Concrete Curing & Sealingtips
The key to using curing compounds is their immediate application once you have lifted your trowel from the concrete for the last time. Do not hesitate to apply these compounds! On sunny windy days, the water is leaving the concrete at an ... [... more]
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Elke Krystufek Liquid Logic. The Height of Knowledge and ...
 In this oversized volume, the Viennese-born artist Elke Krystufek (b. 1970) presents paintings, collages, sculptures, videos, photographs and performance work made over the last 16 years. She explores social norms and patterns of behavior influenced by ... [... more]
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Exterior Door Installation
2. To help with this door installation, we built the walk-out stairs first (figure A). Exterior stairs should always be made of pressure treated lumber. When building stair stringers, use the "stair rule of 18": the rise and the run of stairs .. ... [... more]
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Air conditioners remove humidity to keep us cool. An air conditioning unit that is too large or too small will fail to keep us comfortable. Heat gain helps determine the correct air conditioner size. Take note of these tips to keep heat out of ... [... more]
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Bid Sheets
I know you will love my weekly newsletter. The newsletter contains the best questions I get each week along with my personal responses. Some are guaranteed to make you laugh, while others will get you out of your chair to inspect something at ... [... more]
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Undercounter Lighting Choices
Rope lighting ( figure A) is flexible and comes in a selection of colors. Held in place by small insulated clips (figure B), it plugs in to an ordinary electrical outlet; you can also get cord covers that can be painted to match your decor and ... [... more]
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Installing French Doors
1. Once you have chosen the location for the French doors inside your home, use a utility knife to score the wall with the outline of the French doors. It may take a few passes, but eventually you will be able to cut through the drywall. 4. Now ... [... more]
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Build A Redwood Screen Door
1. Lay out the pieces for the base frame, making sure the edges are square and flush. Glue the ends of the top and bottom pieces of the frame and attach to the sides. Use 1-inch pins to toenail the pieces together (figure A). (The term toenailing ... [... more]
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Chris Burden
This comprehensive overview, the first to appear in almost a decade, examines an artistic career, that now must be viewed as one of the most fascinating in the history of Contemporary art. From his highly controversial and seminal performance works of ... [... more]
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Tony Feher
Made of found materials, Tony Feher's elegant site-specific installations mark both a divergence from and a confluence with a canonic minimalist aesthetic. Relying on transitory experience and observation, his works demand that the viewer make the effort ... [... more]
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Natural Architecture
Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in Natural Architecture have transformed the act of building into an art form capable of sparking ... [... more]
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Hans Op de Beeck: On Vanishing
This 368-page artist's book presents a collaboration between the young Brussels-based artist Hans Op de Beeck and authors Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley. It collects artworks from the last 10 years alongside texts that generate from questions posed ... [... more]
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