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Silver Lake apartment garden brings COVID-19 relief

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When Jamie Renee Williams wanted to learn more about soil and permaculture, she volunteered at several urban farms throughout Los Angeles: Cottonwood Urban Farm in Panorama City, Huarache Farms in Sierra Madre and Farm L.A., located in Elysian Valley. When she wanted to implement what she was learning in the community, she began working with a community-led compost pick-up service to expand its reach. And when the coronavirus outbreak forced her to shelter in place, she transformed a tiny stretch of dirt next to her apartment into an edible garden.

“I thought for many years that it would be amazing to work on restoring it in some way,” Williams, 37, said of the garden in Silver Lake that she planted in March. “I had been reading books on permaculture such as “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming,” and when I started going to a bunch of different farms

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Kitchen fire damages El Cajon apartment units, 20 residents displaced

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EL CAJON, Calif. (CNS) – An unattended kitchen stove was blamed for an apartment fire in El Cajon Tuesday evening that caused damage to six apartments and displaced at least 20 residents.

Deputies responded to the 400 block of East Bradley Avenue, near Magnolia Avenue, about 7:25 p.m. and found a second story apartment fully engulfed in flames, according to Sgt. Patrick Fox of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.

The fire immediately threatened at least 10 apartments, all of which were evacuated, and an additional 10 apartments directly south of where the fire occurred were evacuated as a precaution, Fox said.

Firefighters from the San Miguel, Santee and El Cajon fire departments were able to extinguish the flames and deputies learned no one was inside the apartment when the fire started, he said.

The occupants of the apartment where the fire began were interviewed by authorities and it was

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The Kitchen in This Basement Apartment Is Basically a Greenhouse

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<div class="caption"> Rosie intended to install austere slate-gray cabinetry, but she was taken with the Ruskin Blossom hue when she visited Pluck’s studio. “If you’re able to take it away from its current cultural associations, it’s just a nice color,” she explains. “It looks really lovely against the greenery.” </div>

Rosie intended to install austere slate-gray cabinetry, but she was taken with the Ruskin Blossom hue when she visited Pluck’s studio. “If you’re able to take it away from its current cultural associations, it’s just a nice color,” she explains. “It looks really lovely against the greenery.”

Though television producer Rosie Rockel was a first-time homeowner when she renovated her South London apartment, she was able to approach the project with some useful background experience. Rosie’s entertainment industry job has her working on the show Grand Designs, a British home improvement series that highlights impressive, elaborate architecture. Perhaps that’s why she was so confident in her ability to design the kitchen remodel on her own. “I had a very clear picture of exactly what I wanted it to look like,” Rosie says.

The main aims were to bring light into this room of her flat, which is situated in

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Kitchen of the Week: Former barrister chambers becomes apartment with award-winning black kitchen

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This black kitchen, designed by Nicola Manning of Auckland, won the Outstanding Renovation Kitchen award in this year's NKBA national awards.

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This black kitchen, designed by Nicola Manning of Auckland, won the Outstanding Renovation Kitchen award in this year’s NKBA national awards.

It’s hard to believe this kitchen is in an apartment that was previously a commercial office space.

Kitchen designer Nicola Manning of Nicola Manning Design says the space was the client’s inner-city barrister chambers for 20 years: “As he was approaching retirement, he and his wife decided to convert the ‘office space’ into an apartment that would have a New York loft feel.”

The kitchen Manning designed has just won the Outstanding Kitchen Renovation award in the national NKBA awards, with the judges calling it “an inspired transformation”.

Kitchen designer Nicola Manning.

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Kitchen designer Nicola Manning.

Manning says the client’s brief was to transform the staff lunchroom and storage space into the kitchen, which was to be the heart of the new apartment. “It needed to have a slight industrial

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Kitchen fire burns apartment building on Syracuse’s North Side

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Syracuse, N.Y. — Residents of a North Side apartment building escaped injury after a fire this afternoon in a first-floor apartment.



a group of people on a boat in the water: Firefighters on the scene of a fire at 100 Pond Street on Syracuse's North Side. Sept. 29, 2020.

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Firefighters on the scene of a fire at 100 Pond Street on Syracuse’s North Side. Sept. 29, 2020.

Firefighters were called to 100 Pond Street around 12:32 p.m. after a passerby saw smoke coming from the building.

When firefighters arrived, they found an active fire in the kitchen of a downstairs apartment—one of five units in the building, Syracuse Deputy Fire Chief Bob Cussen said.

Four children were in the apartment at the time, but all made it outside safely.

Around 15 people lived in the building, Cussen said. No injuries were reported.

The fire was largely contained to the one apartment, Cussen said, but the first and second floors both sustained smoke damage. Cussen said he believes the building had working

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Apartment house | architecture | Britannica

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Apartment house, also called apartment block, or block of flats, building containing more than one dwelling unit, most of which are designed for domestic use, but sometimes including shops and other nonresidential features.

Unité d'Habitation, apartment house, Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1946–52.
Unité d’Habitation, apartment house, Marseille, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1946–52.© Wayne Andrews/Esto

Apartment buildings have existed for centuries. In the great cities of the Roman Empire, because of urban congestion, the individual house, or domus, had given way in early imperial times to the communal dwelling, or insula (q.v.), except for the residences of the very wealthy. Four stories were common, and six-, seven-, or eight-story buildings were occasionally constructed. Another type of apartment existed in Europe in the Middle Ages, consisting of a great house or mansion, part of which was subdivided into smaller sets of rooms in order to house the servants and other retainers of an important

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Home Improvement Team – Simple to semi-complicated DIY tips to improve, or maintenance your home, condo or apartment.

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Does your Toilet Keep Refilling? And Making weird noises, hissing, and just seems like it’s taking forever to fill? I’ve got a list of 6 fixes that can make your toilet stop running. Starting from 1 will be the most common fix, up to 6, the least common fix. Check out this picture to get […]
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DIY Toilet Tank Parts and Repair

These are all the parts that are inside of most toilet tanks.

All of these fixes are very simple. As long as you have a good water shut off valve and know how to use it. The water should be shut off for all of these toilet tank repairs. We’re going to replace 4 toilet tank parts in this post. The toilet tank parts we will be […]
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Is your tub clogged or slow to drain? In this article learn 3 ways on how you can unclog a tub.

Check

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Real estate transactions: Investment infuses funds for improvements at south Houston apartment complex

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  • Stonebridge at City Park Apartments, a 240-unit apartment complex at 11800 City Park Central Lane, is slated for upgrades following a preferred equity investment of  $5.5 million by Electra Capital. Photo: Electra Capital

    Stonebridge at City Park Apartments, a 240-unit apartment complex at 11800 City Park Central Lane, is slated for upgrades following a preferred equity investment of  $5.5 million by Electra Capital.

    Stonebridge at City Park Apartments, a 240-unit apartment complex at 11800 City Park Central Lane, is slated for upgrades following a preferred equity investment of  $5.5 million by Electra Capital.


    Photo: Electra Capital

Stonebridge at City Park Apartments, a 240-unit apartment complex at 11800 City Park Central Lane, is slated for upgrades following a preferred equity investment of  $5.5 million by Electra Capital.

Stonebridge at City Park Apartments, a 240-unit apartment complex at 11800 City Park Central Lane, is slated for upgrades following a preferred equity investment of  $5.5 million by Electra Capital.



Photo: Electra Capital


Electra Capital completed a $5.5 million, three-year preferred equity investment in

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