Let's Make Dried Park!
Gardening November 17th, 2009
Want home appear more fresh and green? Yuk, dry garden design itself in one corner of the house!
Dry garden became one of the other alternatives to make the house look more fresh. In general, dry garden just the same as ordinary garden. “The difference is just a lack of water elements, plants, and adequacy factors of light,” said Andie oticgarden of the x-, Bandung (www.x-oticgarden.com).
The first step to create a dry garden is the determining concept. Should do a survey first, about what the atmosphere is in the object space where the garden will be dry.
Once in the atmosphere, can directly determine what kind of characters that will be poured in a dry garden design. “This step needs to be done so that the overall character of the house so much stronger with the presence of a dry garden, rather than disrupt the concept of home as a whole,” said Andie.
For example, home-style minimalist or futuristic. Dry garden should be more strengthened minimalist or futuristic house with special characters.
So, there should be red yarn. While the location and extent of dry garden is not a problem. The important thing is the choice of plants and other components.
Water Resistant Ornamental Plants medium
For plant species, should select plants that have strong endurance. Because the park was mostly dry in the house, so low-light.
Ornamental plants or pandanus fractures can be selected Bali as its main crops. While small plants can select the type Sansiviera or Bromelia.
For additional components, can use a shotgun coral, coral brush, or natural stone. It could also be a rock pool. If the selected concept is the natural style, the wood materials can be selected. “Equally important is the lighting. Placement must be precise, because it determines the appearance of dry garden, “says Andie.
Then, how about planting the media? In general, the planting medium is used to dry the same park with regular park, which is using fertile soil.
“No special treatment anyway. Problem planting media thickness was also not a problem, as opposed to a park on the shoulder, for example, “said Andie.
Noteworthy is the matter of maintenance garden plants dry filler. Usually several types of plants for dry gardens is a waterproof type. “So, should be maintained not to foul. Lack of light will make automatic evaporation decreases. ”
The key, do not select the type of plant. Cambodia, for example, is less precise. Therefore, the average flowering frangipani will not due to lack of light.
3 More Location Dining Room
Kitchen November 11th, 2009
ROOM eating species can be distinguished based on the position of the house. These groupings formed from the development of a lifestyle that leads to more simple, practical, and modern.
Location of the dining room divided into three possibilities, namely:
* Join the Kitchen – dining room in the kitchen is called breakfast Nook. These areas tend to eat small number of seats with only two to three fruits. Ate activities that occur generally simpler, as well as the use of tools and equipment.
* Close Dining Family Room – The dining room of this type is a combination living room with dining room. Usually without the barrier wall or screen that is massive. Openness deliberately brought to room feel more spacious and intimacy between family members remain intertwined. The dining room of this type have many applications in homes today. In addition to more efficient space, a variety of activities family members can be centralized in one room together.
* Separate Dining Room – The dining room of this type is a dining area located in a room special. It is located separately from the other room, so the activity becomes more formal dining. The existence of a separate room as a dining room is usually equipped with a dinning set centrally. It is in the middle of the room with chairs around the table. Style dining room is suitable as applied to measuring the house large enough.
Glass walls decorated with patterned Figures
Decoration November 11th, 2009
Sprinkles numbers did not always seem real headache. That presence could create an impression that young, cheerful, and modern.
Limiting space with a massive brick wall, have become commonplace. Later the use of glass, instead of a conventional wall, began much done. Because the glass has many advantages, which are not owned a brick wall. Its transparent and extended one of them. In addition, the size is much thinner than a brick, is clearly more to save land.
In contrast to the brick wall, which can be colored or decorated with various motifs wallcover. The glass wall can not be painted or decorated wallcover. But that does not mean can not slicked up. Many ways to make stunning glass wall. Starting from the complex ways that simple.
You can decorate it with paintings painted with special glass paint. Or a more simple way is to play with cutting sticker, like the glass walls in the bedroom, in this photo. The selected motifs are topping numbers. Why is it called “topping”? Because the placement of each figure does not irregular.
In this room, the walls are made of glass-coated, pattern number on both sides. Thus, the second display wall as overlap and form a shadow. View this patterned glass wall, giving the impression of industrial, which is closely related to modern lifestyles, young, and dynamic. Irregular placement is intended to provide a more cheerful view.
Numbers game proved not always cause dizziness in the head. Serious impression was not always attached to it. Dare to try?
Making Kitchen Family Room Together
Interior Design November 5th, 2009
Remember the TV series The Cosby Show? The popular family series in the 1980s it was often used as a kitchen setting. Most of the activities started from the kitchen. The kitchen made a fun gathering place. Cook, chat, exchange ideas, and even learn too often done in place.
The idea of making the kitchen not only as a place to cook is not the monopoly of Western culture. A friend told me that the original Batavia when he was young (1980s), his grandmother did the same thing. Kitchen the old woman who is about 4 mx 5 m to be a fun place for the gathering of family members. On one side of the kitchen stove there are 2 small pieces, which had a wood stove. Beside it was gerobog (small cabinet) to put groceries. Spices and equipment placed in another small-dake dake (wooden planks placed on the wall).
On the other hand there is a large wooden table that is used to prepare food. In the table, too, the grandchildren of the grandmother was sitting, chatting and watching him cook. When the meal was ready, the table was turned into a function table for all family members.
Like most Middle Betawi community kitchen, the kitchen is connected to the back porch full of barking and jackfruit trees. There, under the wooden bars on windows, there are bale-bale. It is said, bale-bale is often used by men who came home milir (work) for a rest while waiting for his wife’s cooking. Bale-Bale is also frequently used by mothers to chop vegetables, chatting with neighbors.
Kitchen + Dining
Well, if you want to make the kitchen into a fun family room, just follow the usual tricks used by designers, which combine the kitchen with the dining room. In this way, the kitchen look more spacious and can be a multifunctional space.
Dining area can be used to facilitate the activities of the child when the mother’s cooking. If the kitchen is separate, the mother should automatically back and forth from and into the kitchen to keep the baby.
Functional, Comfortable, and Safe
As a gathering place, kitchen should be functional, comfortable, and safe. Note the placement of each element of the kitchen, including storage, sink, and the cook (stove). To be able to work with a comfortable and secure, separate between the cooking zone and the zone meal. Make sure also available adequate circulation space from zone to zone cooking dinner, and vice versa.
Air exchange becomes important if you want the kitchen to be a comfortable place. Imagined it when smoke filled the kitchen? Certainly no one at home linger there. A wide window or a cooker hood can be a solution to overcome the problem of smoke in the kitchen.
“Let The View In”
Once basic needs are met, what else can be done? Try to remember the dining habits of family members or your childhood memories. Maybe you used to eat in the wild, or even used to eat in the river while listening to the rush of water.
You can bring the natural atmosphere in your kitchen space. For a home free from nuisance animals, can make a kitchen and open dining room, directly adjacent to the park. But for you who can not make an open kitchen, you can use the wide windows. In essence, let the scene go as much as possible into your kitchen. Guaranteed, gathered in the kitchen will be a fun thing
Storage area in Bathroom
Bath Showers November 5th, 2009
Although known as a wet room, the bathroom also needs to be placed storage areas. This area is more widely used to store items associated with bathing purposes.
Many solutions or container storage areas are available on the market. However, for the bathroom, we need to consider several things. For example about the design and location. It takes a careful attempt to storage areas or containers are not necessarily making a bathroom look cluttered.
In the bathroom, storage containers can be used to store a variety of toiletries and cosmetics, towels, cleaning products, equipment P3K, until the toys are used when children bathe. Such equipment can be stored in the container, whether it be a cabinet or shelf.
Cupboard in the bathroom did not like to walk in wardrobe closet or cupboard in the bedroom. Generally in the bathroom cabinet, relatively small, because its function is to store small items. To avoid water splashes, cabinets are usually sealed to the wall. Location must be far from the shower spray. Even if the cabinet wants to draw closer to the wet area, then you should use a cupboard is resistant to water.
More appropriate cabinets placed on the size of the bathroom is relatively large. At a minimum, this bathroom has a wet and dry areas are separate. For a bathroom that was large enough, could have used smaller furniture. Could be a rack attached to the wall, or a small closet that stored in the area between the bathroom equipment. For example in the wall cabinet above the sink, shelves on the wall above the bathtub.
More appropriate shelf
Open shelf is appropriate to put on the area of “dead”. For example in a narrow area on the wall behind the door. Rack like that by itself could be used to store various toiletry items, which can be grouped by type. You can make a shelf like a book shelf near the tub. Shelf that can serve as a place other than storage, also serves as a “curtain” to cover the toilet area.
The shelves are perfect for storing towels, colorful set overlap. You can also display a group of perfume in the colorful varieties of bottle shapes. Or put a row of round wicker baskets for storing bathroom supplies and cleaning materials.
Contrary to the solid wood shelves, glass or metal rack has a mirrored surface and makes the room feel more spacious. However, the glass shelves that easily soiled and needs to be cleaned regularly. In addition to the shelf on the wall, there is also a large shelf that stands alone, is mostly made of metal.
