home design: September 2009

Free Green Home Seminar & Timberpeg Home Tour Oct 11

Anyone planning to build a new energy efficient home, addition, or remodel their existing home is encouraged to attend a Free Green Home Seminar and Timberpeg® Green Open House Tour on Sunday, October 11, 2009. Here are the important details:

Free Seminar on Building a Green Home:
Best Western Sunapee Lake Lodge, Newbury, NH
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (registration starts at 8:30)

Timberpeg® Open House Tour: Lot 22, Summit Road, Sutton, NH
(green home under construction) 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

You'll have plenty of time to talk to the experts: Jeremy Bonin, AIA NCARB LEED AP, Bonin Architects & Associates, PLLC; Jay Tucker, Custom Home Builder, Old Hampshire Designs, Inc.; and Dan O'Halloran, Colby Real Estate.

Registration for the seminar is requested. Get directions, an Itinerary and register for these free green events at http://www.boninarchitects.com/seminarcontact.html

Custom Home Design Update

The home design process is continuing for our clients in southern NH.

One of our clients’ priorities is having enough space to entertain about 20 people four times a year. To add more living / entertaining space in the floor plan, the dining table was reduced in size and moved to replace the informal banquette. While the table is still large enough to seat extended family for holiday meals, the enlarged open living area is better suited toward hosting cocktail parties.

The dormer bays in the living and dining areas were changed to soften the interior lines. The kitchen was reconfigured slightly to take advantage of the added space and to streamline traffic flow.

Tool to help you do your own drapery treatment.

There are many mysteries in life--one of them is the cost of drapery. Seriously, can you believe how expensive it is? It's unfathomable to us how much one piece of fabric and four stitched sides can be so costly. But costly they are.

Aside from having a professional drapery workroom come to your house, measure and make the drapes to order, there isn't that many alternatives really. Sure, you can buy pre-made panels from Restoration Hardware or Z-Gallerie, but they usually end up looking like crap. And why? Because they never seem to fit. Either they are too long or too short or too wide etc..

We found Casa Fiora a long time ago when we were looking for an alternative to having custom-made drapes for budget reasons. We find that if you are looking for just simple styles, they are pretty good. We are writing about them now is because they now have a great tool for you to measure the draperies that you need. This, we feel, is one of the most important things you need to do. If not measured incorrectly, you can get the totally wrong size and end up throwing money away.

You can get the tool here. Again, we emphasize that this is best if you are looking for simple draperies styles. Complicated styles are best done by a professional workroom.

Block House Remodeling Inspiration 2010

Find the ideas of remodeling by looking at the pictures of Block House Remodeling Inspiration 2010 in this site.

The Best Photos of Block House Remodeling Inspiration 2010 might inspire you to build your house since this house is a block design experiment in the days and increasing living space in a traditional Philadelphia row house without losing privacy. The accommodation is made with double-height skylight that feeds natural light in every level of the house. The master bedroom and bathroom are located on the third floor. The natural light floods in their 15 �wall of glass blocks. The roof terrace features high parapet wall creating outdoor sunning area, which remains open to the sky, but personally to their neighbors. The house design is done in 2,500 meters.Thus, following the brilliant design of block house design as displayed on this site is the best decision. Be the first one to remodel your block house as shown on this site.

Modern Interior Design : Futuristic Glass Dining Table with Chairs

These are the pictures of Futuristic Glass Dining Table with Chairs of modern Interior Design that can give inspiration in the field of Dining room furniture.

Dining Tables are not only essential part of any dining room, but also an important part of its internal interior design. Dining tables are usually placed in the middle of a room. So it should be perfect. One of the weird kind of dining table is glass top. Dining table with glass top head is very elegant and durable . Below you can roll the best glass top dining tables with chairs from well known manufacturers that will be your latest home interior design collection . They are Ultra-modern tables with a broken leg, a traditional carved wood or stone base, or even luxury table decorated with Swarovsky crystal. All are very original and creative work that changed the normal level in large parts of the design in the dining room.Thus, get one of the best dining glass tables with chairs as displayed on this site and you will see the cool atmosphere coming to your dining room soon.

Minimalist Luxury Modern Home Office furniture designs

Thses are the pictures of modern luxury and minimalist home furniture designs which can be the ideas in arranging home furniture of minimalist style.

If you are looking for the modern luxury and minimalist home furniture designs, then the sample photos gallery displayed on this site could be the one you mostly want. From the sample displayed, you can create a new and fresh room decor since the designs look so stylish and cool. The placement for the bookshelves , tables, chairs and the table lamps are truly well ordered making the room look more nice and beautiful. Thus, you are supposed to design your room the furniture displayed to create different atmosphere.

Sunapee View Lot Open House BBQ

On Saturday September 19th from 10am to 2pm Colby Real Estate is hosting a BBQ Open House at a view lot subdivision they have on the market. The lots are conveniently located just 10 minutes from New London and 15minutes from Mount Sunapee. All of the lots have views of Lake Sunapee, Mt. Sunapee and some even get views of Ledge Pond. For those who are able to attend you will have the opportunity to:

Walk the Various Lots For Sale
Learn About New Construction Financing
Discuss and Review Various House Plans
Lot Sizes Ranging From 5Acres to 15+Acres

To assist with any questions you may have with new construction financing, design, building costs Colby Real Estate has arranged to have the following professionals on site:

Kim & Jeremy Bonin of Bonin Architects
Jay Tucker of Old Hampshire Designs
Elizabeth Dabrowski of Sugar River Bank
Dan O’Halloran of Colby Real Estate

We would love to know if you are planning on attending. Please either email Colby Real Estate at dano@colbyinc.com or RSVP via this link http://twtvite.com/lon3sf

This link will take you to 3 of the lots that they have on the active market. Additional lots will be made available for sale during the event and the developer is significantly discounting the lots for attendees: Granite Ridge Lots

PS- Dan O’Halloran is manning the grill so the food will be great! :-)

Directions
From I89 Exit 12 head towards Georges Mills-Sunapee on Rte 11. Take 1st right after gas station and take immediate left onto Prospect Hill. Granite Ridge is on the right with immense stone entrance. If you see Prospect Hill Antiques, you’ve gone too far!

source: http://sunapeeregionblog.com/2009/09/11/sunapee-view-lot-bbq-open-house/

Energy Saving Light Bulbs

We’re greening up our new office by replacing the incandescent light bulbs with Earthmate energy saving bulbs. By using Earthmate bulbs, we will use an average of 75% less electricity, help reduce our dependence on fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For instance, we replaced our 45 watt overhead bulbs with Earthmate 8-watt Dimmable Reflector Bulbs, which will save us about $61 and last up to 7 times longer than our standard light bulbs. And bonus: they come with a 9-year warranty!

If you are looking for a great, long-lasting, energy efficient light bulb, learn more about Earthmate's products and company philosophy. We like their packaging, too, made from 100% post-consumer waste.

Slim Wooden Aluminum Folding Doors Remodeling Decorating Ideas

The Samples Modern contemporary slim folding doors designs Ideas for home or House Interior design

Find the ideas of home design and decoration in this site. Find also remodeling inspiration by looking at the pictures in this site.

Are you looking for the sample photos and best designs for modern contemporary slim stainless steel,aluminum and wooden folding doors? If so then you had better take a look at the sample photos and gallery of latest folding door designs displayed as the sample folding door designs are the latest designs from Foa Porte , a great designer for home exterior and interior decoration mostly wanted by many home owners when they want to look for the best and latest product of home interior furniture. Make sure that you are not choosing the other product since these product can create and change the atmosphere of your house.

modern contemporary slim wooden folding doors designs

Sample Photos of Master Bathroom Designs Decorating Remodeling Ideas

Beautiful Luxury Modern Master Bathroom Designs Ideas

Find the beauty of House bathroom designs in these pictures.

The sample photos and pictures of Beautiful Luxury Modern Master Bathroom Designs Ideas are proudly displayed to give any home owners great inspiration to remodel their modern master bathroom design ideas. Make sure that the best design of master bathroom become your latest home interior decoration in 2009 since the design has followed the highly demanded bathroom design. Thus, Design your master bathroom following the sample bathroom displayed and you will soon see the great result. Share these sample photos to any one so as to make them have the same sensation.