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Downside of Living in Apartment

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

It is a challenge to maintain a chic apartment. But once you’ve figured out how to deal with it, you would enjoy living in it. Some of these down sides are:
1. Housemates – when your housemate always gives you headache
2. Fees – when the due date of your apartment bill is coming and you don’t [...]

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Students: Chic Living

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Most college students especially whose school is away from their home prefer to live in comfortable place like nice and clean dormitories or class, modern, and chic apartments. It is nice to study when you have a well ventilated and organized place, and chic surroundings.
Being a student, I experienced challenges in designing my apartment. [...]

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A Drafty Situation

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Have leaking windows and doors, seal them in easy to prevent cool air from the AC from getting out and hot air from the heater getting out. Leaking heat and cold air is a major waste of electricity spewing the air you have just spent cooling or heating to get out of the home.
Most homes [...]

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Skylights – Free Light

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

New and improved solar skylights are sweeping the globe providing free light inside homes, offices and even industrial areas without the need for electrical lighting. Using the sun’s rays to shine into the structure, a metal tube coated on the inside with a mirror-like finish, it can reflect up to 98 % of the sunlight [...]

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Antique Furniture Care

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

People who have an antique or two, either as family heirlooms or through extensive search and buying knows these furnishings need a lot of work in terms of care to maintain their beauty and integrity. One of the worst enemy of antique wooden furniture is UV light which comes from the sun or the halogen [...]

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Spice up your pad the cheap way

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

One of the most untapped resources for great finds for your pad are flea markets. Flea markets showcase a whole variety of items you can put in your apartment. Here are a few tips when going to a flea market:
1. Bring small bills.
Small bills give you more bargaining power.
2. Come early.
The early bird gets the [...]

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Keeping the Chic in CHIC

Friday, January 30th, 2009

There are a lot of homes that claim to be chic, but what really is chic? May it look good or be at par with current design trends, you are the one who decides if your home or apartment is chic. Give it a personal look you can live with and not just to impress [...]

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Compressed Wood Dangers

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

A mainstay of the apartment culture, compressed wood fiber products from tables, chairs to counter-tops are cheaper that solid wood furniture. But recent studies that such furniture have a nasty ability to release volatile organic compounds or VOC’s in the form of solvents and binders used in manufacturing. The new furniture smell is an indicator [...]

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How to Rent Your Second Home – Part 3

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

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Come up with colorful informative brochures, print and distribute them to anyone in a position to find all sorts of guests. Keep all of your written communication and telephone conversations with potential clients upbeat and friendly.

This is a business, so it is a good [...]

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Apartment 101

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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An apartment building, block of flats or tenement, is a multi-unit dwelling made up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US), or flats (UK). A difference may be drawn such as in San Francisco, California between an apartment and a flat, where an apartment is one of many units on a floor and [...]

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