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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Tips On Choosing Home Furniture

How to Select Furniture Houses? If you want to beautify your home room, the choice of furniture can be a surefire strategy to do so. no need to house a magnificent with excessive accessories to bring a fresh, comfortable and beautiful into the room. As long as they know how to choose and work around this, your home must look beautiful and fun.

How to choose furniture to align with the overall design concept of building a house, here are some things to consider:

Choose the best

Make sure the furniture you choose, have three main criteria: quality, comfort and durable model. Do not ever forget one of the three criteria.

The combination of old and new

Do not be afraid to mix and match old futniture with a newer one. Origin of your new furniture right choice, then something in between will get better. The interior of your home even more unique look. Well, to avoid mistakes in choosing futniture, it helps you bring a photo of the room and your old furniture, when buying or choosing new furniture.

Selection of colors

Adjust the colors of the furniture with personality and atmosphere of your home. for example, you can choose warm colors and soft like white and brown to bring a comfortable, cool and romantic.

Books, magazines and so forth as a reference

Always update your knowledge about the appearance of the house to see the first reference book or a special interior design magazines.

Freedom to be creative

You can even bring some more experimenting with elements of the room into your home. For example, using a bamboo towel, a magazine or a place to display a collection of favorite fabrics and unique design with a bunch of mirrors to be placed in several strategic places in the room. In addition to creating a wider effect for small rooms, these objects also allows more light and fresh into your room.

Do not put too much furniture in the room

Never give excessive decoration or lighting into your home. Besides being able to damage the atmosphere of the room, natural light will appear to look better than artificial light from the light.

With strategy and creativity that are tailored to the condition of the room, you can change the atmosphere of your room to be more fresh, new and fun

Good luck and hopefully useful

Home Furniture

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Selecting a House Roof

The roof of the house beautiful, can add to the aesthetics of occupancy. The existence of a house roof as a cover to separate point on the building. Besides beautify the building form, the presence of the roof has an important function as a chamber cover from the wind, heat, or rain. important in the aesthetics of the house. Exact form or design and colors to suit your home, make occupancy more dazzling.

For the choice of tiles to be used, should have a linkage with the form design style house Each house must be combined with tiles that cover the top of the building. When you choose a traditional style architecture and colonial, it is more appropriate to use ceramic tile or concrete tile type. It would be more fitting, if the traditional style building, using tile is made of soil material.

While modern-style dwelling, then there is the freedom to choose and apply the type of tile that will be used. After the closing function is considered a good home, you should also pay attention to color. Color choice becomes important that occupancy becomes more beautiful and gorgeous. Should the color of tiles or roof covering is adapted to the color of the house itself.

Current trends as a minimalist building forms, color tiles are used mostly black and dark gray. Similarly, texture tiles can be selected models that emit glare color or not. Then I had to use tile type glasur boom which has a shiny texture. This option is able to present the impression of luxury. But unfortunately, making such a glare. Lately a lot of architects who do not love this type and no longer use.

In fact, the latest trend, modern home design as if it wanted to eliminate the impression of a tile. Not surprisingly, many buildings are made box. If using a tile can be hidden in a box behind the building earlier.

Some things you should consider in determining who will be covering the roof of a house,

• Use roof in accordance with the design and style of the house so that it looks consistent and can support the overall beauty of the house.

• The size of the roof / tile also need to be adjusted for example, if a small house you should use a tile is too small.

• Determine the angle of 30 degrees, which is the tilt angle is suggested by all tile spec.

• If it must be less than 30 degrees because of circumstances not likely you should select the cover of metal (metal roof) which can guarantee the security of tampias sloping at an angle.

• If you are in areas with high rainfall, you should select the type of roof that has good power cap.

• specific to the type of tile made from ground, you should select that has a complete combustion. The trick, tap the surface of the tile, if his voice rang means tile has been through more complete combustion.

• Adjust the color tiles to match the color of the house in order to appear. You can color the tile using a paint that is specifically provided to be applied to the tile. For example, classic homes will look more attractive with the roof tiles from ground material / ceramic with dark colors like dark brown or maroon.

may be useful

House Roof

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Selecting a Frame of Aluminum or Wood

With the development time, we are more happy with something practical and doable. As in building a house, something that is more easily applied will tend to be selected by the consumer. We only know the first frame from wood base materials. For current development era with wooden frames can be replaced with an aluminum frame.

Moreover, as we all know that if more and more wood is used the less the amount of wood left in the woods there, and this led to unfavorable environmental impacts, such as global warming, landslides and water catchment areas were certainly on the wane. For that the aluminum frame is to be one alternative to the use of wooden frames. But whether this aluminum frame can really challenge the existence of the era and replacing wood sills? Here there are some disadvantages and advantages of aluminum frames and wooden frames.

Aluminum Frame

Excess:

1. Resistant porous, it is not possible to be eaten by termites.

2. Aluminum which are more durable, anti-termite, and do not shrink like wood, will not experience shrinkage and changes in shape / curve due to changes in weather.

3. Unique aluminum frames can be painted or covered with wood color that resembles wood motif even wood.

4. Designs can be made to order. The advantages of aluminum frame is light weight and strong so easily moved. Treatment is simple to appeal to buyers in addition to the quality of aluminum material.

5. Economically, in terms of process cost of manufacture, installation and maintenance to cheaper aluminum frames because it is more durable.

Disadvantages:

1. Variations in limited form, since it is a factory standard, limited to the shape of minimalist and classical Europe.

2. Installation by using the Fischer system. This technique relies on the strength of fischer drilled screws with sills and planted against the wall around the door jamb that has been plastered neatly and very accurately the size and angle elbow. For this installation technique, if something goes wrong in the installation then it can be fatal.

3. How to install an aluminum frame on the strength of the paired screw attached to the wall making it must be fitted with precision and plastered neatly to avoid leaks and other errors. Do not choose a low-quality aluminum frame, because it can easily expands as the temperature changes drastically as a framed glass can be easily separated.

4. Poor connection at the elbow or the glass can cause rain water can enter, because it's splicing factors and the 'sealant' or a rubber seal between the glass and aluminum must be of high quality and durable materials so that water does not easily fit into the frame or into the room. Basically, this problem does not pose a problem sealant on aluminum frames because aluminum is not affected water.

Wood Frame

Excess:

1. The existence of a wide variety of forms according to need (traditional, modern, minimalist, classical, etc.)

2. Wooden frames can be applied to any type of home design.

3. timber has advantages compared with other materials that conformed to the natural look of wood species

4. Many strong wood materials by type such as teak, moth, or ironwood, through a oven process good.

5. Wood is flexible to be changed shape according to the design, such as straight or curved shape, and can retain heat or cold from outdoors

6. The house will appear more natural with the ornaments / wooden frames.

Disadvantages:

1. Now this is very hard to get good quality wood.

2. Easily eaten by termites, treatment periodically with paint or coating to remain durable, and absorbs water, causing the volume of timber can be fickle. As a result the doors or windows difficult to open because one of its corners expands

3. wood used for the horses, sequence, rafters and battens on the roof may experience a 'twist' when the wood used poor-quality wood.

4. More expensive than aluminum, in terms of process cost of manufacture, installation and maintenance for timber frames are more expensive because of age is limited.

All the options back to us, if we prefer to use wooden frames then we should know the risks or the merits of using this wood frame, and vice versa if you prefer to use aluminum sills. Hopefully some of this information is useful for us.

Aluminum frame

Wood frame

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Tropical Style House

Living in the tropics, then the right house for us to live is a house of modern tropical home architecture. Among the ways to make homes in the tropics are: First, solve lighting problems in the afternoon sun made light skylight openings or holes in the roof and upper walls. Can also be made a variety of windows and glass doors opening large enough, make the space open space in the house, either park in the middle of the room or in the back of the house.

In order to keep the house cool and fresh despite the hot weather and atmosphere, try to work around this by following ways:

1. Create a high ceiling

Make a ceiling of at least three meters, the goal that a large volume of space and air flowed smoothly. The distance between floor and ceiling will make the air move freely in empty space.

This method is often used to get around the house with limited space in order to help give the room a more spacious effect.

2. Creating windows on different sides

To accelerate the airflow path, laying the window can be adjusted to the direction of the wind. If the position of the window is not already in accordance with the direction of the wind, use of plants is quite high as wind turn. Place the plants properly so that airflow is not obstructed.

3. Use a pivot opening system

Pivot opening system allows more air into the opening of the system rather than wear down. With a design like this will determine how much air enters the house.

4. The interior layout with the concept of minimal insulation

In order for the circulation of air evenly throughout the room, preferably with the interior arrangement of the concept of the concept of minimal insulation. If you want to create a private space in one room, use a bulkhead that is not massive, bamboo for example.

5. Place the furniture appropriately

Placement of furniture has an important role to maximize the smooth flow of air. Avoid placing furniture like cabinets with large size in the middle of the room, because it can inhibit the flow of air in the room. (ADT)

It can be concluded about the tropical house has three (3) conditions need to exist in the tropical house, among others, the comfort temperature, audio, and visual. Referring to this, the air conditions in the home should be healthy, not hot, not cold, and not damp. The house must be quiet, not noisy, and not disturbed by noise from outside. Adequate lighting, no glare, and adequate to move.

Alternatively, can be done using glassblock and stained glass and create a void area of the 2nd floor and 1st floor with large window openings. That way, the ground floor can be much brighter It also set up and tried to steer the direction of sunlight falling on the building. How to create a shadow effect in the room by way of trying to control the direction of light falling through windows or skylights into the building.

Then set the building back and forth in order to get the effect of light & dark and depth of building facades. Another thing that can be done is to create openings in buildings and their effects on buildings such as doors, windows, skylights, balconies and wooden pergola as grilles and canopy.

We recommend that you use the material with the severity of the effects of light such as natural stone, concrete, wood, and glass or metal. Can also do the trick effects of buildings through the dark light back and forth as well as the depth of the building. Although sunlight is good for health, it does not mean excessive sun was dangerous for the occupants of the house.

To overcome the humidity is high enough, make a window or door openings facing each other with each other. The goal is that there is good air circulation through the system of cross horizontally and vertically. Or try to incorporate sunlight into the room directly, either through the wall or through an opening in the roof with a minimum of one hour in order to avoid moisture.

Make the holes wind well above the sill and the upper side wall for air circulation becomes more fluent. Alternatively, create a window of a multifunctional and can be used for two things. So, if homeowners want only light coming in, can be opened but the wind does not enter, and vice versa.

Another step, choose a timber that is resistant to decay or termites, or by providing a layer to make it more durable. Finally, the issue of rainfall is high enough, try to drain as quickly as possible to the surface rainfall and the soil by means chose a steep slope roofs.

some pictures tropical style house designs

Tropical style House

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Mediterranean Style House

What is a Mediterranean house? The house is actually a stylish Mediterranean-inspired residential houses located in these areas tend to be warm or tropical climates. Make no mistake, is a Mediterranean-style house does not always mean a house that is near the Mediterranean Sea or the Mediterranean.

Still confused? Just imagine the houses in the area of Italy, Greece or Spain. The houses in these locations generally have a typical Mediterranean style that is rich in form and texture. One of the typical Mediterranean-style houses are also the colors and decorative elements are sunny and warm which is used to decorate the interior and exterior.

Here is a supporting element in an architecture / Mediterranean-style house:

Column
Supporting columns are frequently used columns made of brick, as part of the column usually surrounds the patio, columns connected to each other with semi-circular shaped beam (Arches) equipped with a crown and a simple column base.
Roof
Commonly used form of roof is gable form, although here and there found a roof shield. And most of the buildings using the corridor (deep Eaves). Tiles that cover the top listplank listplank still leaves underneath.
Wall
Wall material which is the typical Mediterranean building was burnt clay (adobe), which is refreshed each time with mixed lime paint (whitewasher). In America burnt brick wall is the building material of choice and use of natural stone is more widely used (especially Mexico, Texas, California, and also New York).
The use of natural materials completed without finishing. If the wall is completed, then the plaster is made does not mean giving rise to the character of a rough texture. The character comes with a heavy wall of thick wall construction. At first the Mediterranean architectural style building, has a plain and simple images. Some call this Spanish-faced building Bleak and blare,
Window
The windows are usually relatively small and rectangular-shaped or small boxes. Sometimes with the upper end shaped arch. The windows are usually equipped with a grating made of wood or wrought iron. Winds that circle many also become part of the Mediterranean architecture buildings the appearance of facial
Main Entrance
The main entrance (doorway) have formed mainly due to Byzantine influences, Spanish Gotthic and forms the entrance to the most frequently used is a form of Spanish Renaissance. Subsequent developments showed that the main entrance to the usual rectangular winds shaped semi-circular or rectangular. painting. Frame or door frame in the hole is not only at the main entrance only, but applies to all doors and even windows.
Balcony
Balcony continuous type usually found on the patios or courts, the balcony is usually used to open the corridor that connects the two wings of the building.

Also some other things to consider in designing a Mediterranean-style house is:

• Pot plants (to give the impression of cool in the house)
• The use of ceramics for floors foyer, kitchen, also the use of ceramic tiles (especially the colored terracotta)
• Plastering the exterior walls (often in pastel colors)
• The design of open space (not much insulation between rooms) with high ceilings
• Designed to allow air to flow freely through the house
• Has features arched windows and doors with a frame that is not exposed
• Generally have a great page

If you want to turn your house to have a Mediterranean style, do not bother. One key element to house the Mediterranean is the use of ceramics that are used for flooring. Yes, because the walls are generally allowed to expose the Mediterranean stucco and paint giving pastel colors are bright and warm. While ceramics with motifs "alive" and the colors of "bold" was chosen to decorate almost all parts of the floor of the house.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Art Deco Style House

The house is a stylish art deco design that raced in the decorative arts, art serves as a garnish. This style is applied to the science of architecture, interior design, product design, and visual arts. Art deco style of sticking in the year 1920-1939, in some ways, this style is a mixture of many different styles that emerged in the early 20th century, including Neo Classical, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art nouveau, and Futurism. This style emerged in a strong Europe to eventually spread to America (1930).

As a style that emphasizes ornamentation, facades of buildings in the architectural design of this concept becomes very important. When it developed a modern architecture as a guide system that supported the structure elements of art deco decor.

The use of art deco style is the widespread influence during World War II. At that time the use of a very popular art deco style coupled with another modern architecture that developed so widely used by Dutch architects. Until now there are many buildings that bear witness of the existence of the art history of this design style.

The main attraction of this design style lies in the use of decorative elements that are very diverse from all over the world. These decorative elements derived from different cultures such as Aztec, Egyptian, African, and other cultures from around the world as a decorative element of adaptation. Evidently, the concept of art deco style building is quite widely used for public buildings and residences.

"If the architectural style is applied at this time, meaning we restore the glory of this ornamentatif architecture for the current period,"

Art deco style design including the concept of having the building decor is quite interesting because a lot of cultural background influenced the style of an eclectic blend of themes, Consider the various elements of the decor, such as the typical forms such as the repetition of geometric shapes such as the architecture of old buildings Aztec Inca, Egypt, and from Africa. "The shape of the decorative elements can be squares, triangles, circles, and zig-zag."

Meanwhile, for materials, art deco style building using lots of materials commonly used, especially with the brick walls of concrete and cement ornamentation. The colors of paint are applied to the typical style of these buildings are usually in the form of a neutral color or true-color materials such as rocks, wood, and iron.

In essence, Art Deco-style house has the characteristics as a form of eclectic, beautiful, luxurious, elegant, and modern and influenced by a variety of sources. Among them, the traditional arts of Africa, Egypt, or Aztec Mexico, as well as the Century engine. Another popular theme of Art Deco shapes are trapezoidal, zigzag, geometry, and the form of puzzles, which are widely seen in the early works of this style.

Here are some pictures of Art Deco style house: