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- Basement Finishing Idea for Tropical House Reviews
- Basement Finishing Floor Plans Reviews
- Pictures of Home Extensions
Basement Finishing Idea for Tropical House Reviews Posted: 06 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT Basement Finishing Idea for Tropical HouseTropical house design is one of the most suitable house designs for the tropics countries. Tropical climate is giving the air humidity is low, high rainfall, and abundant sunshine. If there is no good air circulation, then the room in the house to appear cramped and hot. As a result, bacteria and fungi will breed in space so that interfere with our health. Therefore, in order to prevent or overcome the bad impact of the tropical climate, you must create enough air holes in that space. To gain exposure the sunlight during the day, you can use skylights or light hole on the roof or upper wall. To maintain the good air circulation in the basement at tropical home, you can make the window which facing each other, in order to create a good cross-ventilation through a horizontal or vertical system. It aims to overcome the high humidity air at home. The top of the basement walls should be built above ground level so that you can install windows upper than ground surface. Window mounted above ground level make air circulation in your basement become smooth. In addition, it will avoid the basement from temperature that too hot. Parquet floor can become one reference of basement finishing ideas when you are confused to determine floor material to your basement. The decision to use the parquet floor as finishing materials to cover the floor sure based on the advantages of this material. Parquet floors are usually made from solid wood or hard wood material and can be made from timber press. Aesthetic values posed by the parquet floor better than tile floors or concrete floors. Parquet floors are less suitable if applied in outdoor spaces. This is due to the weather conditions and the temperature beyond which change frequently. In addition, wet and humid conditions made the parquet floors less than ideal for use in outdoor areas or semi outdoor. Because the basement conditions in tropical heat and not humid enough, hence parquet floors suitable mounted in that place. However, we recommend that you put a waterproof concrete under a layer of parquet floors. Wood parquet in Indonesia generally made from a teak wood, wood, timber, merbau wood, sonokeling wood, sungkai wood and bengkirai wood, which is selected and used by the architects to plan and design the house. Color of fiber wood from the parquet floors will also bring up the warm impression, especially when combined with lighting effect indoors, warm impression arising will be even more dramatic. Parquet wood flooring is also safe for children and old people, because parquet floors more plush instead of tiled floors or type of hard flooring, so if you and a family member fall will not lead to a severe injury. The use of parquet flooring is also good for your health, because if you and your family are snooze on the parquet wood floors, you will not feel pain or rheumatic on the backbone. Parquet flooring is easy care and easy to clean. The choice of motif, texture, and color of the parquet floor is more diverse. There are nuances of dark brown, light brown, beige, and so on. If it is scratched, parquet wooden flooring is easy to repair. If the scratches are little, repair could be done only with a sanding and doing refinish in the defective parts. If scratches are too deep or exposed by stains and difficult to be removed, then the pieces of parquet floors that are defective or damaged can be replaced immediately with new parquet pieces. Avoid the use of excessive water when cleaning parquet floors. Do not let water seep into the pores of the parquet floors as it will make it peel. There is also a feeling that utilizes water lemon or star fruit to clean stubborn stains and make parquet floors shinier. To keep the appearance of parquet flooring keep pulling, you can also make steam once every 6 months. The steam process serves to maintain the color and the cleanliness of the parquet floor at basement. |
Basement Finishing Floor Plans Reviews Posted: 06 Jul 2014 11:37 AM PDT Basement finishing floor plansThe imbalance between the needs of land and availability of land made many people built or renovated the basement to add new spaces in their homes. With the right setup, basements which dark and damp can be changed become a comfortable area for your family. Land limitations sure often make you thought to get around the existing space. The addition of space in vertically way or horizontally way becomes main solution when you feel your home too narrow. One of the additional spaces in underground is called the basement. Home with shallow foundations typically do not have basements. The basement is more often used as a barn, garage, or it could be used as space for storing heating space and room's air conditioner. Basement has many functions, but you can’t build a basement without proper planning. Due to the layout of the basement is underground, so the basement must have a strong foundation to support the floor above it. Therefore, you should pay attention to the position of the basement facade line when building basement. The main thing to keep in mind when building a basement is a condition under the ground. Do not let the basement that you built disturbing the water pipes or electricity and telephone networks. Then you should also pay attention to the area that borders with neighbors. Not only that, the walls basement also should hold a pressure load of land and water in underground. Wall in the basement should be designed become sturdy and strong, due to its function as a retaining wall or anchoring the load pressure on land and water. Besides the basement wall, the basement floor also holds important role as the weight of water absorption and spare room from conditions which too muggy. Hence, before you install the floor in your basement, you should make basement finishing floor plans. The purpose of making basement finishing floor plans is selecting the floor which most suited to your basement. In general, the most suitable flooring which mounted on your basement is floor made from rock material because it is strong. But this floor has to be polished first before it is fitted in order this material become impermeable or waterproof. Some kind of rock in the nature is having irregular form. Therefore, specify the size of natural stone pattern installation before you start install the natural stones on the basement floor. Don’t forget to clean the surface of natural stones to make it stronger attached in the floor. Natural stone floor is an important part in the construction of buildings. A building that has a natural stone floor will look much more beautiful than using other floor design. This floor is made from natural stones, it can also be used to decorate your wall or the roof of the building, depending on the needs of the building and your taste. Indonesia is a country that has the most varied natural rocks. The presence of the rock floor is certainly one of the elements which gave beauty in the building architecture. At first, natural stone floors have only slight variations in color and design. Then the designs and colors of rocks floors become vary due to consumer's demand. Natural stone floor does tend to be more expensive than ceramic, but its value artistic that have been displayed is very high. Using natural stone flooring for floor or wall in your basement will give the elegance and natural impression. One kind of the floor that become favorite a lot of people is marble floor. The marble floor made from the carbonate calcium mineral rocks-button which processed in high temperatures naturally. The colors and patterns of marble are very diverse, there are like wood or like illustrated stone. In the market, marble normally sold in size or shaped like a flat sheet of tiles. If you want to use the marble on the floor or wall, then there are some tips to take care of it. First, always use coating as marble protector from moss, or spotting and unwanted stain. Usually this coating can withstand at least 3 up to 6 months depending on its quality. Second, clean up drink-colored former spills such as coffee, tea, syrup, cola and others quickly. If you let it left in marble, it will make a black or brown spot so it will decrease the beauty and cleanliness of the marble. Third, to clean marble floors, use special marble cleaners that are sold in market. Never use cleaning materials containing acids such as ceramic cleaner because it will make the white spots appear in marble. |
Posted: 05 Jul 2014 11:37 PM PDT Pictures of Home Extensions – Increasing human population and the lack of land to build a house become the cause of appearing on health issues at home and its surroundings. The house has to be healthy so that the occupant of the house get healthy too. With all the limitations of budget money and land, the expansion of home that healthy, productive, efficient, and eco-friendly start to be a priority. The expansion of the house does not always have to be expensive, as long as we know what its steps. Generally, homes for sale in the market only provide the main spaces, such as the living room serves as a living room, one or two bedroom units, as well as the bathroom. These spaces are of course unable to accomodate an entire family activity, especially if the number of family members are increase. Before you expand a home, you need to make planning of expansion of the house. Maybe you still are confused and think: what should I have planned in the process my house extension? First thing that you have to done is specifying the function space that will be built so that it can be determined the shape and interior design of the room. Shape space and interior design space is heavily influenced by the functionality and purpose of the extension house. Do not let you extend the home because the size of house feels so small and a lot of goods put inside the house so it seem full. You will only do waste time and power when the purpose of the extension house is not clear. After you determine the function of space that will be built, make a good home extension picture design is not easy. But in an age of advanced technology like today, making design pictures of home extensions is easier. Now it has developed a lot of software to help you create a design of home extension pictures. So you need to choose which software to suit your desires and abilities. There are different types of software for designing your home extension pictures such as Autodesk Homestyler, Sweet Home 3D, Home 3D Design by LiveCAD, Roomle, Place Pad. With using software, you can design the layout of your home and the room quickly with this free tool. Create beautiful graphics for interior home of your dreams and you don’t even need to pay expensive to hire a professional designer and others. This software can be tools for you to create a lot of pictures of home extensions. If you have much kind of pictures of home extensions means you have a lot of reference to expand your home. There are several styles of house design that can used as a reference for making pictures of home extensions, namely:
Modern house style have characteristics such as interior design and exterior design that dominated by the bright colors and given accents like contrasting color to provide modern impression. Lighting room in modern house style relies heavily on the sunlight so that in these types of homes there are many large windows or using a wall of glass so that sunlight can enter freely into the space
Minimalist house style is widely used in housing in the urban areas because of the limited land. The main characteristic of minimalist house style is simple design and maximum in use of space. Sometimes there are a few spaces that were merged into one in order to not much bulkhead so the house looks spacious. For example, kitchen combined with dining room or dining room combined with living room
Contemporary house style is incorporation between minimalist house design and modern house design. Contemporary houses style becomes solutions for citizens who want minimalist house design but still look modern. No wonder if contemporary homes favored by society. Minimalist-modern house design or contemporary design is only showing important element of building only. Then the connection field displayed in perfect and firm. Structuring of light in contemporary design relies heavily on sunlight as lighting in your room so the room created an open and equipped a large window. The roof of the contemporary design is flat or nearly flat. The appearance of structure is elegant, simple, and assertive, as well as the incorporation of some room for efficiency due to the limited land.
Main characteristic of classic house style is using a lot of ornament and accessories as element to beautify interior and exterior of the house. |
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