10,000 Brilliant Ideas

In the name of fitness and haste, in big office buildings have one or more elevators that only go to every 10th floor. This is  preferably the elevator right next to the staircase and maybe the staircase isn't so ghetto, but that's another issue. If you work on a 10th floor, lucky you. If you work on a mid-10th floor, say the 43rd, you can either ride up to the 50th and walk down 7 flights or ride up to the 40th and walk up 3 flights. Either way it's going to be good for your health. If you have bags to carry, just take the slowvator with the fat people.

When it comes to door locks you basically have two options-the latch or the deadbolt. Latch pro: you can shut the door and it's locked-no need for a key. Latch con: it can be more easily picked with a credit card (not that anyone actually uses credit cards for this. Let's say library card.) Latch-key children: Irrelevant to this discussion. Dead-bolt pro: a lot harder to pick Dead-bolt con: you have to use a key to lock it. The answer? Why the latching dead-bolt of course! Using that one technology on the glass doors of the entertainment center where you push it in and it pushes out farther, you know-the latching dead-bolt is short until the door shuts, pushing it in and making it come out longer the way a dead-bolt should. The lock is reset to short latch-position when unlocked again.

Cement by itself is ugly. Let's just admit it. (Sorry 1970s.) What we do is we sell textured forms. A wall that looks like it had cement spaded on the formed cement looks better than just regular concrete. Then in addition, we have a spray on paint that you can spray on the forms right before you pour in the cement that soaks into the top layer of the wet cement giving it a 'fresco' look. The cost isn't much more, but you get a textured colored wall from the beginning.