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Creative Bath in deal to buy Dimac facility . Anastasi, Nick //  Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009);8/9/2002, Vol. 49 Issue 33, p1A  Reports on the purchase of an industrial facility by Creative Bath Products Inc. in Central Islip, New York. Goal of the company to increase space holdings ; Area of the acquired facility; Cost of the facility. Injecting life into Central Islip. N.A. //  Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009);3/10/97, Vol. 44 Issue 10, p12  Features Long Island, New York- based Creative Bath headed by its president Matt Meinzinger . Manufacture of household plastic products ; Secrets behind success; Contributions to Central Islip's economy. Creative Bath to license Hautmans.  //  Home Textiles Today ;06/11/2001, Vol. 22 Issue 40, p6  Reports the licensing agreement between Creative Bath Products and Hautman Brothers to produce fabric lines and bath products in Islip, New York. Coordination with other textile licensees; Products of Hautman Broth...

You may have a laundry room and a linen closet, or just one or the other — or perhaps simply a designated space where you store laundry and cleaning supplies. Whatever your setup, let’s face it: Since these spaces are typically tucked behind closed doors — in the basement, garage or upper story — it can be easy to let them get disorganized and cluttered. If you’re downsizing to a smaller home or just eager to simplify the one you have, you don’t want too many possessions to fritter away your storage space. Read on for help purging and organizing your linens as well as your laundry and cleaning supplies. Sheets, Towels, Blankets It can be easy to neglect the linen closet. Shelves can become stuffed, making it difficult to retrieve a clean towel before a shower. Sorting through twin sheets in search of queen sheets may cause disarray. Stacks of linens can topple and sometimes it even becomes hard to close the door. Does this sound like your linen closet? If so, I would suggest starting ...

This is the final part of a three-part series that looks at green hotels — what that means , how it works and what consumers can do. In real life, you probably don’t launder your sheets every day, recklessly tear through individually wrapped snacks and toiletries, single-handedly consume a 12-pack of bottled water or let the shower run for 30 minutes. But forgoing real life in favor of indulgence and escapism is often considered acceptable — or even expected — on vacation. This goes far beyond not replacing your towels and linens every day, which has become largely ubiquitous. “At home, we don’t all wash our sheets every day,” Ave Bradley, Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group’s creative director and global senior vice president of design, said by phone. “So when you think about it, if people are staying with us for 2 1/2 nights on average, obviously there’s no reason to change the linens.” Today’s hotels are finding creative new ways to softly coax guests into becoming greener by be...

It's no secret college dorm rooms contain smaller living quarters than most other homes. Many students experience a large adjustment when first moving into their new residence. No longer can they store 25 pairs of shoes and every outfit they own, they must learn to condense their personal belongings down to their necessities. This transition from having anything and everything at one's disposal to inhabiting a small space with fellow students can result in a major predicament. According to a survey of 442 students conducted by Dormbuys.com, six out of 10 students feel the size of their college dorm room is uncomfortably small. Ninety-four percent believe creating a more spacious, livable dorm room adds to a positive college experience . To create such an environment, students recommend several space saving ideas : First, loft the bed. This is a process of elevating the bed 8 to 12 feet off the floor and freeing space beneath to use as storage. Another option are bed riser ...

It's hard to imagine what a human being consumes in a lifetime. All the food you eat, the potatoes, the fruits, the bread, the chickens. And everything you drink, and all the clothes you buy and toss. All the furniture and appliances and toothbrushes and bath products and newspapers. The list goes on and on. If the rest of the world consumed at the rate Americans do, we would need five planets worth of resources to cover it. And it is indeed possible to add it all up. For a special called "Human Footprint," the National Geographic Channel calculated all the energy, resources and products used by each American over an average lifetime. Watch "Human Footprint" on the National Geographic Channel . Over the two-hour broadcast, the consumption of a lifetime is piled up and put on display. Got milk? It does a body good, and Americans consume 13,056 pints of it in a lifetime. A sea of 28, 433 rubber duckies represents the number of showers taken in a lifetime. A ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 21— Betty Rice owns a turquoise three- story Victorian house with two fireplaces, an $80 handmade chandelier in the front parlor and a bedroom furnished with an ornate brass bed . Her house is a few steps from Gene Farrow's supermarket, where the shelves hold 65 flavors of canned soup, 10 brands of pet food and 10 kinds of frozen dinners. Just around the corner, a man is busy spray-painting a 50-year-old convertible in David Brown's garage. Like everything else on display at the Miniature Industry Association of America's annual trade fair , no building in the neighborhood is more than four feet tall and the furnishings average three inches in height. With doll house rooms that cost $10,000 to furnish and tiny oil paintings worth $6,000, the fair filled the sprawling suburban Northland Mall with collectors and owners of shops that specialize in selling miniatures . For the last four days they have placed orders, exchanged ideas and talked about...

The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 7 of Life on Wheels: For the Active Wheelchair User , by Gary Karp, copyright 1999, published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. To order, or get more information about Gary's book, call (800) 998-9938. Permission is granted to print and distribute this excerpt for noncommercial use as long as the above source is included. The information in this article is meant to educate and should not be used as an alternative for professional medical care . The bathroom is often the space that is the greatest challenge to make accessible. In a 1993 U.S. Census Bureau report , 4.5 million people with disabilities reported having difficulty bathing, and 2.1 million had trouble using the toilet. Millions of people are inconvenienced--even endangered--by inaccessible bathrooms. Any impediment to easy access to the bathroom can lead someone to delay their bowel or bladder program. A bathroom that is easy to use protects your health ( see Figure 1 (cli...

. BED BATH...and BEYOND REASON I've been around the butcher block a few times, so I can confidently give a well-deserving 5 star for this North Olmsted location ---and ANY other Bed, Bath & Beyond, I'm sure. Rather than one or two stars just because an employee looked at you cross-eyed, or that the aisles are too narrow (this isn't a drive-thru), or some other senseless, juvenile reason, there are at least these five to appreciate: 1. TONS OF PRODUCTS. And it's HERE---in the GOOD OL' USA. Thankfully, we're not in Syria, Pakistan, or some undeveloped third world cesspool run by a maniac, and overrun by his bloodthirsty thugs, where not a single terrorized soul would find fault with this store---other than not having the money to buy even a pot holder---or food. We're pretty lucky that we have a destination---yes, stocked to the rafters, and that's not a bad thing---offering an overwhelming variety of nearly everything we might need---from soup pots ...

Need expert advice on your home? Email Zena at homes@sundaymirror.co.uk Q - Where can I buy a 3ft 6in divan with drawers and a decent ­mattress? John Board, by email ZENA SAYS: Finding a 3ft 6in bed can be difficult as standard singles are 2ft 6in and 3ft. Mr Mattress (Call: 0191 233 2203) sells the Highgate silk 1000 divan at £329.95 with a pocket-sprung ­mattress. If you ­order from them and ­mention the Sunday ­Mirror they will send two free Silent Night ­Luxury Hollow-fibre ­pillows. *** Q - I’ve always had plain white duvet covers and pillowcases but have ­decided to add some colour to my bedroom. I still want a white duvet cover but with a small pattern in a subtle colour, not an all over pattern. What do you suggest? Katie Jones, Chesterfield, Derbyshire ZENA SAYS: A white cover with a trailing floral pattern or ­embroidery running along the top or sides is so simple, pretty and timeless. Bath, Bed and Home, fronted by pop star Paul Young , has a lovely fresh green de...