Posted by elutzik on June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
My refuge is my dream house, which, for now, is just in my mind. It’s right in the middle of nature, with a huge garden, with a pond and paths and lots of plants, trees and flowers.
Any destination you might have for your dream house, just follow some simple rules:
- In a world invaded with modernism, a simple wooden house with a simple paint, colored door and windows and curtains in tone with the wood of the house would calm everyone.
- Your house and garden would be more relaxing with a lot of green. Just combine the paved areas with the grass and plants.
- The color harmony is the key. The floors, the ceramic or wooden flower pots, the garden furniture and the pillows are all great in ground tones.
- In a small space you can place a table and two chairs where you can drink your coffee in the morning or just sit and relax.
- You can place most of the flowers in pots because they are easier to maintain.
Posted by elutzik on May 13, 2010 | 6 Comments
Decorating a small room is considered to be a great challenge for most people. This can sometimes become a very frustrating activity whether is because of money or the lack of ideas.
Firstly, you have to decide what are you going to use the room for. Maybe you would like a comfortable guest room, a cozy nursery room, o
r a modern bathroom.
The simplest way of turning a small space into a welcoming one is using bright colors, especially when it comes to curtains, blankets, pillows or rugs.
Try not to use too much furniture and decorative elements. Just keep it simple and sleek.
Another trick to make your small room look bigger is to have big windows and to always keep them clean, as well as using mirrors.
Try painting you focal wall in deep tones and leave the other walls white or use the palest version of the color you used on the main wall.
Last but not least, try to use multi-purpose objects, such as a bed with drawers, etc.
Posted by Bogdan on March 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
Every single parent wishes for a beautiful and healthy kid. The growth and development of your child are influenced by the space he spends most of his time. Taking care of the most elementary hygienic rules of the room, you’ll be sure that you’ll raise a healthy kid.
Choose the room with the best light
A kid needs a room to be only his own. The lightning is very important too. During the day, try to provide as much as it’s possible natural light, and use the bulb (or any other source of artificial light) only at night. Remember that your little one’s room has to be the most light full in the entire house. Also, the walls need to be wallpapered or treated with washable dye and painted in discreet colors. About choosing the right color, or wallpaper, ask him his opinion to find out the “client’s” preferences.
Make sure the temperature stays between 64-68 F (18-20 C) degrees
The Oxygen volume in his room it’s obtained by wide opening the windows. Do not forget to protect him against the current when doing this. The windows have to always be sparkling clean in order to get as much light as it’s possible. The doctors say that the temperature has to be maintained between the values above, independent of the season (cold winter or hot summers). When the temperature drops 64 degrees F (18 C), you can heat it up using a stove, central heating or a radiator. In the summer you can provide the right temperature using ventilation (but not directed towards the child!!!) or by dropping the curtains.
Get the furniture that he needs
Make sure you clean and maintain the hygiene in your child’s room every day. When you wish to decorate this room, do not forget to ask him first about his preferences. Do not hesitate to adapt the furniture items to his necessities. For example, if he already goes to school, the furniture has to be composed of a library, a desk, a bed and a wardrobe. The chair and desk’s sizes need to suit him best, and the chair has to have back support to protect his back and hold his elbows. The desk needs to be positioned next to the window, in a way that light comes from the left side and avoid creating shadows on the books or notebooks.
Make sure he get the most quiet room
In order to grow healthy, your kid needs a lot of sleep. Try to give him the most peaceful and protected room in the house, away from all the noise, capable to provide the right environment for study and restful sleep that he needs. Let him sleep alone, and even he won’t like this, try to convince him to sleep with no lamp light.
Posted by Bogdan on February 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Did you know the most important thing to keep you flowers growing happy all the time? Water them properly. Some flowers need to be watered less than once a week while others need to be watered every day. An apartment palm, for example, needs his leaves sprayed with water every day. Usually, people tend to use water straight from the sink for their plants. It’s good, of course. But you can also add some ingredients in it to make it even better (there are all kind of products in the store for this).
But did you know, that the best water plants can get is.. rain water? Just think about it: in the wild, they don’t have water from the sink, or special ingredients for growing or shining. They only got .. rain. 
But rain harvesting is not always an easy job, especially if you have a large garden. Some people thought about this and now we have rain barrels: a large plastic barrel that you position under your water pipe, with a tap at the bottom for easy use. Don’t worry about the design of these rain water barrels, you’ll have a lot of options to choose from: shape, size, color, material.
If you consider yourself a handy man you can easily build one yourself, from an usual barrel, but if you are the lazy type, don’t worry, there are online stores where you can find rain barrels for sale.
