Dream House Planning Now Emphasizes Quality Over Size
Syracuse builder William Camperlino outlines a practical path to a customized home. Start with occupants' priorities, plan budgets, and view multiple designs. Emphasizes energy efficiency, insulated upgrades, heat pumps, and a single large living center to cut costs while preserving luxury features.
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William J. Campertino
Camperlino
Home Builders Association of
Central New York
Cam
Perlino
Preserving Historic Paints and Restoration Techniques
Historic paints used oil base or water base before alkyds in the 1930s. The piece explains oil binders, pigments, whitewash and distemper, casein paints, and the shift to latex and oil alkyds. It covers color schemes, sampling methods, cleaning, and choosing paints, with guidance from the Preservation League.
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America
Preservation League
Northern Blvd
Albany
N.Y
Frederick D. Cawley
New York State Council On the Arts
Super Handyman by Al Carrell Clamping furniture for glue jobs
A reader column shares practical clamping tricks for glued furniture. Suggestions include worm gear hose clamps wrapped with wax paper protection, spiraled automobile inner tubes for even pressure, stacking books as weights, and a rope and turnbuckle as a clamp substitute.
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Ray Jackson
Campertine
William J. Campertine
The
Herald-Journal
Genevieve Oswald
Gallinger Real Estate, Inc
al Carrell