Beautify Your Balcony

The presence of a balcony can give a more interesting look at residential. Its presence can also distinguish your home with a neighbor’s house.

However, to create an attractive appearance, the balcony should be designed and built carefully.

First, balcony only be used as the upper chamber of the remaining space. Now the concept has evolved balcony, which became an integral part of the building, which functioned to facilitate the entry of light in the space above and to beautify the building.

As an additional element to beautify the building, the balcony railing should be built together with the appropriate design of the architecture. For the minimalist home architecture design, material of railing that used should be as simple as possible such as log railings.

Meanwhile, for the modern home, the use of an iron railing profile or motif that is heavier and a lot of accents in the form of semi-curved end of the balcony. The house with the concept of country, more stylish dark balcony with the use of materials from wood which expose a flash of that, such as rustic railings is suitable with the concept.

Typically, a balcony that used to beautify buildings were smaller and there’s no interior. Balcony to beautify occupancy is usually placed under the upper floor bedroom or family room located in the direction above.

TheĀ  balcony that used as a terrace, laying the interior is highly recommended so that the balcony is not empty and can be used to relax as well as a terrace in general function. Laying the interior that was better adapted to the architectural design of buildings and owner’s tastes.

In addition, to add a beautiful balcony and makes it more shady, you can decorate the balcony with additional plants. The presence of plants would soften the harsh elements on the balcony.

Plants in pots kind of reed or palms are easy to absorb water can also be used as another option as long as it do not select broadleaf plants as potentially inviting dust. You must be diligent care. Do not let the plant displays a form that is not interesting when viewed as too shady, wilt, or even die because you neglected to flush or cut it.

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.

Giving the Personal Touch in Room

Many problems that arise when moving into second homes. One of the design is not in accordance with our desires. What should you do?

After your home or occupy new houses built in the area of housing, you do not have to necessarily use the existing space in accordance with the allotment. Often we have a desire to utilize the space with a different function from what we have planned.

You can improvise and be creative to design and utilize the space a family needs. That way, the space can function more optimally. You can change a child’s bedroom into a library or reading room if you do not have kids. Or it could also create a work space and studio in the garage if you want to open a business at home. Change the barn or the attic in the studio as a reading room and library can also be done if it had become our family’s needs.

So, you can change the allocation of existing spaces with dialihfungsikannya to better suit our needs. Changes in the function room will also need to be supported by a touch of art to be more personal and gives a sense of comfort to the wearer.

Here are some ways that we can do to provide personal taste in the room:

Creating a focal point in a room, so there is one major point when you or someone else came into the room and make it the center of attention.

Laying the credenza, console or Chest combined with table lamps, artwork and vases. Later in the walls we can hang the mirror, painting, or small pictures of our family.

Accessories. Set laying decorative ornamental articles in the closet or cupboard shelves below the TV with a variety of accessories such as ornamental plants, books, vases, candlesticks, picture or photo, and others.

Put your own artwork and arrange furniture around or inserted into the furniture (big and sizes of course depend on your furniture) that can be combined in different ways setting the proportions, symmetry, and balance / balance. To create the impression of vast and airy, you can paint the ceiling with white color and put a mirror, both as a display or as an artificial wall.

Use the room layout setting is not standardized. Diagonal system and the V shape to the family room will form a non-standard room and more personal. This needs to be adjusted to the proportions of the room.

Additional furniture. Provide additional Around the goods remain in your home like a couch and coffee table. You can put the ottoman (the little chair in front of the chair seat), adding that given the accent rug, add a table lamp or floor lamps and other accessories. Find a box or crate that is still worthy of the former used to be repainted and given a personal touch. We can use it as a desk lamp or a small table in the corner. Cover with a cloth or pad with a glass in order to merge with another room. To be better, you can cover or coating to fabric, leather, or woven bonded by glue. This will save time and easily performed.

The shelves under the windows can be used also to put a decoration or to save the book. Better yet if it can be used as a chair or sit on (if your room is narrow), used primarily for sleeping space. Another alternative is laying beside the window can also put a small cupboard or shelf in the corner.

You can also put the homemade creations goods in your space, like a painting that you paint yourself or a place to keep your cat re umbrella. Place a pencil or bins are given a colorful and motifs that match your preferences. Plaited or knitted, embroidered or parents of your creation can also be displayed. Surely after being given a frame to suit the theme of your room. For the curtains or blinds, you can create a hanger or fabric using your favorite colors to suit the theme of the room. Electoral system used in the cover and hanger will be better to give your room a personal touch.

Create a display. You can create display cases at a given wall lamp on it in order to display your collection. Gather a collection of the goods or toys you are small and enter into a display box, for example, a collection of stuffed cloth / paper and a collection of souvenirs from the region or abroad. Do not get too full of stuff in it because it will be chaotic and untidy impression. Enough about three to five items only to goods that appear more prominent.

Review the contents of your room as well as accessories. Think and look for unique items, about which not to attract attention and not used according to their function. You can put stuff in the family room to make it more useful.

Presenting Minibar in the House

Minibar is not a common design for residential Indonesia. However, its presence can be optimized and multifunctional.

Minibar is usually identical to the presentation of alcoholic beverages. However, its function can now be changed or tailored to the needs of individual residents. For example, where drinking coffee at breakfast or relax with guests who are not too formal.

Minibar is one place where the location to entertain guests placed adjacent to the dining room, pantry and family room. Minibar presence will add a casual and relaxed atmosphere within the home.

The atmosphere is related to the atmosphere of the bar association as a place to chill and relax to relieve fatigue even though not everyone agreed. However, it was difficult to change the image that already.

Minibar is an imitation or a more simple shape of the bar. In fact, sometimes also used to refer to a mini fridge or freezer that is used to store beverage cans or bottles. Although an adaptation of Western culture and not an indigenous Indonesian culture, presented in the minibar is a normal house.

Particularly if we are frequent and many foreigners who have a close partnership with the alcohol culture. However, for those who do not fit into the culture, then we can make adaptations or adjustments that are more suitable to our culture by also providing nonalkohol drinks.

Minibar can be made in the form of the presentation of the form table with chairs shaped legged stool or a tall and usually can be played. Similarly, in the sequel for the sake of pursuing efficiency in the room, the minibar are combined with a pantry.

Used as a place to store drinks in the fridge and a glass or cup in the cabinet and shelves. Form of the chair can be a foot stool that has a higher than normal dining chairs. Height of his desk was still not changed. With so still higher than normal pantry table. So made a different altitude or trap between two tables.

Function becomes more effective and efficient because not only can be used to prepare beverages, can also be used to prepare a snack or breakfast. The force used in making the minibar is typically follows the style of the existing house and tailored to the overall home furnishings. Is the modern minimalist style, classical and Mediterranean.

The material used was nothing too specific, just dipadupadankan with existing furniture in the vicinity. For a minimalist style, it can use the wood for the chairs with granite or marble as a material desk.

Or use a combination of stainless steel material and glass or granite as a lid. What is important, the material has a slippery surface and easily cleaned. For a classic, can use a combination of wood with marble and wood, wrought iron and natural stone as an accent or marble for a stylish Mediterranean.

The minibar form itself has a diverse selection. Shape adjusted to the shape of the room available and potential use. Can form the letter C, letter L, the letter I and the letter U which depend on each location in the house. However, more often placed adjacent to the pantry table and family room for easy circulation. The location can be placed in a corner or an area that stands alone.

The important thing is easily visible and accessible from various locations in the house. To minibar combined with pantry area and the area used for breakfast, usually for a table has two heights. Table for his work area pantry has 85 cm height and a table for presentation has a height of about 92.5 cm so that the guests or family members who sat on a chair or stool can eat and drink comfortably.

While for the drink, can use hanging racks and shelves that can be accessed from two directions and is transparent. With so easier for users to pick it up. Yet that is widely used is the use of filing cabinets with glass lid protects it from dirt and dust.

Ethnic Modern Interior

Bored with a minimalist style? Mix and match various styles can be a solution. For example modern concept and ethnic houses. Two opposing design style, but the results can be amazing.

Ethnicity is a modern-style house that evolved from the minimalist concept with additional ethnic. Therefore, modern style with ethnic meant modern design house style, but still contains the traditional elements. Traditional elements is only limited to the design.

Usually ethnic style that is often used to the concept of home is a Java and Bali. Even if there Dayak style and so forth, that’s rare.

According to him, ethnicity is more popular than Java, Bali style. The analysis comes from the image of Bali, close to the feel of a vacation that provides a psychological effect on residents recreation.

If Java is because residents usually prefer the style of Java, an impression that arises is also close to luxury. Luxury that is caused by several ethnic Javanese furniture with known expensive. For example teak wood, Jepara carving, and so forth.

Modern ethnic designs houses are also not difficult, you just need to design the house as usual, because we’ve been in modern times is not it? This means in terms of the arrangement and design blueprints of the house keeping habits of our daily needs.

Space-space arranged in such a way as to make functional, simple, and follow the needs of its inhabitants. Because this time, the pattern of human thought always wanted an instant, efficient, and multifunctional so that reflected in home design.

For example the kitchen, if used should be in the house behind the kitchen, bathroom, too. Watch it now developers are not reluctant to put the position of the bathroom near the family room. Because the design of the bathroom itself alone is very artistic.

In terms of architectural design, the concept of ethnicity does not have to appear completely in residence. Analogues such as this, if your home is a modern style you want to add elements of ethnicity, it is not necessary to revamp or a major restructuring. Simply by giving the ornaments, ornaments or knick-knacks ethnic, easy is not it?

Compositions can be 50:50 or 75:25, depending on your tastes, just a little better because of the ethnic composition of more modern styles tend to be simple. While ethnicity is very complicated, if combined with a portion of the same ethnic styles will be more conspicuous.

This will result in even tend ethnic house style, not modern ethnic. However, it returned to your taste as executor of the design. Would you like to emphasize ethnic or just ornaments complement.

The next tips, display accessories and home decor-themed ornaments also have ethnic support an ethnic style. It deals with the proportion of 75-25 earlier.

Thus, the ethnic only slightly but still can provide the right nuance. Suppose you have a very minimalist style house. However, when you’re traveling out of town, such as North Sumatra, you want to buy ulos cloth so it could not hurt to be used as wall hangings.

When displayed, the ethnic element is already a part of your home. Staying added with other ethnic decorations only, then your home can certainly be said of modern ethnic.