Stopping heat loss with storm windows

To fight the cold weather or the stormy season, it is best to equip your home with storm windows that are installed on your existing windows, to prevent heat loss from your home. For the protection of old houses with poor insulation, storm windows are a must. You can install either single pane or double pane storm windows, depending on the insulation needs for your home.

How do they stop heat loss? To put it simply, a large amount of heat will be lost through any of the openings in your house, such as windows, air vents, doors, and so on. Even when your windows are shut during the cold months, they will never be tight enough to prevent any leakage of heat with the air movement. Read more…

The Benefit Of Having A Professional Install Your Aluminum Windows

Have you ever installed a window before? Have you ever seen anybody install an aluminum window before? The reason I ask these two questions is because not doing an installation yourself or not even seeing somebody do one before puts you at a big disadvantage as far as installing an aluminum window on your own and that is why you will have to hire a professional to come and do the installation for you. Although you will have to spend more money on hiring a professional to do it, you will get the job done and it will be done right.

One of the benefits of having a professional install your new home windows is the fact that they will get it done right the first time. Read more…

Light the Mood | Philips LivingColors Gen2 Mood Lights

Sometimes you overlook your mood. You feel relaxed or tranquil, sometimes joyful or excited, and you dont even know why. Well Philips has brilliantly chosen to capture these emotions and reflect them with their latest LivingColors Gen2 mood lights. An improvement on the original generation of mood lighting, LivingColors Gen2 provides 50% more light to wash your home or office with intense hues and lush tones. And because LivingColors uses a high tech LED lighting design, you can bathe your everyday life with more intense light much more energy efficiently. Read more…

AOL Office | Studio O+A

AOL launched a company-wide initiative to adapt to changes in online culture which the company had been instrumental in creating in the first place. As part of this effort, AOL moved its West Coast headquarters to a new corporate space in Palo Alto and brought in Studio O+A to give the office a fresh design.

The existing space retained a distinctly 1980s corporate aesthetic: drop ceilings hanging over every office, high cubicles separating employees into tightly defined workstations, dark finishes, and oblique lines.

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Atherton Table Lamp | Designer Lighting from Uttermost

The latest in home lighting fashion from Uttermost, the Atherton table lamp designed by Carolyn Kinder is a gorgeous choice for any transitional or contemporary style home decor. Measuring a sensible 10″ in diameter and an impressive 33″ high, Atherton is a glowing example of what contemporary lighting designers can do with something so simple and practical as a table lamp. Atherton’s delicate shade is constructed of a lush off-white linen fabric with natural slubbing in a round modified tall drum style, for a simple and refined bit of flair.

The bulbous base features a glossy blue ceramic with an olive gray drip, rust accents, and brushed aluminum details with plenty of complexity to catch the eye of even the most amateur home decorator. And A

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