Skylights for light and aesthetic needs of your home

Have enough access to sunlight is one of the characteristics of a healthy home. Of course, a way to let the sunshine freely filled the house is to make a lot of windows.

However, there are times when the spaces in the house does not have access to the outside. For this reason, the room may not have a window and do not need to make you desperate to use a lot of lights so that the room remains bright.

One way you can consider is the use of skylights. Skylight is one type of window that can provide access to sunlight. The difference with the usual window just the placement. Rather than put a window in the wall of the house, the placement of precisely located skylights in the ceiling.

In addition to giving a new dimension to your home, skylights become an essential aspect in the design of your home. No matter the design of your home as well as any, without good lighting everything will be in vain. This is one of the main reasons you need to consider the use of skylights.

Selecting Skylights

Skylights are available in several shapes and sizes. The most common shape is a square, circle, oval, gem, triangles, and shaped tube.

Generally, square-shaped skylights that are not made of plastic. However, higher-quality skylights will use glass.

Glass skylights can be flat, curved, dome, pyramid, or "warped plane" (flat on the low side and concave on the high side). Pyramid shape, curved, and the dome can give you the flexibility to install the skylight.

Skylights are installed sideways or have curves can also help you clean of leaves. While the shape that resembles a tube skylight, generally smaller than many other types of skylights.

However, the shape of the tube still has the same advantages with skylight shape that has a wider cross section. Form of tubes reduces the heat in the afternoon sun. In addition, the size of which tend to be smaller also able to easily work together with the architecture of the house.

Efficiency skylight

Skylight be a popular choice due to give an aesthetic element to the home. In addition, the skylight is also important for homes that want to have eco-friendly elements in it.

Yes, you can move to the optimum in the house during the day without the use of lights. Thus, the use of skylights to reduce energy use, especially during the day.

However, the physical form of skylights can affect the light coming into your home. For that, it must be ensured skylight size should not be more than 5% of the floor area in rooms with plenty of windows and no more than 15% of the floor area for spaces with few windows.

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Tips drill walls for decoration Christmas

Christmas decorations are not only synonymous with the Christmas tree. Hanging decorations are also often used to add a festive holiday.

However, the use of nails to hang Christmas ornaments also can not be arbitrary. One-one, the wall can be damaged by it. Here's how to drill the wall without damaging the wall of the house, especially the brick wall:

First of all, make sure you use a special drill brick or masonry drill. This type of drill specially shaped edges resemble the shape of a triangle.

Second, the drill is part of the cement between the bricks. Not only easier, by drilling this section you will not damage your brick wall.

Christmas celebration is complete, you can close the hole. You can use a mortar repair, the instant cement fillings made ​​of silicon. This patch shaped tube fitted with drain for ease of use.

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Changing small room became wide with a mirror

You have a small house or apartment, and have the problem of limited space. There are interesting ways to expand the room, and not expensive. The trick, add a mirror on the wall, is to increase the visual background. Mirror will double the existing object in front of him, thus giving the impression of an imaginary space. The effect will be felt, the room looks spacious.

Place the mirror on the wall that gives the greatest visual impact on the room, like a blank wall, cupboard doors, or as a partition, place it vertically. Installation of more mirrors, with a the larger size, the more it will enlarge the imaginary.

Choose a mirror that matches the size, shape, and space requirements. Given the fragile nature of the mirror, you can add a mirror with a frame. Put a mirror on a flat and dry area. If the area of ​​placement of the mirror is not flat, then the object that reflected the mirror will tilt. While at the damp walls will make the metal in the mirror easily dislodged. If you combine some of the mirror in one place, then you should examine in detail the connections on the mirror. If there is a little gap at the connection of the mirror, the reflection image will be broken.

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An easy way designing garden indoors

Gardens harmonize the building with the surrounding natural environment, not only complements the house. Beautiful and unique design will make the occupants feel at home. Various plants will produce a neat mosaic of beauty. This of course will have a positive impact for the residents.

Making or designing a garden at home is actually not too difficult. In addition to utilizing the excess land, the garden can also be made by using one corner of the room in the home.

Find the angle of the space to be used as a garden. Adjust the number of plants with the existing land area. To find out how many plants required, calculate the area divided by the diameter of the seed. Choose an indoor plant species with different sizes. Arrange plants according to size so as to create the sort order for a beautiful and attractive.

To create beauty, you can equip it with a garden accessory. For example, installing garden lights with various designs are beautiful and attractive.

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Tips utilizing the corner room in your home is more useful

There are many corners at home "unemployed", because you are confused how to use the corners of your home. With foresight and creativity, an empty corner of the room can be converted into a useful area. There are many creative ways to maximize the corner space becomes useful again. The key point is the creative use of space and adapted to the needs of the room.

Room accessories

Put a hanger on the corner of the room, choose a hanger that has a unique shape so that the hanger has two functions. The first function, to hang hats, scarves, jackets, and other accessories. The second function, serves as the decor of the room when not in use as a hanger your accessories.

Space Collection

Make the corner of the room by adding wall cabinets or open shelves. Wall that had been left empty, you can use to put a wide collection of knick-knacks, souvenirs, or your book collection.

Reading room

Make a corner of the room as a reading room with a simple step by placing lounge chairs to read. To give the appearance blend with the surrounding space, choose the color and texture of the furniture that match color of the room so it blends.

The lounge

In the corner of an empty space, you can use it as a lounge. Place the coffee tables in the corner of the room. To produce a relaxed atmosphere, give accent by installing a chandelier in it, do not be too high.

The atmosphere outside the room

Corner of the room in your home can be transformed into Outside the room atmosphere. Put the tables and chairs are usually placed in the gardens. Give the interior on the corner of a room with a natural feel, do not need an expensive, you can put a plant, or decorating the walls with stickers or wallpaper with a natural theme. If the corner of a large room, you can make a garden complete with fountain, so you really bring natural atmosphere in your home.

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Home theater in the living room multifunction home entertainment

The presence of home theater at home will add to the warmth of family. Unfortunately, the limited room in the house to be obstacles to make it happen. This obstacle can be overcome by creating a home theater in the living room. There are many advantages if home theater in the living room, in addition to low cost because it does not need to create a special room, home theater can be used to watch the family's favorite movie, or just watch tv, play games, listen to music and karaoke. So, this room is besides the living room, also to function as Multifunction Home Entertainment.

Unlike the home theater in a private room, specially designed closed and dark, like in a movie theater, no light pollution from the outside, so the picture and sound quality is not compromised. If a home theater in the living room, because it is open and a lot of furniture in it, it will greatly affect the quality of picture and sound. Therefore, when designing a living room with home theater, precision is required in order to get quality picture and good sound.

Visual and audio device settings

The existence of home theater in a special room are generally closed, and speaker cables can be planted on the walls. Meanwhile, home theater in living room is generally made semi-private and more open, so you need to think about the placement of the cables so as not to appear "chaotic". You can create a closed Credenza, or behind the backdrop panel TV to hide cables. Because it involves aesthetic aspects, also the security aspect, because living room is used for various other activities.

The amount of light pollution in living room is not possible to use a projector and screen. Typically the image display uses a television / plasma display or LCD display. To obtain good image quality, you need to be careful in choosing a TV / LCD That Offered in many stores, online or offline store. Because it is the multifunction home entertainment, consider also the source of radio, iPod, or PS3. Add HDTV / Pay TV or receiver / decoder satellite TV broadcasts, for family viewing alternatives.

For audio, you can choose the amplifier that can accept a lot of input source, could put a DVD, CD, Aux Video, Satellite TV, PS3, and has an iPod dock facilities. Speaker, because of the open space, it is advisable to use a small speaker (satellite speaker) plus a subwoofer, or can also choose a floor standing speakers plus subwoofer.

Lighting

TV / LCD is good with the bad lighting will not produce good image quality. When you use the in-focus, make sure the lighting does not interfere with the focus and make the image ghosting. Use recessed lighting or the lamp frame embedded in the ceiling of the room, or downlight with a simple form for the lighting. Use dimmers, remember this room for many other activities. Set the dimmer darker when watching movies / TV.

Sound leakage

If home theater is located in the living room, the thing to note is the sound leakage, because the window or glass door leading to the outdoors. Glass material is not good to muffle the sound. Sound is leaking from the outside in, or otherwise, will interfere with the enjoyment of watching movies / TV or listening to music / karaoke. Sound leakage could disturb tranquility in another room or a neighbor. To fix this, install a curtain along the window. Fabrics can muffle the sound, though not as optimal as acoustic panels. To get better quality, use a type of thick cloth, and cover the floor with carpet. However, the carpet does not need to be applied to cover the entire room, just the area under the coffee table, this will help muffle the sound.

Furniture

Because in the living room and multifunction home entertainment, then choose a simple minimalist furniture, especially when small-sized living room. Minimalist furniture will be more concise and make more room clean and roomy. Add a rack for electronic equipment and a collection of DVD movies / music. For the color of the room, choose a brighter color, so the room look more spacious. When you want a more intimate impression, choose a dark brown color, gray, and red.

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Tips to make the room brighter but still energy efficient

Atmosphere of a room is determined by the lighting, you can feel when you move from darkness into light room. Although size of the room the same, you will feel the difference. Room with a bright light feel more spacious. Conversely, the less room lighting gives the impression of cramped and narrow.

Room with bright light is the key to comfort for indoor activities. However, sometimes no light reach all corners of the room, both of lamps and sunlight. This condition generally occurs because of the roof attached to the wall, so that leaves no room for entry and spread of light.

Indeed, light plays an important role to create the impression of a room. Moreover, if the light in the room comes from the sun directly, in addition to giving the impression of relief, as well as healthy. Bring a bright light in the room did not have to put up a lot of lamps. You can bring a bright light in the following way:

Wall colors

Choose light colors on the walls of the room. The right choice is the glossy colors, do not doff. Glossy color on the walls will reflect light and give the impression of vast space.

Put up a big mirror

Put a large mirror on one wall of the room. The mirror will reflect light, making the room look brighter without installing a lot of lamps. In addition, the mirror can provide a broad effect on a room.

Glass doors

If it is not possible to install a large mirror in the room. Another way you can do with glass doors. These glass doors to replace the function of the mirror. The door glass will reflect light around the room. So that the supply of light not only from the windows, but also the reflection of light from the glass doors.

Skylight

If the room is located in the middle area of your home, then you can get around by installing a skylight. You do this by replacing the solid roof with a transparent roof, of course you have to make an opening in the ceiling so that direct sunlight can illuminate the room.

Wall openings

This step into a pretty effective solution for the flow a light into the room. To make the room brighter, make a large opening in the wall. These openings can be distributed in several places. This option if the room has no windows directly facing the sun.

Light tube

You can also use the technology "light tube" to inserting sunlight into the room. Create openings in the ceiling, and attach the "light tube" on the roof that get direct sunlight. "Light tube" will capture the sun's rays, and forward it to the ceiling opening. "Light tube" can absorb up to 99% sunlight.

Piles of stuff

Dark impression in the room can also be caused by a pile of stuff. This pile will cause a lot of shadows that make the room dark. Move items that are not used from the room. Adjust the placement of furniture in the room with a neat and do not block light from entering.

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