Open+Hidden: Space-Saver Dining Room & Kitchen Concept

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Hoover: More space-saving, eco-friendly furnitures!

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Conserving energy, reusing and recycling are all well and good sustainable living strategies, but reducing waste in the first place – particularly when it comes to home construction – is perhaps the most important step in saving on power and materials costs. Powered by rooftop solar energy, this transforming kitchen emerges for meals and then disappears at the push of a button to make way for movement and gathering space.

Top Chalkboard Paint Ideas

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Rent to Own.ph: Chalkboards are not just for classrooms these days. A new emerging trend is using chalkboards in various ways inside your home.

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Black Is the New Black

Forget white walls — bright accessories make a bigger impact when arranged against a black chalkboard wall. Bonus: The wall art (and its shelf life) is totally up to you!

Sustainable Cabin at Texas Tech

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from:www.smallhousestyle.com

Living in a trailer carries with it a certain stigma but this didn’t stop Urs Peter Flueckiger and his students at the College of Architecture, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the College of Engineering atTexas Tech University from requisitioning part of a derelict doublewide and turning it into the prefabricated Sustainable Cabin. Destined for a landfill, the professor et al. extensively remodeled a section to test sustainable architectural concepts in construction materials and techniques, with the end goal of better understanding their methods and applications.

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