Showing posts with label house tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house tips. Show all posts

Monday, July 12, 2010

Making Your Home Furnished With Oriental Rugs


Bring oriental to the home templates or designs gives a big improvement to one’s home makes over. When you say oriental, the first thing that comes into your mind will be the Chinese, Japanese and other colorful traditions of the Asians are associated. Bringing those colorful traditions can make your home improvable.

Making your home oriental finish is not as renovating or changing the most of the furnitures or adding more contents to your home. too much decoration will make the place stuffy and be bulge to enter. The things will consume more spaces than you do.

This are ways to add glamour and with an oriental kiss to your home. its not on the furnitures to have that oriental look, because butying new ones cause you much money. Since the floor is the biggest space in your room, then make it with oriental touch. Yes it is the floor you can concentrate to achieve the desired oriental effect. It's no other than having Oriental rugs. Yes they are the basic, yet simple solution in having one’s home on having a oriental kiss in your home. Simple is not of putting the rugs to its location, just like that but planning where to pace it. And I assure you, it will make your home very improving, and just like a oriental one.

Oriental rugs are made on variety fibers which you can choose from. The tye of material used is depends on the price of the rug. Silk and wool threaded rugs are the most expensive whereas cotton, sisal and synthetic materials cost far less. But if you are looking the durable one, of course it will be more cosy. Synthetic fibers on the other side, resist staining and stand up better under wear and tear because of it,s plastic like substance which is mixed to the thread to make it more durable.

The quality of the Oriental rugs as well as its design lies in the dye used. Natural dyes are used often to silks and wools because it can’t damage the fibers. The lower quality oriental rugs are using synthetic dyes in coloring.

The production of the rugs can be handmade or machine made. Sturdier rugs are usually produced by the machines and the softer ones are produced by the technique hands of the worker, usually with a cotton-made backing. To ensure good artisanship, check the backing if it has been sewn properly.

The most special attribute that you look is for the design of the rugs. Preferably purchase your oriental rugs on the stores that is associated to art to find the most detailed yet beautiful oriental rugs that will make your floors in to a boom. If there haven’t in your place, try online shopping to view a different selections for your floor rugs. Yes, the online buying is more cosy, but in a reasonable way.

By this tips, I hope that you will make your floors as well as your home, a touch of oriental side.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Light and Spice Up your Home


The use of light is essential in home improvement. Light adds mood or different setting in the home. Light distribution in the location can add and set the mood of the occupant. Dimmer lights can set calmness, yet it will signify the dark side of the occupant. On the other hand, clear and bright light gives pompous element in the house.

The use of candles in the home can bring new look and theme in your house, not because of the light that it gives but it is more appreciated by the design and partly the candle holder.

Early times, candle holders are used for the candles only, not to beautify them but for being necessary. Candles holders are used only to hold the candle, and to protect the home from catching the fire. Nowadays, candleholders vary in shape and designs; it is most likely now to decorate your home rather than to hold candles. Simply by using them you can transform your room into another.

Most of people widely used the candleholder as decoration, that they didn’t even lit the candles, or they didn’t totally need the light that the candle give off. Candles without even lighting can give a special beauty and appearance into your room. They somehow suggest the tranquility of the lit flame even when they are not.
Choices abound for candle holders so you may need to narrow down your options. Think of what type of candle will you use, if it is short, long or decorated one. Think also of the location and the purpose. Is the purpose of the candle is appropriate to the location? Or, is the purpose of the candle will not affect the purpose of the room.

Tealight candles are widely used nowadays because of its cuteness and simplicity. Using this kind of candle as decoration is convenient, because of its tin in the holder for the wax of the candle wont scatter and avoid of being messy. You can get a candle holder that holds several tealights which is a nice way to get a lot of light in one place. These lights are advisable in the location of the house that several occasions is held like dining room or the living room.
Tealights, unlike other type of candles don’t last an hour because of its size. This will have you a chance to change the color of the candle or even its scent from time to time you want. Also, the duration is not short enough to finish your meal before the flame of the candle went out.

If you want that traditional look for the table, you will need to look for holders that work with tapers. Though these will generally drip wax, they are still the most elegant look. Here again, you can find single taper holders as well as multiple such as a candelabra.

Aside from design, you should also consider the material used so that you will know if your candle holder. You can choose from wood, glass, ceramic and wrought iron, just to name a few. These can be very simple flat dishes, extremely ornate or anything in between. They come in every color as well so it is a very easy task to find candle holders that will provide the perfect accent to any room.
You can also find different sizes of candleholders for the different kind of candles. Some can fit on the tiniest of shelves. Others are meant to be placed on the floor. One best idea is to purchase same candleholder designs, but with different sizes and put them together in one place. It is also possible to get holders meant to be hung or to be wall mounted.

There are some candle holders that are meant to be used with floating candles. You fill these with water. This candle is the best one because of its effect. This type also can be found in many sizes and shapes and for single or multiple candles. Floating candles also come in different shapes so you may choose to purchase ones shaped like flowers, add fresh flowers to surround them. Simple floating candles are also considered to be great if it is placed on a broad location such as living rooms.
There are candle holders that fit with every type of decor. Changing your candles is a simple and inexpensive way to change the look of a room.

Candles will surely improve your house, so use them wisely. Don’t put too much candles in your house coz it will lessen the use of the synthetic light.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Making Butterfly Garden Tips


Outdoors especially our yards or gardens play a special role in our home beautification. It gives the visitors the first impression on how beautiful it is to leave in your home, or how the occupants are hardworking enough to maintain one. Maintaining a garden is not an easy task coz it requires the occupant to gain enough knowledge and experience to have a successful garden or to be a successful gardener.

The main principle of the butterfly garden is to plant and give them a best house to stay. Butterflies, are very attractive insect, has basic needs like, food, soil moisture, sunlight, a great breeding place to reproduce and a stable food for their offspring or babies. Planting many flowering plants can meet their daily needs so there is a tendency for them to come more at your place to stay for good.

As a fact and our elementary teacher says, the food our beautiful creatures is the flower’s nectar. Creating a garden that will have a variety of flowers that bloom all summer long will keep the butterflies returning time and time again throughout the summer. Butterflies land on the flower to feed on the nectar; flower that have flat blooms, like daisies and coneflowers, provide a landing pad for the butterflies to rest on while they feed.

Despite of their beauty, did you know that aside from flower’s nectar, butterflies also eat on rotten fruits and fresh cow manures? You can make more butterflies to come by placing a very ripe sweet smell fruits like, mangos and oranges will send them into a feast. It is also advisable to put a fresh cow’s manure in the garden. It hasn’t had a very foul odor if it was fresh. Put them not too close to plants because it might burn them, also cows manure will serve a fertilizer when decomposed.

Butterflies also need minerals as any living things does. They obtain this minerals on the soil. Butterflies will congregate on a mud puddle, wet soil or wet sand to absorb the needed minerals. This is called puddling. Make your little flying pets a comfortable place and give them minerals as they need. Make a location in your garden that is low and always having the good moist to make an inviting puddling into your butterflies. An easy way to create a puddling spot in the garden is to sink a shallow container, like a pie pan, up to the rim in the garden soil, then fill the container with soil or sand and add water.

Before a butterfly can take to the air in flight each day, it must warm its body and charge up its solar panel wings by spending some time in the sunshine. This is why butterflies are often seen in the early morning hours resting on rocks with wings spread open, they are absorbing the sunshine. Provide some sort of rocks to imitate their natural habitat is a boom. It well help your butterflies charge up their wings into flight.

When you finished the requirements or the needs of your soon to be pets, surely they will come to you instantly.