They will shape future home design and help meet the 2016 deadline for Britain's carbon reduction targets.
In fact Peranakan identity is so out-there that even home design guru Martha Stewart recently tried nonya cooking.
Home Depot is also slimming down, trimming 7, 000 jobs as it exits its Expo home design center business.
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Houzz, a design and home remodeling site that allows users to create image-driven idea books and source contractors, has arguably become the largest player in the digital home design space, tallying up 10 million monthly users in the final months of 2012.
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So-called modern prefab had become a staple of home-design magazines during the housing boom.
The demand for everything spa-related has spurred manufacturers and architects to add spalike elements to their home-design offerings.
Last year, Barber Osgerby, the creative team behind the London Olympic torch, took home the Design of the Year award.
"As one reviewer noted, our Z-Base concept is nearly the perfect home theater design, " says ZVOX president and founder Tom Hannaher.
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We brought the Home page design in line with that of the new Channels and Sections, while the underlying tech remains the same for now.
Jeff Banks, whose career in fashion and home furnishings design has spanned more than 40 years, is to become a CBE, while Frances Corner, head of the London College of Fashion, will be made an OBE.
The site is used by consumers to find ideas, research and share ideas for home remodeling and design.
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"If we're talking about access or universal design or home modifications, it all starts outside, " says Ward.
In late 1953, Wright agreed to design the home at the age of 86 for chemist Abraham Wilson and his wife, Gloria Bachman.
In late 1953, Mr. Wright agreed to design the home at the age of 86 for chemist Abraham Wilson and his wife, Gloria Bachman.
Second, and arguably more important than an elegant design, Home has the potential to shake up relationships between carriers, mobile software providers, advertisers and consumers by making free mobile VoIP calls as mainstream as Facebook itself.
Though the Petersiks in the past have made revenue through paid writing jobs and private design consulting, the majority of their income now comes from advertising on the site - either through automatically generated Google ads, or through direct site sponsors, which often include design and home supply companies such as the Tile Shop.
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In addition to stabilizing the industry and addressing the hardship faced by communities that lost auto plants and the jobs they provided, the Administration has been focused on making long-term investments across the country that will make the U.S. a home base for the design and production of the next generation of innovative vehicle technologies.
"It will be a place to meet, learn and be entertained as well as a home for innovative research, design and learning, " he said.
Similarly, landscaping can be more limiting, as plants may need to work with the color flow from the home or a certain courtyard design.
It's the same reason a housing contractor is likely to design his own home with more care and for less money than he would charge others.
Her concept is to personally design care at home for each individual, using a broad array of services, with a 24 hour concierge service to make it all work together.
These Google Play widgets come installed by default on every Nexus 7, but you can easily remove them and use a fully customized Android home screen of your own design.
Collections from fashion houses, working in collaboration with top industrial designers, may be more put-together but they are no less about bringing thoughtful (not to mention colorful) design into the home.
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Mr. Martin expected the Butlers to reject his first sketch: a tall, skinny home much more ambitious in design, disproportionate in scale and costly to build than the surrounding homes in the area.
Not only is the new design unfriendly to home entertainment centers (where most PS3s reside, we'd argue), but it feels cheap and unstable -- a distinct step down from the previous two models' front-loading tray design.
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Typical closets in the complex measure around 400 square feet, and were meant to appeal to buyers who might be moving into a condo from a large home, says director of design and development Eric Jencks.
And, according to the book, those are considerable: He can dash off ad copy better than Madison Avenue professionals, design a Virginia home in the style of Monticello and Mount Vernon, command a television presence superior to Bill Clinton's and recall whole conversations almost verbatim years later.
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