Sentences with phrase «as the floating shelves»

The countertop over the crates is made of old barn oak and finished by me in the same way as the floating shelves.

This can be as simple as a floating shelf with a few tiny hooks beneath it, or as elaborate as an antique chest with drawers — the point is to have one place where you always stash these key items.

Even if you only have a door that enters directly into a living room, give it a few «entry like» details such as a floating shelf for keys, a rug and a mirror.

They are installed the same way as my Floating Shelves.

Not exact matches

Concern has increased with recent failures of floating Antarctic ice, such as the Wilkins shelf.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades.

Today, as warming waters caused by climate change flow underneath the floating ice shelves in Pine Island Bay, the Antarctic Ice Sheet is once again at risk of losing mass from rapidly retreating glaciers.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

As this happens, the floating ice shelf in front of it also lengthens and thins, increasing its chances of breaking and allowing even more ice to flow out from behind it.

Its floating front edge, the Totten ice shelf, sticks out like a tongue over the water and acts as a buttress for the giant glacier, slowing its movement toward the ocean.

At this point, the ice becomes disconnected from the ground and turns into a kind of floating ledge, known as an ice shelf, that juts out into the ocean from the front of the glacier.

The data they gather will set scientists up with a solid baseline to monitor future changes and predict what comes next as Antarctica's floating ice shelves retreat and even collapse due to climate change.

A new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers has revealed that the thickness of Antarctica's floating ice shelves has recently decreased by as much as 18 percent in certain areas over...

The surprise of seeing water presented this way is transformative and disorienting — the solid appearance of the steel is softened by the ripples of light that bounce off the pools on the shelves, and the U-shaped supports no longer seem to hold the shelves up, instead they appear to float down the length of the sculpture as their reflections catch on the surface of the water.

Judging from the debate as it is floating these days, it sure seems to me as if a gentlemen's agreement has been reached: one that places international, globalized capitalism and concumerism on the shelf, as among the main characteristics of human nature as human nature is played out in our times.

Scientists who study the warming seas and complicated climate and ice trends around Antarctica got a big jolt in recent days as yet another great fringing, floating ice shelf jutting from the Antarctic Peninsula began to disintegrate.

One reason, as other Antarctic research has shown, is that the speed of loss of Antarctic ice is to a large extent not a function of air temperature in any case, but of ocean heat intruding beneath the vast shelves of floating ice around the edges.

The ice shelves themselves have a certain structure — they rest on the sea floor but as they extend out from the continent eventually the ice lifts off the sea floor (called the grounding point) and as the ice extends out further it is floating on top of the water.

Some entrepreneurs are also considering floating offshore wind as a solution in California where the continental shelf quickly falls away to deeper waters (and the NIMBY game is strong).

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

This remote wilderness has the last floating ice shelves in the northern hemisphere such as Petermann Gletscher.

As this happens, the floating ice shelf in front of it also lengthens and thins, increasing its chances of breaking and allowing even more ice to flow out from behind it.

These approaches, however, haven't taken into account some physical processes that can quickly increase ice sheet discharge, such as the collapse of terminal ice cliffs and the breakup of floating ice shelves caused by a process known as hydrofracturing.

Its collapse will not raise sea levels, as the shelf is already floating.

Livescience: When iceberg chunks break off of floating ice shelves, it can serve as dramatic proof of melting — and this traditionally has been considered the main way that these expanses of Antarctic ice become smaller.

In Antarctica, extreme changes are already visible, from glaciers becoming floating ice shelves, to receding by as much as 600 feet per year.

A number of Antarctic glaciers are «shelf - locked» in the sense that their mouths are supported by floating ice shelves as shown here (from Wikipedia):

As opposed to a glaciers or ice sheets, which are found on land, floating ice shelves don't raise global sea levels appreciably when they break off into the ocean and melt.

The grounding lines, where the ice sheet detaches from the bedrock and floats on the ocean as an ice shelf, will retreat.

The Antarctic is already losing ice, as giant floating shelves suddenly fracture and drift north.

And if you want to be creative, you can make your floating shelves double as drawers.

Floating shelves are painted the same colour as the walls, so they seem to recede and create a spacious feel, which works perfectly with the bold graphic - print rug and shots of hot pink.

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The space behind the sofa was used for decoration in this room, as a mix of cream colored floating shelves, canvases and other decorative elements bring the neutral wall to life.

One day, I was staring at the whole area with contempt, as I'm wont to do, and then it occurred to me that I could use the same method for floating shelves to BUILD A BENCH.

These white floating shelves are the base for the decorations behind the sofa in this living room, as they hold the various picture frames that contrast with the grayscale color scheme of the décor.

These floating shelves will help you to keep everything neat and tidy, and are painted in the same soothing shade of green as the walls.

I built the secret floating shelf for my wife as a gift and she loved it!

I also thought DIY - ing floating shelves was a good idea but they ended up not being deep enough to fit all my books comfortably so those came down almost as quickly as they went up.

Skip art in your dressing room — use your best - loved shoes instead, employing floating shelves and picture ledges as display spaces.

A small chest of drawers serves as a change table, with floating open shelves above for holding baskets of baby essentials and playful accessories.

I think it would pair beautifully with the overhead black sconces and the floating shelves as well as add some texture to the open concept layout.

I am wondering though... I saw that you didn't have good results with the mdf you used as trim but you recently used mdf for your floating shelves in the kitchen.

In the laundry alcove, Christine made the most of a tiny space: Floating shelves allow for a pretty display, while the addition of a butcher - block countertop provides room for a small sink as well as a place to fold clothes.

Floating shelves act as practical storage and as a perfect place to show off decorative tableware and crockery.

The tables appear to float and the glass shelves of the units make the decorative objects etc look as if they are floating, it creates a special effect.

Floating shelves — especially in unexpected spaces, such as adjacent to a fireplace — are perfect for stashing smaller items.

Love the Laundry room ideas but have seen the laundry sorting station online somewhere else, you have inspired me to do that laundry sorting station to my laundry room though, I have such a small laundry room and not much space to put anything those floating shelves are a neat idea as well, thanks for the inspiration on that idea too.

The Moll Glass shelf from Keuco has a floating appearance that is as effective as the Plan Crystalline choice, but with brackets at either end rather than one slimline wall mount in the centre of the shelf, it gives a sturdier appearance - though both options are equally reliable.