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Is there anything more irritating than being bothered by outside noises, whether it comes from the street, your neighbour’s or your roommate.
Here is a relatively easy way to reduce noise. It’s the technique that is used most often: demolishing and rebuilding a wall.
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Glass bricks in a wall enhance the luminosity. Here is an example of the steps to follow (list of material at the end).
Measure the space to be freed up taking into account the space between the studs, the shape of the bricks, the surrounding frame and the mortar.
Space between the studs:
12’’ for old buildings
16’’ for the next generation
24’’ is becoming increasingly popular today
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Standard format of glass brick:
8x8x3, 8x8x4, 6x6x3, 6x8x3 or 4x8x3
Example of dimensions to consider to transform an interior wall
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Many of us dream of expanding a room the easy way: by knocking down a wall. It’s not a bad idea, but it does require a careful examination of the building structure.
A loadbearing wall is an outside wall that supports a building’s roof structure—the gable wall for example—and the floor structure. When the wall is part of the frame, it’s called a loadbearing wall.
Loadbearing walls are built solidly with resistant materials. Their static function forces them to bear weight at all times.
Used only to separate rooms, interior walls are generally called partitions. For obvious reasons, they’re built lighter than loadbearing walls.[……]
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Installing picture rails, wide baseboards, quarter-rounds and paneling gives interiors a rustic style that goes particularly well with old homes. And contrary to popular belief, the work is fairly easy to do.
There are several points to consider to improve the paneling’s installation and final appearance. In so doing, you ensure that the new decor will stand the test of time. And you also make the practical aspect a pleasurable one.
Since paneling is a living material, it’s essential to take a room’s humidity rate into account. Wood expands or contracts depending on the season. You have to expose recently-purchased paneling to a humidity rate similar to the room where it will be installed. To achieve this, you leave the packages of paneling lying around the room for a few days before undertaking the work. [……]
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On a chilly winter night, you’re enjoying the comfort of your living room to relax and finish reading a novel. But your mind is wandering and you start looking around the room. You realize that it’s been awhile since you changed the decor. A little makeover would perk things up.
However, your budget restrains your creative impulses. That’s okay: wall decals—adhesive wall decorations—can enhance your decor without breaking your piggy bank.
Imagine the entire wall of a living room covered with wallpaper of a sunset. Today, this mural is available in the form of a decal. It’s easier to install than wallpaper, so it’s faster. What’s not to like?[……]