County Registrar of Voters John Tuteur walked through the hallways of a former Dey Labs building where the elections office is temporarily located and pointed to a rod extending from the ceiling.

Pull the rod and the result is an emergency body wash, Tuteur said.

Parts of the sprawling, former Dey Labs campus at 2751 Napa Valley Corporate Drive still look like places designed for doing pharmaceutical research. Thats true even though Napa County is using the location as temporary quarters for 150 of the more than 300 employees who had downtown offices damaged by the Aug. 24 earthquake.

Napa County bought the former Dey Labs campus in 2013 for $25 million to become the home for its Health and Human Services Agency after remodeling the buildings. Now the campus has become a home-away-from-home for county employees awaiting earthquake repairs.

The Registrar of Voters office is storing ballots in a lab room that has an eyewash station. The adjacent hallways have insect zappers. One room is unusually cold, apparently a useful climate for some of the Dey Labs activities.

This was a manufacturing room, I think, Tuteur said Tuesday as he stood in a space that will be used to sort ballots on Election Night.

In a nearby warehouse bay where forklifts once worked, the county has 360 boxes full of building records for the county Assessor Division.

Plenty of space, Tuteur said.

In another former Dey Labs building, the supervisors on Tuesday held their first meeting in a makeshift Board of Supervisors chamber. Its a no-frills setup in what was a Dey Labs training room, with supervisors sitting behind tables draped with black cloth. Wires for the sound system are taped to the carpet near the tables.

But the temporary chamber is fancier than what remains of the earthquake-scarred permanent chamber on the third floor of the County Administration Building in downtown. Plastic ceiling tiles are missing. Broken water pipes for the heating-and-cooling system caused water damaged.

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By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy

crowd turns out in support of new Ranch project.

A standing-room only crowd and elected Laguna Beach officials turned out for a Coastal Commission hearing Wednesday in Newport Beach to support remodeling of The Ranch golf course and hotel in Aliso Canyon, which is now under commission review.

Three elected City Council members, Lagunas city manager, and a former chairman of its planning commission joined Ranch co-owner Mark Christy to lobby for the project during the commissions public comment period.

Im begging you to look at the property, said Christy, urging the commissioners, while they are in the area for their two-day October meeting, to visit. We have nothing to hide.

Though the appeal itself was not on the formal agenda, Christy took advantage of the commissions proximity to organize the rally, sending out an email appeal two weeks ago. He chartered three large private buses for the trek between the Ranch and the neighboring town and handed out Ranch t-shirts to supporters. He aimed to provide a visual demonstration of the publics enthusiasm for what he described as a sensitive restoration project.

No one is being paid, Christy told the commissioners, referring to scores of locals that lined the Newport Beach City Council chambers. This is the way Laguna rolls when they know something is wrong.

The commissioners cannot legally respond to issues raised during the public comment period and remained silent.

The commission rarely sees a rally in favor of a development, pointed out Rob Zur Schmiede, a former chairman of the Laguna Beach Planning Commission, who is running for City Council.

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An artist's rendering shows the exterior of Swedish Edmonds after its expansion.

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An artist's rendering shows the design concept of a lobby inside Swedish Edmonds hospital's ongoing expansion.

By Mina Williams For HBJ

Published: Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 12:01 a.m.

EDMONDS Swedish Edmonds is embarking on an aggressive expansion course to meet the needs of south Snohomish County.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- Three South Florida designers have teamed up to create a design workshop at the Fort Lauderdale Home Design and Remodeling Show that will visually walk homeowners through the design process from concept to completion. This first-time design studio will be showcased at the Fort Lauderdale Home Design and Remodeling Show, October 17-19 at the Broward County Convention Center.

"A home should be a celebration of the client and the way they want to live in their home," said Viviana Malave of VGM Decorators. Each of the three featured designers have designed an unconventional living space at the Home Show to demonstrate how traditional spaces can be stylishly transformed to reflect the homeowner and celebrate the lifestyle they enjoy. "Homeowners often follow the traditional use of living spaces because they do not know how to adapt those spaces to be more livable. Our original room designs will illustrate how wide-ranging the possibilities are," said Amelia Rozas of Amelia Rozas Designs.

These dynamic design professionals are determined to educate South Florida homeowners on how to work with a designer to accomplish their dream home. They will offer complimentary seminars throughout the weekend to educate homeowners on when it is best to involve a designer and the role the designer plays in their home renovation project. In addition, the designers have taken it a step farther by creating a design workshop space at the show. "Clients often see only the before and after stages of a project," said Eilyn Cueto of Sire Design. "The goal of our design workshop is to visually showcase the design process and all its stages, from initial meeting to floor plan and layouts to furniture selections, textiles and fabrics...all the way through installation and completion." Homeowners will have the opportunity to talk with the featured designers one-on-one.

The three featured designers are:

Eilyn Cueto - Sire Design Amelia Rozas - Amelia Rozas Design Inc. Viviana Malave - VGM Decorators Inc.

About the Home Show: The Home Show showcases products and services for residential decorating, remodeling and home improvement. Attendees can shop, compare products, get advice and buy at special show pricing, just in time for the holiday season. This year's featured celebrity speaker is Taniya Nayak, veteran host on HGTV and featured designer on Food Network's Restaurant Impossible. In addition, local Aging in Place expert Wanda Gozdz will be speaking on the topic: Universal Design: Creating Your Forever Home.

Show Hours: Friday, 10/17- 3:00 pm - 9:30 pm; Saturday, 10/18- 12:00 pm -9:30 pm; Sunday, 10/19- 12:00 pm -7:30 pm.

For more information, visit http://www.homeshows.net. Discount advance tickets are available online through October 16th. Regular price tickets go on sale October 17.

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The Kennedy School of Government has submitted preliminary plans to the City of Cambridge for a dramatic remodeling of its physical campus, including the addition of 77,000 square feet of new building space, that school leaders hope will complement ongoing changes to pedagogy and interdisciplinary research.

The plans are set to go before the citys planning board during a hearing on Tuesday. If approved, construction on the more than $100 million dollar project would likely begin following Commencement and aims to be completed by Jan. 2018, according to the Kennedy Schools executive dean, John Haigh.

Including three new buildings and the elevation of the schools current courtyard, the project looks to be one of the largest capital expansions on Harvards Cambridge campus in recent history and will increase the schools current square footage by more than 30 percent.

The school is currently is comprised of two main structures: the Belfer, Littauer, and Rubenstein buildings, which are all adjoined, and date from the 1970s and 1980s; and the separate Taubman building, which was completed in 1990. Under the current plans, the two structures would be adjoined, as a new Gateway building would connect Taubman to Belfer, a West building on the site of the schools current parking lot would connect Rubenstein to Taubman, and a South building would connect Littauer to the new West building.

Among other additions, there will be six new classrooms, a student lounge and study area, a new dining area and event space, a conference room above the dining room, a winter garden atrium, and a flexible common space that HKS officials refer to as skunk works.

The building plans are a major component of the Kennedy Schools $500 million capital campaign, which made creating a campus that amplifies our mission, one of its four priorities. As of late August, the school has raised $355 million in gifts and pledges, according to Kennedy School spokesperson Doug Gavel.

We need to have a campus that amplifies, magnifies, and supports our mission and strategy, Haigh said in an interview on Friday.

HKS Dean David T. Ellwood 75 told The Crimson in September that the schools current classroom setup is designed for lecturing and discourages group discussion and collaboration. The remodeled campus will aim to remedy that.

If we want to get to a place where we do teaching and really help people change the world, if we want to fundamentally reshape the future of ideas and the like, we have to do more, Ellwood said. And we also have to have flexible space where people can do things, create new innovative ideas, and do the sorts of social entrepreneurship that people are doing, and the like.

Haigh said that a large percentage of the total cost of expansion has already been secured.

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DES MOINES, Iowa By the end of this year developers plan to start remodeling construction on a section of the partially destroyed Younkers Building in downtown Des Moines.

The Madison, Wisconsin based contracting group, the Alexander Company, owns the building. Project developer, David Vos, says the west side of the building will be remodeled to house 60 apartment units, major retail space and office space. Vos says his company hired specialists to restore the ceiling in the buildings 6th floor tea room which will also be expanded.

Fire investigators are unsure what caused the building to catch fire on March 29th.

The most desirable thing was being able to restore the building and keep that history but I think physically there are better opportunities with the building, says Vos.

The west section of the building will no longer be called the Younkers Building but rather the Wilkins Building. That portion of the building was originally named that in the 1920s before the Younkers brothers took ownership of the property.

The project will cost roughly $20 million to complete however developers arent sure what will be done with the east side of the building that was entirely destroyed by the fire.

President of the Downtown Community Alliance, Glenn Lyons, says the progress on the Walnut Street corridor is the momentum downtown needs.

The fire was a big let down and all of our idea for Walnut Street got put on hold while they sorted out the mess and now were moving forward again. This has been a set back but were getting through it.

The Wilkins Building project is expected to be completed in 2015.

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These French doors and windows, visible from the home's entry, provide lots of natural light to the space and also offer an inviting view of a covered deck and beautiful back yard.

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Editor's note: Portions of this column have previously run on the writers' website at renovationdesigngroup.com and in a previous Renovation Design column at deseretnews.com.

Many people think of architecture as the look of a structure from the outside, and this is indeed a part of architecture. One of the definitions from the Free Dictionary for architecture is the "orderly arrangement of parts." The exterior style, shape and lines of a building do constitute architecture.

However, interior architecture is equally as important as what goes on the exterior of a building or residence. A house that looks spectacular but does not function well for the residents on a daily basis becomes more of a sculpture than a home. Architecture is a challenging blend of science and art. Taking a general look at home remodeling, we have three basic tips to create a great design.

Exterior and interior connections

The exterior architecture of a home is very important. Your home should have a dominant style with updated, complementary finishes. For example, adding a front porch to a house can make a world of difference both in the look of the home and how it functions.

However, architecture not only concerns the arrangement of the interior and exterior parts of a residence but also the way the home relates to its context or surroundings. Our living spaces should extend outside the literal walls of our homes both physically and visually. In our climate, we have the opportunity to play, celebrate, entertain and relax outside for a good portion of the year. Even when the weather keeps us inside, we need light and a visual connection to nature and to the world beyond our walls. Therefore, as our living spaces and activities extend outside, they should reflect the same level of design and style as the interior of our homes.

The connection between our inside and outside spaces is critical and should be seamless and natural. Even outside, we should find properly designed living areas. The overall architectural design of a home should facilitate a clean transition between inside and outside, making it completely natural to move easily between the two types of spaces.

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White Sox players will have a revamped home base when they return to U.S. Cellular Field for the 2015 season.

The Sox will soon begin construction on remodeling the home clubhouse, the first significant renovation of the space since the ballpark opened in 1991, according to a Sox spokesman.

The remodeling project will include a larger weight room in a new location, additional meeting spaces for coaches and staff and a remodeled clubhouse space that will include new lockers.

The Sox declined to release budget details about the remodeling project, but construction is expected to start soon and be completed in March, in time for Opening Day, the spokesman said. The Sox open the 2015 season April 6 in Kansas City and host the Twins on April 10 for the home opener.

The Sox plan to release more details about the project at a later date.

We plan on showing the media the newly renovated space sometime in March as completion nears, the spokesman said.

The Sox brought a sample locker in to the clubhouse during the final week of the season. Retiring Sox captain Paul Konerko joked after the last home game that after the renovations were complete he hoped to ship his old locker and chair to his home in Arizona.

Maybe Ill just sit in front of it every day, he said.

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If you want to give your home an updated and timeless look, consider transitional style an interior designing trend that blends classic traditional and contemporary looks.

Whether you prefer simplicity or more ornate designs, the transitional style will allow you to combine the elegance of traditional and the simplicity of modern to create a more inviting and sophisticated feel to your home.

Transitional is mixing both beige and gray with geometrics instead of florals, and more straight lines and less curves, said Kim Lyons, an interior designer at Goedecke Decorating Center in Bedford, who prefers the transitional style in her home because of its clean, modern lines and warmth.

Transitional style also focuses on comfort and practicality. Lyons said everyone has a different criteria when redecorating their home, depending on which room theyre remodeling and their familys needs. However, in todays busy world, rooms are often used for many things and activities.

Every room is for multi-tasking. Computers are so wireless any room can be an office or a place for family time or games, Lyons said. The rooms in my home are always for multi-tasking.

She also said wallpaper is becoming a popular choice for many people because of its versatility.

Wallpaper is on its way back in with layered prints, bolder colors and textures, she said.

As you begin to redecorate, view your rooms as a blank canvas and let your imagination help you design a look that incorporates your preferences of color, textures, furniture and accessories.

Also, take your current furniture and accessories into consideration. With transitional decorating, theres no need to discard your heirloom dresser or sofa because your antiques can be displayed alongside todays home fashions.

For wall covering, start with neutral colors and choose from the many different shades on paint swatches that are available at home and decorating centers. Whites, pale blues and greens tend to soften a room for a calming feel. Reds stimulate an area, while grays create drama and moodiness.

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A new Bud Light ad stars Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Sapp dressed as a pirate and focuses on remodeling the living room of a Tampa Bay fan into a Buccaneers man cave.

The home makeover, part of the beers Up for Whatever campaign, also includes a backyard pirate ship replete with working cannons.

The Bucs-themed ad, which started running nationally Sunday, features Alex, who is indeed a huge fan of the team, says Lindsey Herzog, who handles Anheuser-Busch accounts for the Weber Shandwick public relations firm.

The Buccaneerd spot begins with Alex, wearing a Bucs T-shirt, loading a case of Bud Light into his car at a store, which means hes up for whatever, says the narrator.

In an instant, Alex is surprised with a newly furnished living room that is more cove than cave, with Bucs gear, head-to-toe skeleton and even a Captain Fear mascot knickknack. Friends in Bucs apparel are already relaxing inside, enjoying their Bud Light.

Then Sapp adorned in tri-cornered hat, frock coat and shoulder-perched parrot barges in to greet the No. 1 Buc fan. Sapp leads Alex to the backyard galleon, Alex yells, Im going to fire the cannons, and the commerical closes with a loud blast from the ships faux artillery.

Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev, which brews Bud Light, began a six-year sponsorship deal with the NFL in 2011.

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