Pro rata is among those Latin terms that has been directly incorporated into English. The vernacular version of the phrase is “prorate.” Literally, the Latin term means “in accordance with calculation.” In practice, both of the original and much more common English term mean to proportion a cost over time. Both terms are often utilized…
Your nose lets you know once you’re approaching a planting of cistus or rock rose (Cistus spp.) , the most commonly grown stone rose. The leaves and stalks of those tiny shrubs have a characteristic resinous smell. The white, pink or red blooms have wrinkled, crepe-paper textured petals. Closely related rockroses from the Halimium genus…
Should you judge them by their colors and greens, dark walnut and red oak are very distinct hardwoods, but concerning wearability, they aren’t very distinct. Their Janka hardness evaluations are in the exact same range, and both are on the low end of their scale to get hardwoods. This means that when they’re used for…
The Exmark Lazer Z HP is a compact, zero-turn lawn mower that features a floating deck with high-lift cutting blades. It is accessible with a Kawasaki or a Kohler engine and a Battery Council International Group U1-type battery. The 12-volt dual battery sets out 315 cold cranking amperes, or amps, when starting the motor and…
The 1949 Charles and Ray Eames house in Santa Monica, California, is justly renowned as an example of innovative design thinking. It was a design studio and a home for the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century, and an extensive restoration with the help of this Getty Museum is nearing conclusion. However there…
Contemporary design has taken to the streets of Manhattan in the shape of tiny public lending libraries. Lodged between stately columns, on a public park bench, nestled in a schoolyard fence, in a street or in the end of a pier, 10 small-scale designer libraries currently reside in New York’s East Village and Lower East…
From the start of your bathroom renovation, your pipes and framers need to understand where your toilet should go — whether it’ll be mounted on the floor or wall and in which the water supply ought to be positioned. If that’s not complicated enough wall paneling, tile installation, shower doors and baseboards will all factor…
A drip cap is a feature on the exterior of a window, positioned on peak of the window. It extends out and is intended to channel water out from the window; water follows the contour of the drip cap, and then melts the outer edge. Chris Hill The drip cap inside this case is only…
When a couple of medical professionals (she was a nurse, he a radiologist) planned their retirement, they planned big lifestyle changes. They were living and functioning in Indianapolis but wished to be closer to their kids and grandchildren from the Washington, D.C., area, and they wanted to grow grapes for wine. They found 25 acres…
If this city condo needed character, the designers in Groundswell Design Group traveled to the country stylewise. The condo, a clean-lined contemporary penthouse in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberty neighborhood, was too bare, and the detailing was dull. To meet the needs of the proprietor, one builder, one of the 2 bedrooms has been opened up and…