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The garage is the ideal place to start when you consider additions to your home. The space is already there and that can be half the battle if you plan on transforming the garage into something else. If you don't have a garage or you want to keep that storage space for what you've already got there, adding a room to your house can give you the space you need to transform a very nice home into a dream home.

Garage Room Ideas. The garage can often be one of the most underutilized areas in your home. Many people use their garages...

Garages often have high-pitched roof lines, providing empty space between the garage ceiling and the inside pitch of the roof. When you...

Garages don't have to follow all the rules of a home that you're supposed to live in. Garages can be cold and...

Space above a double garage can provide room for an apartment, office, storage or hobbies. The floor space included in a double-car...

Finishing off the space above your garage will add living space to your home, and can save the cost of a foundation...

Adding a room above a garage takes a lot of planning. The best way to begin the project is to know how...

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At Naturally Wood Floors we specialise in wood floor installation and hardwood floor restoration for parquet floors, aged and distressed floors, engineered floors, strip floors, mosaic floors and end grain wood block floors. Based inHainault, Essex, we offer a full range of floor laying, sanding and restoration services to customers in London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Kent, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

We offer wood floor installation for a full range of timbers including hardwoods such as Oak, Maple, Cherry, Walnut and Beech as well as some more exotic varieties such as Wenge, Merbau and Teak. Our skilled installation teams are highly experienced and take pride that each floor is installed and finished with the utmost care and precision.

Floors can be laid in the design of your choice including Herringbone, Double Herringbone, Single or Treble Basket Weave and Chevron. We also offer a great selection of Borders, Motifs and Medallions which, together with our in-house or on-site colouring and finishing services, create truly unique wood floors.

Parquet flooring is available in a wide range of timber species, designs and finishes (for more information, please see the guides within theINFO section of our web site). Parquet is a traditional method of floor installation where individual components of 6mm, 9mm or 10mm square edged flooring are glued and pinned to a plywood sub-floor then sanded and finished. We offer various parquet services from parquet floor designs, parquet installation and parquet restoration.

Our wood floor restoration services include floor sealing, floor sanding, floor repairs, oiling, lacquering and staining. We will ensure your wood floor is restored to its original beauty.

For more information please call us on 020 8508 2555.

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The Architecture Van Brandenburg-designed headquarters for Chinese fashion label Marisfrolg is under construction in Shenzhen, China.

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Fred Van Brandenburg and his son Damien build models of their designs in their Dunedin studio before a single brick is laid.

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Fred Van Brandenburg and his son Damien build models of their designs in their Dunedin studio before a single brick is laid.

Rising from the bare earth of a construction site in Shenzhen, China, is the giant new global headquarters of the international fashion giant Marisfrolg.

On completion in 2017, the 120,000-square metre complex will encompass a catwalk and function area for launching collections, rooftop gardens, design offices, a factory, warehousing and a 50-room boutique hotel - all set in five hectares of garden, with ponds that capture water for re-use.

Extraordinarily, this behemoth was all designed in Queenstown, and refined in Dunedin, making it perhaps New Zealand's largest-ever architectural commission. Since 2007, first in design, then in construction, Architects Van Brandenburg have worked solely on Marisfrolg, until recently turning down all other work.

Incomplete, yet elegant, it resembles the outsize bones of some extinct beast. Certainly, it doesn't look very practical. But, says principal architect Fred Van Brandenburg, "this is a sculpture people can reside in". It's a mark of the impact Van Brandenburg has made since arriving in New Zealand in 1987. He gave up a successful career in apartheid-run South Africa to immigrate, a decision that came at a cost as emigrants were unable to take their assets with them. Penniless, Van Brandenburg and his wife Diane, four children in tow, arrived just in time for the 1987 stockmarket crash. Out of the resultant dearth of architectural commissions he emerged - largely by fluke, as he gleefully admits - the last architect standing from an initial group of three who tendered for the design of the Millbrook resort in Queenstown.

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A construction worker directs traffic in to the Cherry Creek Whole Foods parking lot off E.2nd Ave. and Josephine Street in July 2014. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

If it's any consolation to motorists stuck in recent epic traffic jams in Cherry Creek, the neighborhood is paying it back to city coffers.

The tony commercial district collected $7.6 million in second-quarter sales taxes. That was a gain of 12.8 percent from the prior year, outpacing the city of Denver's overall 11.1 percent increase.

Retail in Cherry Creek has been an up-and-down prospect over the past decade, but 2014 clearly is an up year. Developers are capitalizing on favorable market conditions with a building boom of new office, retail and residential space.

"The best is yet to come in Cherry Creek," Mayor Michael Hancock said Friday at a meeting of the Cherry Creek Area Business Alliance. "What's happening in Cherry Creek is really setting the pace for what we hope will happen throughout the city of Denver."

Except for the traffic jams.

Building construction has tied up traffic sporadically. The mother of all jams, however, resulted from a 10-month-long project to replace a storm sewer along University Boulevard and Josephine Street.

The job is now finished, leaving shoppers and commuters free to return to an increasingly healthy commercial district.

Cherry Creek's retail vacancy rate of 1.8 percent is the lowest ever recorded, according to Development Research Partners and CoStar Realty Information. Lease rates for shopping space now average $36 per square foot, nearly twice as much as the citywide average.

The building boom's residential component is almost entirely apartments a result of Colorado's construction defects law that has limited development of condos.

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Although a slice of the project is already under construction, representatives from the town of Gilbert, Nationwide Realty and others broke ground on what will become the towns most sizable business plaza.

The officials unearthed dirt for the incoming Rivulon project during a ceremony in Gilbert on Nov. 12. The ceremonial shoveling came as the symbolic first step toward the completion of the 250-acre development located off of Gilbert Road by the Loop 202 Santan Freeway.

Youre looking at a $75million investment that will be made now through the end of 2015, said Nationwide Realty Investors president Brian Ellis.

Along with the monetary investment that includes $10 million for infrastructure completion, Ellis, whose company is based out of Columbus, Ohio, said the development should bring upward of 15,000 jobs to the area as well.

Construction is already well underway for one of the pieces of the complex an LA Fitness branch set to open in March 2015. What the ceremony marked though was the start of one of the major components to the project; the building that will house the new international headquarters of Isagenix International, LLC. Isagenix, which was based in Chandler, sells health products tied to skin care, diet and other health products.

Were going to bring some energy to Gilbert, some excitement, said Isagenix co-founder Kathy Coover.

Ellis has called Isagenix the catalyst for Rivulons construction, which is based in part on the companys fiscal heft the Isagenix website boasts $500million in revenue from April 2013 to April 2015 and for the size of the companys office. Isagenix will occupy a three-story, 150,000-square-foot building that is expected to open in December 2015.

The Isagenix headquarters wont be the first building to open at Rivulon though. Besides the LA Fitness franchise, Nationwide Realty is building a four-story, 125,000-square-foot speculative building it expects to wrap up by September 2015, along with a pair of two-story buildings with the same planned completion date as the four-story facility.

The Rivulon project extends beyond office space and will include 500,000 square feet of retail space and an anticipated 250 hotel rooms, but the office space might be the most important piece of the development. Thats because the totality of Rivulon is expected to more than double the amount of office space in Gilbert.

That is remarkable and that means something; that means something for Gilberts (future), said Gilbert Councilmember Jenn Daniels.

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The House of Bourbon (English //; French pronunciation:[bu.b]) is a European royal house of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty //. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. Spain and Luxembourg currently have Bourbon monarchs.

The royal Bourbons originated in 1268, when the heiress of the lordship of Bourbon married a younger son of King Louis IX. The house continued for three centuries as a cadet branch, while more senior Capetians ruled France, until Henry IV became the first Bourbon king of France in 1589. Bourbon monarchs then unified France with the small kingdom of Navarre, which Henry's father had gained by marriage in 1555, and ruled until the 1792 overthrow of the monarchy during the French Revolution. Restored briefly in 1814 and definitively in 1815 after the fall of the First French Empire, the senior line of the Bourbons was finally overthrown in the July Revolution of 1830. A cadet branch, the House of Orlans, then ruled for 18 years (18301848), until it too was overthrown.

The Princes of Cond were a cadet branch of the Bourbons descended from an uncle of Henry IV, and the Princes of Conti were a cadet branch of the Cond. Both houses were prominent French nobles until their respective extinctions in 1830 and 1814.

When the Bourbons inherited the strongest claim to the Spanish throne, the claim was passed to a cadet who became Philip V of Spain. The strict separation of the French and Spanish thrones was formalized in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1714, and similar arrangements later kept the Spanish throne separate from those of the Two Sicilies and Parma. The Spanish Bourbons (in Spanish, the name is spelled Borbn) have been overthrown and restored several times, reigning 17001808, 18131868, 18751931, and from 1975 to the present day. Bourbons ruled in Naples from 17341806 and in Sicily from 17341816, and in a unified Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 18161860. They also ruled in Parma from 17311735, 17481802 and 18471859.

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg married a cadet of the Parmese line and thus her successors, who have ruled Luxembourg since her abdication in 1964, have also been members of the House of Bourbon. Princess Isabel, heiress and regent of the Empire of Brazil, married a cadet of the Orlans line and thus their descendants, known as the Orlans-Braganza, would have ascended to that throne had the empire not ended in 1889.

All members of the House of Bourbon and its cadet branches alive today are direct agnatic descendants of Henry IV.

The pre-Capetian House of Bourbon was a noble family, dating at least from the beginning of the 13th century, when the estate of Bourbon was ruled by the Sire de Bourbon who was a vassal of the King of France. The term House of Bourbon or "Maison de Bourbon" could be used to refer to this first house and the House of Bourbon-Dampierre, the second family to rule the seigneury.

In 1268, Robert, Count of Clermont, sixth son of King Louis IX of France, married Beatrix of Bourbon, heiress to the lordship of Bourbon and from the House of Bourbon-Dampierre. Their son Louis was made Duke of Bourbon in 1327. His descendant, the Constable of France Charles de Bourbon, was the last of the senior Bourbon line when he died in 1527. Because he chose to fight under the banner of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and lead a life of exile, his title was discontinued after his death.

The remaining line of Bourbons was now descended from the younger son of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, whose grandson became the Count of Vendme through his mother's inheritance. In 1514, Charles, Count of Vendme had his title raised to Duke of Vendme. His son Antoine became King of Navarre, on the northern side of the Pyrenees, by marriage in 1555. Two of Antoine's younger brothers were Cardinal Archbishop Charles de Bourbon and the French and Huguenot general Louis, Prince of Cond. Louis' descendents, the Princes of Cond, continued until 1830. Finally, in 1589, Antoine's son Henry III of Navarre became Henry IV of France.

The first Bourbon King of France was Henry IV. He was born on 13 December 1553 in the Kingdom of Navarre. Antoine de Bourbon, his father, was a ninth generation descendant of King Louis IX of France. Jeanne d'Albret, his mother was the Queen of Navarre and the niece of King Francis I of France. He was baptized Catholic, but raised Calvinist. After his father was killed in 1563, he became Duke of Vendme at the age of 10, with Admiral Gaspard de Coligny (15191572) as his regent. Five years later, the young duke became the nominal leader of the Huguenots after the death of his uncle the Prince of Cond in 1569.

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When news broke in late 2012 that Orlando's venerable Merita Bread Bakery would close, reaction ranged from concern for workers losing their jobs to questions about the fate of the huge Merita sign overlooking Interstate 4 a Central Florida icon since the 1960s.

Seen from I-4 near the Kaley exit, the large, curvy red letters spelling "Merita" were long accompanied by the homey smell of baking bread, and by a clock that supplied drivers with the time and temperature, too.

It was the perhaps the largest surviving sign designed by the Bob Galler, a true artist of neon who died this past August at 84.

It's fitting that, like some of Galler's other creations, the Merita sign will soon reside in the collections of the Charles Hosmer Museum of American Art in Winter Park. If all goes as planned, the sign will be relocated this month to the Morse warehouse, where it will join Galler signs for Ronnie's and Gary's Duck Inn restaurants.

Artist of our landscape

When Galler retired in late 2006 as design vice president of Orlando's Graphic Systems Inc., he signed off on more than a half-century of shaping Central Florida's visual landscape.

By the way, when he designed the Merita sign in the 1960s, it bore a round tick-tock clock at the top, instead of the digital display added later.

In addition to his work for Ronnie's and Gary's, Galler's credits include well-known signs for McNamara Pontiac, Church Street Market, NASCAR and Walt Disney World. He devised the 1980s version of Orlando's downtown Christmas star that's still in use as the center of the current decoration.

The McKean legacy

Galler was great fun to talk with about his work because he genuinely loved it, a trait he shared with the late Hugh McKean, who became interested in commercial signs while director of the Morse a museum most closely identified with the elegant stained-glass creations of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

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