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    Glasgow Fire Department opens new home - January 14, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    GLASGOW If one were to think of a game of musical chairs, but then apply it to offices, that might provide a glimpse into whats been going on lately in the building that has housed Glasgows fire department and the local emergency dispatch center for the past several months.

    Within two or three months after Glasgow Police Department moved out of the building at East Washington and South Broadway streets and into another building, the remaining two departments that shared what some had called the public safety building began spreading their wings a bit.

    On Monday evening, they hosted an open house to display the transformation that had occurred.

    What had been the police chiefs office is now the office of Beverly Harbison, director of the Barren-Metcalfe County Emergency Communications Center, but now it has an additional door that is accessed directly from the East Washington Street entrance of the building. Before, it could only be accessed through an adjoining conference room. The conference room is still there, though, and the fire department and dispatch center will share it.

    The room that had been occupied by a police lieutenant colonel is now the office of Joann Eaton, assistant director of the dispatch center. Two other smaller rooms that had been police offices are being used for storage and an extra temporary office.

    Harbison and Eaton used to share an office just off the dispatch room that has now been opened up for use as an extra work area.

    What had most recently been the reception area for the police department the room behind the glass window where a resident would go to pick up a copy of an accident report, for example is now the fire chiefs office. And an entire wall was removed and an existing doorway revealed to connect the fire department offices to the Broadway main entrance. The fire department secretary moved there, the assistant chief moved to the chiefs former office and the battalion chief moved to what had been the secretarys office. The room that used to be shared by the assistant and battalion chiefs is now used for filing storage.

    All of the interior labor, except for the installation of new windows, was done by fire department and communications personnel; jail inmates did painting and other work on the front exterior.

    GFD Chief Tony Atwood said he spent $8,376.34, of which $4,153.36 was for the windows. Barring anything catastrophic, he said, his maintenance budget for this fiscal year should be able to absorb it.

    It was a huge undertaking that the guys basically volunteered to do, he said.

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    Powell’s West Burnside store remodel starts today - January 13, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -

    One of Portland's Powell's bookstores will get a makeover starting today.

    Powell's City of Books located on 1005 West Burnside St. in downtown Portland announced the six-month-long remodeling project in May of last year.

    While the flagship store said necessary improvements needed to be made, additional changes will be introduced to its store's Green and Blue rooms. A brand-new layout will update the store's look and feel while still maintaining Powell's historic spirit.

    A new entrance and roof with energy-efficient windows will be enhanced by additional skylights and new lighting. The outside of the store will also get a fresh coat of paint.

    The store said it will remain open during normal business hours. However, both the Green and Blue rooms will be closed. Books currently housed in those rooms will be temporarily moved to other parts of the building.

    The Green Room entrance will also be closed. Customers can enter through the Orange Room at 11th Avenue and Couch Street.

    Architects Ernest Munch and Corey Omey of Ernest R. Munch Architecture & Urban Planning, Walsh Construction Company, and the city of Portland will head the remodeling project.

    Powell's City of Books is the independent bookseller's flagship location, offering 68,000 square feet of used, new, rare, and out-of-print books.

    For the latest project updates and developments, you can visit Powell's remodeling website here.

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    Laramie resident’s trophy display showcases passion for huntin - January 12, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    By EVE NEWMAN / even@laramieboomerang.com Sunday, January 12, 2014

    Its called the trophy room, and it sits on the west side of the longtime West Laramie business, The Boardwalk.

    Inside, more than 50 trophies of all shapes and sizes are mounted on the wall and displayed in cases, along with saddles, antique guns, Native American artifacts and family heirlooms. The room is open to visitors who pass through the store.

    Owner William Rob Vogel, an Albany County native, has run the family business for more than 45 years. The trophy room is his museum of memories, and it shows off his passions for hunting and history.

    Some of my most fond memories of my younger life were getting out. No telephone, no cars, no nothing, he said. I have a lot of good memories.

    Vogel, 63, was born in Rock River, where his father, Bud, served as mayor and ran a lumberyard and motel. His grandfather homesteaded near Arlington, where his grandmother was the postmistress.

    The Vogels moved to Laramie in the 1960s and opened The Boardwalk in 1967, remodeling the original building and constructing additions as they expanded. Inside, custom woodwork adorns the rafters and doors. A back room with one wall made of logs reflects the teenage Vogels desire to live in a log cabin, his wife, Crystal, said.

    Today, the Vogels sell and repair saddles and tack, repair shoes and boots and run a Western-themed gift shop.

    In the trophy room, a collection of rifles dating back to the 1800s hangs on one wall. One belonged to Vogel as a child living on a Rock River ranch. His mother gave him five bullets at a time, and he had to make them count.

    I couldnt just shoot them all up. There were a lot of jackrabbits around the ranch, and theyd just eat you out of house and home. I had to shoot a couple of jackrabbits, he said.

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    ‘Downton Abbey’ enchants in real life as well - January 11, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

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    photos by Catharine Hamm/Los Angeles Times Entertainers perform at the door to the Highclere library, where Hugh Bonneville, the fictional Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey, often has serious discussion with members of the Crawley family.

    Photo by Catharine Hamm

    Lady Fiona Carnarvon discusses her newest book, Lady Catherine, the Earl and the Real Downton Abbey which follows Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey. Both focus on the countesses who presided over Highclere until death (Almina) or divorce (Catherine).

    NEWBURY, England He is a farmer, she says, and she is a farmers wife. They are active in their community. She writes a bit on the side, her writing room only recently having been wired for electricity.

    On my recent visit to her home, she was warm and welcoming. Her yellow Lab, Bella, followed her closely as her mistress ushered visitors into the house.

    And oh my. What a house. Two hundred rooms. Forty bedrooms. Silk wallcoverings in one room, 16th century Spanish leather wallcoverings in another. An original Van Dyck.

    Hundreds of other treasures make it abundantly clear that you are not in Kansas anymore.

    You are, instead, on the set of Downton Abbey, but its not a set at all. It is Highclere Castle, and for viewers of the popular PBS show, it is this magnificent home they see, outside and partly inside too.

    The farmers wife, as she called herself the Countess of Carnarvon has tried hard to keep it a home, she says, rather than a museum, although she and her husband, the Eighth Earl of Carnarvon, and their son often live elsewhere.

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    Economic Development Commission to discuss priorities for 2014 - January 11, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The Corvallis Economic Development Commission will discuss its priorities for 2014 and hear an update on the Regional Accelerator Innovation Network from Mayor Julie Manning at its 3 p.m. Monday meeting at the Madison Avenue Meeting Room.

    In other public meetings:

    Monday

    The Corvallis School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the district office, 1555 S.W. 35th St. The agenda includes a presentation on a potential expansion to the teen center at the Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis, which is located on property the district is leasing to the club.

    The Corvallis Public Participation Task Force will hold a special outreach session at 6:30 p.m. at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave. The task force hopes to hear suggestions for improvements from members of city boards and commissions and neighborhood associations.

    The Philomath City Council meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 980 Applegate St. and will discuss appointments to the Planning Commission and Budget Committee and a contract offer for the Philomath Police Personnel Association.

    The Monroe School Board meets at 7 p.m. in the library at Monroe High School, 365 N. Fifth St. The boards agenda includes finalizing appointments to a special committee that will screen potential candidates for the new superintendent of the district.

    Tuesday

    The Corvallis Citizens Advisory Commission on Transit meets at 8:20 a.m. in the Madison Avenue Meeting Room, 500 S.W. Madison Ave.

    The Corvallis Commission for Martin Luther King Jr., meets at 5:15 p.m. at the Osborn Aquatic Center, 1940 N.W. Highland Drive.

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    STUMBLING FORWARD: Happiness subtraction by addition - January 9, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    I usually dont trust those fun fact statistics that sound too cool to be true. Like the whole second to death, the thing that scares people most is public speaking nonsense. So, youre telling me if I gave you the option of either spending an hour in a room with a bunch of drunken IRS auditors with three years of returns and ax handles or giving a short talk on the history of crochet, youre going with Crazy Carl the Deduction Denier?

    So when I heard that remodeling is one of the biggest causes of divorce, I didnt give it much credence. Cmon, how bad it can be. I have no opinion whatsoever on dcor, layout or samples of flooring, paints, trims or any other thing that comes in various colors or textures. I dont have a favorite color, a fact some people (my children) find unacceptable for some reason. And when it comes to nooks, alcoves and atrium talk, I always assumed those were assorted Asian fruits and nuts, not rooms.

    So, once we locked in the cost, signed the paperwork and had my panic attack about how long it was going to take me to pay it off, I figured I was through with it until it was time to move in. Sometimes even Im shocked at my naivet and general lack of life knowledge.

    We were adding on entire rooms and a garage, so someone had to actually do the building. It doesnt just magically appear because you decide to do it. Who knew? So we had to find a contractor who could and would do our addition. But when you ask people about contractors, its like asking mothers about their experience with labor. The stories are always horrible, long and detailed, and end with someone crying.

    Im not kidding. Ask someone about his contractor and youll hear about the greatest schemes, scams, crimes, lies, broken promises and then you end up with shoddy construction and one of your children inexplicably missing. So I did a lot of asking around.

    After getting a few names from folks whose homes seemed fairly well constructed and who still had all their children, I talked to a few contractors. After visiting with a couple (one who laughed at weird times, like after a declarative sentence that was just stating non-humorous facts and one who kept talking about his boat), we found one who seemed trustworthy. Im going to call him Maurice Graber with First Rate Construction, which makes sense since that is his name.

    Actually, I now call him Job. I dont know why anyone, honest or not, would want to be a contractor. His usual morning begins with 14 texts from me with the myriad of concerns the wife has about the previous days work. After flooding his inbox with questions about paint, trim, shower doors, tile-no wood-no tile, ceiling fan placement and lots of words I have to write down and refer to when texting because I dont know what they are, Im thinking a nice little plague with lots of boils and suffering would be preferable.

    This whole thing has made me recalibrate my reactions to the wifes reactions. For most of our marriage, I could meet her freak out level, spasm to spasm. House flooding or burning, were both running in pound sign and star patterns unproductively. Kid shows up at the edge of the bed at 3 a.m. with a my tummy hurts, were both doing shoulder rolls to get out of the projectile puke zone. String theory documentary comes on the TV, were both doing that of course head nod and hoping theres not a quiz afterwards.

    But in remodeling, theres a total loss of the we both construction in our familial sentences.

    Ill be standing there, minding my own business not really doing much of anything, and the wife will burst through the door in lugubrious panic, so I have to determine if it is because: 1) the children have been eaten by wolves; 2) the Rapture has occurred and my theory that the Good Lord has a soft spot for the goofy has fallen through; or 3) the windows in the garage door arent rounded enough. Thus far, its been the garage window thing.

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    Remodeling underway at Salvation Army - January 9, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

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    Project superintendent for Lacey Construction Tim Jensen cuts lumber as Capt. William Mealy gives a tour to media Wednesday at Salvation Army. The downtown facility is undergoing a major renovation that includes the dining room, kitchen, old storefront and exterior. (Independent/Matt Dixon)

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    Bryan Smith of Jerry's Sheet Metal hangs air ducts Wednesday in what used to be the storefront at the Salvation Army in Grand Island. The space is being transformed into an improved chapel and classroom area. The downtown facility is undergoing a major renovation that includes the dining room, kitchen, old storefront and exterior. (Independent/Matt Dixon)

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    Lumber and other building supplies fill what was once the dining room Wednesday at the Salvation Army in Grand Island. The downtown facility is undergoing a major renovation that includes the dining room, kitchen, old storefront and exterior. (Independent/Matt Dixon)

    Posted: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:14 pm

    Remodeling underway at Salvation Army By Sarah Schulz sarah.schulz@theindependent.com theindependent.com

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    Three astoundingly simple solutions for big renovation challenges - January 7, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    (BPT) - Americans are renovating again. In fact, the remodeling market hasnt been this robust since 2004, according to the National Association of Home Builders Remodeling Market Index. Yet even the most enthusiastic homeowners-turned-renovators may hesitate when faced with certain common challenges be it adding a bathroom in a problematic location or figuring out how to bring natural light into an interior room.

    But virtually every renovation challenge is solvable, and sometimes the answers are surprisingly simple and cost-effective. Here are three common issues you may encounter while renovating, and the astoundingly simple ways to overcome the obstacles:

    The challenge: Adding a bathroom over concrete flooring or in a tight spot where traditional plumbing doesnt work well.

    The simple solution: Up-flush plumbing. Bathroom renovations or additions offer a high return on investment as much as 56 percent of the initial investment when you resell, according to Remodeling Magazines Cost vs. Value Report. But conventional plumbing can be costly and time-consuming, even in the best circumstances. If you want to add a bathroom in a basement where the floor is concrete or in a smaller space with no room for traditional piping, an up-flush, or macerating, toilet is a simple, cost-effective solution.

    Systems like Saniflos macerating toilet and plumbing technology eliminate the need to cut through a floor to install new drainage. And the systems fit easily into areas as small as a closet or dead space beneath a stairway. A macerating pump reduces waste and paper from the toilet and sends it under high pressure through piping directly into the septic or sewer system. No waste is stored, and the systems are comparatively low-cost compared to traditional plumbing. Visit http://www.saniflo.com to learn more.

    The challenge: Introducing natural light in a room with no space for windows.

    The simple solution: Skylights. The benefits of natural light are well-documented, from improving mood to reducing dependence on artificial lights. Yet some spaces, such as interior powder rooms or walk-in closets, dont lend themselves to windows. When you want natural light in a room where a lack of wall space precludes a window, or in which privacy is an issue, a skylight can be a great solution. Tubular skylights even allow you to bring natural light into ground floor rooms.

    The cost of installing a skylight is comparable to adding quality windows in a room. Choose energy-efficient skylights and you may also reduce home cooling costs in spring and summer, and lighting costs in winter, too.

    The challenge: Privacy in a doorway where a swinging door doesnt make sense.

    The simple solution: Pocket doors. A swinging door may not be right for a space for many reasons. Perhaps you need to close a door in a spot so infrequently that a swinging door isnt needed. Or, maybe the space around the doorway is too tight to accommodate a swinging door, such as in a laundry space tucked into a hallway. Or, perhaps a traditional door will ruin the aesthetic of a space. In all those situations, a pocket door is a great way to achieve privacy without compromise. Because pocket doors tuck away inside the wall, you dont need to worry about having enough space to open or close a traditional door. Plus, when left open, pocket doors are hidden inside the wall so their visual impact on decor is minimal.

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    Renovation projects set to begin at St. Luike’s - January 7, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    More than $12 million in renovations of operating room suites and waiting areas are included in a multiphase remodeling program at St. Luke's Hospital, in Chesterfield.

    The program will increase efficiency through better location of services and improve clinical quality with technology enhancements and redesigned clinician space, a hospital spokeswoman said today.

    Renovations are scheduled to begin in February on the hospital's second floor, said the spokeswoman, Rebecca Largent. Relocated and expanded lab services will be part of the work.

    Construction will be phased over three years to allow uninterrupted services and to maintain patient capacity.

    Projects covering 38,000 square feet will cover work on the entire second floor of St. Luke's West Medical Office Building and part of the second floor of the main hospital.

    Archimages Inc., of St. Louis, is the architect. McCarthy Building Cos. is the contractor.

    The primary goal of this project is to continually focus on increasing comfort and privacy for patients and their families, while enhancing operational efficiencies, Don Miller, St. Luke's vice president of operations, said in a statement.

    Tim Bryant covers commercial real estate, development and other business stories for the Post-Dispatch. He blogs at Building Blocks, the Post-Dispatch development blog.

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    MW Design Recommends Remodeling for the New Year - January 1, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Houston, TX (PRWEB) January 01, 2014

    MW Design is ready to help homeowners in their remodeling projects for the new year and points to an example of a custom home they recently completed.

    Situated on almost a full acre of land, the home features a stainless steel pivoting door, coffered ceilings and vistas, a covered terrace, and a lap pool. The space contains low-profile furniture in order to maintain its openness. Theres also a free-standing horizontal fireplace and surrounding stone slab wall. The circular dining room serves as the heart of the home, as food is at the center of all celebrations. The semi-private kitchen is surrounded by large sliding windows which overlook the pool and waterfall spa.

    On the houses opposite side, the family room features custom art created by family members and is surrounded by favorite photos, books and keepsakes on the wall-to-wall, built-in library. The west wing contains a gym and the bedrooms.

    The best part of the home is its design with the latest energy-saving materials, equipment, and LEED construction practices. Therefore, its carbon footprint is small, and it uses the electricity of a house half its size. It is dynamic, peaceful, exciting, chic, grand, and cozy all at the same time.

    MW Design delivers distinctive designs, dependable service, durable and green construction, and the best value for the money invested. They believe all projects deserve only the best, and delivers nothing but the best to all their clients. The business is located at 1211 Antoine Drive in Houston. For more information, please visit their website at http://www.mwdesigngroup.com, or call 713-622-0990.

    About the Company: As a Houston custom home builder, MW Design's attention to detail begins at the outset. Through the oversight of a group of skillful contractors, MW Design & Construction brings beautiful, high-quality architecture to life when building a custom home. They also offer design solutions for more efficient, green home construction.

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