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Feb

22

2012

The Best Of Everything

Author: Ivan

The 10 Best of Everything, Second Edition

This deluxe, entertaining dream guide showcases the experience and savoir-faire of such luminaries as Prince Charles on architecture, Arnold Palmer on favorite golf courses, Luciano Pavarotti on opera houses, and Baron Philip de Rothschild on the best vintages. Scores of experts name the 10 best islands, poshest pubs and polo clubs, best things to do on Sundays afternoons in the world’s best cities, and a treasure trove of musts for the high-end traveler or anyone who aspires to be. The 2008 edition is expanded with much new material—latest discoveries of jet-set authors Nathaniel Lande and Andrew Lande in hotels, restaurants and resorts, plus many up-to-date revisions in their top ten lists. The new Grand Tour includes 20 classic adventures, all experienced by the veteran travelers, with lush and enticing journeys to the Amalfi Coast, Great Barrier Reef, Shanghai, the Greek Isles, Antarctica, and more. Studded with colorful illustrations, cosmopolitan sidebars, and savvy tips, as well as a wealth of options for getting there via land, sea, or air, this elegant and sophisticated book will awaken yearnings for exotic travel in readers everywhere.

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Feb

20

2012

Dolphin Dreams

Author: Ivan

Dolphin Dreams

Jade Kanahele has a great family, a brand new degree, a new condo, and her dream job—marine behaviorist at Dolphin Life Research at a resort in west Hawaii. What more could a girl want? Her mother presents her with a beautiful heirloom quilt which she claims will help her meet her true love, but Jade has serious doubts until things start to change. Adam Donovan, whose family specializes in high-end resorts in tropical locations, is in west Hawaii looking into the purchase of the resort which houses Dolphin Life Research. But with his thirtieth birthday rapidly approaching, he’s feeling restless and wonders about the path his life has taken. He is impressed with Jade and her sunny outlook on life. As the two become friends, Jade’s positive disposition seems to rub off on Adam, and he begins to view his life and career with new eyes. And strangest of all, Jade is experiencing some odd dreams, dreams that seem to come when she’s sleeping with her antique quilt.

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Feb

20

2012

Latest High End Houses Auctions

Author: Ivan

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Feb

19

2012

Preparing Your Homes For

Author: Ivan

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Preparing Your Homes for Sale

First impression from the respective buyers is always an important matter for home selling. Some of the home buyers are not interested to enter inside the house if they find out that the outside part is not appealing. Before showing the respective buyers your home for sale, you need to have some preparation. Make sure that everything is done perfectly. There are many ways of preparing your home for sale. Prospective buyers always look for the font yard and back yard so you need to clean it well. Aside from the good condition of the house you also need to improve your landscape. Preparing your home from the outside can be visually appealing to make potential buyers to stop and take a look. Give your home a fresh look by having it repaint. A pleasant look of the house will give you a good deal in selling your property. Make your home presentable to buyers and organize everything inside it to have an attractive look towards the buyer.

The first thing that most of the potential buyers see is outside of the home. That?s why proper care and improvements are the important things that you need to consider for preparing your home for sale.

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Feb

19

2012

Latest High End Houses Auctions

Author: Ivan

Some recent High End Houses auctions on eBay:

CH202 Clarence House Durban ONE YARD Drapery High End Silk Fabric

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Feb

19

2012

Whats The Career For Me

Author: Ivan

by merfam

Question by : whats the career for me.. not sure if it build/contractor high end houses..what degree i need for this field?
i want to be involved and skilled in building nice 200k+ houses or buildings what is the career called?
whats the pay like?

Best answer:

Answer by Antione
You can always go to school for construction or architecture. You don’t really need a degree to be a contractor, you just need to be licensed. But a degree is always a plus

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Feb

17

2012

Dolphin Dreams

Author: Ivan

Dolphin Dreams

Jade Kanahele has a great family, a brand new degree, a new condo, and her dream job—marine behaviorist at Dolphin Life Research at a resort in west Hawaii. What more could a girl want? Her mother presents her with a beautiful heirloom quilt which she claims will help her meet her true love, but Jade has serious doubts until things start to change. Adam Donovan, whose family specializes in high-end resorts in tropical locations, is in west Hawaii looking into the purchase of the resort which houses Dolphin Life Research. But with his thirtieth birthday rapidly approaching, he’s feeling restless and wonders about the path his life has taken. He is impressed with Jade and her sunny outlook on life. As the two become friends, Jade’s positive disposition seems to rub off on Adam, and he begins to view his life and career with new eyes. And strangest of all, Jade is experiencing some odd dreams, dreams that seem to come when she’s sleeping with her antique quilt.

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Feb

16

2012

Luxury Homes In Miami Beach

Author: Ivan

This property is SOLD. La Gorce Golf Estate |7 Bed, 8 Bath | 8339 Sq Ft | 0.34 Acre Lot Nancy Batchelor | 305-329-7718 | Cell 305-903-2850 | www.nancybatchelor.com This stunning, newly constructed, 8339-square-foot, seven-bedroom, seven-and-one half-bath, walled and gated estate on Miami Beach’s exclusive La Gorce Country Club and Golf Course is reminiscent of the Mediterranean and is elegantly appointed with high-end finishes and features. Located at 5360 La Gorce Drive, it’s a superb offering with a seemingly endless list of amenities, conveniently located near top area schools, and minutes from Bal Harbour Shops, Lincoln Road and the beach. Glittering marble and hardwood floors stretch throughout the two-story interior, decorated by acclaimed designer Steven G. Ready and complemented by archways, custom mirrors, high ceilings and wide windows. The gourmet eat-in kitchen opens to a fabulous family room with a dramatic fireplace and a richly appointed library. Epitomizing elegance, the formal living area has fine details including floor to- ceiling windows that look out over the lushly landscaped grounds. A stately home theater with oversize leather seats makes for an ideal place to host family and guests and watch the big game. The second-floor master suite features a sitting area, a fully equipped midnight kitchen and access to a private, sweeping terrace overlooking the 15th tee of the golf course. The adjoining master bath has high-end finishes and its own washer and …
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Feb

16

2012

Selecting Roofing Materials

Author: Ivan

by merfam

Selecting Roofing Materials
The choices range from asphalt shingles to wooden shakes and clay tiles, from steel panels to rubber lookalike slate. The most important development to note, nonetheless, is that as with dwelling-development materials typically, there may be an rising transfer in direction of engineered roofing materials. This variation is being driven by a number of totally different factors. One is solely the excessive value of wood. The second is that in many cases, codes now mandate using fireproof construction materials. And third, individuals understandably want to build with materials that not solely look good but also are very long-lived.

Asphalt Shingles
The roofing material all of us see essentially the most of lately the one which covers the roofs of a fantastic majority of houses throughout America is the standard three-tab asphalt shingle. One of the least-expensive roofing options, asphalt shingles are available in a dozen or so totally different colours both strong and blended. The shingle merchandise being made right now are usually guaranteed for 20, or in some instances 30 years, making them a superb value. Value is the principal advantage of this roofing materials, which explains it’s commonality. The drawback, nonetheless, if there may very well be stated to be one, is the fact that it is so common.

The subsequent improve from a normal three-tab is a thicker variation known as an architectural shingle. These shingles are constructed up to be about twice as thick as a normal shingle with the layers staggered to offer them a heavier, more substantial or “architectural” look. In some colors they resemble slate, and in other colors wooden shakes. We used architectural shingles on the Lexington ranch house. With only a modest improve in value and up to a 30-yr guarantee, architectural shingles additionally signify an excellent worth with an added touch of style.

Shingles, Shakes…
For seems, it is hard to beat a wooden shingle roof. Over time it weathers out to a gray or mushy silver that seems to root the house to the landscape. A number of species are used: Western Pink Cedar, Alaskan Yellow Cedar and Eastern White Cedar. Shingles are comparatively easy and reduce to a uniform thickness, although they range in width. Wood shakes are thicker and rougher, being break up reasonably than sawn from the logs. Wood roofs are meant to breathe and should be laid over a substrate that enables air to flow into behind them: skip sheathing wood strips or battens nailed on to the roof rafters is the traditional methodology of installing a wooden shingle roof. About 10 years in the past we began using a plastic matrix product that’s something like a scrubby pad, which allows air to circulate behind the shingles. This product could be laid on prime of a building-paper-coated plywood roof deck, making it excellent for a retrofit. One other technique of getting air circulation behind the shingles is to put them on strain-handled lattice.

For all their nice appears, shingles and shakes are costly to put in and do require some periodic maintenance, usually in the form of washing to remove any mildew or moss, after which re-oiling with a clear wooden ending product. On our present Shingle-style mission here in Manchester, Massachusetts, we’re utilizing a wooden shingle that’s new to us: stress-treated Southern Yellow Pine, which grays out in just a few years to resemble cedar and is said to require no maintenance at all.

A properly put in and maintained wooden roof ought to final at least 30 to 50 years. In reality, we have seen roofs on which the shingles have been nonetheless good after 25 years or so, but the galvanized nails were lastly rusting, so make sure you use a excessive-high quality stainless-steel nail!

…And Fakes
Originally, our Craftsman-type bungalow in Santa Barbara, California, would have been clad in a combination of wooden shingles and shakes, as a result of the constructing needed that shaggy rough-hewn appearance to look authentic. Nonetheless, due to fire danger, local codes now require all roofing supplies to be fireproof. Accordingly, we used a heavy architectural asphalt shingle on the roof, and a cementitious shingle manufactured to look like a wooden shake for the facet walls — although they’re appropriate to be used on the roof as well. Use of those “pretend” shakes is rapidly rising, each as a result of they satisfy the strict hearth codes in the West and because they’re lengthy lived and require no maintenance.

Slate and Pretend Slate
Within the Northeast slate was a standard roofing material for high-end houses and municipal buildings. It is beautiful, lasts for generations, sheds ice and snow, and could be very expensive. Because of its price and weight, which requires a beefier roof construction to support, slate is not often used these days. But on our Billerica undertaking, rebuilding Dick Silva’s burnt-out family residence, we wished the slate look. Once more we turned to an “engineered” product, this time a slate lookalike fabricated from recycled rubber and plastic. At solely about one-third the weight and price of slate, these shingles will be installed utilizing standard tools and techniques. From the road, the discerning eye would possibly be capable to tell the difference between engineered and the real McCoy, but most of us would be very home-proud with one in all these roofs on our homes. Plus, these shingles are guaranteed to last for as long as 50 years.

Metallic
Steel roofs, in the form of corrugated, galvanized sheets, have been a normal function of barns, sheds and different agricultural and utility buildings for years. This type of roof is affordable, rugged, long-lasting and simple to install perfect for a utility application. On the opposite end of the spectrum is a copper roof, elegant enough to grace the nation’s finest mansions and public buildings. Swish bay and bow windows are sometimes roofed with sheet copper soldered on the seams. We used such roofson each the Billerica and the Lexington houses. Larger expanses of roof are covered using the “standing-seam” method, wherein one sheet joins with its parallel mate through an interlocking, water-tight seam.

Metal is a good choice for a house in snow country, as well as in agricultural country. Thankfully, by way of products obtainable, there may be much to choose from between the galvanized low-finish and the copper high-end. On our Milton mission, we used a fashioned-in-place, standing-seam steel roof on the workshop addition to the barn. While not as expensive as copper, this roof was expensive and beautiful. There are a number of powder-coated metal roof “systems” available on the market, some very price-effective variations on the galvanized sheet-metal theme. Others are factory-built standing-seam roofs, custom made to your house or barn and put in by a roofing contractor. The benefit of these systems is that they require no particular fabricating tools and might be put in by any certified contractor. (I’m even considering using one on the shed I’ve to construct in Maine.)

Along with standing-seam roofs, several sorts of steel shingles are additionally available. One, an interlocking tin shingle we used on the roof at our Key West venture I have never seen wherever other than the Keys. One other variation commercially out there nationwide is an interlocking copper shingle.

Regardless of the model you choose, on the whole, a properly put in metallic roof ought to final you a minimum of 50 years.

Ceramic
Ceramic tile roofs are found throughout the Mediterranean and Levant and naturally within the Mediterranean-Revival-influenced architecture of Florida and California. Barrel tiles, the commonest type of ceramic tile, resemble half cylinders about sixteen inches long. In the previous days they had been individually made by hand, their tapered form achieved by forming the clay over the top of the thigh. We truly used a few of these handmade tiles on our renovation of a hurricane-broken Mediterranean-Revival house in Miami. And extra not too long ago, we used excessive-high quality replica barrel tiles on our West Palm Beach project.

Tile roofs are quite heavy, so the roof framing have to be stout sufficient to help the load. Waterproofing is achieved through a waterproof membrane laid instantly on the roof sheathing. Then the clay tiles are laid one after the other in a pad of mortar. Tiles turned upside down kind a trough, which is then lined by tiles laid right facet up. The whole course of is kind of labor intensive, which makes an genuine tile roof fairly expensive — about $ 1,000 per 10×10-foot sq., or about three times the cost of a normal three-tab shingle job.

In addition to barrel tiles there are a variety of variations of clay roof tiles. Some are shaped like thick shingles, some like slates. A excessive-quality tile can be laborious-fired and won’t take in moisture that would fracture the tile when frozen. Thus such tiles are appropriate for northern climates. All high-quality tile roofs are expensive, both when it comes to the material and the set up, and so clay tile roofs are pretty rare.

But in the long run the costliest could be essentially the most price efficient, since you may expect to get 60 to 80 years or much more out of a well installed tile roof. I know of a hard-fired clay shingle roof on a seaside mansion not removed from our present challenge in Manchester.

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Feb

15

2012

Whats The Career For Me

Author: Ivan

by merfam

Question by : whats the career for me.. not sure if it build/contractor high end houses..what degree i need for this field?
i want to be involved and skilled in building nice 200k+ houses or buildings what is the career called?
whats the pay like?

Best answer:

Answer by Antione
You can always go to school for construction or architecture. You don’t really need a degree to be a contractor, you just need to be licensed. But a degree is always a plus

Give your answer to this question below!

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The Best Of Everything

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Latest High End Houses Auctions

Preparing Your Homes For

Latest High End Houses Auctions

Whats The Career For Me

Dolphin Dreams

Dolphin Dreams

Luxury Homes In Miami Beach

Selecting Roofing Materials

Whats The Career For Me