fence is one important element
Eksterior November 17th, 2009
OTHER THAN as a safety and home land boundary, the fence also has an aesthetic function. The fence can beautify the park and to provide more privacy to the owner of the house.
The fence is one important element in a house located on the outside (exterior). There are several types of fencing that can be applied. Wood fences, vinyl fences, iron fence, bamboo fence, concrete fence, until the live fences.
The trend in Indonesia is that most homes use an iron fence because it is stronger and able to protect homeowners from the increasingly rampant crime lately.
“The houses in Indonesia tend to have a minimalistic design. Rarely there is too much to take a particular theme. For flexibility reasons, too, finally an iron fence is more widely used.’s Iron fences can be combined with any theme,” said Irwan Soeryopati architect.
The importance of a fence can also be shown of how the people who passed in front of the house to see your fence. Fences can be a representative of the whole of your home.
“The fence is located right at the front, outermost. So the first people saw before the garden and the house is a fence. If the fence is good, people would be interested to see further inward, toward the garden and house. But, if baseball fence pulling, usually people will also see casually, “said Irwan.
Fences can also indicate someone territories, restricting land with each other, protecting the plants in your garden from the hands of ignorant is also a function of the fence. When choosing a fence, you should see the condition of the home and garden and the main purpose of manufacture.
“To house the tiny type, you should still do it high fence.’ll Even closed all his house. Select only the fence which is also tiny. Lho nice wooden fence to the little house. It felt so beautiful and ethnicity,” Irwan suggestions.
High fence, big, and looks “manly” would be nice and fit to house a large and extensive as in the elite housing. Despite the high fence, but because his house is also large, so it is still visible from the outside.
Condition of the park could be one consideration in choosing a fence. When your garden is a garden that was casual, just the grass or soil with plants improvise, choosing which type of fence can be a single meeting of tricks to cover up the lack of the park.
However, if you are the type of person who likes gardening and caring for plants, as well as your garden also includes beautiful gardens and beautiful into categories, you should probably choose a fence that looks somewhat estranged from one another.
“The fence is not going to cover the somewhat tenuous beauty of your garden. So, although you are restricted from the park fence, people can still see the elegance and beauty of your garden through the fence holes are somewhat tenuous,” beber Irwan.
Fences can also give them another look at the house without your having to dismantle or redesign pairs of your home. Simply change the color of the fence, the house already looks different. Nor will it cost as much if you renovate a house.
“If you have more budget, you can replace the fence, too. Suppose that you had to use an iron fence, the fence could be replaced with wood or vice versa,” says Irwan.
Whatever your idea of choosing a fence, which is important to adjust your home and your financial circumstances. Do not get over the beauty of the house and fence to make you bankrupt instantly.
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YOU would never see a transparent house because almost all the walls were made of glass. However, make no mistake, such a house could not be called a glass house.
What is meant glass house is the house that was made of glass, but not to be used as a dwelling house. Glass houses are usually used as a place to crop cultivation. While a house with glass architecture glass is usually used as basic materials almost as big as 70-80 percent.
In the past, places that have limited the construction of buildings made of glass in buildings and skyscrapers alone. However, the trend seems to use the glass had been “dropped” into the world of residential property. Today, glass has become the core structure and design elements for residential lots.
The use of glass, in terms of lighting, is very useful because it helps bring light to direct sunlight into the house, certainly during the daytime. According to the architect of Marina L, the glass can make a house look more spacious than the original.
“Home stay that use glass in most of the building to bring natural flow from the outside in and vice versa thus providing peace and quiet nuances,” he said.
The use of glass as building materials are less expensive than if you use concrete as the main wall of the house. “Glass can be recycled. So besides cheap, also very friendly environment,” said Marina.
The increased use of glass as a material basis-line home construction along with increased production and glass technology itself. At first people hesitated to use glass as a base for construction of houses as it seemed prone to rupture. However, with increasing technological sophistication, the glass in modern times such as these can be made more powerful, more secure, and efficient energy.
“Once the glass in the windows only to the extent of housing as a place and out of air and light. Now its use has been enabled as well as exterior interior architectural elements,” said Marina.
Glass as the exterior architectural elements, among others, applied to the facades of buildings, roofs, skywalks, entrances, revolving door, canopy, winter garden and glass house crop cultivation. All that allows sunlight to enter freely. Exterior appearance became more unique look. While for the interior, the glass used on stairs, hall walking, and the wall.
“There lho house all glass walls. But there are also combined with concrete walls,” said Marina.
The use of glass as a base for many of the buildings should compromise with the other aspects. Suppose condition for coolness and heat. Often happens in a greenhouse architecture is reversed effects, such as heat in winter and cool in summer.
Luckily there been progress in glass-making industry that also offer benefits to us. One example is the spectrum of glass with selective quality of the stream of light into the home without endangering or result in the loss of these residents as well as other home contents.
Well, whether you are now getting interested own a house with glass architecture? Your home might be satusatunya home with such a model that showed the most unique among the other houses in your neighborhood.
Caregiver Child & Alarms, Safe at Home Options
Home Security November 11th, 2009
When a woman chooses to pursue a career, certainly with the family leisure time will be limited. Not only that, you did not have much time to watch the child.
In fact, it resulted in less well on the safety of children. Because the threat of crime and bad events can happen to my beloved baby, but you can not be on his side.
Now, to avoid incidents like that happen to your family, then Femalefirst gives tips that can be done safely.
One of the most frequent adverse events experienced by children is the fire. This happens because of lack of oversight and ignorance of children about the media fire that made them hurt. Examples of these cases experienced by the children of the United States (U.S.) who was a child until the age of 11 years.
To avoid such negligence befall my beloved baby, you can find a reliable nanny to provide protection. But before asking child care assistance, there are several points that must be known.
Before deciding to choose a nanny, you should look their age, are too young or not. Not only that, you also need to know your prospective nanny’s experienced or not.
To find out whether they can be trusted to take care of baby dear, you must know exactly how the nature and character of the nanny candidates. This will greatly help you to assess whether they will treat and care for loved ones as your baby or not.
Besides choosing a good and reliable caregivers, the alarm may be another option. But, before choosing to use it, you should first test the alarm.
Alarm in the house is very helpful to maintain security, because if the alarm sounds it is a sign that the house is experiencing serious problems, such as fire or burglary.
So, no need to wait for long to protect her beloved family?
Philosophy Red, Yellow, Chocolate …
Decoration November 11th, 2009
PLAY or color selection should be in accordance with the character and home decorating. Do not let the color selection for your home just makes it strange or even look like kindergarten.
The house looks like a kindergarten will probably make happy your children are still toddlers. However, unpleasant to be enjoyed as a decoration occupancy. To note that the colors that characterize a person’s character and behind the colors also have meanings that can give peace.
Therefore, before coloring the home or room, you should know who is going to use the room. How age, sex, and character of the inhabitants of the house or room.
“Like the color of the children’s room, the color contrasts and striking to evoke the spirit of the child. While the main room parents better choose colors that soothing,” says interior designer I Oetomo Aryo Bimo.
Color selection also should be tailored to the needs and functions of each space. Let cool colors gradations of green and blue provide a calming effect on the den, den, or bedroom. Meanwhile, the family room, playroom, living room, kitchen, terrace and carport can use colors that evoke the spirit, like the bright color gradations of yellow, orange, and red.
The colors of the earth aka earth tones, like green leaves, brown soil, red brick, gray sand or stone more enthused to create an atmosphere that approaches nature. For example, the selection of shades of brown soil in the living room and family room, with dark colors for the floor which is a symbol of land or earth.
Then the colors are on the walls and furniture, chairs, tables, and cabinets are a symbol of trees, hills, and mountains, and bright ceiling (the symbol of the sky) in order to feel outside can be brought into the house. Orange color on the floors, walls, and furniture combined white on ceilings, door frames and windows, will be presenting atmosphere dusk (sunset).
In addition, according to research, the selection of the right color is also capable of stimulating, calming, soothing, clarifying, and heal the physical and mental health residents. In fact, therapy techniques health by color (color therapy) is widespread.
Metropolitan Beach Houses
Home Improvement November 5th, 2009
DREAM has a beach house in a metropolitan city is not impossible anymore. With various designs and models all become possible.
The most popular beach house theme is Mediterranean theme. View Mediterranean house because it seemed more cheerful colors that generally accompany pastel. Exterior shape and design houses are also more relaxed and not stiff like most of the house.
However, the nature of the building is considered less appropriate by the climate of Indonesia. Natural conditions in countries around the middle of the ocean, the home of Mediterranean house model, which is far different than in Indonesia. Probo Hindarto, the architecture of the house form the Mediterranean Astudio explained in some countries such as Greece.
“In Greece, buildings, carved stone temple because that material is available in abundance. If in Africa, Morocco, Spain to use the land to see. While in Indonesia, brick is more appropriate,” said the Probo. Day-night temperature difference in these countries require special and thick walls to store heat.
While in Indonesia, with humid tropical climate, it is not necessary. Yessy Gusman, a famous actress in the 80s had a house in Pantai Indah Kapok. He was happy in a house with a Victorian-style escape to the sea view.
“More elegant Victorian house and I also love stone houses. In addition, great scenery, cool yes, we saw the water, the location is also close to the mall,” he explained. However, problems arise when the high tide and began to inundate the road in front of the house.
Tide problems certainly will not overwrite the houses in the region far from the sea and if you want ‘?”Bring home the beach into the city should consider grip-grip tropical house. That is, adapting the style of anything, Mediterranean, art deco, modern, minimalist or classic homes are advised to adhere to grip the tropics.
That is, have enough ventilation, capable of accommodating the needs of two seasons, dry and wet, and having a system to overcome the natural humidity. Architectural model of the metropolitan beach house becomes merely a choice, not necessity. If the style of Mediterranean or modernetnik not match your style, try to consult with the architects to give birth nan personal dream home.
Rubber Floor Prevent People slip in the Bathroom
Bath Showers November 5th, 2009
Floor tiles or natural stone flooring can be used as a bathroom floor. In addition, there are rubber floor = Should still, less slippery.
Absolute requirement for the bathroom floor is a material with rough surfaces or abrasive in order to reduce the risk of slipping. Especially, if the users are small children or elderly.
Generally, the choice fell on the floor kind of textured ceramics, stone, or andesite. Are there any other material which is better?
There. Another option is a rubber floor, also known as rubber. Its soft elastic and more friendly in the leg. In fact, softer and warmer than linoleum or vinyl.
Although soft, these materials are usually given a sort of wax layers that make it safe from scratches. If torn, it is able to restore the surface layer to the original condition. This is one advantage compared with linoleum or vinyl are not scratch resistant.
Rubber floor tile and sold in sheet form, with a variety of color options. Starting from primary colors like red, yellow and blue, to pastels and black. Normally, this product has a flat pattern on its surface. This pattern, among others, functioning as anti-skid. But there are also other patterns such as line and texture that resembles a row of stone.
Any of your choice, all types of rubber has the same function. If I’m not too happy with how it looks, matching it with other materials, such as coral. The important thing your family can safely use the bathroom.
