Euro House and Home Presents Traditional Portuguese Ceramic Tiles
Lisbon, Portugal (PRWEB) March 5, 2006
The long-anticipated ceramic tile product offering from Euro House And Home (http://www.eurohouseandhome.com) finally arrives. Having made its first product presentation in the final days of 2005, the company has now begun its development and expansion with this first product supplement. The ceramic tiles on offer are the authentic azulejos, an important part of Portuguese architecture and decoration since the Middle Ages. The origin of these tiles is even ealier – they were adopted from the previous occupants of the Iberian Penninsula, the Moors.
The ceramic tiles, or azulejos, offered by Euro House And Home are a truly unique item, as every effort has been made to preserve history, tradition and authenticity. The tiles are made from Portuguese clay, and are made entirely by hand. They are rolled and cut manually. The production process they go through is the same utilized hundreds of years ago. They are glazed and painted entirely by hand as well.
Customers can choose tiles from among the historic paterns presented by Euro House And Home, or they can submit their own design, picture or idea. The designs, murals, and wall decorations presented can be viewed at http://www.eurohouseandhome.com/azulejosazeitao.htm and http://www.eurohouseandhome.com/azeitaomurals.htm. Further information on their production and ordering is also available among these pages. , historThe effort to preserve cultural authenticity has gone to far as to include the restriction that these tiles are available only in the traditional colors they were painted in centuries earlier.
Full information on all products is available at http://www.eurohouseandhome.com .
About http://www.eurohouseandhome.com
Euro House And Home is a supplier of authentic home articles and gifts characteristic of the various cultures, traditions and peoples of Europe.
Euro House And Home was begun for emigrants, by emigrants. The company was launched by an American in Portugal, on the principle of bringing traditional European home articles to the people who appreciate them most. In the future the company aims to include a wider range of products representing the diversity between European people and their homes.
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Traditional Living Room Design – of Grace and Formality
When we think of traditional living room design we often associate it with large houses, manors, hotels and palaces. Traditional living room design has existed for a long time because of the formal and graceful effect it brings to the home.
1. Lighting is essential in creating the mood of your traditionally designed living room. Make sure to use the right lighting fixtures to help you set the desired ambiance. Traditional living room design calls for soft lighting to give the room a dramatic feel.
2. The use of correct color pallet and fabrics to help accentuate and illuminate the room is also essential. Use sheen fabrics for your sofa and chair upholstery. Emphasize your living room's color scheme by using repeated colors and patterns on drapes and upholsteries. However, do not overdo by just sticking on one pattern all over the room. Make sure your design is elegant and not redundant.
3. Expose your sofa's legs by using tailored or customized sofa skirts to give your living room a more traditional ambiance. Use upholstered wooden chairs to match and arrange them accordingly without breaking the symmetry of the design.
4. Wall coloring is also important. Choose colors that will help accentuate the design. Avoid bold or dark colors for your walls if you want to maintain the open feel of the room. Traditional living room design calls for classic elegance, so keep the colors in tune to keep the ambiance in tact.
5. Choose furniture pieces that will complement each other. Avoid clashing textures, colors and loud designs. The furniture itself is part of the traditional living room design style, so there's no need to exaggerate on the choice of material. Buy furniture that comes in twos or threes to meet the symmetrical style of the design. These could be the wall lighting, sofa set, armchairs and other smaller pieces.
When you opt for the traditional living room design, you should always remember the above mentioned aspects. Keeping the room open, cool and airy is important especially in daytime. Lighting sets the mood at night time and furniture enhances the design without overpowering the style.
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Benefits Of Placing A Fancy Bird House Instead Of A Traditional One
When people hear the term nautical bird house, they think that it is a bird house that is intended to accommodate sea gulls, pelicans, and other sea birds. This is completely untrue because those sea birds will not be fit inside a nautical bird house. This type of bird house is only intended to accommodate common song birds. It got its name because it is built to resemble a nautical structure. Light house design is the most popular nautical bird house.
A nautical bird house is one example of fancy bird houses. Many people think that bird house is only a kind of box structure with four walls, a floor, and a small roof. However, bird house design has become advance recently and the finished product can resemble various objects, such as Victorian mansions, fire stations, barns, and old stores. Most of these designs are multileveled or have more than one chamber with separate entrance hole. Therefore, more than one family of birds can nest in without causing any territorial fight.
Traditional bird houses are relatively easy to make. However, when it comes to nautical and other fancy bird houses, general bird watchers will not be able to make one. The design is usually complicated and it will be hard for anyone besides professional carpenters to make the bird house. You should be able to get one from craft stores, feed stores, and pet stores.
Why fancy bird house?
Perhaps you are wondering why people want to buy a fancy bird house. It is only used by birds and obviously they cannot differentiate whether the design is beautiful or not. Furthermore, it costs much more than the traditional bird house. The reason is because those people intend to use the intricate appearance of this fancy bird house to decorate their garden. Some of them even use the bird house only for decorative purpose and thus they close the entrance hole and do not allow birds to use it. They put this fancy bird house in a prominent place so their guests can comment on its beauty.
However, if you also want the fancy bird house to function fully, then you should find a strategic spot to mount it. You should make sure that predators like cats and raccoons cannot access the bird house. Furthermore, you should clean the bird house regularly after birds have moved out.
A fancy bird house may attract the same types of bird as the traditional one. However, for some people, attracting birds are not the only goal. They also want to beautify their garden by placing this fancy bird house.
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Shotgun House Floor Plan – The Revival Of A Traditional Southern Housing Style
Found throughout the American South, the shotgun house floor plan has its roots in West Africa and the Caribbean. Fleeing the revolution in the 1800s, Hatians introduced the long, narrow houses to New Orleans and their popularity quickly spread to mill towns and cotten plantations all over the South.
The shotgun house floor plan may the the only African American house plan that exists. Although the name sounds as though it was dreamed up by the National Rifle Association, the shotgun house was so named because of the liner arrangement of its rooms. In theroy, you should be able to fire a bullet through the front door and it would go through the house and straight out the back door.
Long associated with poverty, the shotgun house floor plan is now becoming respectable and even chic in some cities older districts. Architects, artists and community groups are working hard to restore the old homes into designer homes as symbols of both black and local heritage and pride. The shotgun house floor plan is the latest cause in the fight to preserve and restore some inner city communities.
With their typical one room wide and 3 or 4 rooms deep design uninterrupted by hallways, shotgun house floor plans can be as simplistic as a child's drawing while retaining the integrity than many other floor plans don't possess. Raised on piers, shotgun house floor plans allow for air circulation both under the house and as a cross-ventilating breeze. This design is well suited for the Southern climate. Porches provide much needed shade from the sun and encourage interaction between neighbors.
Though in the past shotgun house floor plans have been equated with slum areas, community groups in Houston, Texas are working hard to rennovate the remaining shotguns houses in the inner city areas of the Fourth, Fifth & Sixth Ward. The largest concentration of shotgun house floor plans were in a historic section of the Fourth Ward between downtown Houston and River Oaks called "Freedman's Town". The first preservation ordinance was passed a mere five years ago to preserve the 30 remaining shotgun houses in the area. Most had already been torn down and replaced with larger homes.
Many people living in the area want to see the old shotgun houses refurbished though there is some dispute as to the true historic value of these old homes. The shotgun house floor plan is an important part of African American history and should be preserved as a symbol of pride and survival.
Rebecca Welch is the owner of BuyHousePlansOnline.com. She provides researched information on house floor plan styles.
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New Contenders: Retail Condos Take on Traditional Net Lease Investments
Reston, VA-Net lease investors interested only in freestanding retail properties are ignoring a very lucrative investment opportunity–net lease retail condos. These properties offer many of the same benefits as traditional net lease investments. Moreover, they allow net lease investors (or net lease brokers) to put money into areas that traditionally exceeded most net lease investor budgets: dense urban areas with strong foot traffic.
“In general, retail condos are very well located and have very good demographics and demand drivers,” says Harmar Thompson, senior vice president of Lowe Enterprises Real Estate Group. The Los Angeles-based developer recently sold the retail portion of its CityVista project to Columbia, SC-based Edens & Avant.
Located in Washington, DC's Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood, the mixed-use project includes 441 condominiums, 244 rental apartments and roughly 116,000 square feet of retail. The project is structured with a condo regime, Thompson says, which allows Lowe Enterprises to sell pieces of the project to monetize other components. A 55,000-square-foot Safeway anchors CityVista and was part of the retail condo that Edens & Avant acquired.
Like traditional net lease investments, net lease retail condos are leased to tenants that have committed to a long-term lease, usually longer than 10 years, and as long as 25 years with increasing rent over the lease term. The tenant is responsible for paying rent plus some or all of the operating expenses of the building such as taxes, insurance premiums, repairs and utilities.
Retaining Value
Most retail condos are located in central business districts, though retail condos can also be found in suburban locations. Cities such as New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, DC have the largest concentrations of retail condos, but smaller cities like Seattle, Denver and Charlotte, NC also have retail condos.
Over the past five years, more than billion worth of retail condos have changed hands in the United States–and that’s just in urban areas, according to Real Capital Analytics, a New York City-based research firm. Though the total includes only deals larger than million, a significant portion of retail condos sales come in well below the -million mark, making retail condos accessible to a wide range of investors.
Real estate assets in urban areas tend to retain their value better than assets in suburban locations, making urban retail even more attractive to net lease investors. However, most net lease investors have been priced out of urban markets because the only available investments were entire buildings with price tags in the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions.
The vast majority of retail condos are part of mixed-use buildings. They typically occupy the ground floor of vertical mixed-use projects with office, hotel or residential above the retail, and sometimes all three. They can also be found in town center projects in suburban areas. Retail condos range in size, from as small as 500 square feet to 50,000 square feet or more.
The difference between a typical mixed-use project and one that includes retail condos is the ownership structure. Developers choosing to go the retail condo route end up implementing a condo regime on their projects, which basically carves up the different uses in the project into as many pieces the developers desire. Retail condos can be sold to an investor or buyer who plans to occupy the space. The retailers occupying retail condos aren’t just mom-and-pop retailers either; large national retailers also sign leases in buildings that have been structured as retail condos.
“Retail condos offer bite-sized pieces for net lease investors,” Thompson points out, adding that investors are increasingly willing to pay a premium for retail condos because of their urban locations and built-in foot traffic from nearby office tenants or residents.
This willingness to pay a premium is a marked change from just a few years ago. “We find that people are much more accepting of condo interests than they used to be,” Thompson says. “In the past, investors paid less for condo interests because they were uncomfortable with the fact that they would never have full control of the entire property. But, enough developers have done retail condos that lenders and investors are comfortable with the product.”
That doesn’t mean net lease retail condos still don’t have their quirks. Janis Schiff, a partner in the Washington, DC office of Holland & Knight and head of the firm’s real estate group warns that investors must accept they own only a piece of the building and the entire project may have issues or expenses in addition to the retail condo. Also, investors have to deal with condo associations, an added complication that many net lease investors actively avoid, Schiff says.
Nonetheless, net lease retail condos offer plenty of benefits. “For net lease investors who don’t want to own a property in the middle of nowhere and prefer a sure thing in terms of traffic and density, retail condos are an option,” Schiff notes.
Monetizing Pieces
Retail condos are not only lucrative for investors, but for developers as well. In fact, more and more developers and joint ventures are structuring their projects to include retail condos. “Condo regimes are a way to harvest value in complicated mixed-use projects,” Thompson says, adding that Lowe Enterprises sold the CityVista retail condo before it was able to sell out its residential condos. “We had the option to monetize components to pay off the loan.”
In traditional retail developments, developers can subdivide their projects and sell off parcels to multiple retailers, and the proceeds from the land sales provide equity for the entire project. Historically, developers didn’t have the ability to monetize specific pieces of mixed-use projects because it was nearly impossible to sell off parcels of a mixed-use development, especially a vertical development. Developers were forced to follow an “all or nothing” strategy–either leasing everything or selling everything.
But condo regimes make it possible for developers to divide mixed-use projects in various ways. Schiff contends that condo regimes are one of the best ways to separate value and reduce risk because developers can own each component of their projects separately. “Condo regimes give developers more flexibility,” she concludes.
Beyond flexibility, it’s not uncommon for some developers to actually make more money by selling parts of their projects rather than selling the projects whole, Thompson notes. This is especially the case for mixed-use projects in urban areas with national tenants committed to long-term net leases.
“We see mixed-use properties as the future, so it makes sense for a net lease investor to bet big on those types of projects,” Thompson says.
Jonathan Hipp is president and chief executive officer of Reston, VA-based Calkain Cos. and a member of NET LEASE forum’s editorial advisory board. The company’s website can be found at calkain.com
Jonathan W. Hipp is President of Calkain Companies and founded the firm in 2005 with over 20 years experience in the Real Estate industry. While his knowledge spans a broad spectrum of real estate, Jonathan is well respected for his expertise on Net Lease Investments.
Jonathan has completed over billion in Net Lease Investments throughout his career and is regularly interviewed for articles appearing in a variety of publications, including Commercial Real Estate Forum, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, National Real Estate Investor, Commercial Property News, Globe St., Shopping Center Business, Southeast Property News, Washington Business Journal, CIRE Magazine & Retail Traffic. He is also frequently invited to serve as a panelist or speaker at Net Lease and Real Estate conferences and seminars throughout the country.
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