Fabulous House Designs

The Stage Center, formerly the Mummer Theater, in Oklahoma City (Courtesy smallarchitects.com)

Amidst office towers in the heart of Oklahoma City sits an incongruous ensemble of multicolored boxes, tubes, concrete skywalks, and corrugated metal painted in shades of red, blue, orange, and chartreuse green. One cantilevered rectangle precariously perches at the edge of a swooping concrete form whose interior holds a theater in the round, once home to the Mummers Theater troupe. Architect John M. Johansen, of the so-called “Harvard Five,” completed the project for the Mummers in 1970, but the troupe folded just one year later.

Full Post…

Tags: Mummer Theater, Theater

The Christmas sales are in full force, so here’s a few sale shopping tips to make any pennies you have left, go further. In these tough economic times, competition between retailers is fierce. So there has never been a better time to get great bargains.

We hope these top Christmas sale tips will help you get the most from your sale spree.

1. Avoid the hordes

To avoid large crowds and still get your bargains, timing is essential. Check opening hours before you hit the high street.

Be at the doors of your favourite stores early in the morning, take advantage of late night shopping hours, or go whilst other people are still at work.

Full Post…

Tags: Christmas Sales, Tips

Here are three perennial shade plants I invite you to hunt out and grow. Full Post…

Today we show both the assembly and usage of the Ceiling Light, as well as where we placed the Power Outage Detector unit itself.

Ceiling Light Assembly

As was the case with the Power Outage Detector unit, I had a bit of an effort to assemble the Mr. Beams Ceiling Light.

I had no trouble at all removing the circular anchor plate (as shown in the picture above) which is to be attached to the ceiling during product installation.

In this case my issue was in removing the back plate of the unit itself.

Full Post…

Tags: Outage, Power Outage