Selecting The Right Tile

Selecting the type of tile is very important when trying to build a house. With so many styles and models currently available tiles, you may have problems deciding what exactly you want and need.

Selection of tiles are things that must be considered in structuring a room because the tile that you apply will probably be used for the rest of the house. Moreover, tile is one element of building a house and determine the identity of a dwelling. Tiles can build the look, feel, and a certain atmosphere in a room.

Therefore, choosing the right tile not only provide comfort for family members and endurance usage, but also complements the overall style of your home. And indeed, choosing tile material is not as easy as turning the palm of the hand. Unlike buying furniture, selecting and installing tiles need to be well thought out. Although in the end you still going to buy tiles for consideration of the needs and desires.

Style and the total budget you have is a determining factor when it narrowed the choice of tile model.

Specify these parameters and think about the room where you will install the tile. What do you want to see, how many tiles are widely used, and how often the room is crossed by a family member. For most people, care and strength of the floor is also an important factor when making decisions.

For starters, set the range of costs that you have and begin to evaluate design options and the advantages of each tile. If you do not plan to install the tile yourself, do not forget to include the installation cost into the total cost of the purchase of tile material.

Be sure to explore non-traditional choice of tile types. For example, modern tile types and styles, such as a vinyl floor that has a strong staying power, reasonably priced, and easy in maintenance, which will last for years.

However, whatever tile you choose, should be able to blend with the overall style of your home, whether it be Victorian, country, traditional, contemporary, or eclectic. Different room, different tiles are also used. At the entrance of the house and garage should use a tile that has a high durability. Tiles of stone is the right choice. Do not forget to give a mat at the entrance to prevent ingress of water and dirt from outside the room so it helps you keep the floor clean. For the bedroom, you should use a tile that is comfortable to bare feet.

The carpet can be the right choice if you are looking for comfort walking with bare feet. The rooms are frequently exposed to water such as laundry room and bathroom tiles should use a waterproof. Wood is not recommended in this room because it will be easily destroyed. The size of the space where you plan to install tile is also important to match your overall home design. Small-sized tiles will look crowded in a large room, while the design with a large model would be too “meet” a small space.

Meanwhile, the tile material from natural materials such as slate, stone, bamboo, and wood, is attracting the attention of many homeowners. Tiles of natural materials is one other option besides the tile installation process that uses modern technology. Recent technological advances generally offer the best of both types of tile installation, including fashionable colors and realistic textures, combined with unmatched durability, comfort, functionality, ease of care, and affordable prices.

When choosing tile, you should also consider how to model these tiles are resistant to various conditions, such as direct sunlight, water spills, scratches the furniture, a variety of dirt, footprints, and cleanup activities. Natural materials like wood or ceramic proved more fragile than the other options offered on the floor with modern technology. So, if you really love the wood, but know that will be fitted with tiled rooms including a room that is often entered and traversed, we recommend you install the laminate, namely coating tiles with a motif that resembles the original material was created intentionally.

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.

East Meet West in the Interior

Philosophy of east meet west in a dwelling into a single right choice for the majority of the Urban. Marriage east and west that is entered on a range of eclectic styles. Own eclectic style known in terms of interior as the style gado-gado, which is a blend of diverse sense of style.

Although the spatial consists of various styles or materials, but the style remained eclectic can appear attractive, even boring. The atmosphere of space can be created so as to comply with what you want.

There is no standard pattern for arranging style east meet west, or eclectic interior design in a residential setting.

Because the eclectic style that consists of several western and eastern cultures taken. So there is no fixed rule which states how to combine a few styles.

Indonesia’s eclectic style has been around since the era of Javanese kingdom because of the trade relations of cooperation with other countries. So the elements of culture from both countries to collaborate with each other and produce an eclectic style.

East meet west style can be seen in the presence of the statue of cupid in the middle of a fight with a fish pond Mangkunegaran front. Similarly, China’s plates on the wall that can be easily found in Cirebon.

That condition ultimately affects all areas. Culture eat with a spoon and fork obtained from western culture. In addition, eating patterns on the floor to sit is also influenced by western culture.

In order to create an impression that can be achieved, it must be the right pick padupadan style that will be used. Because of space as a reference design, each style will be used will affect the overall look of the chosen design.

In choosing the style of east meet west to the interior, you should not mix and match the style used in the home. This was done so that the interior arrangement was not crowded.

So that order can be in harmony with the residential interior design, color selection is also very influential in every room arrangement is used. Use basic colors for the whole space (based color), to neutralize the other supporting elements.

Alloy style decorative elements can be derived from a blend of several models of furniture or furniture with decorative elements. Also note also the composition of the arrangement, both furniture and decorative elements.

The order, by combining a solid color sofa with pillows can also combine an antique or more soft material color with decorative material.

East meet west do not have all crowded. Like eating tool which is west style, if you want to look further east can be equipped with flatware decorated puppets.

Merging Guest and Family Room

Merging the two functions is the trick sniper space get around the limitations in a residential area.

Today, with increasingly limited land available for housing in urban areas, would require the existence of efficiency in utilizing existing land. For downtown areas with high population density and land prices are relatively expensive, tend to require the use of buildings or vertically upward.

Limited land and high land prices also make the developers to develop housing with small types with a room size of course more limited.

Furthermore, this will lead us in an optimization strategy space utilization in both houses in urban areas or in the suburbs who has a narrow land. Similarly, maximum use of space required and effectively as possible so it can be used for everyday activities.

Merging the living room and family room is a double room used as family rooms.

More precisely here is the family room is also used as a living room. Because of limited space, then based on usage priorities we abolish the function of the living room and converted or diverted and provided together with the family room.

Why would this be and deserve to be done? Actually there are some fundamental reasons that justify this. First, the level of the family busy. As has become customary and fairness in the family when the husband and wife both working for a living and live in the suburbs or out of town. So at noon home tend to empty and occupied only a servant.

Second, if you want a meeting with a friend or relative then carried out near the workplace or elsewhere and not at home to stay because I got home at night and tend to the physical condition was too tired.

Third, traffic is relatively low room because each person has their own busy, do not have much time to ngerumpi and more rarely socialize with neighbors and visited each other more social activities conducted outside the home.

Fourth, people who come to visit the house and allowed to go tend to those who have known or family member that there is no privacy boundaries are strict and can be used as a family room where the recipient.

Fifth, for environmental matters such as the RT bill dues or monthly fees on the front porch done enough and need not be brought inside.

Combinations such as this have been common and widely used in apartment environment. Based on these things, a merger between the family room that integrates with the living room is the right choice and is very realistic for the home that has limited space available.

Because accommodate two functions, then we will prioritize the main function more or use more often named as the family room.

In order for the above plans can work well, we can do several things as follows. First, replace the function of a living room with terrace.

So we should take advantage of the front porch is equipped with seats that can be used to receive guests, especially the neighbors around or for environmental affairs.

Second, create a transition area between the front porch and in the space. We create a more private boundary between outer space in this deck and interior space. For example with the following solid wall or a small window may also be a small space as a buffer area or buffer in the form of the foyer.

Third, make furniture or TV rack multifunctional. This furniture should have a compact size and even if the doors can be hidden, disguised, or opened and closed.

So if there are guests who come, the screen will not be seen tvnya directly by the hotel.

Fourth, put the furniture a comfortable lounge chair according to its function. With the main function as a family room, the chairs to be used should also be used for watching TV.

Or even we can also use the sofa bed as a chair but in the model that is suited to our style and proportions of the room.

Residential Organizing with Aesthetics Feeling

The design of the contents of a room is basically dependent on the existing activities in space itself. This activity gave birth to the need for interior elements that must exist in space. Furniture whatever is necessary, element complement what is needed, until the accessory what you want to set.

After knowing the needs of space, we must also consider how to select items such as furniture, complementary elements, and interior accessories, as well as thinking about how to set it on in each room. This is where the aesthetics of big plays.

Aesthetics is one of the important elements that set the house so the house has a charming appearance, certainly after the aspects of functionality and comfort have been achieved well. The word comes from the aesthetics or aesthetic Aesthetics English meaning of beauty or good taste.

The beauty of it is abstract and relative (subjective), because it’s good for someone is not necessarily good for another. However, it does not mean there are no standard norms in the sense of the beautiful. For in an aesthetic covering a good division of space, the arrangement of composition, proportion, color selection, motif and a good balance.

If all these elements have been met, then depending on the tastes of each audience.

According to him, one thing that can be used as a concrete example in arranging housing with an aesthetic is a living room equipped with a three seater sofa set with side table that is placed on the right and left. In the middle of the table arranged symmetrically and one detail (the series).

In fact, the arrangement of artwork in the form of painting that hung over the sofa is made with the size, theme and color matching with the whole order of other space-forming element. No lag, no wallpaper is selected yhang with a matching motif.

If the example above is applied in occupancy, the calculation of composition and balance in space have formed a residential aesthetic. However, not only to the extent that it was necessary in managing the residential character and owner personality.

At the final touch, the lighting arrangement in space will give a dramatic effect and balance (equilibrium) of a dwelling.

Lighting in the room will help illuminate the places that become the focal point of attention (private collection, a painting, or sculpture), according to lighting systems used. Plant lights, spotlights, chandeliers, table lamp and floor lamps can create a dramatization of the effects of space atmosphere is different.