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VaST NEWS Tuesday, 29 April 2008 updated Tuesday, 15 July 2008 updated Friday, 8 December 2008 |
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| VaST is devoted to designing green environments that are inspired, architecturally distinct, energy-efficient, and high performing. |
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November 13, 2008
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| The Candy Shop goes Solar! We don't have great orientation, but these cool PV awnings will help offset some of our carbon footprint. We use WindSource energy for the rest. | ||||||
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September 23, 2008
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| Erik Paulsrud (www.erikpaulsrudphotography.com) takes some sweet glamour shots of The Candy Shop. | ||||||
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| Conference room window made with beetle kill pine by Imanima (www.imanimadesigns.com). | ||||||
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| Amazingly beautiful shower room featureing recycled glass tile by Hakatai (www.hakatai.com) and natural plaster by Artesano Natural Plasters (www.artesano-home.com). | ||||||
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July 18 & 19, 2008
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| OPEN HOUSE! Glad you could make it. | ||||||
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July 17, 2008
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| Finishing Touches: Stu from 20/20 Signs puts up our new Candy Shop Signs. | ||||||
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| Carmen puts out the candy for the Open House, and eats a little while she is at it (try to ignore the giant goose egg on her forhead. . . she fell a few days earlier). | ||||||
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| Marla installs the conference room window. | ||||||
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July 16, 2008
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| Julie Hauser from Indigo Landscape Design (www.indigolandscapedesign.com) puts in some plants to liven things up. | ||||||
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July 14, 2008
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| Farrell Lowe cleans up the hardscape. | ||||||
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| The guys from Front Range Seamless install some cool custom metal siding. | ||||||
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July 11, 2008
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| Things are really starting to shape up now. Just a few more days until the open house. | ||||||
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July 10, 2008
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| Tuck pointing by KMB Stone Masonry. | ||||||
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July 9, 2008
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| Window trim by Front Range Seamless gutters. | ||||||
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July 8, 2008
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| Ryan from Artesano Natural Plaster installs the waterproof plaster in the shower. | ||||||
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July 6, 2008
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| Joseph finishes up the cabinetry. | ||||||
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| Farrel works on the hardscaping. | ||||||
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July 1, 2008
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| New front door from Solar Glass and signage by 20/20 communications. | ||||||
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June 19, 2008
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| Stripping the brick was a hard, smelly job. . . but it really does look great. | ||||||
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June 17, 2008
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| Drew from Enviro-Tech Solutions strips the paint off the brick. | ||||||
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June 13, 2008
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| Red stucco by Straight Corner Plastering. | ||||||
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| Advanced Stone & Tile installing the recycled content glass tile from HAKATAI. | ||||||
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June 4, 2008
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| Front Range Seamless installing the red roof (check out the girlie poster). | ||||||
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| TREX railing and bench are looking good. | ||||||
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June 3, 2008
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| A good place for a new sign above the new TREX bench; building felt goes up. | ||||||
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May 30, 2008
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| Dan from Front Range Seamless Gutters showing off the galvi eyebrow. | ||||||
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| No more deck railing and no more front stairs. | ||||||
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May 22, 2008
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| Now it's chocolate brown. | ||||||
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| Kathy and Julie working on the deck. | ||||||
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| A new shed roof. | ||||||
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May 19, 2008
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| The guys from TopNotch construction working hard to trim the place out. | ||||||
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| Installing the rubber stair treads and the cork floor. | ||||||
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May 8, 2008
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| Putting the finishing touches on the mural. | ||||||
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May 7, 2008
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| So much stuff! | ||||||
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| Installing the FLOR (65% recycled content). | ||||||
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May 6, 2008
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| Brandy's mural takes shape. | ||||||
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| A really great house warming gift! | ||||||
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| MOVING DAY! | ||||||
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May 3, 2008
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| New drywall, aluminum strip, old brick, old plaster. . . all coming together to form a new look. | ||||||
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| Bill dela Cruz, helping with the painting and always smiling. | ||||||
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| Really cool wooden fixture (which fell and broke the next day, but has since been replaced.) | ||||||
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May 1, 2008
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| Installing the IKEA kitchen. | ||||||
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| Painting the wall lilac. | ||||||
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| Doing the finish electrical. | ||||||
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April 29, 2008
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| Pencil drawings from previous inhabitants soon to be covered over by white paint. | ||||||
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| Look at those amazing new windows from Alpen. | ||||||
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| 100 year old brick + brand new state-of-the art fiberglass windows with high-performance glass + reclaimed barn wood trim = 100% COOL! | ||||||
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| Carmen in front of the freshly painted, split-pea soup colored, ADA bathroom standing on reclaimed oak floors stained black. | ||||||
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| Joseph gets help from Jacob and Carmen installing the IKEA kitchen cabinets. | ||||||
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| The upstairs is white, clean and bright with good views and is FOR RENT. | ||||||
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| Well, you don't need to know what this said. . . soon to be obliterated by orange. | ||||||
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April 28, 2008
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| This is the exciting time when things start to come together! | ||||||
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April 26, 2008
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| Joseph assembles IKEA cabinetry while I clean up. Brendan O'Grady installs FORBO in the two bathrooms and the RE-construction crew continues reclaimed floor installation. | ||||||
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April 25, 2008
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| Exciting Day: Dave and Joe from D&D Builders try to figure out how to install windows into 103-year old openings. I literally jumped for joy when I saw the first ALPEN fiberglass window in place! | ||||||
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| And then I found a cleverly placed star right inside the front door. | ||||||
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| The guy from Duct Works said these are some of the dirtiest ducts he has ever seen. . . that's why I had forced air. At least they will be clean when he is done. | ||||||
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April 24, 2008
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| Now this is EXCITING! The RE-construction team started installinig a reclaimed gym floor from Gunnison Community College. What an awesome find. Thanks Jay! | ||||||
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April 22, 2008
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| The tape and mud crew from Timberland Drywall gets down to business. | ||||||
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April 17, 2008
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| YEA. Drywall is hung. | ||||||
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| Jay and Ian from REconstruction building the "eye brow". | ||||||
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April 15, 2008
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| Hmnn. What to do with that deck? | ||||||
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April 14, 2008
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| Really nice work by J.E. Mohan Plumbing and Bishop Electric. | ||||||
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April 11, 2008
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| New glass installed by Alpen! Pretty cool views. | ||||||
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| Shed roof finally taken down. Thanks Margot and Ian from REconstruction. | ||||||
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April 8, 2008
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| THIS is why I was afraid to tear out the ceiling! | ||||||
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| Never forget your roots. | ||||||
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April 2, 2008
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| Look at that beautiful pile of reclaimed lumber to use to frame our new interior walls and metal bound for the recycling bin! | ||||||
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March 19, 2008
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March 19, 2008
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| Jay Williams of REconstruction harvested all of the lumber from the existing interior walls. | ||||||
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March 16, 2008
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| We found windows! Natural light in this dark space makes so much difference. | ||||||
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March 15, 2008
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| THE STRIP IT PARTY! A great group of friends (Ethan Stemm, Henry & Jean Kroll, Adam Stenftenagel, Jay Williams, Stuart Smith, Beau Harding, Ana Aitken, Dave Frank and George Russel) donated their time on a beautiful Saturday to come and help us tear out viewing booths. | ||||||
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March 14, 2008
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| We closed on March 13th. The next day BJ Urbiztondo from Bioterra Constructors came to tear out the ugly CMU planterwall. . . and uncovered why it was put up in the first place: | ||||||
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January 12, 2008
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| Can you believe we are thinking of buying this place? It was used as a porn shop for about 30 years, but it's close to downtown boulder. . . | ||||||
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