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House and Garden 60th Anniversary
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:30:16 +0000
The United Kingdom’s House and Garden Magazine recently celebrated their 60th anniversary – that is a great many years to be telling people how to decorate their homes! To commemorate the occasion, they have chosen some highlights from the six decades they have been around to wallow in nostalgia over … adverts, food dishes, fabrics, [...]
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Door Not Found
Fri, 09 May 2008 09:30:20 +0000
One that Internet regulars among us will appreciate Although perhaps, from the photo, it should say ‘Door Handle not Found’?! Funnily, this would no doubt be a lovely metaphorical interpretation of what actually happens when a web page is not found – there simply is no way to get into the site :-) And finally, [...]
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Door Knobs as Cognitive Affordances
Tue, 06 May 2008 09:30:40 +0000
God bless academics, that can make the simplest and most beautiful of things into an adventure into the dictionary.
Did you know that door knobs are also ‘cognitive affordances’?
I’m going to have to use some direct quotes here, as the language is impossible to paraphrase:
“Physical and cognitive affordances help users perform physical and [...]
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Site of the Month: The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Sat, 03 May 2008 09:30:45 +0000
As you’ve no doubt realised, (although only since discovering the Architectural Classics blog!), the Internet is occasionally useful for something other than sales and advertising! Our gem of a site for this month is The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH), an effectively and simply designed register of architectural heritage in Ireland – home [...]
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Disappearing Doors, Needless Knobs and Avoidable ‘Andles
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:30:21 +0000
Thank goodness they haven’t yet invented one of these for your home! We would be out of a job.This is a disappearing car door – and I challenge you to see how it works the first time you see it … or even the third time! It really does seem to disappear without a trace [...]
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Door Knob Looney Tunes Madness
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:30:59 +0000
Did any of you watch Looney Tunes as a child? You know, those incredibly violent cartoons that our grandparents and other childless adults said would turn us all into violent, angry, psycho killers by the time we reached our late teens (We sure showed those GODDAMNED STUPID PRUNES … excuse me ;-) ! Well, it [...]
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Cleaning Mineral and Porcelain Knobs
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:30:31 +0000
Porcelain door knobs come in so many beautiful and colorful varieties … they are the only door knob medium that you can actually paint on, and the ones that we do have need to be well preserved. Here’s a few tips on how to safely clean and maintain porcelain, and also mineral (clay) door [...]
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Old, but Still Dangerous!
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:30:52 +0000
Such an ancient style, this knocker and studs on a heavy old wooden door. Despite their obvious age, they are still shaped pretty much like the day they were forged (of course we have to assume a little, since we weren’t actually around. They may have started out life shaped like giant bananas, or something!).
I [...]
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BBC Homes - Period Styles Guide
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:27:59 +0000
Although it is sort of like giving away trade secrets, we felt we absolutely had to include this awesomely detailed, well set-out, clear, concise and above all, useful site in the blog! The BBC’s Homes area contains this very practical page, which details most things that you would want to know about a wide range [...]
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Beauty in Context
Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:30:50 +0000
We love this beautiful fox shaped door knob as much for it’s surroundings, and the way they are captured in this photo, as for themselves. The entire shot almost seems like one of those cryptic puzzles, where you have to name things in photos and put them together to make either a different word, or [...]
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