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Healthy Kitchen in Your Home
January 13th, 2010 | 
Author: Kitchen, a room which is identical to the activities of housewives. In this place, the mother provides food for her husband and child. The kitchen in the past imagined as a place dirty and smells. What about your kitchen? Does your kitchen’s design reflects a healthy kitchen?
Assumption that the kitchen as a place that is not excessively dirty. Because to make a meal, there are many foods that should be prepared with a variety of scents in the kitchen. Not to mention the waste it generates, so the kitchen can be one room where the growth of germs in your home. Even the kitchen is dirty and humid weather can provoke the arrival of insects such as flies and cockroaches and rodents in your home. This can be a source of disease spread for your family. So, to create a healthy kitchen, you may notice the following things are.
Light in Kitchen
Light is one of the important things that must be considered as to be able to cook would need adequate lighting. The light itself can be obtained from 2 sources, ie sunlight and lights.
- Sunlight
Sunlight is very useful for killing germs in the kitchen. Since the kitchen garbage so often produced germ often appears in this room. In order to get enough sunlight, when about to make the kitchen look at the number and size of the window or open space so they can get enough sunlight. With sufficient sunlight, meaning no need to turn on the lights in daylight saving electricity usage.
- Light Lamps
Because sunlight is not available at all times, the light is also needed as a replacement light. There are 3 types of lights that can be used in the kitchen, namely:
1. Light General
Used to illuminate the kitchen, especially when there is no sunlight. The lighting should not be too dim or too bright so it can hurt the eyes.
2. Light Special
Usually using halogen lamps and placed under the kitchen set. Used to illuminate specific areas, such as in a place normally used for cutting food with a lamp so that it can be seen more clearly see the color of food and food conditions are still good or not.
3. Light Accents
Lighting is used to beautify the kitchen view. Generally placed in the file cabinet at the glass door that contains the display. With the presence of this lamp will certainly strengthen the beauty of the kitchen.
The air circulation in the Kitchen
In the process of cooking, which is produced as a result of smoke exhaust. Of course not comfortable, if smoke can not be removed from the kitchen. Exchange of air with fresh air that can occur when there is a window or a hole that connects with the open space. However, if you do not have kitchens, you can use the cooker hood that will suck the smoke of the cooking process so that the air in the kitchen to be more fresh.
Kitchen Hygiene
The kitchen is the producer of the largest household waste at home. Waste in order not cause disease and odor, then you have to keep the kitchen clean. The trick is to clean the kitchen finished cooking. Splash of oil, spilled gravy or water spray should be cleaned. In addition, you also must throw garbage in the kitchen every day because of the waste is stored more than one day will be the growth of bacteria and fungi.
Therefore, taking into account the lighting in the kitchen, your kitchen will not be a place dark and dirty. In addition to maintaining air circulation in the kitchen, you will also have a kitchen that is not damp and odorless. And kitchen hygiene is also important to maintain a healthy kitchen. Sure you’ll make the best for your family’s health is not it? Therefore from now, keep your kitchen clean and your health. Happy cooking!
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Bathroom Design
The bathroom is a core part of a house. Morning activities started from this place. When we want to build or renovate the bathroom a good and healthy, there are things we have to consider.
Some aspects that must be considered, such as size, condition of the bathroom is dry or wet, the location, lighting, air circulation, and security.
Size
Size of a bathroom mainly depends on the available land. If our homes are large, we can make a big bathroom. But if our home land is limited, so the bathroom should also be adjusted. Another factor is the activity carried out in the bathroom. If the bathroom or dressing up to be a place you love to soak the shower size may be greater
Dry or wet
Bathroom with a dry floor cleaner look. However, the wet floor still more preferred because bathing habits of Indonesia. It could also put the bathroom when dry and wet in one room. The concern is there should be a separation in order not to dry the floor wet. For example, by using fiber glass separator or can be made with the wet lower surface and separated the plastic.
Location
The placement of objects in the bathroom should be arranged as well. For example the sink is placed to the front so that when washing hands, we do not need to go to the bathroom or closet should not be placed after a wet floor area.
Light
The bathroom is often the place of development of disease germs. So, if possible, design so that the bathroom can get sunlight, for example, by using transparent tiles or other transparent material translucent sun. Because the presence of sunlight can prevent germs growing. In addition, it can help save the use of headlights during the day.
Air
To be healthy, in the bathroom is also need for air circulation. Circulation is not good to make a bathroom odor. It can be grating at the bottom of the door or at the top of the bathroom. If it is not possible to install the lattice, it can be mounted exhaust fan.
Safe
Bathroom safety also need to be considered, because we do not want any family members who are injured or fall in the bathroom. So for the floor, you should not choose a slippery floor. Cleanliness should also be observed, so no moss so the bathroom was slippery.
Shades of black and white in the bathroom
Black for the bathroom? Might seem dark. But if combined with white color, the result will be more artistic.
In the theory of color, black and white are often branded as not including the family colors. Black is considered as absence of color while white is considered a combination of all colors available. Therefore, black and white was never included in the color circle (color ring).
Color or not, in terms of the psychology of black and white it has the effect of a very contradictory. Black is seen can bring discomfort, stress, and grief. However, black can give the impression of elegance and masculine. While white, believed to facilitate reflection and bring a sense of comfort. But if used excessively, the white will give the impression of cold, lonely, and stiff.
Contrast
Two things are contradictory, if combined can sometimes be a suitable match and complement each other. So did the black and white. Discomfort and distress caused by the black and white can be neutralized by. And vice versa, which seemed cool white warmer since the end of the black presence.
Walls, floors, and tables filled the sink with a mixture of black and white color. Even the accessories such as a toothbrush and a towel that was chosen black and white motif.
For material, they chose to use natural stone painted, then the glossy coating. Why natural stone? They argued that natural stone is used for the bathroom was not overly impressed by the presence of stiff black felt and to keep its natural shades although only slightly.
Different Areas, Different Color
Bathroom floor is made of coral that “planted” in the cement. The color made alternating black and white, with the aim to distinguish between the 3 areas in the bathroom.
The first area is the area to wash hands, wash face and brush my teeth. In this area there is a sink that “standing” on top of a table made of brick. Under the table can be used to store items such as floor cleaners, brushes, and so on.
The second area is located adjacent to the sink, which is the area to remove dirt. In order not easy dirty, the floors were black. The third area is the area for the bath, which only consists of a shower. To limit this area to the area next to it, made 150 cm high wall. And so the water does not spread to other places, the floor down around the shower area 7 cm
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Beaded curtains
Beaded curtains make windows colorful and are especially good if you want a dramatic entrance to a room. They have been used in Asia for many decades and their popularity in the West rose dramatically in the 1960s. A string of beads are hung from a rod and this was used to achieve the perfect bohemian look that was in vogue at that time. Different types of beads were used to make the door/window colorful and attractive.
Besides being used for doors and windows, beaded curtains are also used to divide a room. They are commonly used in small shops or restaurants to cordon off the storage room or kitchen. You can also use beaded curtains to divide you room. They are used to cover open closets, sleeping quarters and storage areas.
Beaded curtains are popular today with the spread of interest in Feng Shui, according to which passing though a beaded curtain will have soothing effects. It is also believed that positive energy is spread when air passes through the beads.
Different types of beads are used in making beaded curtains. These include glass, wood, plastic, bamboo, acrylic and sometimes even crystals and gemstones. Beads are normally cheap and if you don’t want to buy the curtain readymade, this is a simple project you can undertake at home. You can use as many materials as you like in varied sizes and shapes.
Beaded curtains are also popular as they are low maintenance. If they get dirty, rinse them in soapy water. If your beaded curtain breaks, you don’t have to worry as you can either mend them or since they are inexpensive, replace them with new ones.