Fabulous House Designs

Does your new or remodeled home meet the minimum energy codes for construction and design? If you’re like most consumers, Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) believes that you have no idea.

Last fall, the nonprofit agency reported that energy bills in an average new home that doesn’t meet the minimums are consistently higher. In fact, they’re more than $200 a year higher than for those that comply. In short, you could be buying a new home thinking it’s tight and efficient while it’s not. Moreover, you could be upgrading your home without meeting national energy code minimums.

To help inform homeowners, do-it-yourselfers and home shoppers, the ASE has launched a campaign to put significant data in your hands about the requirements.

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Tags: Codes, Energy Codes, Home Meet

In this editorial for the winter 2011 issue of Tar magazine top model Eniko Mihalik is photographed by Yelena Yemchuk with a great collaboration with set designer Chad Dziewior and stylist Heathermary Jackson. A beautiful mixed media spread more artsy than fashion.

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Tags: Magazine, Tar Magazine, Yelena Yemchuk

Ok I know the picture quality isn’t awesome here, but I thought this home was just too fab not to share with you guys!! Kristy over at I Design Love first spotted the stunner over at the Fine Homes section on 1st Dibs. The extraordinary villa is located near Monaco in the South of France, and is currently for sale for a scant $27 million. Full Post…

Many years ago when I was a landscaper in London, I had a regular client who had a tiny garden in Wandsworth. It was literally one flower bed, a small shed and a wall topped by a chain link fence.

The reason we had to keep returning was because, at one point in the evolution of man, some bright spark a couple of doors down had planted a Russian vine (aka mile-a-minute vine, Chinese fleecevine, Polygonum baldschuanicum or, latterly, Fallopia baldschuanica). This had grown all the way along the chain link fence to colonise at least eight neighbouring gardens.

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