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Easy Home DIY Project: Green Landscape in a Bottle Idea

Easy Home DIY Project: Green Landscape in a Bottle Idea

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Not all nifty home projects need to be expensive or complex. Sometimes there are simple, cheap and fun do-it-yourself ideas that are as lovely as they are low-tech – like this easy trick for making wine bottles into miniature winter moss gardens. The best part is that you get to have some greenery while doing something eco-friendly, a win-win situation for you, your environment and the planet at large.

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2011
11/30
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DIY Seed Bottle Idea: Plant an Instant Indoor Herb Garden

DIY Seed Bottle Idea: Plant an Instant Indoor Herb Garden

instant indoor herb gardening

Despite the best of intentions, more than three out of four plastic bottles are trashed and sent to landfills each year rather than being recycled or upcycled. What if there was an easy to to turn your bottles into something new and useful rather than sending them through the dubious and energy-consuming recycling process?

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2011
11/30
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Easy Drink: 45-Degree Plastic Bottle Cranes Neck for Refills

Easy Drink: 45-Degree Plastic Bottle Cranes Neck for Refills

Some sinks and water fountains just are not shaped right for refilling portable receptacles, making it hart to fill at all in some cases and, in others, impossible to top things off to go.

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2011
11/30
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State-Side Secret: Ingenious European Tilt & Turn Windows

State-Side Secret: Ingenious European Tilt & Turn Windows

For some readers, these are a fact of everyday life – for others, well, it is frankly surprising how many Americans have never heard of nor seen this simply ingenious style of window that this author lived and worked with while growing up partly in Germany (their point of invention within Europe).

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2011
11/30
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7 Oriental-Inspired Rugs Remix Real Google Earth Images

7 Oriental-Inspired Rugs Remix Real Google Earth Images

Oriental rugs are all about detail – but not in itself; rather, details are the basis for repetitive patterns that form whole impressions. One creator remixes this small-but-large tradition with modern Google Earth imagery.

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2011
11/27
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Tropical Luxury + Green Living = Lofted Seaside Solar Home

Tropical Luxury + Green Living = Lofted Seaside Solar Home

It is a stroke of pure genius – and will keep its residence from having heat stroke as well. Lofted living and bedroom spaces, swooping architectural swimming pool and roofline curves – everything about this place speaks to casual, resort-like luxury … which makes the semi-secret sustainable wind, solar and green-roof strategies built into the project by Guz Architects in Singapore all the more impressive.

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2011
11/24
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Help in a Hurry: Disaster-Relief Container Homes for Japan

Help in a Hurry: Disaster-Relief Container Homes for Japan

Abstract designs and architectural theory are well and good, but when the stuff hits the fan (or tsunami hits the land, as it were) these notions are put to the test in a very rapid and real way. The result shows who is ready to roll out workable housing solutions to address catastrophes as they unfold.

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2011
11/24
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Paired Penthouse: Luxury Bridged Condo Spans 2 Rooftops

Paired Penthouse: Luxury Bridged Condo Spans 2 Rooftops

You know you are having a ‘first world problem’ when one fully-story luxury penthouse is just not enough. Sporting over eight thousand square feet of space, calling this bridge-connected glass living complex glamorous would be an epic understatement.

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2011
11/24
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Hobbit-Hole Duplex Dug Out from a Hurricane-Crafted Dune

Hobbit-Hole Duplex Dug Out from a Hurricane-Crafted Dune

Natural forces shaped the foundation of what would later become a dynamic underground duplex, in the form of a 1960s hurricane that piled up a dune on a piece of (nearly) beach-front property owned, naturally, by a rather creative architect.

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2011
11/24
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Surf & Turf: Wave-Shaped Home Lofted in FEMA Flood Zone

Surf & Turf: Wave-Shaped Home Lofted in FEMA Flood Zone

Florida beaches can be beautiful … but floods are far from fun (and all too frequent). This house, however, seems to welcome (or challenge) oncoming waves with a huge sweeping arc of its own.

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2011
11/24
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