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	<title>Raising Spaces &#187; Welcome to Raising Spaces | Green Building Products | Sustainable Interior Design | Servicing Edmonton, Alberta and Beyond</title>
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		<title>Shingled Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the summer we decided to do a rain screen over top of our stuccoed straw bale walls. It took us a little longer than we had hoped and it was more work than we anticipated but I think the results look fantastic! It feels great to have the scaffolding put away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forestry, Gardens &amp; House Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past April I spent a week in the woods at MacPhail Woods taking a university course, Environmental Studies 209 – Ecological Forestry, learning about forest ecology, sustainable forestry practices, forest restoration and the Acadien Forests. It was an amazing experiential learning course and everything we learned has stayed with me and I think it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw Bale Home Building Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to build your own straw bale home.  You’ve seen them in green home building books and on TV shows, you saw green home builders wax poetic about their homes low impact on the environment and connection to the local ecology.  You’ve researched all the possible alternative home building techniques and the thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The last few months on the house!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally I have gotten round to getting some photos uploaded! We are officially moved in, the mortgage has been completed, and we are “done”, although I don’t think the work will ever stop! There’s some niggly trim work to complete, a few touch-ups, there will be on-going stucco maintenance and inspections, fire wood to cut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We finally have stairs!  The weekend before last we put in the stairs that have been laying in pieces in our kitchen for about a year!  We still need to build handrails and re-sand and finish them after being exposed to clay dust for months but it’s nice to be able to go up and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tile and Window Sills</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/04/tile-and-window-sills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This long Easter weekend we have focused on the window trim, bathroom tile and later on today concrete floor finishing.  The windows have all their birch plywood sills cut, installed and finished finally, and there are 8 windows boxed out with trim on the first floor.  Only 6 to go on the first floor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#039;s Left?</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/02/whats-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we are nearing the end of the longer than anticipated journey called house building! This past weekend we finished the primasil coat on the lime wash and last night I finished the priming of all the drywall except the kitchen ceiling which will go up after the plumbing and electrical work above the ceiling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interior stucco completed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Sunday I put the last couple trowel fulls of interior stucco on the walls in the kitchen!  I have some photos from the day before showing the progress so far.  Now we are on to some finishing work like seam filling, cleaning, trim and limewashing. (cross-posted at greenspree.ca)]]></description>
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		<title>Update on the Stucco</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2009/02/update-on-the-stucco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it’s been a long road, a hard road, felt like a lifetime to make it, but we are nearly done of stucco on the inside of the house! We have just the kitchen and utility closet left to put finish coat on and we can finally start cleaning up the dirt and filth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Back to Work</title>
		<link>http://www.raisingspaces.com/2008/12/going-back-to-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 16th I go back to work and once again go back to working on the house nights and weekends. Once more we set ourselves a deadline of being in by Christmas and once more it will not be happening. I thought it might be a good idea to look back on what we [...]]]></description>
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