Mirror Sparkle Again
Decoration May 21st, 2010
The mirror is one common element in the home interior.
Mirror is able to make a space appear more elegant,
besides making room look more spacious. Then, what if your mirrors sparkle fade?
There are cheaper ways and easy.
Apply glass surface with toothpaste thoroughly and let stand 15 minutes.
After that clean the glass mirror with a half wet flannel,
or other types of soft cloth and not stringy. Wipe it clean,
and clean up the remnants of toothpaste that still clung to a dry flannel cloth.
Your mirror will shine again, just in an instant.
Minimalist Houses
Home Improvement May 21st, 2010
HOUSE minimalist style of architecture is a building that was a trend in the metropolis. Architectural buildings, including houses minimalist, is the choices of architectural form as a result of culture. Not just me-too talkative trends.
MINIMALIST is the pattern of thinking, working, and a way of life. A new way of looking at design as a reflection of how urban life is very practical, lightweight, efficient, and management simplicity.
The house also comes with a minimalist character more clearly (forms and geometric space, simple), better (stronger), and stronger with the spaces blank (a little ornaments and furniture). The simple principle, the quality of design, space, and the resolution of the structure must be getting better. John Pawson is regarded as a teacher “minimalism” to bring home a minimal design lines, the atmosphere is quiet and beautiful.
However, it should be noted too minimalist would be sterile, single-way, and tend to be boring. For that we need to understand together how the development of minimalist home base in the context of our urban culture.
Was always a minimal form of a simple box or there is another form? Minimalist form of house does not always have a simple box, but also the shape of Platonic geometry can be part of the landscape that “suddenly” came up. However, if the house is only necessary form of boxes, the box shape is the result of a process function needs, not because of coercion or talkative follow trends.
The minimum is the ultimate ornament. Minimum a goal in itself and ornaments are simple and pure (simple and pure). Straight lines, flat areas are smooth, sometimes rough, and meeting all of the elbow perpendicular. Blocking mass, materials, lighting, repetition, circulation compact, multifunctional space optimization and sequential.
What type of materials used should be as little as possible? Use of a variety of materials such as wood, brick, stone, glass, exposed concrete, or steel can also appear pure. Exposure to the dominance of certain materials would produce effects different. Design and calculations of detail structure can save the use of materials with the optimum structure.
Resolutions from the floor, walls, doors, windows, vents, skylights, ceiling, up to the roof, with a combination of consistent use of materials. Framework of (concrete, steel), walls (glass, wood, concrete plain / exposure, steel, stone, brick, hebel, brick), doors and windows (wood, metal), stairs (concrete, steel, wood, fiberglass) , skylights (fiberglass), floor (cement, terrazzo, ceramic, marble, parquet), ceiling (plywood, gypsum) or without a ceiling (exposed concrete, exposed steel roof truss, wood) and roof (tile, shingle, steel).
The use of bright colors (red, orange, yellow) in some areas of exposure will strengthen minimalist home accents and make it the focus of the environment.
IS architecture minimalist house was cheap because of the word minimum?
Does it build a minimalist house must be expensive? For young couples or young executives who seek a minimalist house as a symbol of the life of the metropolis, a shortage of funds is clearly a major obstacle.
Minimalist house design features emphasize straightforward, plain, simple, uncomplicated, compact, and space efficiency. Expensive cost of a building is determined by the use of used materials from the proposed design. The cost of building structures generally use a standard market price. Completion of work neatly and carefully requires skilled craftsman power, jelly, and experienced craftsmen making cost above market prices.
Minimalist impression also appears in the attitude of the architect, the client’s approval as a prospective owner of the house, to “voluntarily” reduce many of the requirements are not important. Only the essential functions of the house will be retained only so if the house is impressive minimalist, it is only the result of a process. Not a destination. The beauty of minimalist homes in an optimal place of the purity of the function itself.
Is your home comfortable to live in a minimalist?
Minimalist house would certainly be convenient to live in an urban society the very practical, functional, lightweight, economical, and efficient, because minimalism is the embodiment of their lifestyle, according to the needs of their functions. Symbol of the metropolis lifestyle. A simple way of life in total.
Home furnishings following the basic geometric shape of the building, efficient, and functional course. Structuring a thorough light and artistic (floodlighting, light plant, hanging lamps, garden lamps) makes the house look more artistic minimalist in the evening.
Minimalist houses will continue to grow along with the creativity of architects, design innovation, and support the technology, making appearances minimalist house will always be present with new breakthroughs are fresh, the more perfect the details, and a more affordable price. The presence of minimalist house became the medium of communication between the architecture and landscape in the form of the contrast between the natural and man-made things (culture).
Structuring a minimalist garden will provide the “spirit” softness against the rigidity of the building, violent materials, and harmony of living with shady environment around. The presence of shade trees, lawns, and other shade plants provide fresh and lively atmosphere to fill the “void” minimalist house.
In the end the value of minimalist beauty of the house is no longer rely on ornaments and artificial objects, but it is more meaningful to an honest form, function, and the inspiration that created space. So no wonder if then the house became the choice of minimalist urban communities who longed honesty, simplicity, and innocence.
Optimizing Space
Interior Design May 21st, 2010
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. Source: http://www.freshome.com
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.













