INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A new boutique hotel is coming later this year to downtown. The name is Hotel Indy, a name and purpose that doesn’t quite fit the exterior aesthetics of stark concrete and glass in the Brutalist movement. It looks more like a law office, which it was for […]
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Built Into a Hillside, This Concrete and Glass Fixer-Upper Is on Sale for Only $99,900
This fixer-upper in the woods shows what can happen when a stone mason builds a house with a vision of using the energy of the earth. But doesn’t quite finish the job. The current owner built the house on Miner Street in Warsaw, NY, from concrete and glass in 1980, and […]
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How to insulate your basement’s concrete walls
Q: I just bought my first house and am about to remodel my basement. The previous owners of the house glued 2-inch-thick foam insulation to the poured concrete walls. It’s got an aluminum foil face on it. Then they covered that with an open-cell foam board that’s 3/4-inch thick. It […]