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An Eco-Friendly Indoor Laundry Drying Cabinet

A couple of years ago, I attended the Go Green Expo here in Atlanta and came across a tried and true eco-friendly, outdoor rotary clothesline. It was like a breath of fresh air, for you and your clothes. Now there is a product on the homebuilding market that puts a technological twist on the simple, yet effective, clothesline. It's an indoor laundry drying cabinet made by Grimm Bros. Plastics Corp. called the BreezeDry. This is a self-contained clothes closet that is eco-friendly, … [Read more...]

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Laundry Rooms Deserve Great Design

Laundry rooms come in all shapes and sizes. Some are built with convenient cabinets to keep everything out of sight and some with just a wire shelf, or two, to store your laundry essentials. Builders almost treat laundry rooms as afterthoughts, it would seem, in some cases. I just don't get it (shaking my head to and fro). Doing laundry is enough of a chore without having sufficient elbow room to fold laundry, hang up delicates and shirts, and all the other tasks that go along with it. I should … [Read more...]

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Remember Clotheslines? Simplicity and Eco-Friendly Come Together

Okay...so I'm wandering through all of the booths at the Go Green Expo this past weekend and I take notice of quite a few products that have a lot of technology and innovation behind them to make them green and to have them stand out amongst the competition down the row.Then I came upon the BreezeDryer booth. Nothing very technical here and not a competitor in sight. Just a bunch of different styles of clotheslines to line dry your clothes on. Now THIS is eco-friendly! Imagine enjoying the … [Read more...]

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Tristan’s Newest Hobby: Home Building Photographer

This blog is primarily about my (our) experiences when we visit new homes, mainly on our home turf, and all of the new and interesting things that home builders choose to do with these new homes. But I can't always make the spur of the moment trips that we make around the corner (and further...sometimes much further) to see the newest homes. That's where my 12 y.o. son, Tristan, comes in. He likes to go with my wife, Sandy, and I to look at houses for fun, too. His favorite thing to do when … [Read more...]

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