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15 Cool Alcove Beds. Home design DIY Kids Weddings Fashion and Style FOOD Cool stuff 15 Cool Alcove Beds Alcove beds are naturally fun for kids.

15 Cool Alcove Beds

Although they could be very practical in contemporary living spaces so they are good for adults too. Such beds are natural space saving solution because they usually occupies corners or other not the most practical parts of rooms. Share Source: apartmenttherapy, jessicapenner More about alcove beds, cave beds, cozy beds, secluded beds, space saving beds 50 Comments Emmy Says: June 6th, 2011 at 4:10 am #13 is Thomas Jeffersons bed! 7 Trackbacks For This Post 20 Cozy Curtained Beds | Shelterness Says: December 21st, 2010 at 5:15 pm [...] beds are almost as cool as alcove beds in terms of coziness and comfort. Leave a Reply Related stuff Popular: This week Sites we recommend. Natural Pools or Swimming Ponds. Natural Pools or Natural Swimming Ponds (NSPs) Let nature clean the water...

Natural Pools or Swimming Ponds

Chemical-free water garden and swimming pool. The plant portion, or regeneration zone, is separated from the swimming area by the wall seen a few inches below the water’s surface. www.naturalswimmingpools.com The pools have skimmers and pumps that circulate the water through the regeneration zone and back into the swimming area. The aquatic plants filter out contaminants and use nutrients from the water as food which helps prevent algae. Then rocks, such as granite river rock or haydite, to which friendly bacteria attach, act as biological filters. There are many options as to design. A gradual slope contains the plants, gravel and loamy sand, a wall keeps them separate from the swimming area. Vacuum but twice a year and tend to the plants as needed. The regeneration zone can be along the perimeter of a natural pool or a pond unto itself but connected to the swimming area. www.gartenart.co.uk Northeast U.S.

31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects. Old Hickory Tannery "Ellsworth" Sectional - Horchow. Teen Bedding, Furniture & Decor for Teen Bedrooms & Dorm Rooms. Glass door with a surprise.

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So... What do you think? Check this out on our Partner Network. 12 Complex 3D Sculptures Cut from Single Sheets of Paper & Dornob. Of the 187 billion pounds of paper produced on our planet every year, how many are used this creativelyA distinctly modern variant of classic origami art, these three-dimensional works rise up from the page as if the paper were coming alive – animated shapes, scenes and figures carved crisply from generic white paper stock.

12 Complex 3D Sculptures Cut from Single Sheets of Paper & Dornob

The sheets themselves are technically blank (canvasses, if you will) from which Peter Callesen cuts his storybook forms, bent upward and back in on one another – both liberated but also still tied to the page from whence they came. Paper-making was once itself a fine artisan craft, but in the age of mass-production it has become a standardized and recognizable object the world over. The most universal, generic and familiar paper was intentionally chosen by the artist as something that people can relate to – the ordinary made unique and unusual.

Custom Tree House Plans, DIY Ideas & Building Designs. No, really: would you want to design, build and live in an real fantasy tree house all year round?

Custom Tree House Plans, DIY Ideas & Building Designs

More and more people have decided to do just that and where treehouses were once novelty architecture for kids they are now (almost) mainstream structures, as attested to by the pictures above via Bella Seven. Many modern tree house designs and home designers and custom builders take a site-specific approach and construct their tree buildings around not only views and rooms but also have to account for access and structural support in unique and novel ways. Some of the results are little auxiliary spaces intended for guests or vacations while others are fully developed tree homes with everything need for daily living. While a lot of attention is paid to lofty plans by fashionable designers, there are many people who continue to use quite conventional home-building plans, techniques and materials to construct tree homes and cabins that look much like ordinary residences on the ground below.

Natural Home Patio Pools & Outdoor Wood Deck Designs. Sure we all wanted to a swimming pool as kids, but did we ever think about the cost and space it would take up or work it would involve?

Natural Home Patio Pools & Outdoor Wood Deck Designs

Once the hallmark of a luxury home, many people view high-end modernist back-yard swimming pools as either a play-place for the ultra-rich or a hard-to-maintain space-displacing burden of suburbia. A combined pool-and-deck design can be a great green way to make a useful swimming or lounging area that is both visually and ecologically more integrated and sustainable. Surrounding greenery can provide privacy, rocks add to the aesthetic and make for functional seats as well. The use of wood also softens the transition between the man-made and natural portions of the design, blurring the lines between deck or patio and the peripheral environment.

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