WORKSHOP IN A CITY APARTMENT

WORKSHOP IN A CITY APARTMENTLoggia, balcony — a kind of additional area of the apartment. However, it is not particularly large, but how efficiently we use these “extra” square meters? After all, a reasonable approach here is simple to organize the area in the summer (even put up a cot for sleeping), mount the Cabinet to the tool, household items, sports equipment. Finally, to equip a place for carpentry and plumbing work. How to do it?

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THE WINDOW… WITHOUT THE WINDOW

WINDOW WITHOUT THE VENTS...In apartments with paired window units no of vents: the role of narrow casement Windows. This is justified in summer, and then only in good weather; in rain, if he is still with the wind or sideways across the transom is filled with water. In the winter and very uncomfortable: wide open — cold and slightly open in a narrow slit through the frosty wind. That is why often the top of sash major redesigns for ordinary window.

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COMFORT FOR THE BABY

COMFORT FOR THE BABYIt happens in every family: it accomplished the great mystery of nature, man is born, bringing much joy, happiness, excitement and hassle. And let it warm just a helpless lump, still there are family disputes, as it is called, but the apartment is already changes. Rendered in the other room the old sofa, moved the Cabinet for a newborn is released the coziest place to put a baby cot, the first subject of the whole “headset” needed for a new family member. It headset: the number of its components change with age of the child is dictated to and care about the convenience for the young mother. Here is the place for changing, and a separate locker or a barrel for clothes, a table under a lamp and bottles of baby food a low toilet, high chair, and later — to the table, a playpen with mesh or lattice-like walls for the first independent “walking”, and Walker — chair on wheels for the first faltering steps…

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CONCRETE DO YOURSELF

DO CONCRETE YOURSELFMixer need not everyone. But it will certainly be interested in one who wants to build anything on the plot or is already building. The design of the proposed mixer is simple and available for review. It applied quite common components and parts. However, you can collect from other scrap materials, and published a description here as an example.

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ANOTHER FOLDABLE

ANOTHER FOLDABLESuch desks there are a number of things. One of them is the ability easily, disassembled for parts, to move from place to place, for example to put in the garden, in the yard. Younger children (preschoolers or first-graders), it will seem a lot attractive when you provide it to transport a frame cart on wheels. The older she’ll get, obviously, the fact that during holidays, folded and put in the corner, against the wall, takes up minimal space.

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AND A SHOWER AND WARDROBE

AND A SHOWER, AND WARDROBEAlmost every cottager is trying to equip on the site the shower: it’s nice in the summer heat PLI after active physical labor to feel the soothing coolness of the water jets. But so-called gardener and a small box, where it would be possible for the night to clean shovels, rakes n the other gardening tools, fertilizers, sprays with herbicides, miscellaneous household stuff. The design proposed by the magazine “Homemaker” (England), allowing one construction to combine the shower and the pantry. This box, which has a door on one side leads to the shower, on the other hand, a small wardrobe; divided compartments a common dividing wall. Another tempting option: to make it if necessary, collapsible, of the panels reinforced at the edges by a frame of wooden bars and rods, then at the end of the season it is easy to remove or redevelopment of the site to move to a new location.

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SAILBOAT IN THE BOTTLE…

A SAILBOAT IN THE BOTTLE...All-Union poster competitions boat clearly show that is not quenched the interest in this ancient kind of creativity as the production of models in various vessels of the original form. This is confirmed by the many letters sent to the editors with a request to reveal the secret penetration of the vessel, armed with all her sails set, through a narrow bottleneck.

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THE PLANE OF THE SKINS

PLANE OF SKINIn the processing of metal surfaces and finishing of the joinery is quite often used grinding sandpaper. It is usually navertyvajut on the bar, but they sandpaper wears unevenly, and cleared material remains between it and the surface, preventing their contact. In addition, a significant portion of the abrasive generally remains unused and is discarded.

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