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Taking Care of Outdoor Wood Furniture

Posted by yuni On March - 29 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

It’s not a secret anymore that natural wood furniture has uniqueness as sensational impression it gives. But it also can’t be denied that wood is very sensitive material. Naturally, wood will have corrosion and the color will fade away. This condition will be worse if the wood furniture is put in outdoor so that it affords more sunlight and rain or water. To deal with it, there are some steps could be done:

  • First, before you buy the furniture, you have to consider the quality of the material. Choose a good wood material which has been well- proceed
  • It will be better to paint your furniture with special paint like paint with UV protection or anti UV paint.
  • Don’t forget to have continuously caring like re-sandpapering it or repainting it.

You need not to worry if you want to have outdoor wood furniture in your house because you have known now how to deal with it and keep it beautify your terrace or garden.

Beauty In Simplicity

Posted by yustina On March - 25 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Contemporary style becomes popular for its flexibility to be placed in modern or old environment. It is applied in all furniture design including in kitchen area.

Contemporary kitchens have increasingly gained popularity in this modern era. Their beautiful, refreshing look and user friendly, functional designs contribute to their popularity.

They are usually characterized by minimalist designs and the use of linear, geometric themes. This design style extends to the kitchen cabinet as well, in these elegant kitchens. Most of them feature the hallmark contemporary furniture design styles, with their simplicity and sharp, tidy lines.

Contemporary kitchen cabinetry use materials ranging from stainless steel to glass. Stainless steel with its mirror like finish comes to be a popular choice, while metal kitchen cabinets made of copper will give a rather antique look to the kitchen.

For them who like natural nuisance, wood or bamboo can also be good alternative for having quite pleasing aesthetic result.

Although kitchen cabinets are the focal point of beauty, they still have to be functional, enough to house all the essential utensils, dinnerware, pots and pans. Contemporary kitchens use the universal design principles that focus on flexibility, intuitive use, accident prevention, and minimizing fatigue. The cabinets are easier to access, with pullout shelves, sliding drawers and spinning ‘lazy susans’. The cabinets and the drawer pulls have large stainless steel bars and usually have either no handles, or just have simplistic metallic pulls. These allow for an easy clean up and a durable functioning of your kitchen.

Choosing The Ideal Color of Furniture

Posted by santi On March - 19 - 20101 COMMENT

Generally, furniture made in natural colors such as brown color variety; darken or lighter. On the other hand, there is some brighter color furniture, just like yellow, lime green or even red and blue that usually for children bedroom set.

Natural color is everlasting, it is compatible to be applied to any wood furniture; chair, table or bookshelf, etc. The effects of those natural colors bring the nature to the furniture and make it not dominant. These natural colors should be cleared with distinctive accent so that the wood furniture is not looked dark. The color of accent is usually seen on the chair pillow, vase, and accessories on the table.

The accent also arouses room atmosphere quality. The sources of the accent are gathered from many things, first, from the finishing wall material. This material can be in the form of tint, natural material or wall cover. The other sources can be gathered from floor color. The floor colors mostly come from its material; ceramic, parquet or marble. In the furniture store, we can see the blend of furniture and the room. So, actually, we can learn to combine the best blending on the store.

The other sources instead of room element are furniture and accessories. Actually, the furniture and accessories come in after the room element build up. It can be easier to place the furniture and accessories, just right after the room’s been colored. It can be so because the effort of making the atmosphere has been done. Then, all we have to do is just find the best mix of the room’s color with the furniture and accessories.

Being Simple !

Posted by yuni On March - 12 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

The life style of people in the city which tends to practice and efficient is used by the people to be the design of their house. All kind of shapes of houses, shops, hotels, and apartments take the simple design as a trick to make the customers interested.

Shape follows the function. Simple house design emerge with a clear character (simple shape and geometric) much better and stronger with some empty rooms, a few ornaments and only some contemporary furniture. At least it will be the aim and also its ornament it self which is simple and original, straight line, plane flat but sometimes rough and also the meet of elbow,  multifunction room and orderly optimize, repetition, simple circulation, material, blocking mass.  It usually uses of efficient, practice, light but strong and high technology material, the concrete texture on the wall, a wider glass window or even without any junction.

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The material from wood without ornaments, just been painted or varnished is still mostly used for doors and windows. The frame which is durable is also keen on, concrete textured fence, even also the plants fence which softens the stiffness of the construction.

The house with simple design emphasizes its shape to an uncomplicated, simple, compact, smooth, direct and efficient room. The simple impression is only in the essential part of the house which is maintainable. Creativity and innovation of technology make the simple house design develops to more compact, trendy and practice and also still be the favorite choice of the new symbol of urban people.

Warm Wood Floor

Posted by yustina On March - 5 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Everyone wants their house to be different from other, either from its design or interior. There are many ways to make it happened, one of them is try to apply special design to its floor. We can try to pick up the material, or from the pattern which is applied. It’s all depended on the impression we want. Many types of house are design with wood floor especially wooden house. There are some options we have to concern on when we want to apply wood floor:

Choose the proper wood. It’s very important to choose the best wood to our house. Consider about the color and grain. Don’t forget to adjust them to be suited to the environment. Then, usually people are more interested to choose soft wood, because it looks simple and appropriate with its function, which is has low mobility of people and goods. The more mobility, the more possibilities of scratch happened. Moreover, soft wood provides various colors, darken or lighten, and the most important one; cheap. To choose the better wood for offices, we have to consider about the higher mobility of people and good in there. So, we have to choose hardwood. It was design to restrain any scratch.

To maintain the wood floor, we can do daily and also monthly maintaining. We can start the daily maintaining by cleaning them by a dry towel. Don’t try to use wet towel because its water can absorb to the wood and break it. If you want to use a cleaner, you can use from the market. If there are any sprinkling tints or something, you have to immediately clean it so that it can’t absorb to the wood. Try to pad the legs of the furniture you are about to place, so that it can’t make any scratch in your wood floor. Then, don’t even try to move the furniture by dragging, try to lift it, because if you drag it, there will be scratch left. For the monthly maintaining you can start by cleaning the floor with a moisturizing per three month. Termite is also the thing that you have to aware of.

Wood no longer represent of antique style, it is also suitable combine with contemporary furniture or even minimalist style. Therefore, there’s no worry to use wood floor, if it’s accordance to the directions. Let’s warm the house!