Outdoor Living - Investing Beyond 4 Walls

When you hear the term "Outdoor Living" what is the first thing that pops into your mind; picnic tables, plastic mismatched chairs and the smell of burgers cooking on the hibachi. For many living outdoors confines them and their thoughts to a small patio area with a couple of old plants and their college patio furniture. In today's world outdoor living means pushing out the walls and extending the living space to include the outdoors way beyond the patio.

As the real estate market fluctuates, homeowners look to remodel their homes and include projects to create outdoor livings spaces for optimum comfort and pleasure. With billions spent on remodeling in the US alone after upgrading the kitchen and bathrooms, upgrading the outside of a home comes in third on the project list. By taking advantage of your backyard and extending the living and entertaining areas, not only increases living space, but also helps raise the property value.

It is amazing how many things used indoors now can also be used outdoors as well!

Components for Creating an Outdoor Living environment:

The Outdoor kitchen - this type of cooking appliance can be a simple BBQ to a complete built in gas bar-b-que including the sink for clean up and refrigerator for the cold beer and beverages.

Patio Furniture - the focal point of many outdoor patio areas is the furniture. Outdoor dining tables and chairs cover the range of simple inexpensive plastic chairs and tables to metal and teak outdoor dining furniture. The selection and price range is wide as I have been looking for some sling style chairs for my patio.

heating - as you move northward the use of your outside area can be reduced from cooler temperatures. However, outdoor fireplaces, firepits and patio heaters can solve the cool issue and extend our outdoor season later into the fall or crank it spring earlier in the year. light adds a wonderful ambiance and it does not need to only come from a fire the use of landscape lighting can do the trick.

Covering the Patio - the blazing summer sun can turn a fun outdoor party into a place everyone wants to get away from. A partially covered area where the cooking and dining areas are located creates a wonderful shaded retreat from the boiling sun and unexpected weather which can pop up. Decks are also a popular way to dress up a patio along with adding interesting stones, rocks, planters and flowers to create drama.

Remember these items are basics to get a list started, personal style, budget and family needs must also come into play. The only true design limits or restriction is the wallet and imagination. The above items get you started, adding a pool, waterfall and landscaped areas only add to the overall outdoor living space making it more inviting. projects do not need to happen all at once but build over time. The true benefit is that whatever and however you choose fits you and your living style.

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How to Kill a Hurricane - Quickly!

online Think Tanks often discuss issues and solve problems that no one else looks at, because they think around the box, that is to say not necessarily in it or out of it, but all of the above. Thus when the 2005 hurricane Season got out of control we started discussing the issue of how to kill a hurricane.

So, what can we tell you about hurricane Annihilation Theory or "HAT" well, you most likely will not find this information on the web, as it is one of my original concepts. The online Think Tank Bulletin board was hacked and it was something I posted under "Ways to Kill hurricanes" but it is no longer on the internet. Here is the basic premise;

Water droplets on the wavelets or salt spray evaporate and block the trade winds, this allows the hurricane to grow, as rain falls the barrier increases and the Hurricane's heat engine expands. Solution: modify the droplet size and the trade winds will prevent the hurricane from forming.

A.) The droplet size and blocking of the trade winds, which allow the formation of hurricanes is known; there are research papers on that.

B.) Harmonic resonance and vibrational sound waves are known to affect ionically the water molecules, there are research papers on that. Japanese have done research and there is other research on water molecules that confirm it. Lots of information on ice, water and frequency out there, very interesting in fact.

C.) The floating of the barge I envision would be similar to the use of floatation devices to raises sunken ships for recovery and submarines that are underwater for rescue. There are pictures of that on the internet.

Since this is on of my original concepts, you will not find this anywhere, except in my brain and some sketch notes I have. I have not written it up, I have a 1,000 concepts that I need to write up someday, it is a lot about time really. I think I might have explained the basic premise in an online article once, but not much more detail than I have explained to you. Humans are not interested in solutions, rather they pretend to be in order to funnel money to political friends, you know what I am saying? Again, not judging.

If you take this idea to a Meteorologist, Physics Professor, ELF scientist, underwater recovery entrepreneur looking for long lost treasure, one could easily be built. Mostly it is a matter of cost and need, but if you are protecting a whole city or national Shoreline it is relevant. Often, unfortunately, you have to realize that humans are much about "not invented here" and "the status quo" and sometimes to their non-disruptive benefit and other times to their folly. A little philosophy assists in helping one not worry about the further reaching consequences? Smile, it is simply the way things are currently.

L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entrepreneur http://www.worldthinktank.net . Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by http://www.Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.

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