Posted by Bogdan on March 13, 2010 | No 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 | No 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.
Posted by Bogdan on February 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
It is told that everybody loves kids. Who doesn’t like kids, it’s probably because they drool, and poo and spit their food. I personally don’t like kids for the reasons I mentioned. Once they past that disgusting period, I start to like them. For certain reasons, of course: they tell things that you wouldn’t expect from a small creature like that. Things that you discovered so recent in your .. 20, 30, 40 years of life.
But once they know they can get your attention by saying a lot of things, that you mind find interesting, they won’t stop. FOR NOTHING!!! They will talk with you all day long. They will ask you questions about tv producers, how they were made, the difference between girls and boys etc. You’ll buy them a lot of toys to keep them occupied, but it won’t last for long: soon they’ll ask you how the toys were made and why the soldiers are green and why boys wear blue and girls pink.
I found recently that a good way to keep them occupied, for a longer time, is to install them a swingset. If you have a garden and you can set up a small space for your kid, go to a playground equipment store, or consider viewing an online store, where you can choose from a large number of swing sets: porch swing, stand up swings, gliders, buoy ball swings. If you don’t have the necessary budget, you can do one yourself: get an old tire, hook it up to a large branch with a solid chain and there you go: you just made a tire swing.
If you get jealous with your kids, don’t worry, you can always find bigger ones for adults.
Posted by Bogdan on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Ideal Palace (Le Palais Idéal), is a impressive construction, built by a French postman, Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924). Cheval began the building in April 1879, using stones that he was collecting while delivering mails. He did this for 33 years, and most of the time he was working at night, helped by the light from oil lamps.
First he was carrying stones in his pockets, later he used a basket and finally a wheelbarrow. He used lime, mortar and cement to bound the stones together.
After finishing his Ideal Palace, Cheval spent another 8 years to build a mausoleum for him in the cemetery of Hauterives, the same town where the palace is built.
The palace is considered the only example of naive architecture.
If you ever want to visit Le Palais Ideal, is located in Hauterives, near Lyon, in France.
