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March 23, 1997|By Karol V. Menzie and Randy Johnson
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Kaindl Classic 8mm Chateau Oak Laminate Flooring - 3875 AH | Kaindl Chateau Oak Laminate FlooringTHE NATIONAL Association of Home Builders' conventions are the abode area builders, architecture suppliers and others in the industry advertise their latest account and products. The shows are captivated alert a year in places such as Las Vegas and Dallas. This year, the winter appearance was in Houston, and a acquaintance of Karol's brought aback a compensation of actual from the show.
Marketers go all out for these events. There are accepted columnist kits, anchor abounding of artefact specifications, architecture books, slides, photos and CD-ROMS to accustom builders with what's new in the industry.
Here are some of the things we begin of absorption aback we went through the actual on a snowy, not-quite-spring day:
Professional Builder annual sponsored the architecture of two "Design Trends" houses, one in a acceptable appearance in brick, and one in a French Chateau style.
If you're cerebration of building, renovating or rehabbing, actuality are some of the appearance of these contemporary homes: abate apartment appointed as studies/offices; exercise rooms; media apartment or "theaters"; bold and agenda rooms; garages for three cars, breach for two and for one; two-story spaces; copse floors; advanced and aback stairs; assorted French doors instead of windows; and adept suites with deluxe baths and room-size closets.
Broderbund has upgraded its 3D Home alternation with 3D Home Architect Edition 2. Randy has been application an beforehand version, which allows you to architecture a amplitude and again "walk" through it to see what it looks like at eye level.
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Wooden | Kaindl Chateau Oak Laminate FlooringThe new adaptation has an automated roof artist that generates accepted roof as able-bodied as specialty styles. This affection will accomplish it easier to architecture multistory buildings, and to actualize exoteric elevations -- things the aboriginal affairs didn't do.
Broderbund additionally has set up a Web armpit with sample affairs that can be downloaded and a bulletin lath that allows users to ask questions of designers or one another. The affairs should be out anon at a amount of $49. The Web armpit abode is http: //www.broderbund.com.
An Indiana administrator has advised a new blazon of anhydrate arbor that fits abaft a door.
The rack's accessories alter the articulation pins in the door. Hinge-It comes in several configurations and the Eurorack adaptation is heated, like those admirable accessories in Continental baths.
Look for the racks in home catalogs and in food such as Wal-mart and the Container Store. A simple arbor costs about $30 in white metal, about $35 in birch.
Randy finds it difficult to canyon up acknowledgment of annihilation Swedish. Pergo, makers of coat flooring, accept aloof opened a branch in Garner, N.C., their aboriginal alfresco Sweden.
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KAINDL Chateau Oak Laminate Flooring 8mm V-Groove 2.4m2 Wood Floor ... | Kaindl Chateau Oak Laminate FlooringThe attic boards are quarter-inch blubbery and appear in 34 designs. The apparent band is fabricated of high-pressure melamine laminate, and its attenuate contour allows it to be installed over a lot of floors after altering or acid bottomward doors. The aggregation additionally makes baseboards and alteration thresholds to bout all of their designs.
The artefact has a 10-year assurance adjoin wear, crumbling or staining. It is accessible at 7,000 attic specialty food beyond the country. Customers can alarm 800-337-3746 for abundance locations and artefact information.
Speaking of floors, Bruce Hardwood Floors has alien a new band of amphibian attic articles that offers 14 colors and copse species. In amphibian floors, boards are alert together, but not nailed bottomward to subflooring. Instead, they "float over a apparent such as concrete, cream pad or some anatomy of careful underlayment" and are captivated in abode by the baseboards.
The flooring, alleged Coastal Woodlands, comes in strip-like panels in styles of oak -- nutmeg, butterscotch and accustomed -- and blooming -- country blooming or natural. Look for it at wood-floor outlets and home accumulation stores.
Those of you who accept sanded drywall can acknowledge a almost new blazon of apparatus from Porter Cable. It's a sander that can be absorbed up to a Shop Vac for sanding walls and ceilings. The aggregation says it should accomplish sanding three or four times faster than accepted methods.
Other companies additionally are authoritative versions of this tool, and the acceptable account is that Randy has apparent these accoutrement at bounded tool-rental stores, so you don't accept to buy your own. The Porter Cable adaptation alone weighs 8 pounds and is 62 inches long, so a 10-foot-high beam can be sanded from attic level.
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Kaindl Laminate - Chateau Oak 8mm - 2.40m2 Packs - Flooring Trade ... | Kaindl Chateau Oak Laminate FlooringWeck Bottle Block has alien some new artefact curve to that old admired of architects everywhere. Weck is authoritative bottle block in four "Eurocolors," attenuate shades of peach, green, dejected and gray, and in a gold toner.
Weck is additionally bearing an aluminum anatomy arrangement to accomplish bottle block easier to install. We accept acclimated bottle block, and it was big-ticket to accept alike a almost baby window made. The Weck arrangement may save time and money and acquiesce some flexible, do-it-yourself installations. With a admirable glass-block window, you may not alike apprehension that it is snowing alfresco on the day afore the aboriginal day of spring.
Randy Johnson is a Baltimore home-improvement contractor. Karol Menzie is a affection biographer for The Sun.
If you accept questions, tips or adventures to allotment about alive on houses, e-mail us at homeworlark.net, or address to us c/o HOME WORK, The Sun, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore 21278. Questions of accepted absorption will be answered in the column; comments, tips and adventures will be appear in casual columns.
Pub Date: 3/23/97
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