Carlisle Wide Plank Floors offers pine flooring, hardwood flooring, and reclaimed flooring. Choose from a variety of species in the widest planks available starting around $10 a square foot.

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“Moving from the City to the Country”

How we built a simple home made desk out of horse shoes, an old metal pipe, a bed frame, mesquite wood and a slab of marble.

Bree needed a desk so her Dad and Garen built one for her using building materials they found around the property (except for the marble slab – that was acquired at a local garage sale). The desk has an unique rustic look.

Music Credits:
Banana Moonshine by Dan O’Conner
http://www.danosongs.com Music by DanoSongs.com

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Architects Suzan Wines and Azin Valy were trying to come up with the ideal building material for refugee housing in Kosovo. It should be recycled, recyclable, affordable, plentiful. They thought about bottles and tires. Then Wines tripped over a shipping pallet on the way home from work one night and something clicked.
Using only shipping pallets, or skids, the I-Beam architects created a tiny, modular home design. They also created “IKEA-style assembly instructions” so anyone- even those without building experience- could build their own home, using only hand tools (hammer, nails, “a crowbar is helpful”). “We’ve also used zip ties to build entire structures,” adds Wines, “which is pretty quick, cheap and easy and doesn’t require any tools”.

More info & original story: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/recycled-pallet-house-diy-ikea-style-assembly-instructions/

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Derek “Deek” Diedricksen, host of “Tiny Yellow House” TV, gives you a tip on saving money AND space while building your small/tiny home or cabin. Video #1 in an upcoming/ongoing series. Derek runs the micro-living/architecture blog Relaxshacks.com.

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tp://i.ytimg.com/vi/C9EamA70jWQ/0.jpg” align=”left”/>Recently built this small bathroom storage shelf. The wood was some laminated pine boards that were used for a bookcase that fell apart, the person gave me the boards for free and I used them for this shelf. Very simple construction that relied on screws because I did not have the time to use traditional joinery. The finish was Minwax Helsmans satin. The dimensions were 36″ tall, 15″ wide and 7″ deep.

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A beautiful city, full of history, and a visit to the architectural salvage shop, full of cool vintage pieces galore…go check it out!

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Axion International, Inc. manufactures the world’s strongest, industrial grade, 100% recycled plastic building materials. Axion is leading a revolution with the potential to change the way infrastructure is engineered and installed. http://www.axionintl.com

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November, 2009 – Constructing the first permitted home in America built primarily of hemp materials, Hemp Technologies’ crew forms eight inch thick hemp block walls using hemp shiv, mixed with a hemp hurd/lime binder, tamped inside recycled plastic forms.
http://Hemp-Technologies.com

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Chalfont, Pa– Departments working at a 3rd alarm building fire at Salvage Direct on Bristol Road. Chief 34 arrived o/s to find heavy fire through the roof of a 100 x 400 building and dumps the 2nd alarm on arrival. Arriving companies went to work with multiple lines and ladder pipe operations to bring the job under control.

Video by LVB contributor Jay Wagner

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