Adjust Building Materials with Function Room
Home Improvement December 30th, 2009
Not all suitable materials or elements in the room / building. Use of the wrong materials can result in waste of renovation costs, even disastrous.
Proper application is using the material in accordance with the needs of residents, designated a suitable, and how to correct workmanship.
Also, noteworthy is also a matter of aesthetics. Materials used must be able to add value to the beauty of space. Here we list some tips that might be useful:
1. Use the tiles to the kitchen floor. Ceramic oil and water resistant, and easier to clean than other materials. In addition, ceramics are also easy to maintain. Granite porous, so it can save oil and liquids. For a long time, so the granite floor is less hygienic because of oil sludge and the liquid. So, ceramic remains the primary choice for the kitchen.
2. Do not apply ceramic glossy (shiny surface) for coating the bathroom floor. For wet areas use a textured floor coating or Antislip to prevent you from slipping.
3. Thorough parquet HDF (High Density Fiber). Look closely the edge of the parquet pieces. Quality parquet look more solid and smooth surface. Parquet with such features harder and stronger. Conversely, the quality parquet poorly visible part of the cut is less dense and coarse.
4. Use a vinyl floor. Especially if your funds are not appropriate when using the parquet. Wood-style vinyl, parquet-like, worth more “crooked” than ordinary HDF parquet. But, remember, the weakness lies in the resilience of vinyl surface. Over time, vinyl shades tend to fade when compared parquet. Age shorter useful life.
5. Apply wood for the bathroom floor. Applications should be limited to wet areas, such as floor shower area. Type the wood: ulin, bangkirai, resin sea, or teak. Leave a gap of about 5cm between the wood floor and ground floor bathroom as the water flow. Consider drainage, give the slope of 2% on the floor so that the flow is smooth.
6. Use a lightweight structure or framework of hollow steel rafters to make a split-level. The cover sheet of plywood with 9mm-12mm thick. Ceramic or granite floors can be installed directly over the plywood with instant glue. Next live filled with a special adhesive grout.
7. Choose wallpaper for percantikan a more optimal space. Wallpaper can provide an instant makeover in the space. Better than paints and other wallcoverings. Wallcover than others, such as vinyl or textiles, wallpaper has more style and color. To note about the installation techniques and the proper adhesive. If you want to use wallcover, should not the entire wall. Use wallcover border to accent, or wallcover pairs at the top of the wall, at a distance of 1m-1, 5m from the surface of the floor. This is to prevent the child’s wallcover damage. Bottom wall is painted.
8. Apply wallcover as an accent to one area of the wall. Fields other walls painted enough. Choose wallcover with colors or patterns that catchy. Alternatively, give accent to the room by painting one wall with a strong color. Use neutral colors for the other wall.
9. Use low-toxic paints. The point is to paint the levels of toxic (poison) low. This type of paint does not smell and easy to clean.
10. Use the panel to the wall imperfect. You can use a panel of multiplex board HPL-coated sheets. The panel also serves as a decorative element. Alternatively, use a foam-coated panels and fabric. With the panel, the fabric is more easily removable according to taste.
11. Select the cement board to the wall. Cement board is stronger than gypsum, which are vulnerable to impact. With the way the same application with gypsum, you will get a stronger wall. You only need to set up the framework of the 1.2 mm hollow steel, then cement board screws into the framework. Cement board can also be a selection of dry bathroom partitions and ceiling of the room.
12. Allocate 10% of material reserves. This is to anticipate shortages in the process of reset. Usually the material you purchased today are not necessarily the same color and coraknya exactly when you bought back in different time intervals.
Unique to Wood Furniture
Furniture December 30th, 2009
natural materials this one always has its own fans. His presence was not eroded trends and always look beautiful in any era. Even these materials are also often used in a modern idiom that previously played with metal materials. Both the main ingredient or as an accent only serves to give a touch of art to the art.
In addition to its strength, the brown wood into the main attraction that always managed to create a warm and friendly atmosphere in a room. That is why, wood finishing color selection becomes important to note that the beauty of the wood stand out.
Color of the wood finishing that now often found quite varied ranging from light brown, natural, until dark. Each color represents the sense of finishing every homeowner needs to be adjusted with the impression of space and you want to display.
However, should realize, applied the finishing should still show the wood texture in materials. Although using a dark color was finishing, wood texture to remain highlighted. Because the texture of natural wood materials in the material that is the primary beauty of the wood material not found in other materials.
Now, these finishing techniques more widely used especially in furniture, modern furniture design style simple. Today wood furniture memiang not merely display a classic or antique design that is identical with carvings on each part. He also manages to look elegant with a modern design that is more simple, or give a little arch in the foot and the back of the hand without letting go of a simple impression.
Perform simple or with many detailed carvings, wood furniture kept looking. However, since raw materials are now more limited, many are replacing them with the kind of MDF (medium density fibreboard). This type of MDF is lighter and more affordable than solid wood. By considering the advantages and disadvantages of each type, the choice comes back to each individual. Want a beautiful view only, or also noticed the quality of
Property Entrepreneurs Worried World Steel Increase Impact
Real Estate December 24th, 2009
Despite claiming not too worried about the impact of the planned increase of electricity basic tariff (TDL) by 15 percent in July later, the property entrepreneur now calculate precisely the impact of rising world steel prices continued to rise recently. “Because steel is the second largest component in property projects,” said Teguh Satria Head of Real Estate Indonesia (REI).
Teguh said the largest component of the cement takes about 20 percent of the portion of the cost of production or construction of houses. Although steel was up 20 percent, but he was assessing the impact will be quite significant. You see, steel including commodity prices are like a locomotive.
“The influence of very large steel prices of other components price trends,” explained Teguh. That’s why concerns about production rates continue to haunt.
Still, can not claim Teguh predicts the influence of steel price increases this world to the selling price of the property. “We see first trend for some time to come, or at least in this March,” he said.
Emerging lately steel prices, continued Teguh, the impact of development in China menggeliatnya. Bamboo curtain countries are now eager to do it the infrastructure projects and property ..
As a result, the world steel supply is absorbed large enough. At the same time, world steel production capacity was not increased. Some steel-producing countries to maximize utilisasinya confessed.
“We are producing the maximum, not even export that has been absorbed in the country,” said Irvan Kamal Marketing Director of PT Krakatau Steel.
Real demand of steel products Krakatau Steel until the end of last year was close to 225,000 tons per month. By leveraging the production capacity by 90 percent, Krakatau Steel could produce up to 200,000 tons of steel per month.
KS estimating international prices for steel, black plate in June 2010 could penetrate U.S. $ 700/ton, up 40 percent compared to the projected price during this month with a range of U.S. $ 500/ton.
Wise Tips Using Light
Lighting and Electrical December 18th, 2009
DID you, the lights contribute 19 percent of total home electricity bill. Well, if its use could save electricity bills would be much cheaper.
How tricks?
* There are currently more than 300 brands of energy-saving lamps labeled. However, keep in mind, not all brands truly energy efficient. For the jelly-jelilah choose. Watch charged. Energy saving lamps small helpless. Age is also a long-life, on average until 6000 hours. For this type of TL lamps (fluorescent) using capacitors.
* BUDAYAKAN on-off. Immediately turn off the lights when not needed. We pooh-pooh this, but this simple way the electrical energy we could save enough. This bad habit should be eliminated.
* Immediately turn off outdoor lights, such as garden lights, porch, carport, or gazebo, if the sun began to appear. If necessary, use bersensor automatic light switches. Use time switches berpengatur also be considered.
* At the desk lamp use. In addition to more focused light, the use of lights to illuminate the entire space can be minimized. In the light there is usually a glass or Armatur spreaders.
* Otherwise, do not forget to clean the house lights on a regular basis following the lamp to illuminate the optimum.
Sweetness Gazebo
Gardening December 18th, 2009
Disruption of mosquitoes often come when you’re relaxing in the gazebo? You can outsmart by installing netting. Apart from being Penghalau insects, mosquito netting gazebo also makes a unique look and sweeter.
Gazebo this one could be an example display berkelambu gazebo. Size 3 mx 3 m, with a stage height of about 50 cm from the surface of the floor. Coconut wood material used as a pole, while to cover the floor using solid teak. This Gazebo can accommodate up to 10 people.
On the fourth side of the gazebo netting installed curtains made from calico. White curtains, thin, and was hanged on floating aluminum rails. Rel was hidden, to put it in the context of the ceiling.
When night fell, netting can be stretched. Mosquito net curtains waving in the wind gives a sweet impression. Sitting in the gazebo was comfortable without interruption mosquitoes. Not to forget placed a blue mat as a cushion.
Want to relax with family or friends in spare time? This gazebo can be an alternative for a comfortable place to relax.
