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Texas Log Homes have added to its range of custom cedar homes a new series of modular log home plans aimed squarely at first home owners and those looking for an affordable log home as a vacation getaway. Scott Steele, General Manager of Texas Log Homes added, Â"We have worked on producing a series of modular log homes that meet the needs of new home owners and second home builders. These modular log homes are affordable without compromising on quality, which has long been the hallmark of Texas Log Homes.Â" Features of the range include one level and two story models ranging from under 1000 square feet to over 4000 square feet . While customers looking for the look of rustic, hand hewn logs will not be disappointed, there is still plenty of other siding options to pick from.
CLAREMONT, N.H. The housing slowdown in New England has prompted a modular home company in Claremont (New Hampshire) to lay off workers and close one plant. Customized Structures Incorporated laid off 23 of its 200 employees and will close a factory in the city. C-E-O Richard Krant said the company will operate entirely out of a second plant in Claremont. With the number of building permits and new homes dropping, Krant said the company had to make adjustments. ___ Information from: Eagle Times, http://www.eagletimes.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .
The Rockingham County Planning Board approved a rezoning request, by a 5-3 vote, for a new subdivision at the intersection of Bethany and Moore roads despite more than a dozen people who came out against the development. Planning board member Anthony Brown abstained. The property up for rezoning was a 25-acre tract just north of the new Bethany Elementary School in the southwestern part of Rockingham County. Ken Ferguson, owner of Ken Ferguson Construction Co., said he plans to build 15 homes on 15 lots. Ferguson said the homes would be designed with a minimum of 1,600 square feet, not including planned two-stall attached garages. "Our purpose is to build homes $180,000 to $220,000," Ferguson said. "No modular, track or mobile homes. We plan to build custom stick-built homes that will be an asset to the county." Moore Road, a power line and a 150-foot utility easement all cut through the property at different angles, creating difficulties in forming the residential lots.
Boynton Glenn Hagaman, 88, a self-taught engineer who designed antennas that allowed the Navy to communicate with Polaris missile submarines and who invented the first tachometer that gave physicians an instant way to measure patients' heart rates, died of a heart attack Oct. 20 at his Alexandria home. The very low frequency, or VLF, antennas that Mr. Hagaman designed helped submarine crews navigate and communicate using the Omega navigation system, the predecessor of satellite-controlled global positioning systems. His antennas were built all over the world, including in Norway, India, Australia and the United Kingdom. One of the first, a horn-style antenna that was more than 900 feet long, was constructed in the early 1950s near La Plata. .
Lupton City residents were told on Thursday that free mailboxes will soon be installed at each home, but their street addresses will change.
Mayor Ron Littlefield, Councilwoman Sally Robinson and many others addressed the large crowd in Lupton City. More than 150 people gathered to learn about mail service, but heard much more.
The attendees included children and senior residents like Stena Harper, a Lupton City resident and postal customer for 68 years.
Officials said the city will begin installing mail boxes within the next few days. Dan Johnson, Chief of Staff in the mayor's office, said the mail boxes were paid for by the United States Postal Service, R.L. Stowe Mills, and Congressman Zach Wamp. The city's public works employees will be installing the boxes.
ONE of the things that distresses me about modern building methods is that there will be no more beautiful ruins. Smashed concrete blocks and twisted steel structures may make hearts race at Tate Modern, but they will never grace a landscape, or even a city-scape, in the way of solid stone and hand-jointed timber, however broken and fallen. Call me old-fashioned? IÂ'm not. Rather, I am fed up with the graceless, faceless, skill-less tat thrown up in place of good-quality building. Any idiot can make a square out of breeze blocks Â- I know, IÂ've done it myself. Yet breeze blocks are not just ugly, they produce huge amounts of carbon dioxide in their manufacture and require heavy cement mortars to hold them together. The things may be faced with stone or brick, but once your inner shell is made of cement blocks you might as well be in a concrete apartment in the former East Germany.
Sleek house on a greenbelt would be a calm retreat from the city for a couple. By Michele Chan SantosSPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Sunday, October 15, 2006 What: A modern house perched on a cliff, with knockout views. The walls are made of insulation-filled cinderblocks. The flooring includes bamboo, modular carpet tiles and travertine. It has two bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms and approximately 2,656 square feet of space. .
They missed out on a homecoming dance 40 years ago, but the Gunn High School class of '66 -- and their schoolmates from '67 and '68 -- are making up for it this weekend at a Palo Alto reunion of the school's first three graduating classes. ``We didn't have a senior or junior prom, because no one wanted to go -- which was great for me because none of us knew how to dance,'' said class of '66 member Zoe Lofgren, now a congresswoman from San Jose. ``I didn't have a date anyhow, so it was a great relief not to have that challenge,'' she confided to IA. Friday, some alumni wandered around what was once considered an innovative campus of modular classrooms, and a few of them spoke on a panel about how Gunn had influenced them (a lot, Lofgren said -- she was the first in her family to go to college).
Regardless of the size of your home, if it has a patio, deck or balcony, it seems larger. Even if its only large enough for two chairs and a small footstool, this sort of small expansion outside adds immense dimension to any interior living space. But just having the space isnt enough. It needs to be as warm and inviting as the rest of your home, and this is where some interesting new decking materials come in. Natural stone and terra-cotta or ceramic tiles are excellent choices, but you need to be on the ground floor or make sure you verify that the structure can take the substantial additional weight. The warmth of natural wood is one of the more finished looks you can elect to use, but the worry about mildew and decay keeps a lot of people from making this selection. Now, however, there is an appealing new concept in modular decking: removable hardwood tiles that snap together.
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