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How to Document the Home Building Process

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Whether it’s for your family or for future renovations, documenting your build is an important part of the process. Keeping track of your documents and making sure your family stay in the loop can help you stay organized and make sure you remember everything about your build. Not sure how to stay on top of all of the details?

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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Handmade ceramics are often hand-painted. your handmade ceramic tile has a crackle finish, clean it the same way you would a hand-painted tile. Natural Stone.

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022: Residential Construction Costs

Life of an Architect

I have found over the years that I prefer to retain landscape architects who do the design and prepare the documentation for the general contractor to contract and install – I like the separation of responsibilities. Consultant Service Fees Interior Designer – provide a great service but can add significant costs to a project.

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Letters from a traveling Architecture Student | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Home / Life in General / Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Letters from a traveling Architecture Student Bob Borson — October 24, 2013 — 38 Comments 23 years ago, as a fourth year architecture student, I spent the Fall semester traveling around Western Europe soaking in all the architectural wonders I could find.

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

Tile and our Collective History One of the reasons I started Avente was my love of tile - both in the beauty of the hand painted design and the sense of place and time it conveys. The light hand painted blue and white strokes of a stylistic floral pattern on tile can have you dreaming about a centuries-old street corner in Portugal.

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Documenting Architecture with Photos

Life of an Architect

It’s called “rough in” because there’s aren’t any exposed finished pieces of plumbing exposed … this is all the hidden nasty bits that will be covered up with finished materials (like cabinets, tile, wood paneling, and painted sheet rock). No paint on these walls either.

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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

Flipping through a book of her art, I found a watercolor painting of totem poles evocative of what our client requested. This year Wayne and I began a blog at our website for collaborations (http//nutmegdesignsart.com), documenting work in progress, our commissions and the process of being a Dynamic Duo. hand painted tile.

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