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Almost all pools use a combination of filtration and chemical treatment systems to continually clean the water.

Chemical treatment systems for swimming pools usually include a variety of different sanitizers and disinfectants that attack algae and bacteria.

Algae is a microscopic, plant-like organism, which is nourished by carbon dioxide, and though algae doesn’t spread disease, it does contain bacteria and it can make the surfaces that it covers extremely slippery. Read more…

The Play Pool:Play pools are an option for people who wish to cool off and relax in, can also be built for water sports and for laps. It is generally a good option for families with children. A play pool is quite shallow (Typically no deeper than five feet). Play pools can have a fun design, and are often created in different shapes. Common shapes are kidney-shaped pools, however the shape can be anything the pool owner desires.

Wood Gazebos are freestanding, or attached to a garden wall, roofed, and open on all sides; they provide shade, basic shelter, ornamental features in a landscape, and a place to rest.A gazebo is a pavilion structure, often octagonal, commonly found in parks, gardens, and spacious public areas. Some gazebos in public parks are large enough to serve as bandstands.

The front door and window sills are painted a warm red. The red contrasts beautifully with the pink and cream to bring out the architectural details of the home yard machines by mtd. The rule of thumb is to have three colors on the outside of a home. New seating on the porch and the lack of the security bars help to make a great first impression and the longest yard. Remember, security bars without a quick-release option can be a fire hazard, so when selling a house, retro fit the bars for safety, or remove completely.
The sod is rolled out like a welcome mat — fresh green grass appeals to buyers. Multi-levels were cut into the tiny hillside. Stone steps lead to the upper level, where a bench and new plantings make an inviting sanctuary. Yellow flowers and plantings are used because yellow evokes an emotion of buying.

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This spring, Kate and Brent Halfwassen plan to build a storage shed with a green roof behind their 1,600-square-foot 1890 Victorian home in Riverwest. Because the roof is level with an adjacent slope and can hold 165 pounds per square foot, it will double as a play space.

“A lot of the homes in Riverwest are like that and can do something similar. Kids could look at it as a tree house and parents as a greenhouse,” Kate Halfwassen says.

Benefits of green roofs include reduced stormwater runoff, better heat insulation and reduced greenhouse gases through the plantings. But the Halfwassens also believe that the garden roof reclaims a slice of the urban landscape and serves up a chance to practice sustainable agriculture in an unlikely spot in an unlikely locale. Read more…

Tip-toeing to the tipping point of sustainable buildings and a solar future. That’s one way to describe current activity in local construction.
While most homes and commercial buildings constructed over the past few years rarely go above mandated codes for energy efficiency, some daring developers are pushing the envelope.
Taking risks. Using innovative building practices. Sketching the promise of near-Zero Energy construction for the Georgia coast.
“I’m a plant man.” That’s not only a definition of himself, it also defines Gregg Bayard’s philosophy. A burly former forester and horticulturist, comfortable under a fine patina of dust from a roadway under construction, he and his business partner Curry Wadsworth, with 20 years experience as a landscaper, are turning a heavily wooded, former fishing camp on Salt Creek into a housing development overlooking — and preserving — the marsh. Read more…

It’s the second most used area in the house — right after the kitchen — but is oddly reminiscent of your college dorm room. It’s a hub of household activity — home management tasks, kids’ school stuff, take-home work from your day job — all stored and filed in those ugly cardboard boxes. It’s wired — high speed Internet, a snappy new computer, a color printer — along with a nest of wiring all in a mess at your feet. The rest of your house looks great but your home office looks, well, neglected. Isn’t it time to do something about it? Read more…

PACIFIC PALISADES has been a cool escape from Los Angeles noise, grit and heat ever since Sunset Boulevard was extended to reach the beach in the 1920s. It offered the ocean views of Malibu, the canyon hideaways of landlocked Hollywood Hills and a cloistered playground for Beverly Hills movie stars. The enclave, one of Southern California’s most treasured locales, also became a palette for pioneering architects who embraced the distinctive topography with experimental glass houses.

The Palisades, it can be said, shaped the houses, rather than the houses shaping the Palisades. After World War II, Richard Neutra, Charles Eames and other Case Study House designers landed in the woody bluffs here. Read more…

Lisa Peck and Kristen Mengelkoch, partners in Pisa Design, are making Context, the team’s just-launched magazine on home, inspiration and design, available for download on the web. This issue of the magazine is titled Nesting.

Feature articles include “Wild Design,” an article about the courting rituals of the bowerbird. In the rainforest of eastern Australia interior design is for the birds. And nesting has taken on a whole different look. But this accomplished architect is not who you might expect.
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