Yoga Home Studio Dear Greatmats, I love my new floor! It was easy to install by myself. ... I vacuumed up the cement floor and assembled the full-sized mats directly over the cement in the majority of the room. Then, I measured and cut the remaining tiles to fit until the room was complete. Cutting and fitting the edges was easy. I will be using this room primarily to practice Nia and Yoga. It is very comfortable to dance on with bare feet and I don't even need to drag out a yoga mat! http://www.greatmats.com/products/martial-arts-mats-1.php

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2012 NARI Capital CotY, Finalist Award Winner, Residential Kitchen $50,000 to $100,000 Baby boomers were getting ready to give a facelift to their home. Dragged looking run down kitchen was no match with the rest of their prominent Mclean neighbors. A big peninsula with a huge overhead hood had blocked off kitchen from breakfast room. Doorways were narrow. A wall of brick chimney style occupied the left wall of this kitchen. “Crowded and disturbing” is how the wife described her kitchen. Pour traffic flow pattern, lack of storage, and no rhyme or rhythm was how we saw the place. Course of action started with regrouping all tall elements into a low visibility wall. Eliminate the peninsula, then creating a nice and inviting kitchen with wide pathway by the way of Middle Island. Eliminate bulkheads, ducts and plumbing inside of them. Re-route the soil stack for upper bathrooms to an adjacent wall. We relocated stove into the east wall, and build a beautiful wood mantel hood above it. This given this kitchen a practical work triangle. Then brought plumbing for prep. sink into the Island just couple steps away for multi-purpose use. The north wall now have been occupied with tall pantry, big built in fridge and double oven cabinet . There were two walls in the breakfast room that had not been used and now e have put them to good use for added storage and butler area and glass front cabinetry to display their valuable china. Widening all doorways have and putting middle Island have improved the look and traffic pattern for garage into family room a lot more comfortable than it has ever been. Use of light glazed cabinetry with a contrasting custom Mahogany wood countertop are part of highlight of this project and delivers one of customer’s wishes of bright and clean kitchen. We have installed exotic mahogany floors to compliment center wood Island. Floors also had created a casual ambiance, especially against the soft lemon chiffon wall paint. The ultimate French country style kitchen was completed with furnishing the old breakfast area with casual seating rather than a formal table. This couple was inspired by this massive transformation to carry on the remodeling to other parts of their humbled home.

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This is a 50'' Orton Style Rumford Fireplace at my home in Oxford,CT. A Rumford Firplace is made with either a straight rear wall or a slanted one. The slanted ones are the better heaters and I just proved "the more efficient" as they do not have a bigger throat area than the straight variety. The book "The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace" written bu Vrest Orton in the late 60's descibes the slanted variety well and that is where they picked up the name. He did not invent them rather he wrote of what he witnessed as being nice enjoyable good heating Rumfords . It uses my self made damper and burns all winter long with the damper blade at only a 1-3/4'''' gap opening. This represents a throat area to fireplace opening area of 1 to 30 a achievement that recently left the top authority on Rumford Fireplaces in awe and disbelief as his straight backed Rumfords only get to a 1:20 ratio. Although he remained skeptical and wanting more explicit videos and refusing to sign a nondisclosure agreement, he wanted to know if I could do the same with his chosen styled Rumfords. With a large or small fire the damper stays fixed. Weather is a non issue, even foggy drizzly nights do not effect this fireplace. There are videos at FCasini on You Tube showing the 50'' burning along with my basement 36'' Orton which I did experimenting last winter . The basement [never used before] has no face, so I affixed a steel panel on it to see if it could burn at the same ratio as my 50'' which uses my self made 30 year old damper. Iinstead it has a custom vestal damper which I cut the front off as I occasionally do when the budget is limited. It burned good at a 1 to 26 ratio which is way above the 1/17 that Straight Back Rumfords normally do although their very best is 1/20 ..both of which depend on the use of the highly suggested Tee Pee Fire which will assist any fireplace in smoke evacuation due to solely emitting the smoke form the high end of the standing logs! Both of my fireplaces certainly can use this style fire but I enjoy the horizontal log cabin style because of the easy loading and longer lasting fire per load. This winter I am going to affix a glass panel to get a good look at the throat and inner breast chamber while the fireplace is burning. This will be done in my third [ also un faced like the basement] Rumford. This one uses an outside chimney that is about 18' tall, much shorter than the other two and not as warm an environment being the other two are interior chimneys. I am anxious to see if it will compete with a lesser draft ? I have been searching the patent data base and to date there is nothing close to even resemble the way I get these slanted fireplaces to pass the smoke through such a ridiculously thin throat which I call "The Gates Of Hell". The prototype is complete and installed into this fireplace which is in it's second year of performance testing and doing better than I expected, in fact before installing it last week I cleaned the throat and chimney and damper blade which hasn't been done in 6 years. This did help the performance a lot as the passage is so thin any build up greatly slows it down from the added viscosity ie flow drag. For those that don't understand the benefit of a 1:30 ratio it is half the loss of heated air up the chimney and results in a 50% increase in heat efficiency. This equals a 100% enjoyment factor for anyone whom takes fireplace burning seriously like have done and do for the past 30 years! The house doesn't get sucked cold!

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