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Alternatives in magically renovating your useless balcony
Balcony is a spot located in the second, third or another upstairs floor at home, or living building. Often people build a balcony to exhibit the artistic art and also to have a place to relax in the evening with family. However, in this modern era, with busy time and busy people, it is quite often found that balcony is no longer in use. If it is no longer in use, why we waste the space available? Why don’t we renovate the balcony into a place that is more useful for family? These are some alternatives in turning the waste balcony, but please remember to concern your family condition and need.
1. Home library
For family whose members are fanatic book lovers and having oodles of books, it is better to build the home library. It will offer many advantages, the books will be put in the appropriate place, the waste balcony has been magically changed into more useful place for family, and family member who does not like reading will, at least, start reading.
2. Kids play arena
Having many children and being afraid to let them play outside? Now you know what to do with your inactivated balcony. Turn it into kids play arena and your children are going to love you more. But, don’t forget to make good safety since it is located upper part of your house.
3. Praying room
We often forget to plan building this room when designing our dream house. It is now time to change the “wrong” decision by renovating your balcony and use the available space to build praying room. There is no doubt that your house will be more peaceful.
4. Working area
If you are a very busy person and often bring your works home, the useless balcony can be replaced by a room for working. Just renovating it, creating the cozy room for working and hopefully you can find yourself more productive and have more spirit to finish works punctually.
Feng shui in your bedroom
You may not believe in feng shui. However, some principles of feng shui energy proved to increase and improve the atmosphere in the room. This is also true in your bedroom. The following tips may be applied to make your bedroom more comfortable.
- Because the bed is a key element in the bedroom, placing the sleeping in the right position is crucial. Put the bed with position of the head against the wall. Try to keep the area to the left and right empty beds, although only slightly. Make sure you can see the entrance room from the bed, but avoid putting the bed just to deal with door.
- Avoid putting the goods or things in the back door or under the bed. Clean your room’s decoration is too much. Rooms are clean and tidy giving a good positive energy to your room.
- Try to keep the road to the entrance of a clean room of all obstacles. With so you facilitate positive energy (chi) into your room.
- Use bright colors such as pastels in the bedroom. However, be careful when using the color ‘cold’ like blue, purple or green. Although these colors cool the room, but this color can also be ‘cool’ your love life. Using colors like warm beige, brown or khaki, is a good choice.
- Choose a wall decoration that gives peace to rest or that could add warm your love life. If you want to put the decorations on the table, always use a pair. Avoid painting or photograph that made their own impression.
- Be careful with the mirror. In general, the existence of the mirror in the bedroom is not a good thing, especially when located at the front door or the bed. The mirror gives the impression of another person in the room, so it is considered can bring ‘third man’ in marriage.
- Electronic goods are also not recommended to be in the room. If you still be put electronics in the room, try not to be too visible. Input into the TV cabinet so that when they were not use, you can closed.
- Use good lighting in the room. Bedrooms should have a large window so that light during the day can go very well. While for evening, instead of using direct lighting of lamps in the ceiling, use dim lighting like table lamps beside the bed.
Even if you do not believe in feng shui, but the tips above can make a room
You sleep more comfortably.
Congratulations to rest.
Leather sofa and Treatment
A comfortable sofa can be one of the favorite items in the house. You can let go of tired and lazy in that place. One of the materials used in the sofa is leather wrapped. Apparently, the skin is used as a wrapping sofa was some type. The following article contains information about common skin type is used. You’ll also get information about how to distinguish genuine or imitation leather and how to care for your leather couch in order not easily damaged.
Leather Sofa Type
Skin types commonly used are as follows
- Hairy: The outer skin and the hair is characteristic of this skin type.
- Smooth: Skin feels smooth and is the type most widely used in the manufacture of sofas.
- Suede: Like a towel, a second layer of skin until the fifth.
Differences Between the Original Leather Imitation Leather
If you intend to replace the upholstery sofa, so that you do not be fooled if the leather sofa leather chosen is genuine or just an imitation, the following differences can you accurately:
- Because leather is a unit, then the front and rear of the same skin. While imitation leather is usually at the center plus a thin sponge and then the back of the given layer, then the front and back is not the same.
- Check the skin layer. If it is 3 layers, meaning imitation leather. Because as we mentioned in point 1, there are imitation leather extra layer.
- Touching the skin is used, if it feels sticky it means imitation leather.
- If there will be a faux leather vinyl smell.
- Try to pull the skin. If the pulled up and down with kerenggangannya when pulled left-right, meaning imitation leather. This is because genuine leather from animal skins, then the left-right rift is greater than the top-down.
- Original hard skin burned, but imitation leather will shrink when baked.
Sofa Care
Like other appliances that require treatment, then to the sofa you can perform maintenance by doing the following things:
- Every 1 week, clean the sofa with a dry cloth
- Do not place the sofa in a place exposed to direct sunlight. Sunlight can make the skin becomes dry and couch cracked.
- Apply a skin moisturizer on your couch. This moisturizer can be purchased in the market.
- Immediately wipe the sofa with a rag or a sponge when exposed to water spillage.
Take care of Rattan Furniture
Rattan is a tree that belonged to a palm. One of the functions of rattan is used as raw material for making furniture such as tables, chairs or other furniture. The use of rattan for furniture making are well known from the first. There are good things from furniture made of rattan, but you also must be clever to care for your furnishings remain durable and look beautiful.
Indonesia supplies 70% of rattan needs worldwide. The remaining supply comes from Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Most of the rattan from forests in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Nusa Tenggara. Since it became widely used rattan raw materials of furniture, like chairs, tables, and bookshelves. Rattan has several advantages than wood, such as lightweight, strong, elastic, malleable, and cheap. The main weakness of rattan is prone to termites. Also rattan grow faster and are relatively easy to harvest, so is considered more profitable than furniture or furniture made of wood.
Rattan furniture will look classic so its use is not lost though many other materials are now used. Prices of furniture or household furniture made of rattan furniture is not as expensive with a base made with wood, but has almost the same strength. Chair or table made of rattan is lighter and simpler so that the match was placed in a small room and easy to move.
But for furniture or rattan furniture is more durable, there are things you need to consider in care. Things you can do include:
- Clean once a week. Simply use a dry cloth to remove dust, dust. Do not use chemicals because it can damage the cane.
- To clean the dust and dirt that is on the sidelines, wash with detergent. Liquid detergent should not be too thick. After that, wipe with a dry cloth and kerinngkan with diangin-aired. This can be done every 1 months.
- To stay looking beautiful, you can paint it when the colors look faded wicker already.
- Place of rattan furniture in a place not exposed to rain and direct sunlight. This can make your furniture become faded, dry so easily damaged.
- To avoid termites, you can use a solution of camphor (camphor) and kerosene. Spray the solution on the rattan, or enter in the holes made by termites in your wicker furniture.
Of course your home will be cleaner if the furniture in your house clean as well, including furniture or furniture made of rattan. This will enhance the space in your home.