Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) January 31, 2014

Arcbazar announces a creative service to bring the gym inside doors.

Extra rooms, basements or attics are ideal places to create small working out spaces or rebalancing yoga studios. With creativity, these "home gyms" can be fitted in private corners and flow with the surrounding rooms. Arcbazar, a Cambridge-based start-up company, offers an easy, affordable and convenient way to create beautiful and functional exercise rooms and helps homeowners make the best of small spaces.

Arcbazar addresses this home challenge by crowdsourcing architectural design. Every project is launched online and designers worldwide compete and submit solutions for the space. Homeowners around the globe are using Arcbazar for successful home remodeling, commercial and interior design projects. We are bringing affordable but competitive high-quality design to small-scale home remodeling projects. Clients have used our website for renovating kitchens, bathrooms, basements, living paces, or just redoing hardscape and landscape, says Imdat As, CEO of Arcbazar.com."We want our clients to be able to create their dream spaces in an easy, affordable and fun way.

Brad G, a homeowner from Indiana, needed to create a a multifunctional office & gym space in the basement of his house, while still keep using it as a cozy living space. He initiated a competition on Arcbazar and received seven design proposals, ultimately opting for a concept from Nemanja Kovacevic, a designer from Russia. To see Nemanja's concept and other great design solutions, learn more, or to launch your own home project, visit http://www.arcbazar.com.

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STILLWATER, Okla. Plans and construction of new offices for the Department of Public Safetys driver license testing office are expected to be finalized at Mondays City Council meeting.

The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at the Stillwater Muncipal Building, 723 S. Lewis. The Stillwater Utilities Authority Board of Trustees will meet immediately following the council meeting.

In September, the city and state agency finalized an agreement to convert space in a building at Couch Park, 702 E. 12th Ave., from a conference room to a driver license testing facility.

The state agency needed to find a new Stillwater location because a rent increase made the office more expensive than allowed by state guidelines.

The Couch Park office also is bigger, has its own entrance and a larger waiting area. It also will allow the DPS to offer commercial driver license testing several days a week. Enid is the closest commercial driver license testing facility.

Monday, the City Council will review bids and award a construction contract. The city had budgeted $135,000 for the project, and $6,800 already has been spent for architectural services, according to a report by Director of External Services John McClenny.

Five companies submitted bids.

McClenny recommends the city award the contract to low bidder, Diversified Labor and Construction. The contract will authorize expenditures of up to $88,000, including a built-in contingencyfund of $88,000.

If the city doesnt use all of the $135,000 budgeted for the project, the unused portion will be returned to the citys general fund budget, according to McClennys report.

The Department of Public Safety will pay a $1,416.66 license fee to Stillwater monthly for the office.

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The parade of people who rented apartments in an old Crafton house aggravated Chuck Gigliotti, a longtime neighbor who lives across the street. After it became Section 8 housing in 2003, shingles fell off the roof regularly and loose bricks threatened to avalanche from a tall chimney. In 2006, Mr. Gigliotti watched from his home as two dozen police officers and a SWAT team broke down the door and arrested one man.

Finally, in March 2012, he bought the house at 24 Mildred St. for $18,900 and tackled his ninth property. His wife, Lindy, was not thrilled, but Mr. Gigliotti, 56, was ready for another challenge -- rehabbing the worst-looking house on the street. He formed a company called Crafton Redux and hired three Triangle Tech graduates to restore the 1904 house that is a near mirror image of his own. Nearly two years later, they're finished. The four-bedroom, 21/2-bath house is for sale for $220,000.

Mr. Gigliotti has a long history with old houses. At age 19, he joined the local carpenters union. Since 1988, he has been buying houses to remodel and resell. For six years, he was a glazier at Rex Glass in Robinson; for another six he was a self-employed remodeling contractor. Since 2010, he has taught carpentry at Triangle Tech.

Although he has done his share of working on roofs, he had no interest in going up on the high-pitched roof to remove the chimney. So, he cut a 16-inch hole in the wall of a third-floor bedroom and put a ladder through it. Gradually, he and his crew removed bricks, ending up with enough to build a 21/2-foot-wide walkway that parallels the property's upper side.

In the first-floor foyer, living room and dining room, the crew installed 3/4-inch oak floors. They also removed three walls and rebuilt the staircase landing from scratch. A first-floor powder room was installed off the foyer. The project was a carpenter's dream or nightmare, depending on your perspective.

"We made 1,000 feet of wood casings for doorways and 500 feet of baseboards," Mr. Gigliotti said.

A wall divided the living room into two bedrooms. The men removed 100 2-by-4s that held up that wall, creating a 5-foot-high pile of debris. They also built a chute that went out of a living room window. One day when the chute became clogged with debris, Dennis Parr, one of the Triangle Tech grads, stepped in to help.

"I got this, G," he told Mr. Gigliotti.

He took a running start and slid down the chute, holding onto its 2-by-10 railings to stop before landing in the dumpster. The jolt broke up the clog.

Off the living room is a large dining room and a kitchen with new KraftMaid oak cabinets, a breakfast bar and a large granite-topped island with deep twin sinks. A mosaic backsplash made of granite and painted glass tiles matches the tan granite counters flecked with black and gray from Choice Granite in Spring Garden.

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