Following the colors of nature is a seasonal passion for landscaping and gardening lovers. While some colors supply the backdrop for all seasons, the colors you choose to celebrate each season are an opportunity to refresh your house and landscape’s look. Freshening up exterior areas with color is…

Four years ago I moved into a 17 year old house. Since next I have noticed that the tap water forms mold. When left to sit in a spray bottle or gather in bath toys I will see little dark green mold floating. that didn’t happen in my preceding house, which was a new build in early 2000. What can I do…

Pretty cool and worth mentioning. Shannon shows us how she and the deconstruct a Portland home and reuse each fabric again to construct a totally new home.

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According to Gary Puco, president of Atlantic Heating and Cooling, Inc., the newest trend in HVAC is efficiency. With oil and gas prices going up steadily, customers want higher efficiency equipment. Everyday, Gary gets requests from customers ready to prepare the switch to something greener. Here�…

“Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed by 3,000 years ago in China,” Rodika Tchi writes in her write-up about it for About.com. “It is a complex body of knowledge that reveals how to balance the energies of any given space to guarantee the health and good fortune of humans inhabiti…

Take your Halloween pumpkin carving to another level with these tips!
The kids have their Halloween costumes picked out and are eagerly anticipating trick or treating! And one of the best parts of Halloween for most kids is carving Jack O’ Lanterns.
Around our house pumpkin carving is a big de…

In an effort to promote the sustainability of natural stone products, the Natural Stone Council has released an environmental survey of the natural stone industry. The NSC, an organization made up of trade and commerce associations that promote Genuine Stone by synthetic materials, completed the su…

in an informative editorial about trends in recycled roofing, Heidi J. Ellsworth writes, “Energy Star®, recycling, green roofs — all buzzwords in an industry that is making a transition to the world of sustainable building products. The roofing industry is on the environmental fast track. From…

Bioplastics are a new generation of biodegradable and compostable plastics. They are derived from renewable raw materials like starch (from corn, potato, etc.), cellulose, soy protein, and lactic acid. Bioplastics are not hazardous in production and decompose back into carbon dioxide, water, and bi…

So we feel compelled to write about a guy that has been working on our project for fairly a while now. You may or may not be aware of that, but there is another Silva brother on our site: Tom’s brother, Dickie. And we can easily say that we have fallen in love with that guy and here’s why:

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