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Lost and Found: The Elastic Interior - October 8, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

New York Its a common enough dream for those who live in cramped urban spaces: Suddenly you notice a door you never realized was there and beyond it a room you didnt know you had or maybe an entire wing of your home, just waiting to be occupied.

Thats more or less what happened to Chris Cooper and Jennifer Hanlin last year. Only it wasnt a dream.

Cooper, 46, an architect, explains their discovery of an additional 325 square feet in their Brooklyn condominium as merely a matter of applying what he calls reductive simplicity. He and Hanlin, 44, an interior designer, were inspired by Japanese design, he said: In Tokyo, theres the hustle and bustle, and then you walk into a garden or a tatami room and theres calm. We wanted our home to be neutral, contemplative and calm.

True, that always makes a space feel bigger. But it also helps if you actually happen to have a room you had sort of forgotten about an unused mezzanine, say. To be fair, it wasnt exactly a mezzanine when the couple bought the apartment in 2005, for $675,000. Most of it was a crawl space that housed the water heater.

Cooper, Hanlin and their 11-year-old twins, Mia and Felix, live on the fifth and sixth floors of a Cobble Hill building that once housed the School of the Sacred Hearts and was converted into a 34-unit condominium in the 1980s. Before the conversion, their apartment was three separate spaces: a classroom, a boys bathroom and a mechanical room.

They began their act of reductive simplicity by gutting most of the apartment. To create a soaring living area that would feel bigger than it was, they raised part of the ceiling on the lower level. The rest of the lower-level ceiling was dropped, so they could insert a library and television room into the crawl space above. They used slatted wood partitions to bring light into those rooms from the living area below, and added lots of built-in storage.

And like magic, when the $300,000 renovation was complete, their apartment had gone from 1,375 square feet to 1,700 square feet not an enormous addition, but an addition nonetheless.

To ensure privacy, each of the bedrooms is on a different level.

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RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTION, Restaurant contractor, food … - October 8, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

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Famed Montreal tavern Magnan to close as business falls, beef prices rise - October 8, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

Magnan Tavern, considered an institution among Montreal eateries, will close its doors for good on Dec. 21 after 82 years.

The restaurant, best known for its roast beef and prime rib steaks, has about 65 employees, including some who have worked at the family-owned business for more than 20 years.

Company president Alain Gauthier blamed never-ending construction work in the area, tough competition and the high cost of beef as factors in the decision to shut down.

The restaurant has seen business slow down over the last decade.

It has also been difficult to recruit staff, often because of taxes and tip-related issues.

Mr. Gauthier said chain restaurants pose a challenge with their ability to buy in bulk and offer lower prices to customers.

Ive seen people in a better mood at Magnan, Mr. Gauthier said Tuesday. People found it [the announcement] difficult but theyve seen that the number of customers just wasnt the same.

He said the rising cost of beef would have forced the restaurant to compromise the quality of its cuts, which was out of the question.

Right in March, we had an increase of 35 per cent in the space of a month, said Mr. Gauthier. Beef is our star product. We cant ask our customers to absorb such an increase in such a short time.

The surge in prices has put restaurateurs in a difficult spot. Some have decided to absorb the costs, while others have reduced their portions or passed the hike along to clients.

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Gas-fed fire at Chandler restaurant under investigation - October 8, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

by Catherine Holland

Video report by Jill Galus

Posted on October 7, 2014 at 6:28 AM

Updated yesterday at 7:35 AM

CHANDLER, Ariz. -- The owner of a popular Chandler restaurant says he hopes to be open by late Tuesday afternoon, a little more than 12 hours after a gas-fed fire damaged his building.

Fire crews arrived at Chop Chandler at Queen Creek and Dobson roads within four minutes of receiving the call at about 2:30 a.m.

Flames were shooting from the back patio. Firefighters kept those flames from spreading while Southwest Gas was contacted to shut off the gas to the building. Once the gas flow was turned off, the fire went out quickly.

Restaurant owner Spike Lawrence said there is no damage inside the restaurant. It was contained to an exterior wall at the back of the building.

"It should be, hopefully, business as usual once we repaint the building," he said. "It's a good advertisement for block construction instead of wood frame."

Lawrence said he hoped to be open for business by 4 p.m. If that does not happen, he said Chop will be open Wednesday.

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DIY Download: Mitsubishi Electric- Remodeling on a Budget – Video - October 8, 2014 by Mr HomeBuilder

DIY Download: Mitsubishi Electric- Remodeling on a Budget

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