http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:53:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't have any tips or wisdom regarding teak furniture today, but I did find an excellent idea for some summertime fun from a great little book by Lee Anne White called "Outdoor Living Idea Book" (2005, The Taunton Press). It provides a vast array of ideas for creatively sprucing ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/teepees-and-houses-and-tunnels-oh-my.htm It's Friday, so no shop talk about teak furniture or outdoor furniture of any kind. Instead, this Friday I have something I think you'll find amazing. The photos below are of chalk drawings done by Julian Beever and Kurt Wenner. I'd like to thank impactlab.com for posting these and more ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/you-wont-believe-your-eyes.htm Tiny cracks that occur on the ends of your teak furniture (in fact all outdoor furniture made from wood), such as the tops of legs or front of arms, are known as "end check." Checking is caused by shrinkage differences between the surface and the interior of drying lumber. Since ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/what-everyone-should-know-about-end-checking.htm No teak furniture talk today. Instead take a look at this scary piece of furniture. Definitely not a fan. It may make a nice piece for Hannibal Lecter, though. http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/aaaaahhh.htm Another hectic week, so I won't be able to craft beautiful prose about teak furniture. Just another quick word about the emerging trend in outdoor furniture -- the pulling of interior elements into the outdoor room. Thanks to dramatic improvements in materials science, manufacturers have been able to produce a number ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/more-in-out.htm As many of you who read the teak journAL know, Friday's are not the day to discuss teak furniture. Instead I post something short, sweet, and hopefully enjoyable. Today I have a quote about alarm clocks. The only thing worse than hearing the alarm clock in the morning is not hearing ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/say-what.htm Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write about teak furniture or much of anything else today as I have to leave town and am running out of time. So I'll just a cover a tiny portion of an overall trend sweeping the outdoor home. The trend: anything that can be ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/how-to-accessorize-your-outdoors-like-an-interior-designer.htm What do word origins, optical illusions, or jokes have to do with teak furniture? Nothing, but there's no need to discuss business all the time. Each Friday I will have an interesting item with little to do with teak or outdoor furniture. I hope you enjoy. In frontier America, a person ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/ive-been-double-crossed.htm Take bold risks with outdoor throw pillows. When it comes to teak furniture, deep seating collections in particular, color palettes are where many of us take our risks. However, there is a safe and easy way to be bold. To buy deep seating cushions in anything other than basic solids may ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/quick-tip-2-experiment-with-color-with-little-risk.htm What do cartoons, "best of" lists, or short stories have to do with teak furniture? Not much, but lighten up. On Fridays I’ll post something interesting that probably has very little to do with teak or outdoor furniture, but it should at least make you smile or think. I ran across ... http://www.arthurlauer.com/blog/weigh-in-on-this-one.htm