We have extensive experience planning and developing loft conversions. We can introduce you to leading materials, designs and ideas such as:
* Glass brick walls
* En suite glass bathroom doors
* Power showers
* Fitted cupboards
* Centralised lighting controls
* Roof balconies and terrace windows
* Skylight banks – even over the roof apex! How’s that for vision? (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. (more…)
Raleigh architect Frank Harmon uses steel, pine as high-tech design meets low-country culture
Today’s Home of the Month is reviewed by Geoffrey Barton, a master’s candidate at N.C. State University’s School of Architecture and graduate research assistant with the College of Design’s Home Environments Design Initiative. Home of the Month, a collaboration with the College of Design, shows possibilities for constructing a living space built with homeowners’ living patterns and preferences in mind. Each month we profile a new home, selected by an expert panel, from designs by area architects. The goal: to offer inspiration and knowledge that can be applied to any living space. (more…)
First it was skateboard ramps. Then it was cutting boards.
Now TrueRide Inc., of Duluth, Minn., is using scrap material from those endeavors to make a line of outdoor furniture.
Loll Designs is the label TrueRide puts on the Adirondack chairs, benches, picnic tables and other outdoor furniture it began making last summer.
It’s the latest venture for a fast-growing company that sold $4 million worth of products and services last year — in addition to moving into a new manufacturing facility in a tax-free zone, building an addition to it, adding employees and starting the furniture line.
TrueRide has done little marketing of the Loll products — so named because it’s “furniture for the modern lollygagger.” That effort will be stepped up in coming months as the product is moved into markets where people have plenty of disposable income, such as the Twin Cities, Chicago and other large metropolitan areas. (more…)
