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10 Modern Beach Homes You’re Sure to Love

Trendir Magazine

Focus on the indoor/outdoor feel of this modern beach home.{found This beach house blends the indoors and outdoors. This Long Island beach home may not be directly on the water but it truly brings the outdoors inside the home with the garage-door style side of the home. found on Houzz }. found on homeadore }. found on dwell }.

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The benefits of outdoor gas heaters

Kitchen and Residential Design

Do you want to throw an outdoor party during the winter season? You could still use your back yard to enjoy an ambient, warm setting with your family and friends without restricting your outdoor fun to parties alone. Below, we look at the benefits that outdoor gas heaters can have for your home.

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Every chef deserves the right kitchen sink

Kitchen and Residential Design

An whilst hunter gatherer diets such as bush tucker are now a less common occurrence, being replaced over time by the influence of British colonization, the culture of outdoor barbecue cooking is still a very prominent aspect of Australia’s food culture.

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Create Some HER Time With Woman Caves and She-Sheds

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

You can purchase a standard storage shed and add your own style to it, or it can be a DIY project. This is a not-so-basic she-shed in Australia. The deck, which includes outdoor furniture, provides a space for the artist to relax and entertain guests. It also features triple glazed aluminum clad doors.

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What Home Buyers Really Want | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

4 An Outdoor Kitchen – Now we’re cooking! Be suspicions anytime you see these lists that involve outdoor kitchens. I also work in a similar demographic, and in the last ten years (roughly 50 homes) have schemed a total of three outdoor kitchens. I suspect it keeps the dirty stuff out of the sink during the small (ha!)

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15 Well Designed Shipping Container Homes for Life Inside the Box

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Shipping Container Home Plans The standard container sizes measure 8’ wide and 8’6” high and come in two lengths of 20’ or 40’. Plenty of windows and sliders are incorporated to expand the space to the outdoors. Each apartment has its own outdoor living area with integrated cargo containers as part of the floor plan.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Here in Australia I haven’t used or even seen insulated panels with OSB skins, we do however use “cool room panels” whose skins are treated steel sheets, flat or profiled/corrugated, XPS inside, amazing span capability. They mechanically fastened together with cam locks and attached to the sill in a standard fashion.

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