Maine Coast Home Design » Renovations

7 essential guidelines for making small rooms appear larger

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:01:24 +0000

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Excerpt: Developers are squeezing more out of their available land area for their new projects by building smaller apartment units. Demographics are also changing with smaller families. So ,how do you make a small apartment look bigger than it is? Here are 7 tricks of the trade : 1. Using mirrors to cover the entire length of walls has a dramatic effect of making the room look so much bigger and spacious. Mirrors have the ability to create the illusion of space. Instead of seeing the wall your mind is tricked into believing the space of the room is twice as big. 2. In…

Green Building and Renovating

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:25 +0000

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Excerpt: Is it from the start of construction or renovation of parts of existing home owners and many home buyers are looking for opportunities for more green in their living rooms than ever before. While most home owners well aware of the benefits of purchasing energy efficient appliances, there are some other interesting ways that you can build or renovate a green focus, that you might think. Steel a home is one way to make your stay more environmentally friendly that many people do not’t think, since the pins in your walls, hidden from view….

Determining the Best Time to Make the Move

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:00:18 +0000

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Excerpt: For those who have had experience of being at home with a dusty floor, bathroom outdated, leaking taps, cramped rooms and a kitchen mess, the decision to renovate is fairly simple. But is it really that easy? Is home renovation is the only way to deal with this kind of situations at home? Are you not considering the trade up your current home’s new? There are some criticisms that need to take into account the situation requires a long overdue update your home. The basic question to be answered on this – is it…

How To Beat Drug Test

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:43:12 +0000

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Excerpt: If you have an upcoming drug test that you are sweating over, you should consider some of the most efficient ways to skate by one. You might find that everyone has their own favorite method of how to beat drug test results, but there are a few methods that seem to be pretty common. Through the course of the upcoming paragraphs, you are going to get a look at three popular methods of being able to beat a drug test. While there are certainly more than even this, you should be able to look to these paragraphs and get some inspiration…

Low-carb or low-fat

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:43:02 +0000

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Excerpt: International organizations and governments are now more or less agreed we have an epidemic of obesity so, for the research community, the big question is which diet to recommend. Note the “recommend”. There’s no willingness in any government to try forcing a change in what we eat. The best first step is to recommend the most effective diet based on the best available evidence. There are a number to choose from under the general headings of low-carb, high-protein, high-fat diets. The problem with much of the current evidence is the small number of people enrolled in short-term trials. To be…