Small spaces are notoriously difficult to decorate, primarily because you need to find a good balance between form and function. It's important that the room contains all the required furniture, while at the same time looking uncluttered, attractive, and welcoming. The following tips will help you achieve this: 1. Storage Using tall units is a…
If your maintenance budget for the current operating year has a taken a hit, you may be wondering how to get a commercial painting project accomplished along with everything else. Two possible solutions to project budgeting are purpose driven spending and changing the contracting process. Purpose Driven Spending The most common view of a commercial…
When my mother got married, she outfitted her home with a complete coordinated set of furniture-a matched master bedroom set, a cocktail table and end tables, a desk for my dad. But the pride and joy of her home was her dining room table. It was Colonial style, pine with a maple finish, and round,…
A handicap elevator is a cost effective solution for people with different handicapped needs. They are very beneficial to use and the price of buying one is worth it in the long run. It will not just help you reach inclined surfaces but also offers you numerous benefits. Installing a handicap elevator may seemingly not…
Feeling nauseous? Do you have less energy than you used to, but can’t seem to find the reason why? The truth is, quite often our homes can be our worst enemies — and we don’t even know it! Dirt, dust, pet dander, carpet fibers — ever wonder where they go when you’re not vacuuming? Unfortunately,…
New Category of Snowriding Brings More Control and More Fun to the Ski Resorts You may have seen them on the slopes, people on what looks like snowblades. Looked like they were having a lot of fun. Officially termed skiboards, these “shorties” are about half the length of skis with many models having similar surface…
As an entrepreneur with your business plan in hand, what are the two top priorities you have on every day's action list as you start up your start up company? Starting and running a company can be overwhelming. Endless new action items seem to appear magically on your To Do List as you day develops…
There are a lot of therapies around today that owe their origins to Chinese Medicine. These treatments appear to be drawing more and more adherents as so many appear to grow disillusioned by an increasingly pharmaceutical dominated Western Medical profession. In the “Yellow Emperor’s Book of Internal Medicine” that first took written form some three…
Small spaces are notoriously difficult to decorate, primarily because you need to find a good balance between form and function. It's important that the room contains all the required furniture, while at the same time looking uncluttered, attractive, and welcoming. The following tips will help you achieve this: 1. Storage Using tall units is a…
If you've ever driven through Levittown, Long Island, you've seen the paradigm of post-World War II housing. Designed for the young parents who were giving birth to the baby boom generation, Levittown houses were built in accordance with the principles of pre-fabricated housing constructed for servicemen, but they incorporated the "must-haves" of post-war life: big…
Once you have decided to go ahead and open a small restaurant you will need to write a business plan. A business plan is a report where you compile all your research findings to try and prove that you idea is viable and that your goals are realistic. It will be an extremely useful document…
I recently had conversations with two different casting directors about what type of headshots help get you or your child paid acting jobs. One casts a studio sitcom (situation comedy), the other does some films and a lot of TV commercials. I asked them each about headshots and got most of the same preferences as…
In 1993, a man filed a lawsuit against the cell phone industry, claiming that his wife died from a brain tumor caused by her repeated use of the cell phone. The tumor was on the same side of the head where she held her cell phone and was shaped like the cell phone antenna. The…
Safes come in all different shapes and sizes and with a host of different security features. Depending on where you want your safe for will influence what type of safe you will require. For the home you will probably be looking for a small scale security safe. The safes can be split into two categories;…