Houston Decorator | December 2, 2010
Warmth is basic to comfort, even the most superbly furnished house is a miserable place without adequate heat in winter. This means that you are bound to have some form of basic heating, and there should be a topping up facility for abnormally cold weather. The vast range of heaters and heating systems in bewildering [...]
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Houston Decorator | October 1, 2009
The ancient Romans figured out how to keep their homes toasty warm long before Benjamin Franklin flew his kite and we got busy inventing ways to harness electricity for our comfort. Roman architects designed a central heating system called a hypocaust. The word, hypocaustum means “heat from below.” The raised floors were held up by [...]
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