Home Improvement @ dotindigi

Sometimes we get bored with the house, while the home should be a place to return after ternyaman our day jobs and struggle with road congestion. Toward this new year we often think to make changes to the house. Form a new atmosphere in the home or outside the home do not have to renovate or make malakukan physical changes, with little change furniture positions sometimes just enough to make a new atmosphere in the house.

your weekend to build a new atmosphere in your home to give a new spirit . Some ideas for a new look at home you can rearrange the living room, giving accent stripes on the walls of the living room, a touch of bright new colors and cool on the wall of a room or other spaces that often become a gathering place, play yard landscaping, or provide natural partition between the living room with another room that is more privacy. Natural partition in question is playing in the interior landscape,

Fresh colors and lines in space game you can  bright your day at home (Source: Inspirational Homes p.55)

for example by giving the indoor pool or just a wall of water which would provide coolness in the room. Utilizing the space under the stairs as the pool is able to give a new spirit in the house even just to give white and coral color in the room as explanatory zoning could create more living space.

Playing with outer space can also be an interesting thing to fill his spare time while giving a new atmosphere for your outer space.

You can use the pool to enhance your guest room. (Source: Inspirational Homes p.21)

If you are still vacant land large enough to play with a good idea to add some elements such as grass or a large stone like the parks in Japan will make your home landscape more dynamic and sweet.

Can be concluded create a new atmosphere and add energy to a home does not have to build or add to the room,

Rearranging the contents of the room and just add a little element can provide new energy and spirit to a house.

To you who have small land and small house creativity is required to organize the interior of the room so that each has a function room of the house needs. Land and space limitations may have yaang space mangakibatkan have dual function, or an inch of land will become a useful space for the occupants.

Utilizing the space under the stairs as the bathroom for a U-shaped staircase is very efficient for small land, for the L-shaped staircase will have a different treatment, under the stairs can be used as a kitchen or storage of goods penyimpana. The most frequently performed to outsmart the narrow area in general with the interior play and color.

Exploiting under the bed for storage as an alternative to a house without a barn, playing with a sofa can also be an alternative, which currently sells many sofas that can berfubgsi as a bed, so if we do not have enough room to room, then we can conjure up the living room or family room as a bed when visiting relatives so that space becomes multifunctional.

Space under the stairs is always interesting to be processed, such as a small kitchen to make coffee or just to prepare breakfast. (Source: Small Spaces for Modern Living p.60)

Loft concept may be appropriate for those of you who have a small room but want the comfort and completeness of residential functions.

Playing with the roof space can also be fun, we can conjure up the roof space into rooms or As with the warehouse or even a pleasant workspace, of course with the minimalist design of the stairs.

Land and space limitations sometimes make us have to choose between living room, family room and dining room.

We do not have to choose if we can create and utilize every corner of the available space, dining room does not have much function is used only 3 times a day.

For a small house dining table may be designed together with a folded kitchen table and little chairs that lean area,

effect we can have a family room and a comfortable living room and of course we have all the room we need.

The bright colors can lead to feelings of joy, while the color of the ‘cold’ like finishing this wood can give the impression of cold and calm. When combined will create mixed impression. Throughout still pretty sight, will beautify the room.
Foto: Doc. astudio

1. How to tips on mixing colors to match interior design, especially for young professionals who have a family? Can be explained according to the architectural style of the house?
Tips for young professionals to families, as young people, it is advisable to use the appropriate style of architecture with the young people, such as modern style. Colors can be used also colors that tend to be more daring, like the pastel colors of yellow, red, green. Color can be used to indicate the various personalities, such as red for bravery, the green color to an appreciation of nature, of yellow color to the impression of warm sunshine. Interior designers usually required in design with bold colors, because colors are a bit difficult padannya unified. If you want a more soothing atmosphere in the house, could use pastel colors derived from natural colors, like white-green, beige (orange derivatives), and combined with the natural color of materials, such as the brown wood or rock material with original colors.

For those who have a family, usually the desire of each family member differently. Parents usually like the colors that tend to be quiet, such as beige, white, brown. This is because their personalities are more mature and like a comfortable home for the whole family.

Sleeping room with a blend of cheerful colors and neutral colors. Furniture brown dominant part gives the impression of cold and exclusive.
Foto: Doc. astudio

Children and adolescents usually choose colors bold and full of fantasy, which is reflected in the color of their bedroom. They tend to choose a very strong color, the original colors, such as children and adolescent boys chose red accent with pictures that show their personality. Girls chose blue accent a room filled with dolls. Strong color can not be present throughout the room, but on one wall only, the line on the wall, or accessories accent the room.

2. How to tips for choosing and combining colors to deal with small spaces?

To get around the narrow room, use the colors of light, for example, greenish white, creamy white, broken white. This is because the impression is more relieved to see bright colors rather than dark or dull colors. Dark colors tend to shorten the impression of the room, so it looks more narrow.

Colors such as white, broken white, ivory as these examples may give the impression residential area, so suitable for a small house.
Foto: Doc. astudio

Similarly, the furniture, try not to use furniture that big, because it filled the room. Use a small and compact furniture, such as the chairs of stainless steel metal frame, or the chair of the transparent resin material (glass seats) are quite popular lately. Space trinkets too small and slim cultivated. One more, to extend the impression of space, use a high ceiling, which is also useful to make the room cooler.

3. Does interior design styles are popular this year?

This year, the architectural style is still popular minimalist style, modern tropical style, and a growing contemporary style. Minimalist-style house was still quite attractive, especially for those who are youthful. Modern tropical style chosen for many public awareness is higher on healthy homes and sensitive to tropical climate. Contemporary style is the style that tends to grow without affected by the existing trend, because the desire to explore various aspects of design.

In these modern times, where daily life is much influenced by modern culture, we can listen to a trend that started a lot of architecture present in residential buildings, namely ethnic style trends. In etymology (language), ethnic populations with a common meaning in the culture, the ancestors or certain habits. In this case, ethnic architectural style is to adopt the local culture of Indonesia. These days we often find a house or housing design that carries ‘ethnic style’ as the prime force.

What is ethnic styles?
What trends include ethnic styles? Balinese architectural styles including the popular ethnic styles. This is not surprising, because Bali is a pleasant tourist destination and famous, and have the scenery, resorts and facilities are looking for refreshing many people. Bali always remind us of the resort, recreation, resorts, beaches and virgin forests with unique social life.

Trends in other ethnic styles such as Java-style, as well as local styles such as the home stage of Borneo, Sumatra, Papua and other regions have shapes and special ornaments that can make our home more unique. Trends in ethnic style is already experiencing a shift from the traditional style of the real in our society. If we include modern people with modern lifestyles, we tend to use design with a modern design approach.

What kind of modern design in homes that? Well, first I want to compare it with the traditional home design. Have you recall, you probably never go to a place in the village and visit the house that looks traditional enough? Usually houses still adhere didesa customs in managing the home. Such as the living room to the front, the kitchen should be behind. Marquee welcomed visitors who came to the house. This is called the hierarchy, or sequence of spaces that are always used by homes whose residents still adhere to customs.

The houses are designed with ‘approach’ typically modern hierarchies no longer hold as traditional houses, even the arrangement of the space is free. Spaces constructed only when needed, and there is no obligation placed on the spaces where. The kitchen could be in front, behind the bedroom could own, not the bathroom to hide, even become part of modern lifestyle.

In modern home design; kitchen could be in the front of the house
Because the principle of ‘form follows function’, a cool expressed as a ‘form follow function’ expressed by renowned modern architect Louis Sullivan, the kitchen can be the front house, because the choice of the occupants of the house. Modern lifestyle that requires rapid, practical and functional allows things like; kitchen should be in front. Imagine a situation: for example you are all busy families. The father had to work, her mother worked too, the kids busy school or college. So the morning is the most busy time, and the breakfast had to be made quickly, so that finally placed in front of the kitchen.

This is just one example of how the modern lifestyle now can affect the way we live and ultimately affect the design of our homes. Actually, many other examples, such as starting a lot of people no longer need a living room, because the land the house is narrow and they rarely receive visitors.

Adopting ethnic style in a modern house
Ethnic style later adopted in homes today as a style of architecture, such as ‘Java-style house’, ‘Bali-style house’, and so on. This means; arrangement and design of house plans are still adhering to the needs of modern life (space-space functionally arranged, simple, and follow the requirements), while adopting the style of a traditional house; that a new genre emerged in residential architecture, ie, house ethnic style

Ethnic-themed furniture, which is unique in our house.
(photo; Probo Hindarto, astudio)

Ethnic-themed statues like this can also be a very interesting elements to beautify our homes.
(photo; Probo Hindarto, astudio)

Ethnic style does not have to appear in full in the residence. Many people think; display accessories and ornaments ethnic-themed home decorations also support an ethnic style. For example, we happen to have a minimalist style house, and when we walk in Borneo, we find an ethnic-style statues that seemed interesting. Then we were bought and displayed in our house minimalist, this means we’ve tried to integrate ethnic styles with a modern style. Various accessories and ethnic-style jewelry are now widely seen, such as ethnic-style paintings, statues ethnic theme, such as statues of Java, Asmat statue, and so on. Also fabric elements, such as batik, traditional fabrics can also be used as an accent, for example, put it in place of a painting, or used as a tablecloth, put on the back of the chair as an accent, and so on.

Ethnic style even more profound, can be applied to the ornament or decoration of the house. For example we like ornaments or decorations on a typical wood Sumatra, and then we apply it to the wood of our homes, as in lisplank (wood under the roof), timber on the porch supports, and so on. Ornaments or decorations can be applied more freely.

Conformity with the modern lifestyle
Does ethnic style with modern life? Actually, if we sort out these ethnic styles back from the daily life in the homeland, of course, quite appropriate, we use ethnic style. The reason is because we are still people in Indonesia are proud of our tradition. Shows that we are still ‘the Indonesia’, although we have a modern enough.

Vases like this, which still has a ’sense of ethnic’ can be combined with the sweet with the modern-style house
(photo; Iyal Fahri, SAMM)

This means we are still happy and has the identity as an Indonesian. Moreover, we do not have to wear ethnic style ‘heavy’ is not it? The things that light-light just as a unique decorative painting themed ethnic or ethnic-themed sculpture could be a very interesting display in a room in our house, like the foyer, living room, bedrooms, and so on.

Maybe a month ago, in an occasion attended a presentation where the majority of the students and employees are housing developers, I’m talking about simple ways to be more responsive home environment. In urban areas, less land, so land prices up which resulted in more and more people trouble to buy a house. Impact; number of occupants in a house to rise as an increase in the number of family members, and other factors are contributing to the natural conditions that have been disrupted.

If at this time we can have a house, it is the grace and luxury that we’re grateful for, especially if the house we live in is a healthy home. What are the elements that should be considered in designing the layout plan and arrangement of space for a healthy home?

The first thing to note is the area of healthy homes, must meet at least basic human needs for healthy activity, in this case means to perform activities normally in the room, not too small or too big. Of course, we still often hear many of our brothers who live in less capable or less worthy condition in which the houses are narrow because of economic factors are less supportive.

According to the Indonesian National Standard (SNI), needs space to house an inmate is 9m2, with a 7.2 m2 threshold. So for example a planned house inhabited by 4 people, then the area should house no less than 36m2. However, we know that the residential area of 36 square meters are occupied by narrow enough for 4 people.

If the home is planned to be added to rooms in the level, do not forget to strengthen the foundation and structural support columns to be built on two levels. This is to avoid the additional costs of having to dismantle the existing construction.

The arrangement of the room can affect our impression of these spaces. Bedroom with bathroom adjacent to a different ‘feel’ when compared with matched dining room. Smart spatial layout in this case including how to activities such as the bathroom does not interfere with the dining room, at least with the distance away.

Spatial planning should also be noted that there are no spaces that poor fresh air, dark, and so on. Avoid corner rooms with a sharp angle because this space is not effective and not in accordance with the general standard of furniture rectangular or round. Connect the ventilation and the windows of each room with a garden front, side or garden in the house for change of air. Spaces that can be linked as living room, family room and dining room does not need to be insulated wall to allow air to flow more freely.

To maximize natural lighting, we should provide windows enough, at least 5% of the room. In addition, the space can be wall paint or finishing material to the atmosphere light bright enough space when opening the window a bit limited.

Spaces that require water such as kitchens, bathrooms, sinks and the like should be grouped in an area adjacent to sanitation is more efficient because the pipes can be incorporated. Similarly, with a bathroom above and below, should be in the same vertical area (the bathroom is a bathroom above the bottom) so that if there is any leakage, simply wet the affected area.