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Section F Saturday, January 26, 2013
homessass up your decor with
cool designs Lauren La roSe
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — The holi-day decorations have been shelved for another year and the warmth of spring — and the habitual house cleaning that follows — is still months away.
Welcome to the mid-winter lull.
As the tempera-tures nosedive, so too can the moti-vation of many to overhaul their interiors. Or perhaps they simply don’t have the cash or hours need-ed to give their home a major facelift.
Still, there are op-tions for those looking to make subtle changes to help enliven their spaces — and that
won’t drain tons of time in the process.
Here are five ways to warm up your home decor during the winter.
1. Textiles. No need to rely solely on a fresh coat of paint or wall coverings to inject some sorely needed colour into your surroundings. The addition of textiles drenched in bright or bold hues can quickly add pop to a staid space.
“It’s a pretty affordable solution, so one of the ways you could do that is maybe by
changing out your pillows on your sofa to something that’s vibrant either in colour or in pat-tern,” says Ikea Canada spokes-
woman Alicia Zof-franieri.
For those unsure of which new hues to try, Zoffranieri sug-gests considering tur-quoise, lilac or emer-
ald — Pantone’s colour of the year — as an ac-cent.
S e e k i n g a
colourful alternative that doesn’t involve pillows? Con-sider opting for a new sofa slipcover, bed linens, rugs or even shower curtains.
Shannon Acheson typi-cally adds in a blue throw for her son’s room and purple and pink variations for her daughters. Whether in cable knit, cashmere or velvet, layers of the snug coverings along with pillows help add texture and colour, she notes.
“That’s going to be cosy and ... just perk it up a bit be-tween holiday and spring,” says Acheson who partners
with her hus-band Dean on AKA Design, a home and DIY blog.
2. Lights. Illuminating interiors can be a beautiful thing. Whether selecting a removable shade for an ex-isting base or a stand-alone lamp with a unique struc-tural design, the right lights can lend a touch of elegance to a room or help round out an existing space.
Use the existing colours in the room as a guide for which — and how many — brightly hued lamps to bring into the interior. If it’s fairly plain and absent of a lot of colour, consider teaming lamps in two complementary hues, like lilac and green.
3. Plants. Individuals yearning to flex their green thumbs still have some time to wait before they can start digging into the soil outside. But gardening enthusiasts and neophytes alike can get their fix by bringing in an as-sortment of fresh plants.
“It will add life to the home,” says Zoffranieri.
Zoffranieri says if there is
a “hot list” for p lants,
the fiddle-leaf fig plant would rank
among them. The lush, large-leafed, slow-growing plant can stretch to be six feet tall, she notes.
“It grows towards the light. If you want to make sure it keeps growing straight up, you have to make sure you rotate it. Otherwise, it’s al-most like a vine, it will keep growing and kind of snaking around,” she says. “It’s beau-tiful. It’s a really nice plant.”
4. Do-it-yourself. Even those who aren’t the most
DIY-inclined can try their hand at a simple craft proj-ect. On her blog, akadesign.ca, Acheson outlines one task she says is easy enough to do with her kids: custom-izing porcelain pieces. Use a permanent marker to scrawl a word, quote or saying (or to craft a design) on a bowl, plate or mug. Place the item on a cookie sheet in the oven for 30 minutes at 350 F.
5. Printables. Your empty frame can be transformed into a work of art with a few clicks of the mouse.
Acheson says printables are easy to access online. Many craft-focused blogs and sites like Pinterest of-fer downloads of colourful prints that are print-ready to slip into various sizes of frames.
“A lot of bloggers and a lot of decorating places have seasonal things you can print out. But when the holidays are done, you can swap it out for quotes or just other prin-ciples, just to change it for the season,” says Acheson.
“You just do a little search and find what suits your style.”
Winter warm-uphO — aKa design/CP
this ‘love’ bowl is an easy do-it-your-self project that can help give your home a cosier feel in winter.
a winter-themed printable from aKa design can be downloaded and slipped
into frames.
colourful pillows can add contrast to a sofa or bed dur-
ing the dark winter days.
Lighting can add brightness and a
pop of colour to your home in winter.
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The Canadian Home Builders’ As-sociation — Saskatchewan and the regional associations and councils in the province remain focused and vigilant on key priority issues that directly affect business and consumers and specifically the resi-dential construction industry in all communities in the province. Some of these key issues include:
1. Housing tax reforms and up-dating GST thresholds
2. Tackling the underground cash economy; protect consumers
Remember when the GST was introduced? Well, I guess most of us do. The GST replaced what was known as the MST (Manufacturers’ Sales Tax), which was a hidden cost. The MST essentially only applied to the manufactured goods portion of a transaction and where housing
was concerned it certainly didn’t apply to land and labour.
The GST New Housing Rebate, introduced in 1991, provides tax re-bates on new homes based on price levels. A buyer of a $350,000 home pays 3.2 per cent GST, saving 36 per cent or $6,300. The rebate is phased out over that price and there is no rebate for new homes priced above $450,000. These are the same thresh-olds that have existed since 1991, despite significant increases in the cost of new homes.
When the program was intro-duced, the federal government made a commitment to adjust the thresholds at least every two years, to ensure they were sensitive to changes in housing prices so as not to dampen demand through a consumption tax. However, the thresholds have not been adjusted a single time over the course of the 22 years that the program has existed. In 1991, 100 per cent of new home-buyers in Regina and 99.6 per cent of new homebuyers in Saskatoon qualified for the full rebate. By 2008, the numbers had been significantly reduced, with only 58.1 per cent and 49.5 per cent, respectively, qualify-ing for the full rebate.
Remember we were told that the GST would be revenue neutral; mind you we were also told by the next guy that he would “axe the tax.” GST was never revenue neu-tral and it didn’t get axed, but we do applaud this federal government for reducing the rate from seven per cent to five per cent. It’s long past the time, though, that the thresh-olds for GST rebates should be in-dexed to reflect the current housing situation. The increase in the Statis-tics Canada New House Price Index between 1991 and 2011 was almost 60 per cent. We recommend that the thresholds be adjusted to reflect this increase in housing prices.
Adding to all that if we index the threshold, let’s say tied to the Con-sumer Price Index (CPI) we will not be having this debate 22 years from now. If it’s the thought that there’s a revenue reduction here, let me counter that position; we must not forget to factor in the new buy-ers who now qualify for mortgages given improved affordability and reduced costs. So let’s make smart policies now.
So how about if all contractors and all consumers pay the same tax? How about if some of them
just start paying the tax, take out permits and put customers first?
Underground cash operators are becoming a serious burden on Saskatchewan’s economy and the residential housing industry. An increasing number are circum-venting the taxpaying process by encouraging and accepting illegal under-the-table cash payments for their services. Governments have lost annual revenues estimated to be in the billions of dollars due to the underground cash economy in residential construction. In Sas-katchewan, with an industry ap-proaching contributions to the GDP of $5 billion and based on the activi-ty in the marketplace it is estimated that the value of transactions not complying with CRA requirements could exceed $500 million.
The introduction of GST resulted in the rapid growth of underground cash transactions in home renova-tions. The current GST applies to the full cost of a renovation. There-fore, GST taxes the same project at five per cent — twice the previous amount and now applies to services that weren’t taxed before.
The government through the Canada Revenue Agency has failed
to level the playing field for legiti-mate contractors who lawfully file their tax returns, submit payroll taxes for employees and generally contribute to the quality of com-munities and the economy. The Home Renovation Tax Credit first introduced as part of the Economic Action Plan, should be reinstated and permanently implemented to actively encourage homeowners to hire legitimate, professional con-tractors and in this way not cause distortions in the marketplace.
Keeping a watchful eye on the pol-icy environment and understand-ing the need for timely reviews is even more critical in robust grow-ing economies. Out-of-date policies are often out-of-step deterrents and clearly don’t advance an agenda for a growing province like Saskatch-ewan or future building in Canada for that matter.
Alan Thomarat is the president and CEO of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association — Saskatchewan and the Saskatoon & Region Home Builders
Association. He also serves as a director on the national board of the
Canadian Home Builders’ Association in Ottawa.
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AlAn THOmARATCEO and President
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Canadian weather can seem a bit unpredictable. One minute it’s sunshine and warm weather. Next thing you know we’re hit with a snowstorm. Don’t let the occasional springlike day fool you — we’re still in the middle of winter. And when you consider that insurance claims for damages related to win-ter storms can run into the thou-sands, knowing how to deal with ice and snow around your house is just smart.
One of the first things I tell hom-eowners is to keep snow away from foundation walls. The moisture from snow melting can slowly seep in. Remember, concrete is porous. So when you shovel your driveway, walkways and sidewalks remem-ber to shovel snow away from the perimeter of your home. And make sure fire hydrants, gas metres and dryer vents aren’t covered by snow either.
Enough snow on the wrong roof can potentially cause it to collapse. The funny thing is that you want your roof to have snow. If the snow doesn’t melt, your attic insulation is doing its job. But if there’s enough snow and ice there’s the risk of the roof collapsing. Flat roofs are espe-cially vulnerable.
Some municipalities even ask ho-meowners to remove snow from flat rooftops, overhangs and gutters — especially if the area has been hit with snow and ice storms.
Some homeowners will use roof snow shovels to remove the snow. These are shovels designed to help you remove snow on your roof from the ground so you’re not climbing up on the roof and risking a fall.
But shovelling your roof from the ground also has its risks: One, you could damage your shingles. And two, the snow you shovel off the roof could come down on top of you. If you need to remove snow or an ice dam from your roof call a pro-fessional contractor who regularly deals with these kinds of problems.
Responsibilities
Most people worry about injuries happening on their property — and they should. You’re responsible for taking the proper precautions, because if someone gets hurt as a result of your negligence you’re in trouble.
That includes injuries caused by falling icicles, slips and falls. There’s even an insurance category called “slip and fall” cases — that’s how common they are. And if you think you’re off the hook be-cause you’re a renter, guess what — you’re not. In some Canadian jurisdictions, there’s legislation that includes “duty of care.” What that means is that the occupier of a home — it doesn’t matter if they’re just renting — needs to make sure the property is safe for anyone who has to enter it, such as the mailman or utility service reps.
If you think about the risks, taking care of ice and snow is a
no-brainer. Snow and ice are slip-ping hazards. But shovelling might not be enough. If the temperature drops below freezing or you know a storm is headed your way, apply a de-icer on your driveway, walkway and sidewalk. Spread as much as your property’s size requires. After the storm, apply more along with some sand to add traction.
De-icers
The most common de-icer is sodi-um chloride — what many people call road or rock salt. It’s the most inexpensive. But there’s also calci-um chloride, urea, potassium chlo-ride and magnesium chloride.
Calcium chloride and magne-sium chloride melt ice faster than salt, but they cost more. And calci-um chloride is corrosive; it destroys grassroots. Urea and potassium chloride can be found in fertilizer, so they’re safe for your lawn. The problem is that urea can be corro-sive, and potassium chloride dam-ages concrete.
I’m not a big fan of salt. One, it destroys your grass. Have you ever seen brown patches of grass at the end of driveways? It’s because melt-
ed snow with salt got into the soil. Two, it can make your pet sick.
When I take my dog Charlie out for a walk sometimes he gets salt on his paws. Then when he’s back inside he starts licking them. The next day he’s throwing up.
The third reason is that salt works best only when the ground temperature is above -9 C (or 15 F). If you know anything about a Canadian winter you’ll know that temperatures can drop a lot lower than -9 C. Plus, salt is sensitive to temperature changes. The colder the ground temperature, the less ef-fective it is.
And four, salt eats away at brick mortar. I’ve seen brick homes where every year the salt eats away more at the mortar, the voids climb-ing up from the ground with every passing winter. I’d rather use sand or gravel because they’re safer natural alternatives. But no mat-ter what de-icer you decide to go with, read the package and follow instructions.
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Faye Arn 539-8724Hosted by Aspen Village Developments30 McKenzie Pointe, White CitySaturday Jan. 26 Time 2-5 pmMLS® 448195$578,900 ( price reduced)
Faye Arn 539-872414 McKenzie Lane, White CitySaturday Jan. 26 2-5 pmMLS® 448785$379,900This is a sample unit of the town homes.
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Shirley MacFarlane 536-91273712 Gordon Road - Albert ParkJan. 27th, Sunday - 2-4 p.m.MLS®:443945$419,500
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2 Bedroom Bungalow with newer kitchen $235,000!
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AMAZING HOME IN WHITE CITY!2 EMERALD CREEK DR.
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Upgraded 2-storey split family home in Wascana View.Approx. 1,900 sq.ft. 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms.
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Well maintained & updated 3 bdrm Albert Park end unitcondo. New kitchen w/laminate flooring. New furnace &A/C unit. New PVC windows throughout. 2 heated U/Gparking stalls. Close to all south-end amenities. Privatefenced patio backing onto green space.
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3851 RETALLACK Reno−vated 2 bedroom by GoldenMile . Inc. heat,water ,park−ing. NS , NP., $1,050.(306) 570−9111
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53 SHEPPARD Renovated2 bdrm by Northgate mall.Inc.heat,water,parking.Mature Adults only,NS,NP,$950. (306) 535−5239
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Attractive 1 BR in quietneighborhood close toWascana Park & downtown.No pets. No smoking. Refsreq'd. 306-546-4233
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BARGAIN. $770. Beautiful 1Br (apt)Ste, A/C, security dr,prkg, great loc. 2330 BroadSt. Avail NOW 789-7773.
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HousesHouses1000 Block Wascana, small2 BR, $950/mo + util. 600blk Montague 3 BR $1150.Avail. Immed. 539-9190
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11 BLKGARNET2BDRM4appl. $950/mnth.
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829 Broadway house mainflr suite, partly furn, N/S,$1000 util. incl. avail. Jan27. Cameron 352-9300.
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AVAILABLE FEB 13BR, 2 storey, 4 appls,
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AVAILABLE NOW4 BR, 4 appls, 2229 GrantRoad, $1,550/mo Refer-e n c e s r e q u i r e d . C a l l
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CathedralArea -Superior1BR, newly reno'd, allmajorappl. newkitchencabinets,oak floor, A/C. Sundeck.
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Coronation Park - 2 BRhouse w/garage avail. Feb.1. W/D. Nr schools & shops.No pets. N/S. 543-4127.
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South End 4 BR over 1800sqft of living area, securitydepost & refs req'd. Avail.immed. 586-1457
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Room&BoardRoom&BoardMeals, laundry, prkg. Nearamenities. Room: $500,Room+Board: $1000/mo.Immed. (306) 543-1691
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SharedAccommodationSharedAccommodation102 ROBINSON CRESfemale only, 3 Bdrm, 1Bath, laundry, North end,utils included, animals,$650. (306) 584−3796
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Available Feb 1st,Upland area. 1 bdrm,
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Christian lady to live inw/elderly couple to help out,very reasonable rent, refreq, 352-5039, 570-7755
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RESPONS IBLE , GOODnatured person to share 4 brhouse. Rosemont, greatarea, quiet. $650. Immed.543-0256 Cell 539-3394
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In the de Waal home, utility is design. Function is decor.
Not that the Edmonton couple’s home is absent of whimsy or beauty. The main-floor great room is a great room. Its heart, the kitchen, is lovely. The natu-ral-wood dining room table is gorgeous.
The wood flooring is rich with colour and grain. The fireplace brings shimmer and warmth.
The house, all in all, is spacious yet cosy. It feels vi-tamin-enriched in here. The air is clean and fresh. Lots of natural light.
On this, a red-cheeks-and-chilblains January af-ternoon, the great room is warm, bright and evokes vi-
sions of cocooning and slow cooking.
Sharan de Waal and her husband Koen — rhymes with tune — are just starting out. This is their first home. They’re both just 30, new to marriage and careers.
Sharan was bor n and raised in Edmonton. She likes to say she imported Koen from The Netherlands, where he grew up.
Koen is a trained civil engineer. He works for Ed-monton in its transportation department. Sharan is an oc-cupational therapist, work-ing with children diagnosed with mental health disor-ders.
A couple years back they were living in a 500-square-foot condo and looking for a house. They wanted to live near downtown. They needed some space, because
Koen’s Dutch relatives like to visit. They were on a budget.
They also wanted their home to be gentle on the planet. Koen-the-engineer is nuts about the green stuff. He is clearly proud of the furnace room, with its huff-ing ducts and spiralling copper designed to recycle waste heat.
In their search they found a tiny home in a central-west neighbourhood, long past its best-before date. They bought immediately, then advertised a free sal-vage event on Kijiji. People showed up to gratefully re-move windows, doors, fix-tures and siding.
The recycling of the home felt right. Less mate-rial went to landfill and the spirit of the old house was transplanted to DIY projects around the region.
The couple then modified a house plan from Euro De-sign Inc. to fit their narrow-but-long lot. They acted as general contractors and turned for help to Sharan’s dad, now retired, who was a baker and part-time home builder — yes, you read that right — back in the day.
The 2,100-square-foot home’s concrete foundation is surrounded on all sides by Styrofoam insulation. The spray foam in the walls is double that required by code. The attic insulation is off the charts.
The faucets are low flow. The windows are triple glazed. The lighting is LED. Waste heat, as mentioned, is used to warm fresh air and water entering the home.
On average, their heating and electricity bills are each $63 every month.
The home earned an En-erGuide rating of 86, good enough for a $10,000 govern-ment rebate.
The upstairs contains three bedrooms, including the master; two full bath-rooms, including the ensuite; as well as a laundry room.
There’s lots of room for family, including the couple’s first baby, due this spring.
Downstairs features two more bedrooms, a TV room and comfy carpet.
Esthetes will lament the absence of design, colour and accoutrement. Sharan says this is all intentional — their focus was on function rather than overt style.
Thus, the first room en-countered upon entering the home — the front room, if you will — is actually an office.
Koen’s plans are to become more of a home builder and less of a hired-gun engineer in coming years.
Now, back to the great room. The counters, includ-ing those on the spacious island, are quartz and com-pletely impervious. Those gorgeous floors are engi-neered hardwood, recycled from old wood furniture. The fireplace eschews the traditional always-on pilot light for electronic ignition.
As Koen says, some of the home’s most beautiful fea-tures are unseen — behind walls, engineered into the infrastructure, or tucked in-to that furnace room of his.
“We spent money on what you can’t see,” says Sharan, smiling.
“We get excited when we see our bills. It makes you feel good.”
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the de Waals recycled an old home in an established edmonton neighbourhood and rebuilt it to high enerGuide standards.the fireplace in the great room uses
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NEW YORK — Sam Neuman jokes that he doesn’t casually throw off his coat when he gets home at night — it would take up half his apart-ment.
Such is life in his walk-up stu-dio a few blocks from Manhattan’s bustling Times Square, which at 280 square feet is barely the size of a one-car garage, with just enough space for a bed, a desk, a TV stand on one wall and a kitchen against the other.
“I’ve developed this weird Stock-holm Syndrome, (in) which you identify with your captors,” said the 31-year-old publicist. “When I go to other people’s apartments, I think, ‘Why do they need more than one bedroom?’ I’m really very happy here. There’s not really time to let things accumulate because ... where would I put them?”
The Big Apple is legendary for its legions of residents who live in re-ally, really small apartments. Many of them are fiercely proud of it and can even find the humour in their cramped quarters. Now the city is about to see just how small New Yorkers are willing to go.
With the population and rents expected to keep climbing, New York City planners are challenging architects to design ways to make it tolerable — even comfortable — to live in dwellings from 350 square feet to as small as 250 square feet.
The city wants to incorporate those designs into an apartment complex to be built on Manhat-tan’s east side next year featuring mostly “micro units.” The aim is to offer more of such tiny apartments throughout the city as affordable options for the young singles, cash-poor and empty nesters who are in-creasingly edged out of the nation’s most expensive real-estate market.
If the pilot program is successful, New York could ultimately over-turn a requirement established in 1987 that all new apartments be at least 400 square feet.
Smaller living is a concept al-ready endorsed by some cities. San Francisco recently approved con-struction of apartments as small as 220 square feet. And Tokyo and Hong Kong have long offered tiny units.
As a way to get New Yorkers to think small, the Museum of the City of New York is opening an ex-hibit Wednesday featuring a fully furnished 325-square-foot studio apartment that incorporates the latest space-saving designs. There’s the bed that folds out over a couch, a padded ottoman containing four nesting chairs, a fold-out dinette ta-
ble tucked neatly under the kitchen counter and a TV that slides away to reveal a bar.
Neuman was amazed at how much more spacious and airy the demonstration apartment felt than his own flat.
“If they hooked up the cable and plumbing, I’d move in tomorrow,” Neuman said during a walk-through of the exhibit with a reporter. “You could actually have a cocktail party in there without it feeling like the subway at rush hour.”
Other amenities in the 12-foot-by-24-foot model include a cute bath-room that is five feet nine inches by seven feet nine inches, a refrigera-tor and separate freezer tucked un-der the counter, and the holy grail of New York apartments — a dish-washer. The Murphy bed, like most of the features, glides out with only a light touch of the hand.
“It’s almost like a space shuttle or an ocean liner in how it’s de-signed,” said Donald Albrecht, the co-curator of the exhibition.
On Manhattan’s west side, it doesn’t take long for 67-year-old school finance director Jack
Sproule to give a tour of the studio apartment he owns with his wife. At 290 square feet, there’s just enough room for the bed that folds into the wall, a kitchenette and an ade-quately appointed bathroom, which
Sproule jokes is the only place to es-cape when there’s an argument.
But the signature feature is the picture window at the far end of the unit.
“Look at that view,” Linda
Sproule said, pointing to the sprawl-ing expanse of Central Park, with the reservoir, the great lawn and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the distance.
The let’s-get-small initiative taps into that trade off — an ultra tiny apartment for the opportunity to live in one of the world’s great cit-ies.
It grew out of a confluence of sobering statistics. New York City, which already has 8.2 million peo-ple, is projected to grow by about 600,000 people by 2030. A third of the city’s households consist of just one person, a percentage that climbs to 46 per cent on the island of Manhattan. Residents face aver-age market-value rents of $2,000 a month for a studio apartment and $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom.
Newly constructed tiny apart-ments, depending on location, are expected to go for the price of a current studio but would have the added state-of-the-art amenities.
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Stacking tables hidden in an ottoman and a Murphy bed make a tiny space seem roomy at the exhibit Making Room: Models for Housing new yorkers.
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Q: The rug in our front hall is getting destroyed. It always looks messy ’cause every time our dogs run down the hallway, the rug gets crumpled into a ball. Between my husband’s giant shoe prints, our kids muddy boots and the dogs, I’m ready to throw the rug out the front door.
Can I leave the floors bare? Will they get damaged when it really starts to snow?
A: The messy front door rug is a pretty common issue. My girl-friend recently sent me a frus-trated email that read: “What can I do to fix my damn rug!” Her dogs like to race down the hall and slide into the closet door. I swear her Westies think the rug is their personal crash pad. We solved the problem with an inexpensive non-slip rug pad. The pad definitely helped, but she still deals with a wrinkled rug.
I’ve heard of people making the mistake of taping down rugs or applying lines of caulk on the back of their rugs. If your rug is in a spot that gets hot from the sun or a radiator, then the tape or caulk could melt and damage your floors.
A thick, weighty jute or wool rug will move less than a cotton dhurrie. I know, I know, the pat-terns on cotton dhurries are so fabulous and the look is casual, but a scrunched-up rug in the en-tryway is not a good look.
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I’ve always liked Flor modular carpet tiles (flor.com) as an al-ternative to rugs in the hallway because you can choose different patterns, colours and textures. The carpet tiles stay in place with adhesive stickers that won’t dam-age your floor.
The website’s “Flor builder” will help you not only custom-ize a pattern, but also determine how many tiles you will need for your space. Two of the 19.7-inch squares is a good width for hall-
ways. Modern Mix in brown (as seen in the photo) will hide paw and boot prints in between vacu-umings. And, when a tile gets re-ally dirty, you can clean it in the dishwasher, or in more serious cases replace it. Plus, the eco-conscious company has a return-and-recycle policy so your carpet won’t end up in a landfill site.
You can leave the floor bare, but be prepared to have a rag nearby so that you can wipe up melted snow, salt, sleet or even just dirty rainwater, given the weather this season. Keep in mind that glossy tile and shiny wood floors can get slippery. One of my guests once slipped and fell flat on her back when I had temporarily removed the grungy front door mat. Thank-fully, she was fine, but she could have really hurt herself, which is (and was) terrifyingly worse than the messy look of a wrinkled rug.
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Michael BieSeckerTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RALEIGH, N.C. — Former U.S. army captain Linda L. Bray says her male superi-ors were incredulous upon hearing she had ably led a platoon of military police officers through a firefight during the 1989 invasion of Panama.
Instead of being praised for her actions, the first woman in U.S. history to lead male troops in combat said higher-ranking officers accused her of embellish-ing accounts of what hap-pened when her platoon bested an elite unit of the Panamanian Defence Force. After her story became pub-lic, Congress fiercely debat-ed whether she and other women had any business being on the battlefield.
The Pentagon’s long-standing prohibition against women serving in ground combat ended Thursday, when U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta announced that most combat roles will now be open to female sol-diers and Marines. Panetta said women are integral to the military’s success and will be required to meet the same physical standards as their male colleagues.
“I’m so thrilled, excited. I think it’s absolutely won-
derful that our nation’s military is taking steps to help women break the glass ceiling,” said Bray, 53. “It’s nothing new now in the military for a woman to be right beside a man in opera-tions.”
The end of the ban on women in combat comes more than 23 years after Bray stoked intense contro-versy when her actions in Panama were praised as he-roic by Marlin Fitzwater, the spokesman for then-presi-dent George H.W. Bush.
Bray and 45 soldiers un-der her command in the 988th Military Police Com-pany, nearly all of them
men, encountered a unit of Panamanian special op-erations soldiers holed up inside a military barracks and dog kennel.
Her troops killed three of the Panamanian unit and took one prisoner before the rest were forced to flee, leaving behind a cache of grenades, assault rifles and thousands of rounds of am-munition, according to As-sociated Press news reports published at the time. The Americans suffered no ca-sualties.
Citing Bray’s performance under fire as an example, Rep. Patricia Schroeder in-troduced a bill to repeal the
law that barred female U.S. military personnel from serv-ing in combat roles.
But the response from Pentagon leaders was less enthusiastic.
“The responses of my superior officers were very degrading, like, ‘What were you doing there?”’ Bray said. “A lot of people couldn’t be-lieve what I had done, or did not want to believe it. Some of them were making excuses, saying that maybe this really didn’t happen the way it came out.”
Schroder’s bill died after top generals lobbied against the measure, saying female soldiers just weren’t up to
the physical rigours of com-bat.
For Bray, the criticism got personal.
The ar my refused to grant her and other female soldiers who fought on the ground in Panama the prized Combat Infantryman Badge. She was awarded the Army Commendation Med-al for Valor, an award for meritorious achievement in a non-combat role.
Bray was also the subject of an army investigation over allegations by Panama-nian officials that she and her soldiers had destroyed government and personal property during the invasion
that toppled Panamanian dic-tator Manuel Noriega.
T h o u g h e v e n t u a l l y cleared of any wrongdoing, the experience soured Bray on the Army. In 1991, she resigned her commission after eight years of active duty and took a medical dis-charge related to a training injury.
Today’s military is much different from the one Bray knew, with women already serving as fighter pilots, aboard submarines and as field supervisors in war zones. But some can’t help but feel that few know of their contributions, said Al-ma Felix, 27, a former Army specialist.
“We are the support. Those are the positions we fill, and that’s a big deal — we often run the show — but people don’t see that,” Fe-lix said. “Maybe it will put more females forward and give people a sense there are women out there fighting for our country.”
Spc. Heidi Olson, a com-bat medic, received a Purple Heart award for injuries she suffered when an im-provised explosive device exploded in Afghanistan last May.
“It makes it official now,” Olson said. “We don’t have to do the back door way of getting out into a combat zone.”
U.S military
First female combat leader ‘thrilled’ by change
The Associated Press files
Female soldiers from the U.S. 101st airborne Division train in kentucky in September prior to deployment in afghanistan. The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening most front-line positions to all soldiers and Marines.
JaSon STraziUSoTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Calling all croco-dile experts — South Afri-can police say you’re needed to help capture thousands of crocs out on the lam.
The crocodiles escaped a breeding farm along a river on the South Africa-Botswa-na border when the farms’ gates were opened earlier this week to alleviate pres-sure caused by rising flood waters.
Efforts are now being made to wrangle the reptiles and get them back to the Rak-wena Crocodile Farm, from where the vast majority es-caped. Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesman for the police in Limpopo Province, said Fri-day that experts are needed right away to help sort out the crocodile crisis.
“Due to the number of crocodiles that have been washed away there is a need for expertise, people who have expertise to come and assist,” Mulaudzi said. “So we are just making appeals to anyone ... who has knowl-edge of catching crocodiles to come and assist.”
News reports from the scene show people hunting down smaller crocodiles at night, tying them up and taking them back to the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in northern South Africa. The crocodiles are easier to hunt at night because their eyes glow when hit with a beam of light. The farm’s website shows crocs up to five metres long, though crocs of all siz-es escaped, Mulaudzi said.
It isn’t clear exactly how many crocodiles are on the loose. Mulaudzi said he be-lieves around 10,000 from multiple farms remain on the loose. Officials from the Rakwena Crocodile Farm have been quoted in conflict-ing South African media accounts as saying either
7,000 escaped or up to 15,000 escaped. The farm original-ly held about 15,000 crocs. About 2,000 crocodiles have been returned to the farm, Mulaudzi said. The farm did not respond to an email or calls seeking comment.
Regardless of the exact number of farm-raised crocs now touring the wild, gov-ernment officials and experts are calling on people who live near the remote region, which sits on the Limpopo River, to be careful around bodies of water. Many of the crocodiles are assumed to now be residing in the river.
“So far we are lucky. There has not been any emergen-cies,” said Mulaudzi. “And we are hopeful that nothing will happen. But with croco-diles all over in the river we are saying, please, we need assistance.”
Donald Strydom, a wild-life expert at South Africa’s Khamai Reptile Centre, said he doesn’t think the croc release will lead to a loss of human life. People are aware of the situation, he said, and crocodiles don’t naturally hunt humans.
“People must not go into a monster hunt and think these crocodiles are out to eat them,” Styrdom told South Africa’s eNews Chan-nel Africa.
Mulaudzi said he did not think the Rakwena Crocodile Farm would face any charges from police for releasing the crocs, given the emergency nature of the flood.
Flood waters are inundat-ing northern South Africa and neighbouring Mozam-bique. But Mulaudzi said the farm may face scrutiny from the Department of En-vironmental Affairs, which is helping with the reptile emergency.
The Rakwena Crocodile Farm website shows goods such as crocodile-skin purs-es, belts and hats for sale. Crocodile meat is also avail-able for purchase.
Up to 15,000 crocodiles escape reptile farms
in south Africa
Jay reeveSTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Like vinyl records and skinny ties, good things eventu-ally come back around. At NASA, that means looking to the Apollo program for ideas on how to develop the next generation of rockets for future missions to the moon and beyond.
Young engineers who weren’t even born when the last Saturn V rocket took off for the moon are testing a vintage engine from the program.
The engine, known to NASA engineers as No. F-6049, was supposed to help propel Apollo 11 into orbit in 1969, when NASA sent Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts to the moon for the first time. The flight went off without a hitch, but no thanks to the engine — it was grounded because of a glitch during a test in Mississippi and later sent to the Smithsonian Institution, where it sat for years.
Now engineers are learn-ing to work with technical systems and propellants not used since before the start of the space shuttle pro-gram, which first launched in 1981.
Nick Case, 27, and other engineers at NASA’s Mar-shall Space Flight Center completed on Thursday a series of 11 test-firings of the F-6049’s gas generator, a jet-like rocket which pro-duces 30,000 pounds (13,500 kilograms) of thrust and was used as a starter for the engine. They are trying to see whether a second-gener-ation version of the Apollo engine could produce even more thrust and be oper-ated with a throttle for deep-space exploration.
There are no plans to send the old engine into space, but it could become a tem-plate for a new generation of motors incorporating parts of its design.
In NASA-speak, the old five-metre-tall motor is called an F-1 engine. During moon missions, five of them were arranged at the base of the 109-metre-tall Saturn V system and fired together to power the rocket off the ground toward Earth orbit.
Thursday’s test used one part of the engine, the gas generator, which powers the
machinery to pump propel-lant into the main rocket chamber. It doesn’t produce the massive orange flame or clouds of smoke like that of a whole F-1, but the sound was deafening as engineers fired the mechanism in an outdoor test stand on a cool, sunny afternoon.
The device produced a plume that resembled a blow torch the size of two buses and set fire to a grassy area, which was quickly ex-tinguished.
“It’s not small,” Case said. “It’s pretty beefy on its own.”
And just like during the Apollo days, people in North Alabama heard rockets thundering in the distance during tests at Marshall.
“My wife and daughter were in our front yard and she said they could hear it, which was pretty cool,” Case said after an earlier test. “We live about 15 miles (24 kilometres) away.”
A single F-1 engine can produce 1.5 million pounds (675,000 kilograms) of thrust using a fuel composed of liquid oxygen and refined kerosene, which was not used in the space shuttle.
The tests were conducted at Marshall in a project con-ducted with Dynetics Inc.
and Pratt & Whitney Rock-etdyne, which are study-ing NASA’s possibilities for deep-space missions years
from now. The space agency plans to use commercial launches to reach low Earth orbit; larger rockets are re-quired to escape the planet’s gravity.
R.H. Coates, an engineer who works with Case in Marshall’s liquid propul-sion office, said young en-gineers can learn a lot from the work done by predeces-sors using slide-rules in the 1960s, but no one wants to simply rebuild the old Sat-urn V engine.
“This wouldn’t be your daddy’s F-1,” Coates said. “We’d use new materials and try to simplify it, up-date it.”
Case started at Marshall as a high school intern in 2002 and has been work-ing there since graduating
from the University of Ala-bama in Huntsville in 2008. He said today’s technology allows things that weren’t
possible during the 1960s, but he has been impressed by what he learned taking apart the unused Apollo 11 engine.
Engine No. F-6049 didn’t fit properly on the Apollo 11 rocket, but it is invaluable now as a testing tool. Coates said a total of 85 F-1 engines were used on 17 Apollo flights without a single fail-ure.
About a dozen F-1 engines remain in Huntsville, Ala., home of NASA’s main pro-pulsion centre, and others are located elsewhere. Most are on display. Case said engineers used engine No. F-6049 for the tests because it was the most complete.
“It is really an excellent booster,” he said. “The guys in Apollo had it right.”
Space technology
NAsA engineers test leftover engine from Apollo 11 rocket for ideas
NASA
in an image made from video, naSa engineers in huntsville, ala., on Thursday test fire a key part of a rocket engine left over from the 1960s-era apollo moon missions. engineers hope to gain valuable knowledge from the engine, which was originally supposed to power
the apollo 11 moon mission in 1969 but was grounded by a problem.
“My wife and daughter were in our front yard
and she said they could hear it, which was pretty cool,
we live about 15 Miles away.”Nick cAse
The Associated Press
a pair of crocodiles bask in the sun on a reptile farm near Pontdrif, South africa, after being recaptured and returned
the facility. officials say thousands more remain on the lam.
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