msnbc: About 11 years ago, house-builder, philosopher and entrepreneur, Jay Shafer built his first tiny house, moved in, and has been living a super-simplified lifestyle, happily-ever-after. He says that in a commercial world of bloated “McMansions”, his 89-square-foot, self-built, “munchkin-house”, is smaller than some people’s closets, and looks more like a doll’s house than a […]
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An invisible screen door is a retractable screen door is a product that is attached to the exterior face or to the interior frame of a doorway. The screening material itself is attached to a roller tube which spins on a vertical axis within the assembly’s housing. The screen is also attached to a vertical
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Keep your eye on the shelves of your local hardware store, where you may be able to find new tape from an unlikely source: the gecko, reports The New York Times. Geckos have millions of microscopic hairs on their toes, each with hundreds of tips that adhere to surfaces, with no residue left behind,” said
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Jeff Burns knows the little problems construction workers encounter on the job site. That’s the only business in which he’s worked, reports TheTownTalk.com. He does, however, have a hobby that has now earned him $10,000 in a national television contest. This part-time inventor won top honors on DIY Network’s first-ever “Cool Tools: Inventor Challenge” with
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If you happen to be on Pike Street In New York’s Chinatown between now and November 14th, you might catch a glimpse of “R-O-B” the bricklaying robot building a 7,000 brick “Infinite Loop” sculpture along a pedestrian island so reports gadget blog Gizmodo. Designed by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, the Infinite Loop has been
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If you’re not afraid of a little hard work, an opportunity to make money through concrete coatings might be in your future. With the help of Tim Tuohy, the founder of Concrete Coatings of Georgia, many contractors have been able to find the materials they need to perform the job and the training required to
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NY Times: Among the traditional brick and clapboard structures that line the streets of this sleepy East Texas town, 70 miles north of Houston, a few houses stand out: their roofs are made of license plates, and their windows of crystal platters. They are the creations of Dan Phillips, 64, who has had an astonishingly
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newsday: Some New Yorkers stuck in small apartments on a hot summer day have a new option: swimming in huge bins that once held trash. The idea for the unlikely urban club came from David Belt, president of Macro Sea, a Manhattan design firm. A contractor loaned him the three big metal bins and they
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I had an informative conversation with Rob Gainer and Patti Tucker from DECKStraordinaire this morning. They build custom decks in Michigan. Since the winters there are long, and it’s difficult to build a deck when you can’t use a when the ground is frozen, they used their winter months to document their system and package
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Dayton Daily News: You might say inspiration came to brothers Chuck and Marc Bohse in the form of sore backs. Ask Chuck Bohse to demonstrate the fine art of screeding, or leveling, concrete, and he may show you the way he once did it: Bending over, slowly stepping backward, pressing a screed or leveling bar
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