home and garden tips

Designing a child’s room requires a different approach than the regular rooms. Starting from the idea of design, materials selection, furniture placement to the right.

In addition, you need to understand the desire of the heart. Much information you can gather about the design of a child’s room from the Internet, books, magazines or television. However, whatever information you need to understand the formula arrangement of the child’s room.

The formula can be abbreviated by the formula “ABC”. The letter “A” is Adaptability (easily adapted), the letter “B” means Brightness (bright), as well as the letter “C” means the cleanability (easy to clean).

Adaptability

The first formula can be interpreted in a room arrangement that can be adapted to the growth and needs of children. Of course, tastes and needs of children who are growing will be more volatile than the adults.

However, parents may not follow each child development that will differ in each period. The solution is to modify the background of the room, be it by adding new paint or wallpaper and update the child’s room accessory.

Brightness

The second formula can be interpreted room is set up with a bright display. This can be realized on the color selection of materials, accessories, furniture and bright. Color will s psychologically stimulate children’s imagination and makes the room memorable relief.

Application of pale colors and pastels are vibrant and gives soothing feel to a child’s room. But while the child is a teenager, he would tend to prefer strong colors that are fun and contemporary.

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To add to the beauty to a fish pond, you’ll want to make a beautiful decoration. Therefore, you can use natural stone to beautify the appearance of the pool in order to further demonstrate the natural properties of water, rocks, and trees.

However, you do not get the wrong choice. This type consists of several kinds of coral. You must know, rock types and the theme are perfect for decorating your garden. Here are some types of coral decorating theme, such as:

Tropical

For tropical marine theme, you can use the beach rocks as dominant accents. You can combine it with coral-colored foam green, brown, or blue sky to create a soft look.

You can also use colored stones like turquoise, yellow, orange, and red to bright decor garden looks like at the beach. Then, add the lighthouse accents, bamboo shades and tropical silk flowers or ferns to add to the impression of a natural beach. Continue Reading »

The narrow and limited impression of a tiny room in the dwelling can be tricked by playing the visual impression. There are two tricks you can do, through the installation of mirrors and display graphics, images, or painting scenery.

A mirror

Mirror, as you well know, will double the existing object in front of it. For small residential, its presence is not only for aesthetic purpose, but also can increase the effect of the imaginary in the room.

With a mirror, you can “extend” the reach of visual space by the game of the household. Visually, the space will appear larger than normal area.

For installation, choose the wall that gives the greatest visual impact of the space. Placement can be in a blank wall, cupboard doors, or partitions.

The mirror can be fitted with a vertical orientation (from top to bottom) with the bottom side and floor spacing greater than 60 centimeters. Installation of more mirrors with larger size, the more it will enlarge the imaginary. Continue Reading »

The water often used as a supporting element in the shelter. Water was chosen because it carries the impression of cold, naturally, and also capable of a reflector.

Like a mirror, water can also reflect the surrounding objects. Effects were shown brings the beauty impression. If you like this, the reflection effect can be obtained by creating the reflection pool.

The reflection pool is not different to other pond. However, because the impressions that want to be shown are calm and peaceful, then the arrangement becomes the most important factor.

To display the maximum appearance of the reflection pool, you need to really pay attention to the elements around the surface of the pond, because those elements will be reflected. Put the reflection pool adjacent to interesting things, such as buildings or objects such as statues, rocks, or lawn chairs. Continue Reading »

At first, water heater is more widely used in cold climate countries. However, now tropical countries began using it.

Most consumers of this water heater are the people who live in big cities. For office workers, feeling tired after working all day at work was a bitch. Of course they need a comfort when got home. Well, among the comforts can be enjoyed is soaking in hot water.

One of the proper tools can help you enjoy soaking in hot water is water heaters. In general, the water heater is divided into three types. They are  gas, electricity, and the sun (solar) water heater.

In essence, the working principle of gas-powered water heater is almost the same when you boil water using a gas stove. Some things to consider when going to install gas water heater is the air vents in the bathroom. This is to prevent if from time to time so leaking gas into the air stream flowing out of the room. Continue Reading »

Free incoming sunlight, the air flows smoothly and indoor pot plants can help to refresh your bathroom . You need them to create a healthy bathroom.

The bathroom was never used more than one hour, but that does not mean your bathroom is simply an area of ??1.5 meters x 1.5 meters with bath or shower and toilet. Like any other room in the house, the bathroom was to consider its health.

Not only functional, but the bathroom also need to be convenient when used. Damp is a most problem in the bathroom. Damp air can arise moss and fungi, which ultimately has the potential to cause disease germs.

Indeed, although the bath activity may only take 15-30 minutes, who would want to do it in the dirty bathroom because of mold and mildew and  smelling?

First, healthy bathroom can be designed to get a lot of sunlight, through the skylight. Enough sunlight is needed to dry the bathroom faster, so the mold, mildew, and bacteria do not multiply. In addition, you also can get very low power consumption, because thru the sun shines, the bathroom does not need illumination from the lamp.

The second is the vent. In one area of ??the bathroom wall, there are small holes for air exchange lines. Continue Reading »

Planting fruit tree in pot (tabulampot) is fun, because you can simply enjoy the results more frequent and cheaper. However, there is a question. How if your tabulampot does not bear fruit?

As a first step, you can try to pay attention to the condition of planting media. Then, consider the provision of fertilizer. Fertilizer that can be used is a liquid organic fertilizer and NPK fertilizer with a composition of 15:15:15.

It’s good if NPK fertilizer is dissolved in water first. After that, just pour the solution into the soil surface. Comparison of the composition about one tablespoon of fertilizer is dissolved in 10 liters of water.

Fertilizer dose given will be tailored to the age of the plant. Fertilizer should be given every 3 months. Continue Reading »

Do you keep plants in the front or back of the house? If you grow plants in pots, you should note its growth.

Many questions might arise about the growth of your plants. Does the roots begin to emerge from the bottom of the pot drainage holes? Whether its growth began to stop or slow down? Yes, and many other questions.

If so, then you need to replace the pot (repotting). Maybe repotting is a bother, but it has an important role in determining plant growth. If you mistakenly perform the procedure in repotting, the plant will not grow again, even death. Therefore, consider the following steps in repotting your plants:

Choice of pot

In choosing a pot, adjust the size of the plant with a new pot. Make sure that the pot is only able to provide adequate space for root growth. If your plants are large, you should use pottery or ceramic pots that are thick so it is not easily broken.

Drainage and growing media

Consider the drainage holes at the bottom of the pot. choose a planting medium that can store water. Composition of the media mix is based on to the character of the plant. This is because there are some plants that require a slightly moist media or other mixture. Continue Reading »

Egg chair, the name comes from its elliptical shape.

This legendary chair was invented by a Danish architect, Arne Jacobsen in 1958. At that time, Jacobsen designed this chair for the lobby of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Structure and the material behind the structure of egg chair jacobsen is simple, with 107 centimeters height and 86 centimeters wide, egg chair jacosen has a complicated structure. Its frame made of glass fiber reinforcement is coated with polyurethane foam.

This coating is the hardest part, because it requires a large intact skin. Leather stitching on the back of the chair can be done, but this is not desirable by Jacobsen. He wanted a simple design and completely “clean”.

Currently, the simplicity of the design of this chair is influenced by the spirit of modern style which is popular in that period. This chair is supported by four legs from a combination of steel and aluminum.

For the sake of flexibility, the chair with 18.1 pounds weight was able to rotate 360 ??degrees and it has adjustable back. This structure makes the chair egg chair suitable for hotel lobbies, and can be used as a chair in the living room today. Continue Reading »

Busyness and routine work sometime make cleaning activities are delayed. If you do not want to interfere with this situation, for example, your home will suddenly be visited by guests, how to clean home? You can do these tips to make your house looks comfortable even for a while.

Parlor

Put the best side of your sofa cushion to give a good impression to the guests. When the guests had gone, you can reverse the side you usually use again. By showcasing the best side of sofa cushions, it seemed more orderly.

The other thing is the fur of pets, like dogs or cats, which often attach to your goods. You can use a wet rubber glove at the finger tips. Then, skim your hand along the sofa, then the feathers will stick.

Buy a decorated basket with enough wide and deep. Its function is as a place to put accumulated collection of books and magazines. If you have no time to tidy up the shelves, books and magazines can be accommodated in the basket. Then, the window with many stains can be disguised by pulling the curtain to cover the stain so they are not visible. Continue Reading »