Shipping-Container-Architecture Information Repository. Copyright © 2012-2014 by Zack Smith. All rights reserved. Introduction This is a webpage devoted to listing as many examples of people creating tiny houses or adapting to life in micro apartments as I can find, in the hope that it might embolden people to follow suit and embrace a more minimalist, less consumeristic lifestyle. These smaller structures embody the understanding that less is more and that a life of accumulation, of filling in spaces with bought stuff, is an impediment to happiness and should be avoided.
This is mainly a links page, and I cannot guarantee anything at all about the sites that I am offering links to, but I try to periodically search for and add links that are fresh and to thereby offer something useful and interesting. I remove bad links and projects when I find them. If you have a site worth adding, or experiences to relate in making or living in tiny houses or micro apartments, please contact me.
The List Tiny Houses Micro-Apartments Contact. Shipping-Container-Architecture Information Repository. James & Mau Architecture. Corrugated Steel Shipping Containers Do Double Duty As Housing - Architecture. Thursday, July 28, 2011, by Rob Bear <div class="gallery-container"><div class="gallery"><a href=" src=" border="0" /></a><br /><a href=" style="font-size: 9px; text-align: center;">Click here to view the full photogallery.
</a></div></div> Creative architects have latched on to the idea of recycling steel shipping containers to save on construction costs. While it's certainly cheaper, this isn't just some exercise in odd-looking green building, but an honest attempt to create stylish homes out of the ubiquitous steel boxes. ? ? ? ? How to Brown Bag Walls - the Bonnye Manning technique. By Bonnye Manning It was an amazing year in 2002 for BrownBagWalls. As a professional installer, I had been doing some torn-paper effects here and there...mostly, the brown builder paper which has been on decorating shows and around for awhile. Tearing up paper and applying it to the wall isn't something I invented. As a matter of fact, the French did so many years ago and made papier-mache very popular.
In January 2002, timing and luck placed me in a restaurant that was in dire need of some wall work. I noticed it, talked to the 79-year-old owner, who just happened to be walking the grounds with his CEO who is also his daughter. Ten restaurants later, I have done the effect on the restaurants' cedar beams, cedar walls, multi-spec painted drywall, cement block, paneling, Formica, and texture. Great advertising for the restaurant and me. I have learned so much in the last year about sharing this information with people. I want to thank Drawtite@aol.com for the Draw-Tite. P.p.s. Brown Paper Packages… ********If you are new to my paper floors, please read this first********** tied up with string… Brown craft paper is quickly climbing up the ladder as one of my favorite things- and you know how I love my drop cloth. But I just can’t believe the versatility of this also-banned-to-the-painting-aisle material.
Seriously, is there a club for people like me? It all started with my desire to get rid of the carpet in our house. The main floor has hardwood, but the whole upstairs plus the staircase is all carpet. Ridding the house of carpet was becoming more and more of a pipe dream until I picked up an issue of Cottages and Bungalows and saw this: Image courtesy of An Oregon Cottage Jami from An Oregon Cottage had been featured in the magazine for her unique floor treatment using brown craft paper.
It’s pretty bad, I know. I think it’s safe to say that it couldn’t really get any worse. I started by painting the risers white, then gathered my supplies for the paper bagging: Another angle… Brown Bag Walls - diyinspiration.com. Details Created on Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:31 Last Updated on Monday, 31 March 2014 14:33 Written by Mary Kay Hansen Hits: 53802 Brown bagging is so easy to do, and this application can cover a multitude of sins on your walls.
You can even apply torn paper over ugly wallpaper, paneling, textured walls, cedar beams, furniture, fixtures, and even concrete block! I used a Red Rosin Paper instead of the brown paper here in an office. Here's how to brown bag walls, and the supplies you will need to buy: First, seal the walls with Scotch Draw Tite Clear No Run. Here's what brown bag walls look like when using Tufco Technologies Brown Builder Paper from Home Depot. Here I'm applying red rosin paper to the walls at the Schoolhouse General Store in Camp Dennison, OH. There were several blemished spots on the wall that needed repaired like this one. However, the paper covered it up and you can't even tell where they were. There are other high end, hand painted, torn wallpapers that you can buy. Brown Paper Bag Wall Techniques. Faux Suede Wall Treatment" For the Flannerys' office and guest room Rebecca gave new life to the most ordinary items, such as newspaper and jeans.
By copying her simple technique, you can obtain the sophisticated look of suede by recycling an everyday household item: grocery bags. Materials: brown paper grocery bagswallpaper brushesa burnisherwhite gluewatera bucketa razor blade Instructions: Start ripping your brown paper bags in irregular, but large, pieces. BROWN BAGGING THE WALLS. Brown bag wall treatment. This is so painfully easy (and cheap) that even *I* could do it. We moved into a house with hideous warped mismatched fake wood paneling. All the paint in the world wouldn't help with this place and we didn't have a lot of money to spend so I found a cheap alternative. For under $100 I "renovated" the walls in my living room and dining room. It took me 3 days to do both rooms and that was taking my time and making very little mess. You will find many sites with fancy instructions on how to do this, I'm gonna cut to the chase and give you the "cheap and effective" method.
Materials needed: Rolls of crafting paper (how many depends on how much wall you have to cover) * The living room was done in brown paper much like paper bags, while the dining room was done in rose paper. Wallpaper paste * A 3 gallon bucket cost right around $25 Paint roller tray * Makes the whole act of pasting the paper much easier Step-by-step: Ok, here's where it gets fun. BEFORE (yucky) Paper Grocery Bags, Elmers Glue, Rit Dye & Polyurethane = Fabulous Floor! You're Kidding, Right? As you know, I'm participating in www.lovelycraftyhome.com's "Get Your Crap Together Party". I've been frantically working on remodeling my woman cave/craft area. Although this room is not large, the project is taking much longer than I anticipated. Typical for my 1888 house! Anyway, the floor was AWFUL in this area.
I looked on the web for various flooring techniques and I opted for trying out the a brown paper floor. I based what I did on The Ultimate Brown Paper Flooring Guide on Lovely Crafty Home. I forgot to take a before shot but the first thing I had to do was to remove the old tile. Look what I found! Here is the floor with all the tile removed. The instructions at Lovely Crafty Home talk about applying stain to your papered floor (once the glue is dry before you apply your polyurethane) with a light hand.
Anyway, I chatted with my husband about the tar issue and I decided to try out the paper bag treatment in a small corner of the room (glued & polyurethaned). Disposable Gloves. Rocks In My Dryer: Works For Me: Paper Bagging Walls. 45 Kick-Ass Resources for Online Entrepreneurs | Productive Entrepreneur - StumbleUpon. Few people talk about this great productivity tip… You will reach your goals faster and easier if you’re willing to learn from others. Using brilliant, well-crafted resources created specifically for online entrepreneurs improves your online productivity.
Below I have a long list of resources, most of which I’ve used myself. The rest come highly recommended from my mentors and online business friends. Enjoy the list. I’ve arranged the resources from those helpful to beginners to those suited to more advanced entrepreneurs. The links to these resources are not affiliate links. Helpful from the word go… If you’re new to online business, you’ll find value in the following resources. 1. Before you can blog, collect email addresses or sell anything, you need a little piece of real estate on a reliable web server. 2. I’m hoping that no one laughs at this resource recommendation. 3. Today web design is easy. Productive Entrepreneur is running the Genesis framework and the Prose child theme. 4. 5. 12 Websites You Probably Didn't Know You Can Build With WordPress - StumbleUpon. WordPress is the preferred blogging platform for over 35 million bloggers, and this WordPress Tutorial will show you some very interesting (yet uncommon) ways to use WordPress.
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Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches - StumbleUpon. If you’re like thousands of other designers, programmers and other creative professionals out there, at one point in time you’ve considered starting your own business. Unlike most, you’ve gone against common sense and decided to open shop for yourself. And not just freelance full-time, mind you, but file for the company name, get some stationery, and wade through the legal mumbo-jumbo. Maybe even get a real office with a water cooler. This article offers real-world advice from the trenches of a small start-up, and is applicable to designers, web developers, copywriters, usability experts and all manner of service providers. Freelancers take heed: there are several items that are just as pertinent to your profession.
Write a Business Plan#section1 The most important thing you can do to prepare for starting and operating your own business. A few years ago, new age business rhetoric said forget the business plan and just run with it. File for a Fictitious Name#section2 Funding#section3 Good: WNC Green Building Directory | Articles. By Matt Siegel on 03/24/2011 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has,” anthropologist Margaret Mead said.
The Western North Carolina Green Building Council — its members and its founders — demonstrates the truth in those words: About a decade ago, the council literally started as a conversation between two people. It then grew into a group of several people, who started out sitting around a table and discussing how to grow green building in the region. Ashley Featherstone and Jon Senechal representing WNCGBC at Earth Day 2001. In 2011, the organization celebrates its tenth year of helping create a more sustainable and healthier WNC. According to Duncan McPherson, another WNCGBC founder, “The primary need was education at that point, which included educating the city, inspectors, builders and architects. ...
Here are some achievements from the past 10 years that the Council can put numbers to: 10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo Containers: Shipping Container Homes and Offices. Cargo Architecture: 10 Shipping Container Homes & Offices Article by Urbanist, filed under Offices & Commercial in the Architecture category. With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are turning to cargo container homes for green alternatives for office, and even new home, construction. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on the shipping docks and taking up space. The reason for this is that it’s too expensive for a country to ship empty containers back to the their origin in most cases, it’s just cheaper to buy new containers from Asia.
The result is an extremely high surplus of empty shipping containers that are just waiting to become someone’s home or office. There are plenty of benefits of to the so-called shipping container architecture model. The world’s first hotel built from recycled shipping containers has popped-up in Uxbridge, West London. VC Confidential: Why Great Companies Get Started in the Downturns. I have always been amazed by how many of our success tech stories, as well as Fortune 500 companies, started during drastic down turns. Innovation does not take a holiday, and in fact, thrives during difficult times when pain & need are greatest.
While the current downturn is historic, it pails in comparison to the 22 year depression the US experienced from 1873 to 1895, triggered by the Vienna stock market crash. During this extended drought, a large number of Fortune 500's & major corporations started including Eli Lilly, IBM, Merck, Hershey's, Gillette, Alcoa, J&J, Chevron, GE, AT&T, Abbott, Lilly, Coors, Johnson Controls, Bristol-Myers and PPG to name a few. During the great depression (1929-1939), Texas Instruments, HP, 20th Century Fox and United Technologies all launched. Since much of the Valley's legacy came out of HP, the seeds for the current Silicon Valley were planted while the stock market was crashing nearly 90% and unemployment approached 30%. 10 Blogs Entrepreneurs Need to Be Reading | Grasshopper Blog - StumbleUpon.
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