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The Art of the Floor Plan: Capturing a Home, Line by Line In the fiercely competitive game of marketing homes, brokers go to great lengths to cast a property in its most flattering light, sanding down rough edges, cleaning out clutter, loading in new furniture and hiring professional photographers to make the glossy images that lure salivating buyers to weekend open houses.

tiffany & co outlet Enlarge This Image Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times After he surveyed the space, Mr. Wenger drew floor plans using his own custom graph paper and an assortment of colored pens. But there is another important part of the package, one that seems almost mechanical in its black-and-white simplicity yet is often the result of careful consideration and artistic license: the floor plan.

tiffany jewelry outlet “I love photos, but people can get turned off if they see furniture that looks like something that your grandmother might have used,” or a wall color they do not like, said Gerald Makowski, who oversees marketing at Halstead Property and has made building a database of pristine plans something of a mission at the company. “Floor plans are more of a neutral backdrop for them to see what’s in the apartment” and how the rooms relate to one another, he said. And that is where Lou Wenger and a coterie of graphic designers who specialize in floor plans come in. Armed with a laser distance measurer, his own custom graph paper and an assortment of colored pens, Mr. Wenger creates floor plans for many established real estate agencies, including Halstead, Brown Harris Stevens and Gumley Haft Kleier.

tiffany outlet For years, brokers started with existing floor plans from a collection of telephone-directory-size binders, Mr. Makowski said, but those have become less useful because they are often copies with blurred or incomplete lines and illegible writing that do not look good on the Web. Although agencies still use layouts from the books, many are turning to independent draftsmen to draw floor plans from scratch.

tiffany rings “I think my floor plans are the prettiest,” Mr. Wenger said at his cramped home office on the Upper East Side, which is lined with DVDs of movies and old “Columbo” episodes. “Sometimes you look at a plan and they keep it as generic as they can, and I like to try to reflect it — without going totally nuts, O.K.? — as it really appears. If something has rounded edges I’ll do what I can to try to make it look pleasing that way.” Mr. Wenger, a former photographer, got his start in real estate as an agent, he said, but found he did not have the knack for renting out apartments. Realizing agents could use better materials to market their listings, he persuaded his boss to let him photograph the apartments and included floor plans in the portfolios he created. He eventually dropped the photography and focused solely on the drawings, through his company, Floorplansource. He charges $250 for the first 1,000 square feet, and 12 cents a square foot above that.

tiffany earringsHe begins by surveying the space, measuring the overall dimensions of the room. He takes care to point the laser so it captures the distance from wall to wall, free of intrusions like molding or radiator covers. With a graphite mechanical pencil, he draws the walls and windows, marking measurements in red; doorways, openings and passageways in green; and fixtures and built-ins in blue, so that he and his freelance designers can quickly identify each element when they redo the layouts on the computer. He indicates the relative thickness of walls through the thickness of the lines — although they are estimates based on general building practices in different types of buildings rather than architectural or engineering records. He marks where there are windows, fixtures and anything cutting into the space, like columns, a process that often involves a surprising degree of estimation. “On a final floor plan, you’re not going to see the dimensions of a column — the columns are just going to be there proportionally. That’s why the exact measurements aren’t that important,” he said. “The room measurements are, because that’s going to be recorded, that’s what people want to know.” tiffany bracelet Placing the fixtures, like toilets, sinks and bathtubs, is important because it allows buyers to see where the plumbing is — and where they could slip in an extra powder room or bath. Sometimes, Mr. Wenger said, brokers will ask him to alter details, like making a window wider than it really is, to better reflect what they say is the feeling of a room. He will accommodate those requests, although too much of that can backfire. Looking at a floor plan for 75 1/2 Bedford Street — the narrowest house in the city at about nine and a half feet wide outside, eight and a half inside and currently for sale for $4.3 million through Town Residential — he said the illustrator could have made it look wider by drawing the walls thicker. “But it doesn’t pay,” Mr. Wenger said. “People get in there and say it feels narrower than in the floor plan. Don’t call it orange juice if it’s lemonade. It is what it is.”

Mother, daughter cut from the same cloth Every Wednesday morning at 5:30, Lyndhurst resident Betty Rosskamm, 83, dons her yoga clothes and drives to Starbucks for a tall brew. By 6:30 she is seated in the Lotus position at her daughter Jackie Rothstein’s Moreland Hills home for a private yoga session. “That’s my mom,” said Rothstein with a laugh. “She is the most vibrant, with-it, active, intelligent woman I know.” National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section will honor the two women at its “Celebration of Generations” luncheon on Sun., June 12, at Executive Caterers at Landerhaven in Mayfield Heights. “

I admire Jackie’s strong leadership, and I am thrilled that Jackie and her mother Betty Rosskamm are being honored as consummate NCJW volunteers and as a model mother-daughter team,” said Judy Eigenfeld, NCJW president. Rosskamm, whose parents Hilda and Berthold Reich founded Jo-Ann Fabrics in 1943, worked for 63 years in the family business alongside her late husband Martin. For the past four years, she has devoted that same energy and enthusiasm to volunteer work. * In addition to NCJW’s Thriftique Showroom, Rosskamm volunteers as a buyer for The Children’s Museum gift shop, runs the vendor sales at University Hospitals, and volunteers at Court Community Service Program. She also tutors at Bolton School and at The Intergenerational School. It’s no wonder that Rothstein, who has been active in NCJW for 30 years, calls her mother “my biggest hero and best friend.” “Once my mom retired, despite her busy schedule, we have had more time than ever to enjoy each other’s company,” said Rothstein. “The first call either of us makes in the morning is to each other.” Rothstein, who is vice president of Thriftique, enjoys having her mother join her in the Warrensville Heights showroom. “I’m just following Jackie’s lead,” said Rosskamm of her daughter. “I’ve learned a lot from her. I’m fairly bashful, and I admire how easily Jackie can communicate with people. Her warmth and friendliness come through in her volunteer work.” Volunteering has become second nature to Rothstein. “I have learned from the community and our employees to be grateful for what I have and to be compassionate and understanding,” she said. She also follows the advice she has taped to her bedroom mirror: It is better to be silent and deemed a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. “Those words have come in handy on more than one occasion.” Both Rosskamm and Rothstein credit their mothers for teaching them life lessons. “My mother taught me to trust my instincts,” said Rosskamm. “In 1938, she followed her instincts and despite my father’s protests, she insisted the family leave Germany for America. That move saved our family from Hitler.”

tiffany necklace white goldRothstein said her work ethic comes from her mother and her grandmother. “My grandmother worked in the Jo-Ann Fabrics store at Severance Center until five days before she died at age 87,” she said. “And my mother has always been a very hard worker.”

cheap tiffanyEven though the women see each other during the day, Rothstein, whose husband Fred is president and CEO of University Hospitals, often spends her evenings with her mother because of her husband’s long work days. “I know I’ll always have a dinner date,” she said. When Rothstein broke her foot several months ago, she moved into her mother’s condo for six weeks. “My mom kept a close eye on me but let me out to see my husband on weekends,” Rothstein quipped. “I’m one of the luckiest girls in the world for a million reasons, and having a mother willing and able to sacrifice her time to take care of me is one of them.”

tiffany pendantsDespite the fact that Rothstein’s daughter Michele works for Camp Sunshine in Atlanta, the two remain close. “We miss out on lots of mother-daughter fun stuff, but I’m big on happy, and right now Michele is very happy planning programming for young children with cancer.” Family is very important to both Rothstein and Rosskamm, and they work hard to keep their extended families together. “As I’ve gotten older, I realize the most important thing is peace in the family, and if there is a problem, you do everything you can to make it good one way or another,” Rosskamm said. The only disagreement the two women ever have is about Rosskamm’s driving. “My daughter is a back-seat driver,” she said. “Other than that I have no complaints.” tiffany cufflinks

Guide to the Basement Bathroom Plumbing procedure..

Guide to the Basement Bathroom Plumbing procedure..

 

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Often, the concrete of the basement needs to be broken. Marks are made on the surface along some demarcations and the concrete is chipped away usually employing a jackhammer. The debris thus obtained has to be cleared and new plumbing pipes are well glued to the original setup. After completion the new setup has to be covered up with concrete.

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Commercial Websites - How to Use Them to Find Real Estate Prospects

Commercial Websites - How to Use Them to Find Real Estate Prospects

 

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Event Management Company: Mange your Events with Professionals

Event Management Company: Mange your Events with Professionals

 

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Do You Want Information On The Braun’s Pulsonic?

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There are still a lot of men shaving with a razor blade. This type of shaver is convenient, quick, and gives you a close shave. Once you wear out the blade sharpness, you throw it away. There are no shaver parts to replace or deal with.

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In the case where the shaver consists of three heads, there is a shaft from the motor that engages three gears to rotate the cutting heads. These are the very basic shaver parts of most shavers.

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To remove the screen from the foil head shaver, unplug the power. Remove the head and clean it. If it is damage or has corrosion replace it. Remove the blade assembly and clean it with canned air. For any lubrication needed, follow the manufacturer’s directions.

The rotary head can be disassembled in the same fashion. You can clean the head assembly and the blade assembly with a small brush. Be sure to replace the damage shaver parts.

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