Blog by Beebe Cline, PREC*
January 29th, 2012
The owners of this Victorian-style home loved its traditional style and period details — except when it came to the kitchen. Set in the back of the house, the small kitchen was tucked into a 12-foot wide space, had little storage and room to move around in. The couple hired Hanson General Contractingand Kevin Rasmussen and Vivian Su of Rasmussen-Su in Philadelphia to give them a kitchen that ...
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Vitamin V
January 29th, 2012
As you read this, a 250-KW wind turbine is being constructed to provide 85 percent of the power use of this affordable housing project. Designed by Union Studio Architecture & Community Design in Tiverton, Rhode Island, the 170-acre community was designed with artists and agriculture in mind. The rural character and traditions of farming in Tiverton — a big part of the community — was honored ...
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Vitamin V
January 29th, 2012
I just finished uploading this Commercial for sale, Belle's on Thirty Two - 14007 32nd Avenue, South Surrey, BCPrestigious South Surrey Business & Real Estate For Sale" Belle's Corner " lot 43,558 sq ft.consists of two prime commercial/restaurant buildings W/additional potential for retail,also undeveloped 16,000 sq ft piece of land, parking for 45 cars, licensed Dining Rm fronts 32nd Ave w/B ...
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January 26th, 2012
Throughout his career, Frank Lloyd Wright had a passion for designing smaller homes. From his Prairie School houses in the early 1900s to his one story Usonian houses starting in the 1930s, Wright designed several homes of modest size for the typical middle class American family. Remarkably enough, it was in the 1930s, at the depths of the Great Depression, that Wright was able to realize sev ...
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Vitamin V
January 26th, 2012
Seattle artists Jethaniel Peterka and Yvette Endrijautzki were looking for a rental where they could live and work when they came across an empty storage space above a pet store in the heart of the city's Georgetown arts district. The space had potential, but it was small. They peered through a few holes in the wall, realized the living space could double, and were sold. The transformation of ...