architecture
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Background: A “snail” is a slug-like creature with a shell on its back. Many snails can entirely retreat into their shells for protection, which lead people to describe the snail as “wearing its house on its back.” (This is not strictly accurate, since snails do not pay property tax.) The Issue: High cost of living…
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Background: Back in the days when fireplaces were a common method of heating a home, houses typically consisted of a number of smaller rooms with doors between them. However, modern homes tend to have open floor plans with large rooms that cannot be sealed off by doors. The Issue: In the open-floor-plan home-design world, heating…
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6 Baffling Apartment Arrangements You Won’t Believe Are Real* (* they are not real)
architecture, hey there’s no space for a dining table, man who designed those layouts anyway, movable walls, reconfigure your apartment, some crazy apartment layouts or something, those bedrooms in the floorplan don’t look like they would actually fit a bed, those bedrooms would totally fit like a crib or twin bed, what is a “den” anyway isn’t that just a living room, whoa what is up with these layouts
The issue: Many modern apartments are extremely well-built structurally (or perhaps even over-built), but have terrible interior layouts. Unfortunately, it is extremely expensive to reconfigure a floorplan, even if no load-bearing walls (or walls concealing wires or plumbing) need to be modified. For maximum cost-efficiency, a person interested in remodeling could potentially just take a…
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