Agent Will

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Energy Aware

Monday, April 28th, 2008

As many of you faithful readers know I try to spread the news about cool new innovations in the greening up of our homes and lives. And many of you know that I am really excited by the Millennium Water project (Olympic Athletes Village) going in to the South Est False Creek area. [...]

Heat Sensitive Wallpaper

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

File this one under super cool.  Maybe you remember when you were a kid, or you have kids now, an have put glow in the dark stars on the ceiling?  That kind of excitement never really goes away.  But now, as an adult you’d probably like something a little more mature, right?
Shiyuan  has come up [...]

Plant a Garden on your Wall

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

In my efforts to bring you cool and unusual stuff for the home (like the crown molding wire hider) I search far and wide… ok, maybe just have a few other like minded individuals bookmarked in my newsreader.  But I filter!
This is seriously cool.  A wall mounted planter.  Living art!

Grow herbs, sprouts, vines of some [...]

Going High End Green

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Well it looks like some of us in our quest to go green and take advantage of some of these new budgetary measures (like no PST on Energystar appliances) will be able to do so without giving up our Wolf or Sub-Zero appliances.
They have a whole range (pun intended) of fridges, ovens, and cooktops which [...]

Hide your Wires

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Now this is just plain cool and makes too much sense. It’s one of those ideas that comes along and you smck yourself in the forehead with a “Why didn’t I think of that?”
We all have far too many cables and wires running through our homes. If you’ve moved into an older home [...]