Flounderville Home Improvement

Building materials from bamboo and wood is not new. But, if a house is intact and can be overhauled, interesting, right? In addition to durable, earthquake-resistant as well.

If you imagine a wooden house, maybe that comes to mind is a typical country houses in the days of cowboy America first. Not impossible, you know, you also have a wooden house like that in Indonesia. No need to worry gnawed wood termites will hollow karena, moldy, or decayed buffeted by rain and blazing sun.

“Iron Wood is great for home made wooden materials. Wood of this type, the more often exposed to water, even stronger, in addition to termite and fungi. The wood used to make wooden pier also mostly iron,” says Rizky Masyani (50) , a business owner Wood House (RK).

Can Design Your Own
Rizky difficult to recognize a wooden house from 1995 through television shows. Since seeing the advantages of wood houses, which among other removable because of making use of pairs of unloading system (knock down), Rizky interested. In 2004, he escorted his friend asked to see first hand the wooden house to the place of manufacture in Tomohon, Sulawesi.

To fulfill his desire wooden house business, Rizky cooperate with one manufacturer there. However, because terhadang constraints, cooperation ended. Year 2006, Rizky make my own business, until now.

With a jump directly to the field, he came to know the production process. Once felled, the timber is made of large blocks, then swiped to the size desired. For the size of the board, processed again to be floors, frame, walls, and so forth. Some of this wood are made in Tomohon, some are made at the location of the prospective client’s home.

Size of the house can be made according to clients orders, although RK provides examples of homes that they have made in various types. Saturn models, for example, type 80, while the Mercury type 36. Most, when I first came, the client does not carry the design. However, these 12 children’s father said, “It does not matter if the clients already have their own design.”

As the name implies, the whole house made of wood RK. Unless the roof is made of tiles. Again, Rizky said, it was not a requirement. “There are clients who have made the house of two levels, one concrete, one wood, yes, no problem for us.”

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After the design is approved, then made preparations construction. If the building is full is made of wood, all wood made in Tomohon. “If the mix, made at the prospective location of the house. Making his own house takes 2-3 months,” explained Rizky who also received a construction yard and garden as well.

Problem prices, for now USD 2.75 juta/m2 for a full house berpapan single timber and USD 3.5 juta/m2 to double board. Single board means that the wall board using only one layer of wood, while the double use of two layers of wall board for the entire house so the house became more soundproof.

While for the house mix, the price can be more expensive, could also reverse. “Depending on the material used for concrete. Price will also be more expensive if the client requested a special design created for.”
Most, said the man who has 50 employees, the clients booked for the villa wooden house, the property company’s marketing offices, cafes, hotels (cottage type), house, gazebo, even a small mosque built in separate from the house.

Rizky grateful, the difficulty to build consumer confidence when first opened this business, now passed. In fact, since he had never had a model home. “I’m just showing pictures of homes we’ve built and examples of the wood,” he said, adding, within a month she could get 2-3 new clients.

RK Clients from Jakarta, Bandung, West Java, Padang, even some from Malaysia and Australia, who knows RK through its website, www.rumah-kayu.com. Having a wooden house, according Rizky, tantamount to investing. Ironwood high investment value, because the longer the price is more expensive, such as teak.

Houses, other than as a residence also has a variety of functions. One of them, can be used as a place of business.

Many factors could be reasons why there are a lot of people who use the house as part of his business activities or the office.

One factor is the congestion, which makes his way to the office that takes a long time. In addition, the safety factor, comfort, and started a lot of people want to have my own business. For a housewife, has his own business at home will certainly add value plus, because at the same time taking care of children and household.

To make the house as a place of business plus, it seems all of these factors will influence when making the concept of functional and multifunctional occupancy. Apart from being a residence, this house also has a special area that is used as the headquarters for the heads of households and businesses that was involved his wife. However, it does not exclude the comforts of home as a shelter for a family.

Photo: Daniel Supriyono / Nova

In the house with a land area of 750 m2, the course will be easier menzoning of land into a functional home office that can covers and place of business. However, this house actually has a shape that is difficult enough land shaped like the letter T. Of course, needs to mature in his thinking existing farm layout.

The house is also equipped with two main doors, where both have different functions. The first door is made to resemble a gate or gates, which can serve as the upper part of the room, which was then transformed to enable the office.

After entering the gate of this office, there is a fairly large garden, as a form of transition from office to home. In addition, on the left side there is an open foyer and there is a swimming koi fish.

Photo: Daniel Supriyono / Nova

After entering the house, it would seem a classic impression of a fairly dominant in the overall design of this house. Use wallpaper and furniture classic style combined with ethnic elements. On the back of the house there is a family dining table placed in the open terrace, so the view becomes more free to the courtyard and gazebo.

At the rear there are also transitional spaces into space of a lobby area beauty salon and fitness. This room is used very well, so it can be used as a waiting room next guests will be doing the treatment in this place.

While the main door of the second, located at the rear of the house and serves as the entrance to the place of business had (a beauty salon and fitness). This space exactly is behind the house and reside on different road access to the door or main gate to the house. Together in the house, but not till the whole house with disturbing the comfort of guests who came.