Update the Exterior Paint Color

Ideal home is not only able to suggest interesting, also has an attractive exterior design. Paint on exterior walls, roofs, and fences come play.

Each color of paint can create an impression that we want. We know the colors like brown, white, blue, green, and so can cause a different impression. That is why, determine an appropriate color for occupancy is required.

Take the example of tropical nuances. You who want a theme design can choose the color green exterior, or combined with a color gradation. While for the house is minimalist, the application of gray or brown. Soft colors are able to give the impression of a tiny area of the dwelling.

Choosing paint for the exterior becomes more difficult because of walls, fences, or roofs will often intersect with the outside weather and climate. One chose the paint, attractive appearance on the exterior of your home certainly would not last long. If it this way, the process of painting will be in vain.

In addition to weather-related, the selection of exterior paint must also consider aesthetics. You certainly do not want the facade of your home look unattractive because one choose paint colors, right? If the problem is to paint the exterior walls of your house is dull, do repainting could be the solution. To do so, is highly dependent on the wall surface to be painted.

New wall paint (aged less than one month) is different from painting the walls of the old ways. New walls are still filled with pores that can suck the paint. Therefore, to save the paint, we recommend that your new wall lining the walls with water-base sealer or solvent base of good quality.

Once coated, the surface of the wall will become more smooth, flat, and ready to be painted. Before doing the painting, notice the humidity caused by the wall material used as a mixture of basic material of the wall.

Instead the old wall, much less frequently painted, the pores are closed so sometimes difficult to stick to fresh paint and looks bloated. If you find that you want to replace the old paint with new paint, either with the same or different colors, you should first keroklah entire surface of the paint was peeling off the walls. Sand the entire surface of the wall next to the remnants of old paint worn out. Then clean with a damp cloth and dry.

Clean the wall surface must be completely clean of dust and other dirt. Brush base paint on wall surfaces. You can use a roller. It’s just one layer. Allow to dry approximately 1-2 hours. Mix of exterior paint with water as much as 10 percent of the paint.

Stir until well blended. Pour in the bathtub to paint. Dip the roller into the paint, then scroll roller at the surface until the paint does not drip. For the final step, brush the paint on the wall surface.

Use a brush to paint the walls or trim the edge. After the first coat dries (2-3 hours), continue to paint the second layer over first layer. Also, if you have a problem peeling paint, you can fix it in a way repainted. In order for maximum results, you better do it in one time. Exterior wall paint (exterior) that peeling occurs because early treatment is wrong.

Therefore, the final paint layer can not be strong glue. Actually you can do to prevent the peeling paint with no pretreatment before painting. Perform the entire painting process correctly, including selecting an appropriate paint. In addition, despite using a special paint exterior, we recommend retaining the base paint to paint the end of a strong glue.

Base paint also helps prevent attacks contained in the alkali-water mixture semenpasir (wall-forming material). Before giving the basic paint, the wall must be completely dry and clean. Paint the wall with one color should be done within a one-time execution. Before the paint on all surfaces polished walls, do not stop so that the color is no different.

Cozy Guest Room

The living room is a public area that is often seen people outside the household. Thus, the arrangement should be as good as possible so they can become focal points of occupancy.

There are some things to consider before you set up the room. The first is a function of the space, whether to be used as living room, family room or other space? Therefore, occupancy is comprised of several rooms.

If you already know the function of that space is a living room, the second step of determining the concept of space. Concepts or themes that were taken tended to follow major themes of the house. For example classical or Mediterranean.

After that, you can determine those things that support this concept, one decorative element. In designing a room requires a balance between functionality, concepts, and supporting elements are formed so that the space looks nice and comfortable.

Thus, application of furniture, decorations, or accessories in the living room area should be more careful because the laying of furniture in determining the comfort room. You must be good at determining the needs of the space. You do this by making a comparison between the furniture and the proportion of air circulation and light into the room.

If the room is small, it is better to minimize the furniture that you can eat a lot of places. Because, furniture that is too large or many impressive rooms would be full. For example, you can use the couch with the holder of four seats. The mount is designed for guests and the rest for the hosts.

In contrast to the living room in size, certainly needed the right quantities so that the room couch so not impressed too roomy. You can select a set complete with a sofa table.

Principle, to make room to be comfortable and appropriate, the important thing is how do you change a small space seem not to be too narrow and wide spaces do not become too roomy. That way, there is a balance in that space.

In addition to space requirements, you must also consider the character of the space in question. You do this by viewing the concept or theme that is carried by the housing.  Clasic, Mediterranean, or a minimalist? If the room has shades of classic characters, you can apply to the use of furniture and accessories are also undeniably a classic.

The main element is the interior walls, floors and ceilings. To get an impression of a comfortable dwelling, you should be able to combine these three main elements. After that, you can apply the furniture selection was based on three elements.

There are two kinds of walls, the interior walls and exterior walls. Well, we’re talking about this time of course because it deals with the interior wall of the living room. You can create a beautiful impression on dinding. There’s only painted using paint interior walls, some are using wallpaper. Wallpaper increasingly popular because of their use of simple and practical.

This wallpaper can be used as a differentiator antarruang who do not have a separator. To display colors on the walls, actually choosing wall paint is very easy. You already know the origin of the colors that stand out in the living room. For example, a sofa that you use the red, while yellow accessories.

You can create gradations of color by combining two colors so that it produces a lot of bright colors derivative. The colors that you can select and apply on the parlor wall. Moving on to the floor. Besides used as a foothold, first floor room also serves as an attractor.

To make the floor into a comfortable and unique, there are many choices of materials, coatings, and floor accessories. One of the carpet. Normally used as floor coverings, carpet, but later changed to the extent the function of an accent.

Carpet has two functions. First as floor coverings, both as a floor accent. So placement of the carpet only partially in certain areas. For example, the carpet is used only at the bench and coffee table.

Floors can also be artistic impression through the application of ceramic or marble-patterned and no. For example tile Dutch era.

In addition to containing the value of history, the Dutch tiles are also able to give the impression of coolness in the dwelling. The ceiling, serves as a barrier between the roof space and space that we use everyday.

The most common problem is the ceiling height in a residential or too low. To anticipate it, use an accent can cover the deficiency.

Suppose the living room ceiling is too high. You can use horizontal lines are useful accent to disguise it so that the impression of the high ceiling is missing. Vice versa, the ceiling is too low can be disguised by a vertical line accents.

Care for the Environment with Eco Friendly Furniture

Environmental care can be started from the things around your home. One of them choose the furniture that was environmentally friendly (eco-friendly). From alternative materials to recycling. Actually, what categories that make an eco-friendly furniture?

The context that is often raised about eco-friendly furniture is making its resources, how the processing, finishing it, until the application.

If the matter of supplying raw materials, manufacture, and user-friendly, environmentally friendly things, that the new total. User-friendly furniture is available in your home should be ergonomic. Easy to use, maintenance, and of course does not contain toxins (toxic) that can harm you. Thus, eco-friendly furniture and equipment can not be separated from the use of natural materials.

From about the supply of raw materials such as wood, to note what the timber was obtained legally and there? ‘Moral responsibility’. To avoid being denuded of forest, there must be replanted. “The developing countries still rely on natural resources such as wood, water hyacinth, straw, grass can dikreasikan finished furniture.

But, the problem is setting back its investments in order to continue to be utilized. In addition, the processing does not produce waste harmful to living beings and the environment (no pollutants). One of the process is finishing. Do not use chemicals containing toxic pollutants. Now, what about you? You can? ‘Go green”by choosing sustainable furniture that can be tested for resistance alias so not quickly discarded.

Green design should be sustainable and efficient, do not be wasteful. Care must be eco-friendly furniture and equipment made for durability. You also do not solely rely on wood materials. Wood can be substituted with other materials. Roof frame made of mild steel can be selected. However, any goods of mine would have gone well if exploited because the only important use.

Instead of old traditional houses can be an inspiration because it is very environmentally friendly. For example a multifunctional bamboo. From the roof to the walls on furniture, can be made from bamboo. The bamboo plants that grow relatively fast.

So, what about the plastic? Plastics do need a very long time to decompose by nature.

But no problems during the process because the synthetic pollutants are not also serve as an alternative source of material nature. For example, the frame of aluminum furniture is made in such a way that is very similar to rattan.