Eat more delicious with Orange
Kitchen August 27th, 2009
Sunny morning always makes you more excited. Why not bring ‘sun’ into the house? It’s easy, simply by combining yellow and bright orange in the dining room.
Imagine when you wake up in the morning greeted the overcast weather and gray. Optimism is built with difficulty be destroyed in seconds. In order for such a thing does not happen, enlightening your home. Yellow and orange are the right color.
Based on the psychology of color, yellow is the color that is identical with optimism, enlightenment, and happiness. Meanwhile, Orange has the effect of warm and energized, as well as stimulate appetite. Both are very suitable color is applied in the dining room, where the morning activity begins.
Choose yellow paint vanished. This color is not too sharp in the eye, but can also brighten the room. Especially, for the room that did not receive much direct sunlight. Read the rest of this entry »
Relaxing Space
Home Improvement August 26th, 2009
Saturated with the city’s chaotic situation? Well, if you have a little open space, following the inspiration can be the answer to your problem.
Of course, if outside the clutter, your house is affected do not participate in such chaos. Create a quiet corner of the house and relaxing for a moment to make peace with nature. Most suitable element is water. Emotions explosive after a day stuck in traffic can be suppressed at once simply by enjoying the tranquility of water in your pond.
You can give the landscape elements that are not less comforting, like a stone stupa, or perhaps a pebble on the bottom of the pool. Fit all when enjoying the pool with wet feet to massage pebbles on the bottom, even more so while enjoying hot tea in the afternoon. Certainly seemed senikmat have a swimming pool in their own home gardens.
Well, you do not need to pool area, right? If you are not married or have children, try adding floating candles in the evening, sitting side by side with a girlfriend or wife. Well, the burden of daily routine that seemed to lift heavy, right? To make it more peaceful plant Jepun Bali (frangipani) in a small pond near you. Structuring a simple landscape is the key to success is not outside the area.
If you are lazy to work-pairs apart, maybe next inspiration is the appropriate choice for you. Condition of an open space free enough to put an antique daybed in the corner of the park. You may remember childhood lounging with my family in a wooden or bamboo chairs. Well, this is not much different just more relaxed. Obviously Andapun still have to organize the garden so much easier to enjoy, right?
If you like the gazebo, of course, select the size appropriate to your garden. It’s easy, provided tritisan roofs or gazebo structures are not met by field walls or other architectural elements, then the measure is proportionate to your garden. Other tips if you narrow outer space, namely by selecting a transparent roof or let your gazebo without a roof. In the dry season, you just attach a mosquito net that is not too hot and of course the structure of the gazebo should be strong against climate change.
Ethnic Interior and Natural
Interior Design August 21st, 2009
Ethnic style is very fitting if combined with the presence of natural elements such as plants, wood furniture, fish ponds and bale blank. Unsightly addition, both alloys are capable of producing its own keasrian. Houses away from the workplace is not a dream partner Brenda and Billy Rahmawati Wicaksono. Villagers Gandul, Depok, every day has to grapple with the road traffic to get to work in downtown Jakarta. “Every day I go when the kids do not get up and go home when the kids were asleep,” I am a woman who worked at a hospital in Kuningan, Jakarta. No wonder, “I’m dreaming of a house that can make me forget the traffic jam and office work.” Once entered into the drawing room house built on an area of 200 square meters, our eyes will be glued to an open gebyok. Gebyok similar form this gate makes the living room was completely separate from the family room, lounge and dining room are also arranged without septum. That way, the house feels more spacious than the actual size. Gebyok Senapas presence in the living room, and Billy Rahmawati house filled with ethnic-style furniture, such as wooden furniture, mats and barrel, etc. In fact, the interior also features blank bale and fish ponds. “Land of our house, right, is limited. So, we do not have a garden to get a natural atmosphere. So, be a blank bale and the fish pond we put in the house,” bebernya while stating that was where her family’s favorite get together. “The sound of gurgling water is, you know, that could cool the heart. Tired day’s work can be lost sitting on the couch this blank.” If another room is dominated wooden furniture, living room just to be different. Furniture of sofa and beige carpet neutral memadankannya allows homeowners with ethnic furniture that may be added later. The softness of the cream is also able to bring warmth and comfort of their own in the room where the family of this mingle. “In fact, when I got home, I would be averse to go-go again,” said Rahmawati with a smile.
Choosing Sofa must Adjusted Needs
Furniture August 17th, 2009
The couch is the main furniture that serves to sit back. The sofa has a main framework, which is then covered by fill material and fabric cover. With the armrest on both sides, would be more comfortable couch occupied.
General framework of the sofa has a wood or iron. Agency framework coated fillers such as foam or cushion. Then there is the resilience of upholstery fabric with a high enough. The stronger the fabric of the cloth fibers, the longer endurance the sofa fabric.
Framework of the sofa can also be coated with natural materials, like woven rattan, water hyacinth, until the stem of a banana. The coated part is the outside, including the back of the hand and back. Seat and back sections are usually equipped with cushions for the seat again feels soft and comfortable.
Filler material can be arranged density couch. Pengisinya denser, then the holder was increasingly hard couch. Tenderness levels are generally tailored to the sofa and laying function of the sofa. For informal areas such as living room, sofa filling density level is made more tenuous that feels soft and comfortable.
In addition to the cloth has a permanent nature, also has a sofa upholstery or slipcover known. Slipcover is the sheath coating fabric sofa with properties similar to the sofa slipcover. Slipcover is usually chosen from textiles that can be washed. Use of many found in the slipcover or sofa sofabed two or three seats.
Fences Plants Beautiful and Healthy
Gardening August 10th, 2009
One trend that is now popular is the concept of gated house plants. In addition to beautiful, too many types of plants provide other benefits, such as medication.
The fence is intended as a barrier. Barrier between the owner of the house or yard that one with another owner. Therefore, every house built fences to taste and individual needs. There is a magnificent wall, there is also a rigid iron fence and sturdy. There is also a combination of walls and iron, so impressed solid. Reasons for such a fence, among others for the sake of safety factors, and reasons related to social status. Fences and luxurious stately home owners would be raised to the title as a modern person.
However, now began to emerge back to nature movement. All-natural. All-natural. Beautiful charm. Environmentally friendly. And his form is one of the hedge-making. What is interesting? In addition to natural and cool, the hedge also pretty artistic impression. After sprouting buds grow, plants and regulated and trimmed to form the “building” beautiful. There is also a flowering hedges, flower, until the show lively and energetic impression.
In fact, our ancestors had actually practicing a hedge, and not just meant beauty, but rather as an alternative treatment ingredients. Javanese and tempo, for example, likes to plant a hedge beluntas. Everyone knows, beluntas also be used as a vegetable and traditional healing. The Sundanese, for example, have a tradition of planting a red HANJUANG as a hedge. And red HANJUANG “trusted” as a starting plant repellent reinforcements evil spirits.
Select Small Seeds
How to plant a hedge? Hoe the soil as deep as 20 cm and form planting holes, depending on your taste. Can be made as simple as a rectangle lengthwise, or cut cubes or hexagons but connect, for example. Let the planting hole is open about 2 weeks, while the soil organic fertilizer cangkulan given as much as 2 to 4 kg / m 2, also 30 grams of NPK (15 15 to 125) / m2. Or Urea, TSP and KCL each 10 gram/m2. after 2 weeks, given cangkulan soil fertilizer is inserted back into the planting hole, then leave again for 2 weeks.
Next, select the seeds from which plants will be planted. Should select the seed that is still smaller than the already large. Make a small hole, and enter the seed. Press the soil around the base of the seeds, berries stake and tie the seedlings at stake. Afterwards, flush to wet.
In order to grow lush hedgerows, should be given fertilizer every month. For flowering hedge, use a fertilizer NSK (15 25 – 15) the content of his P-high. As for the leafy hedges, use of NPK fertilizer (25 15 – 15) that its N content high. In addition to fertilizing, watering to do well, especially in the dry season could be watered 2 times morning and afternoon.
Razor-Shaving
Beauty hedgerows can also be obtained by trimming, ie, activity-shaving razor stems and leaves of plants. Lazy pruning, the plant will not grow up poor karuan crosswise and add to the impression dirty. Original purpose to create beauty, bsia-could produce the opposite, unkempt slob.
Why have shaved? First, that always grow new shoots, and make a leafy plants regularly. The second is to get the form beautiful hedges, neat and healthy. Pruning should be done at least 2 weeks or 3 weeks. Do not be too long (over 1 month), because in addition to more difficult to cut, too difficult to establish the plant.
How to cut the right tips? Prepare 2 pieces of bamboo and rope. Bamboo plugs at the ends of the hedge. Tie a rope to a bamboo fence at the end of the tall plants with dependent taste and needs, then withdrawn and the rope tied around the bamboo at the other end. Appeared limits the stretch of rope. And that’s where you can shave the plant. And so on. Easy is not it?
