The situation for these areas in the house has a completely different scenario. The walls and the floors are wet all the time in one way or another. Since these rooms are adjacent to each other, water leak through one room will ruin the other room walls and its other property. The essential thing here is that water only flows through drain pipes. Waterproofing during construction/while renovation will...
Decoration/Designing Your New Home is a journey from House to Home. Here are few important things to be noted: The key to finding the right furnishings is to follow your instincts and try not to let the whole process overwhelm you. Once you’ve given yourself a decorating budget, you’ll be able to dive into the more fun aspects of creating a new home. Here are a few tips for furnishing your new...
Maintaining Wooden furniture properly will increase life of the furniture. Here are few general tips: To ensure the Long life of your wooden furniture, avoid placing your furniture in direct sunlight or heat or cold., as sunlight causes fading, When placing table lamps on any wooden surface, such as desks, dressers, and sideboards, please use a felt or leather mat or pads, cloth to protect...
What is harmony, when it comes to one's home? Well, in general, it's a feeling of peace and cohesiveness. It's more than just feeling like everything goes together — it's the sense that the whole space is better for every element in it. It's a way to create a sense of calmness throughout your entire home that makes your life just a little bit better. And here are six ways to add more of it to your...
Install a corner sink. Sometimes even a pedestal sink can disrupt the only available traffic lane in a bathroom. In this case placing a corner sink across from the toilet works better than a sink across from the shower. The opening and closing of the shower door usually creates an awkward walk-around condition. Use a shower curtain. A shower curtain that moves back and forth saves space over a glass...
Efficient Bedroom Design Techniques Stick to a limited color palette. If all white isn’t for you, bring in your favorite colors, but in a thoughtful way. Here, the brights are limited to reds and oranges — which work beautifully with the brick wall and wooden furniture — and are teamed with plenty of white for an airy feel. Let the light in. Keep window treatments to a minimum in a small...
The kitchen is one of the most important areas of the home. If you're cooking at home, you’re making at least three meals in the kitchen each day, as well as a variety of snacks. This is the reason why your kitchen must be regularly inventoried. The typical issue with kitchen organization is the ineffective use of valuable space within the cupboards and any other available storage. Storage helps to...
Paint color and light go hand in hand, and are a complex couple. Your paint color will look different depending on the light that it's exposed to. The tricky part is this: light is never consistent and how it shines depends entirely on time and context. Learn the different light variables, and how color responds, and you are well on your way to becoming a paint master of the universe. Consider these...
Our study started out ambitious: we got Faber Birren's Color Psychology and Color Therapy: A Factual Study of the Influence of Color, and while we were fascinated by the more arcane dissection of colors and whatnot, we admit that halfway through we ditched to watch Beauty and the Geek reruns. So then, we opted for the Cliff Notes version, and it was like reading Dr. Seuss for the Color-Challenged. ("Red...
1. Not considering light Without light, colours wouldn't be much to look at. And as much as the right light can make a colours sing...it can also make a gray go lavender or a white look dingy. Before painting a wall, use a sample painted or taped up to view your potential new colours in all light of the day — as well as artificial light. If a colours you thought would work doesn't, take it back to the...