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Jay Shafer takes you inside his tiny 100 square foot tiny home.
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com

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My family and I are looking for a house in Maryland that isn’t expensive, but is a fixer-upper. Does anybody have any suggestions of where to even start looking? Has anybody been to auctions for houses?

I would first get a newspaper from the area you are looking at.
You also might drive around and see if there are any "fixer uppers" that look vacant. If you do find any, check with the neighbors to see who might own the house and go from there.

Best Wishes!
Debra

Hello Everyone,I have a video editing and compositing suite in Mumbai,India and i am a professional video editor and compositor.The point is that i am wanting to contact production houses(Mostly small budget) situated in Abroad as i have beneficial offers for them in terms of my service rates which i’ve lowered down.Is the way of sending them emails a good one?Or are there any other ways to promote my studio and get work.Is there a website specially meant to be in touch with these production houses?

Try craigslist in different countries and you will get a good response.

A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.

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how come people with such clean houses seem to do zero housework. My family works about 30 hours every weekend, and dilligently, but we never seem to get anything done. Our yard is a mess, our house is dirty all the time. What do I need to do?

There are actually potentially several factors that affect household cleanliness, regardless of how many hours you spend working on it.

First, how many people and pets are in your house and what are their ages? The more people and pets per square foot, the messier the house is going to get faster and be harder to keep clean.

How are the people in the house about cleaning up after themselves as they go along? Even if you have, say, 3 people and no pets, if the people leave their things trailing through the house, get out everything in the kitchen every time they eat, leave dirty dishes, crumbs and open containers out, throw trash AT the can instead of putting it in the can, etc., etc., etc. – your house will never be clean no matter how much time you spend cleaning it. ONE personal slob can ruin it for everyone else in the house.

How much organization do you have in place so that everything has a place it belongs? The more things that have to be "kept" out in plain sight, in stacks or piles, on counters, etc. the messier your house will look and the harder it will be to clean. If you want a house that appears clean most of the time and is relatively easy to clean you have to be brutal on clutter!

Do pets and people track in debris from outside making floors a perpetual mess? Getting GOOD high-quality outdoor mats and indoor floor mats can save you hours of work per week trying to keep floors clean.

My biggest home cleaning proactive trick is to outthink the mess. I look at what mess is giving me the most trouble and then figure out how I can short-circuit it – what can I do before hand to keep it from happening. I’m doing this constantly – looking at the next thing that bugs me most. This is a "forever" practice, I’ve been doing it for years. There’s always some next thing that needs to be improved.

The two most recent changes I made were, first, moving my daughter’s toys and stuff all into a bedroom rather than in a "playroom" that was the first room when you walked in the front door. While I hate having her stuff in our shared bedroom (which is very large), it does more for my peace of mind to walk into a clean room when I come in the front door.

Second, I put a larg-ish baker’s rack in that front room (which I turned into my office since I’m in school full time). That is the dump-it spot for everyone’s backpacks, keys, wallets, papers, mail, etc. Of the four of us here, 3 carry backpacks, 2 or us share a set of keys, 3 of us get mail, one has bike gear that gets dropped (helmet, gloves, etc., etc.) and I have one adult "slob" who leaves his stuff all over the house. Now, most of the stuff lands where it belongs, if it doesn’t I can ride someone’s hide to move it, and I have a clearly-defined grounds for getting PO’d if my "slob" leaves a trail through the house.

If you set up good proactive measures for keeping it straight, it shouldn’t take 30 hrs to clean every week. A house can be completely cleaned (as in toilets, floors, dusting, etc.) in 4-6 hours a week by one person. It’s all the mess cleanup that takes so much time – picking up dirty laundry, taking out trash, unburying the furniture, etc. If everyone in the house were working together and all you had to do was cleaning – you could get EVERYTHING done in 4-6 hours, with the possible exception of laundry and seasonal tasks like cleaning light fixtures or washing exterior windows.

One last factor, believe it or not, I THINK, is a person’s inner peacefulness. This may seem weirder than weird, but when the people in the home are "ordered" inside, they seem to instinctively keep their environment ordered as well. That doesn’t mean they are naturally organized, just that a peaceful inside produces a peaceful outside. Harmony in, harmony out.

The DVD “HOUSES OF STRAW” is available at www.ecofilm.de (in PAL format)
DIRECT LINK: http://www.oekofilm.de/index.php?id=20,33,0,0,1,0

For USA and other NTSC-countries: DVD available at greenplanetfilms.org
(DIRECT LINK: http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=660)

Description of the DVD:
Strawbales are a new, interesting building material: it is a sustainable, ocologically sound resource, available in abundance. Strawbale walls achieve highest insulation values and offer a healthy, beautiful living environment.
This film is a trailer for a DVD called “Houses of straw”, shot in Germany. It shows the recent developments, many examples show the different possibilities of building with straw. In interviews with owner-builders, architects and experts we hear a lot of importants aspects. And: an exciting fire test shows: strawbale walls don´t burn!

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I am making a model industrial revolution house for a history project and have the exterior of it near perfect to what pictures I could find but I am unable to find pictures/ info on what the INSIDE of these houses looked like. PLEASE what did the inside of these houses look like, I NEED DETAILS!!

Thank you soo much!

http://www.kunsthandel-nds.de/images/dscf0063.jpg

http://www.55plus-magazin.net/uploads/kommode.jpg

http://www.marcaurel-antik.com/slideshow/p004_0_1.jpg

http://www.marcaurel-antik.com/mobel.html

but it´s all european.

http://www.anthonyfell.com/antique_furniture.asp

*******I DON’T OWN ANYTHING*******

I just made this for fun. I apologize if some of the lyrics are wrong, but please feel free to tell me and I’ll be happy to change them to the correct lyrics.

~Lyrics~

The end begins just as it starts,
And leaves me wondering what we left behind.
Told me not to talk but please explain
My thoughts that float around my mind

So take a step back will you
Be alright, feel alright?

And now…

All this time when we walk we won’t feel,
Put some time in a box it won’t steal you

(Oooohhh)

Up ahead I see it I can find it, but I feel alive.
Followed me inside of a place
I felt like things would still be alright

And now…

All this time when we walk we won’t feel
Put some time in a box it can steal you
All this time when I talk its not real, its not real, not real, not real, its not real

(Oooohhh)

All this time when we walk we won’t feel
Put some time in a box it wont steal you
All this time when I walk, I wont feel, I wont feel
All this time when I talk its not real, its not real, not real, not real, its not real…

All this time when I talk its not real, its not real, its not real.

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I live in Virginia on a farm with animals and an orchard surrounded by woodland. My house is pretty private is it is at the edge of a long dirt road. I am considering buying and putting up several bird houses around my yard. Here are my questions:
1) What kinds of birds in Virginia will nest in man-made boxes, so what kind of bird houses should I get?
2)Where sould i put the houses (please tell me for each different species)?
3) How high should I put them and how far apart?
4) what is the most number of houses i can have in my yard (8 acers)?
5) I have several feeders near each other that there are always birds on, but I’ve read not to put houses near the feeders. How come?
6) If I attach houses to the side of my barn, will they nest in them? Also, will robins and swallows nest on perches inside my barn?

Any advice you have would be greatly appriciated. Thanks!!!

…the "little" birds will flock in most anywhere… the thing to remember… the size of the entrance "hole" will most always determine the size of the bird looking for a home… Martins like the Hotel lifestyle… multi levels and lots of rooms all in one BIG building on a post about 10 ft. off the ground (and they eat bugs, bugs, bugs… "Google" up bird houses and check it out.

Positive change begins at home. So when Dee Williams decided to change her life, thats where she started. In fact, she redefined what “home” meant, right down to what it was, and where it could go. A film by Mark Hoffman, presented by Nau.

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