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    not the right place, but....

    Did anyone see the Penn State and Notre Dame games? I am distraught - two of my teams shot down in the last couple of seconds - would go find a football chat room but cannot hold myself together long enough to surf for one without crying.
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    prefabricated housing

    Actually, the Japanese are doing some interesting things with steel prefab homes, especially in earthquake zones - anyone seen anything on them? I don't recall a brand name, but I saw one being delivered and installed on a PBS show a few years ago.
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    prefabricated housing

    The Rocio (sic) Romero homes are incredible, at least from the design - I looked into getting one, but they are NOT cheap - I don't know anything quite the same, unless you try to build one yourself.
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    Pools

    prices are good, but the premanufactured stuff is low in stock - you might consider waiting for the spring specials
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    Door to Toilet Area

    How much does glass brick usually cost? And is it an easy material to use?
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    Apartment Living

    Seems a tad indiscriminate - unless you want your life to look like bad northern Renaissance -
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    using paneling as flooring????

    I just found an ad in my e-mail - Lumber Liquidators - looks interesting, may be exactly what you are seeking - lumberliquidators.com
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    Winiterizing our Hot Tub

    Depends on where you live, of course - do you intend to use it during a cold winter (a real treat, if you can stand the walk) - do you have it completely outdoors, or on a deck with some covering (screened-in, glassed-in porch?) -
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    home improvement shows

    Travis may be the most talented, but Genevieve from "Trading Spaces" and "Town Haul" is the cutest (with Candace from "Divine Design" a very close second LOL)
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    Fake Deck

    you might want to consider clearing an area and building a small patio - some z-bricks work nicely for such a task - a friend and I did a little 10' x 10' a few years ago, took us a day.
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    Have to get permit to build treehouse?

    And by the by, the courts have repeatedly upheld restrictive housing covenants and building regs/by-laws/approvals, as long as there is no race-based element in the covenants.
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    Have to get permit to build treehouse?

    C.S. Lewis makes a remark somewhere that the "day will come" when everything in England is so tightly regulated that a man won't be allowed to cut down one of his own trees and build a shed or even a ladder without government permission - he wrote that in the late 40s or early 50s - I can only...
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    thoughts on cork and linoleum

    I would go with cork, on balance - it holds its looks better over time, although linoleum is a bit easier to clean
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    Kerosene Heaters

    I lived off of kerosene heaters in Iowa winters for five years - never had a problem with them, but I would go for a good space heater with a decent blower fan instead. Kerosene prices will spike just like everything else has.
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    Paint Color For Bedroom

    I just painted a bedroom with a similar bedset - I didn't think it would look good, but the client went for a crimson with a perlescent sheen, and a bronze trim - didn't darken the room much and looked striking with the blue.
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