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If you are in the midst of designing your dream home or searching for the perfect property, you are surrounded with countless choices. From the size of the rooms to the design of the kitchen and bathroom, there are important considerations at every turn. One of the most important considerations is whether to go with a traditional floor plan or a more open design. As with any home design concept, choosing an open floor plan for your dream home has both benefits and drawbacks. It is important to consider the pros and cons carefully before making a final decision. The most common utilization of the “open floor plan” concept is combining the kitchen, dining room and living room into one large communal space. This design concept has risen in popularity throughout recent years and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. The popularity of the open design has spread across the United States, originally becoming popular in the 1940’s and 1950’s with the rise of modern architecture influenced by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig
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an open floor plan. Because of the combined space, it can easily look cluttered or messy and a daily tidying up may be necessary to keep the space looking clean and organized. Also, an open floor plan may not give you the storage and organization capacity that a traditional floorplan offers. When designing your open concept space, be sure to include plenty of closet space and built-in shelving to keep the organization of your home as easy as
possible. Open-floor designs can also be costly to build due to having to use support beams that span large areas along the ceiling, so be sure you understand the costs going in. When done right, an open floor plan makes the home light, airy and beautiful, but the costs of getting there can be high. Building your dream home is exciting and fun with ample opportunity to make smart decisions that best fit
your family’s lifestyle. The floor plan is perhaps one of the most critical of those many decisions, and working closely with your architect and the build team at Solid Rock Custom Homes will help you make the right choice at every step of the design process. “Building extraordinary homes that bring family and friends together” reflects the underlying passion of Solid Rock Custom Homes. They believe the home building process is more than
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Chris Bennett joins RE/MAX Properties, Inc. NEWSWIRE
RE/MAX Properties, Inc. is pleased to announce that Chris Bennett has joined the AMPed Program. Chris has returned to Colorado after 15 years of living in New York. He landed in Colorado Springs July 15, 2016 and has been smiling ever since. Chris has spent the last 15 years investing/remodeling historic estate homes, commercial and multi-family properties. He acted as general contractor overseeing multiple construction crews on multiple projects, as well as an interior designer, landscaper and property manager. Chris chose RE/MAX Properties, Inc. over other popular brokerage firms specifically for the great skill
development training programs as well as the powerful online tools that can help compound his results. RE/MAX Properties, Inc. not only has the top market share for the area but they also have national name recognition, which was another important factor for Chris. RE/MAX Properties, Inc. has a great choice of office locations throughout the Colorado Springs area with very well kept modern offices that provide superior services by friendly staff experts. Chris also enjoys interacting and learning from the high energy motivators like Brian Slivka, as one of the office managers and mentors, he has helped keep Chris on track and growing. Finally RE/MAX Properties, Inc. offers a really friendly
atmosphere filled with professionals ready to help each other succeed. Chris’ passion for real estate goes beyond the normal appreciation for a good looking home. He enjoys watching that magical moment when all the fine detail work of great architecture, interior design, lighting, color schemes and landscaping come together. Chris is also great at listening to people and helping them find creative solutions to unique situations. With 15 years of historic estate restoration, multifamily remodels and commercial facelifts, Chris has developed an eye for quality workmanship, an understanding of leveraging capital, passive cash flow development and developing market trends.
RE/MAX Properties, Inc. is excited to see what the future has in store for Chris and warmly welcomes him to the team! Chris Bennett will be working at the south office, located at 2630 Tenderfoot Hill St. RE/MAX Properties, Inc. has been the number one residential real estate brokerage in Colorado Springs since 1989. The company has nearly 200 full-service professional Broker Associates that service all areas of Colorado Springs and surrounding areas in addition to relocation clients worldwide. RE/MAX Properties, Inc. is open seven days a week. More information can be found online at www.HomesColorado.com. ■
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Does it make you nervous that automation has rapidly replaced humans in a startling variety of roles, from the factory floor to hospital operating rooms to stock trading on Wall Street? If so, cheer up. The future may not be so dire after all. Despite what he calls the “doomsday analyses” you may have heard, Ben Pring sees two reasons why we’re not all about to be kicked to the curb by smart machines. Director of the Center for the Future of Work at digital strategy consultants Cognizant, Pring is coauthor of What to Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data. First, Pring points out, most jobs are a collection of tasks, only some of which are likely to be automated — usually the parts that people view as routine drudgery, which means less tedious work for humans. And second, new technologies throughout history have often been scary at first, but ultimately created vast numbers of previously unimaginable kinds of jobs. “Think of things like the locomotive, the assembly line, and the Internet, and how many totally new occupations they each gave rise to,” Pring says. “AI will prove to be no different.” Monster recently spoke with Pring about the skills you will need as artificial intelligence makes more inroads in the workplace.
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entrepreneur and investor) Mark Cuban said in a speech recently that he’d rather have a degree in philosophy right now than an accounting degree. He meant that what gives you an edge in this rapidly changing business world is being able to see the big picture and combine ideas in an imaginative way. This is something machines can’t do. They are good at imitating and replicating and doing vast numbers of calculations very quickly, but it will be a long time before they are really able to innovate.
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