting point seemed impossible. It wasnt long before inspiration began to wane, and I thought about chucking the whole idea for a nice modern build.
Luckily for my old house, Nashville has a ton of historic homes that make for the perfect inspiration. If those houses could be brought back from the brink and restored to their original beauty, then surely my good-condition Victorian could see the same treatment.
courtesy Carnton Plantation
In my search for inspiration, one of the first places I visited was Carnton Plantation.
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Garage doors are an important part of your daily life. Entering or leaving your home you use the garage door of your house. We do not consider the value of a garage door opener is until the day it breaks. The program garage door opener is one of the amenities of today’s life, and you do not realize it until it fails. And then it is time for the guide to garage door repair.
Garage door services are performed by technicians who are professional system repair garage and can get to know the real problem as they make it work. These technicians completely diagnose the problem occurring in the non-functioning garage doors where they can fix rather than replace with new garage doors. As you’ve already known getting a new garage door would be an expensive purchase that nobody wants to go. Tec Read full post…
Disagreements are a fact of life in any sharehouse. But arguments and bad feelings can be kept to a minimum if we recognise the ‘no-go’ areas when it comes to sharehouse living. Here are 5 reasons a flatshare can go wrong.
1. SLEEPING WITH YOUR HOUSEMATES.
The single biggest source of flatshare trouble is surely sharing a housemate’s bed. Living in a sharehouse situation means a high degree of intimacy. Add sex into the bargain and things tend to move up a notch or two. The intensification of feelings that sometimes arise following sex – maybe obsession, regret, disgust, or confusion – and the fact that you share living space with this person, can make for some uncomfortable moments.
The successful co-habitation of young adults works on the provision of an imagined sense of space and separation; a reasonable amount emotional distance can be important to prevent feeling as though you’ve been swallowed whole by the sharehouse monster. Sex threate
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When I was growing up, I lived in a small home deep in the country, about five miles out from the one-horse town I hated. For 18 years, I lived in that house and swore that no other place would ever feel like home again.
After I graduated college and moved into my own place, my aging parents decided that living far away from town and our relatives was too much for them. They moved closer into a smaller home and were content with the life they had created.
When I visited, the place felt alien to me. It wasnt my home anymore, it was theirs. I felt lost, because no other place I had lived in since ever felt like a home, either. I was simply migrating from one apartment to another. It wasnt until I settled down and established some roots that I decided it was time to turn my house into a home.
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Vastu is pleased to welcome artists Yasuko Fujioka and Stephen Cimini. Stop by between now and early June to see their amazing work.
Yasuko’s collaboration with patterns, employment of materials and my personal letters are her life story…expressions of observations and fascination with the beauty and sorrow of daily life. They are a refined connection to the universality of her essential inner sentiments. These connections are her purest and most honest relation to the world.
A recent recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded to artists with established ability, Stephen Cimini has been developing a vocabulary for his current work since 1996, which originates from the linear landscape of New York City. It
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