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A pleasant working space can be inviting and encouraging

It will make you feel relaxed and ready for a stressful day ahead. Here are some useful tips you can do to design a home office that will encourage you to work harder:

1. Design your home office according to your work – if you are an engineer, architect, interior designer and the like, you will need a spacious table to put on all your drafting papers. If you are a wedding planner of any field involving meeting up with clients, it will not be nice to meet them in your house; you can do that at cafes and restaurants, instead.

2. Plan a right corner inside your home – you can use an extra room inside the house to be your office. If you do not have one, you can use a room which is rarely used. Basements can be a good choice but humidity can be a disturbing problem.
3. Get the right furniture – your desk should be spacious enough. Your chair should make you feel comfortable and relaxed. Back pains are the common problem of home office users. Make sure your computer is within eyeing level to keep your eyes from being tired.

4. You should have proper lightings – a well-lit workplace is a must. Natural lights can do so much for you; you can choose a corner of the house with natural lights coming. This can also save you from paying much in electricity. Poor lights can strain your eyes so better put some lights on top or at the back of your computer.
5. Keep a tidy and well-organized thing – hide unwanted wires properly. A clean place is more relaxing.

Curtains

A good fabric is what you would need to make your own curtain

Traditionally, curtains are connected to windows via curtain rods, in which the fabric is actually threaded onto the rod, giving it stability and to fix the curtain properly in place. Several alternatives however, have already been developed apart form this technique. One such example is by using clips and rings, instead of actually threading the fabric onto the curtain rod, you clip the fabric on one end and clip the other end to the rings attached on the curtain rod.

If you have a ready made fabric, all you have to do now is to drape the fabric onto the window properly using any of the techniques in fixing your curtain to the window. If the fabric’s size is too big for the window, you might need to double-fold the fabric or cut the fabric, depending on the intended design of the curtain. Easy decorative techniques, like pinning the excess fabric onto another part of the fabric for added design, can also be applied. Design is very possible in more ways than one, by just using one or two fabrics for your curtain.

If you are really on a budget, you can try other home alternatives. Old fabrics like old slipcovers of you bed and thin blankets can serve as fabric for a curtain that you wish to make. Of course, cutting them to the desired size would be necessary, but the application of the techniques is overall just the same, and you don’t even have to pay just to buy fabric! Just make sure that the fabric’s design would still match the entire room’s atmosphere.

Decoration

Seasonal Home Decorating: Fall Season Decorating

Fall is one of the more distinct seasons for decorating homes, for it provides enough design and style to your homes even with just the use of a single group of colors in the known spectrum. Fall decorating provides the creative home decorator with new and innovative ideas to integrate the theme of this season to the general theme of his or her home, and there have been quite a few common ideas to emulate and follow during the decorating process.

As I have mentioned before, seasonal decorating introduces colors of a single part in the known visible spectrum, yet it provides us with enough color and variety to dazzle our eyes and marvel at the sheer elegance that it can give us. Just by looking at your surroundings, you are able to behold this wonderful phenomenon. Dried leaves, though they may be generally orange in color, are actually varied in many, many ways that you yourself can probably notice. Leaves actually dance in the vast variations that it can have as an autumn leaf, ranging from semi-pinkish colors, to dark orange colors and then again to leaves with copper-like tint on them. It is any wonder that fall decorating is still quite the worthy venture that you, as the creative home designer and decorator, may embark to.

Splash in the look and fragrance of the leaves into your home by actually taking them home with you. Decorate flower vases with autumn themed flowers such as hydrangea. Certain herbs, such as rose hips can also be used to further enhance that autumn look into your home. Be careful though, you don’t really want to transfer an insect’s home into your own, so you have to be wary of the leaves that you are using.

Styles

Making your very own Interior Decorating Styles

Good interior decorating styles today are actually no different in rate and rank when compared to the designing techniques of the old. This is because each and every style and technique is actually incomparable to each other. And they are incomparable because these styles and techniques are of different realms to each other. Simply put, the creativity of each of these styles is what makes them different from the others. And if it’s all about creativity, anyone with enough ideas on his or her mind has the capability to create his or her very own style, an interior decorating style that makes it your very own.

Several factors are considered by designers when making new designs and themes for interior decorating. The main question for this query would be, “what would be concept or idea that no one has ever tried before?” In short, innovative ideas come from concepts that are yet unexplored by other creative minds, something that you, as the creative human can potentially do.

If thinking of a never before thought idea is too much for you, then there is still another alternative in which you can successfully create a stunning new idea for interior decorating: combine 2 or more ideas into 1 new concept. The art of combining concepts to create a new one is not really new, and especially not to interior decorating. But combining ideas and concepts is still one good way of devising new ideas. Remember, the keyword is “2 or more”, which means you can combine 3, 4, 5 or even more concepts into one. Just remember to still keep style and functionality intact, just stacking ideas on top of each other won’t actually be considered a creative idea.

Decoration

Home Interior Decorating: Ten Most Important Things you have to Consider

Home interior decorating is a venture most enjoyed by people who just love to see stylish and elegant homes born out of their creative efforts. It is one “sport” that gives very rewarding results upon accomplishment, because there is just no person in the world that doesn’t like neat, orderly and good-looking homes. The following are ten simple tips for home interior decorating that anyone can do, even for someone who will try and decorate his home for the very first time.

Choose the correct color combinations for your home. If you are designing with a general theme or design in mind, keep the articles’ colors in constant compliment with each other. The same goes for your room walls. Articles made of fabric such as curtains and window valances should also be of complimentary colors to the rest of the articles in the room.

Painting room walls actually requires a little practice, so never apply the paint directly onto the wall immediately when starting on a wall paint job. It is very easy to make perceptional mistakes, and in case you make a mistake in painting your walls, it could take you more effort in correcting it than the actual time frame for your paint job! Illumination plays an important role in presenting the actual design of your home’s rooms. Make sure that you provide the proper lighting that is required in each room of the house, not only functionally, but also aesthetically.

Articles placed on a wall should be placed properly. Articles that are anywhere out of the range of the normal eye level of an average person is a complete no-no. Paintings should be of considerable size, and anything that is significantly small should not be placed or hanged in a wall, as it creates a “postage stamp” effect.

Tips

The Modern Nomad: Decorating Tips for Urban Travelers

There are some families and people who frequently move or change home addresses for different kinds of reasons, mostly due to their careers. This can be a hassle especially when you think about all of the chores you have to do in always transferring your belongings to another place. Think about the different environments each time you move to another home, you have to be very versatile in order for you to adapt into each and every new neighborhood you are going to live in. Decorating your temporary home can even be more troublesome to do because your options are ultimately limited, and anything that lasts longer than the time of your stay is a complete taboo.

So, how to decorate a temporary living space? You can start first by thinking up decorating ideas that should last long enough until you move again to another home. You should liken your home decorating style to that of a gypsy or a nomad, ever changing, and one attribute that is always associated with it is versatility, regardless of whether it its versatility for functionality, or versatility for convenience. To elaborate further, here are some of the general options that you can do if you’re an urban traveler.

Choose proper home articles that can go with you easily when frequently changing homes. Foldable and stackable chairs and tables are some of the good examples when it comes to easy portability, but they are quite lacking as a decorative article. A quick remedy for this is with the use of table mats and ready to apply slipcovers for your thin and colorless chairs and tables. Alternatively, you can just choose smaller versions of normal sized furniture, you never know if your next home would be smaller or larger than you current living space, and in the long run, smaller furniture are much safer to use than larger ones.

Decoration

Decorating Your Room with a Modern Cornice Board

We have been used to cornice boards placed on top of our windows and it looked like your window had an elegant touch. However in the long run, you find it boring and somewhat monotonous. However, the cornice board’s trend has come back, and it came back with better designs and ideas making it a unique and exciting design in your room. The purpose of this cornice board is to add depth to a window, or have a focal point in your room or it is even used to hide an unsightly hardware. A cornice board is not so hard to do; you can even make it on your own and design it whatever you wanted to design it to suit your taste and match the theme that your room have. You can also make it lighter by using materials such as foam or foam core board.

If you would be using plywood for your cornice board, have a jigsaw ready however if you would just like to make use of foam for a lighter cornice board, a serrated knife and a candle would do. Other things that you might need are the fabric of your choice, beads, braid trim or tassels or other things that may add in making a personal statement in your cornice board. Here are some things that you might want to consider in making your very own cornice board.

Make interesting shapes. You can actually design you cornice board making use of the different shapes rather than the traditional box shaped one. If you are designing a room of a child, a face like cornice board may just set the theme of the room. You also have the choice of designing it like a car, or a balloon shape or any design your child would love or you can have an elegant design if you want to place it in your room. Let your artistic talent come out. Like any other work of art, this can be your outlet of the artistic talent that you have. You can paint your cornice board with designs that you would want to have or the theme that would just go along with the theme of your room. This is the perfect way to express yourself through art.

Give it a theme that matches your room. If your room has that certain theme, you would not want to have a cornice board that is not going with the room’s theme. Find ways; match the colors or the designs to make the cornice board suitable for the rooms theme. Or you can cover it with a cloth that matches the colors that you have in your room. These are just some of the ways that you can make your very own cornice board that would really add an artistic touch to your room.

Feng Shui

Five Elements: Productive and Destructive

The easiest way to keep your life moving is to use feng shui that brings energy and colors to achieve the desired results. Color is very powerful as it serves as a light and many spaces starve for it. Feng shui is a well-known ancient Chinese system of aesthetics which deals with Heaven and Earth.

The principle of Five Elements is one of the basic principles of feng shui. These elements interact with their selves in a certain way. Feng shui and the elements such as Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water is generally connected in a way which called as Productive and Destructive cycles. This cycle shows that Wood is connected to Fire which is connected to Earth, Earth is connected to Metal, Metal to water and Water to Wood.

These two main cycles of interaction called Productive and Destructive cycles plays a very significant role in feng shui. Productive is the cycle of creation and Destructive is the cycle of destruction. Productive or Creative cycle is applicable only when you need to strengthen a particular element. Productive cycle shows that Water nurtures wood, wood nurtures fire, fire nurtures earth, earth nurtures metal and metal nurtures Water. The other cycle called Destructive cycle can be used to weaken a certain element. Its cycle shows that water weakens fire, fire weakens metal, metal weakens wood, wood weakens earth and earth weakens water.

Color is the most common and easiest way to use the five elements principle to bring more harmony into space. The ability to use color to balance and strengthen your environment is a complex feng shui subject. The proper placement of feng shui colors is defined by the feng shui energy map or by the well-known Ba-Gua. Here are the feng shui and the elements that correspond in each color:
• Green and Brown for wood.
• Red, Strong Yellow, Orange, Purple and pink represents Fire.
• Light Yellow, Sandy or Earthy, Light Brown for Earth.
• White and Gray represents the color of Metal.
• Blue and Black for Water.

When you come up to a decision of applying the feng shui theory, it is natural to see an element representing specific piece of décor item. Aside from color, Feng shui can be expressed in shapes such as:
• Rectangular for Wood.
• Triangular for Fire.
• Square for Earth.
• Round for Metal.
• Wavy for Water.

The more time and effort you have exerted in playing with feng shui, the more chance you have to see how it applies to each area of your home. Sooner, you will know how to decorate your home in a way that it can nurture and support the health and well-being of your loved ones.

Tips

Better Way to Identify a Ceiling Texture Type

Hiding ceiling imperfections is a common problem most house owners encounter; it’s a common problem that should be addressed properly to be able to stop it from worsening. You can easily add texture and bring back the beauty of your home just by doing simple methods. Hand identifying ceiling can be a tiring process, but it will surely bring back the glow inside your house, save you lots of money and satisfy your needs.

By simply changing color, texture of your ceiling, your home is look amazingly different. It can change dramatically the look of the entire house. There are various color and texture that can make your home or room unique and very attractive. Most of the time, textures are often used to hide imperfections, dry, dull, plain ceilings. Since it can’t be covered with curtain, posters and other decors available for walls, only paint can hide the seams which are not really pleasant to the eyes of visitors. There are paints available for walls and ceilings that are available in leading hardware and online shops.

Here are some helpful ways on how you can put textures and handmade paint your ceilings:
> You will need to buy a bucket premixed flat paint, roller and string.
> Cover any furniture with used paper to avoid mess.
> You can now start edging the whole ceiling with a plain compound.
> You can double the layer of plain paint with another colored paint, you can use paint brush, sponges, your hands, or stencil to add design to a plain ceiling. You can also stipple it with a whiskbroom, crumbled paper or any other material you would like to use.

Garden

Experience Fun and Adventure at Busch Gardens

Busch Gardens located at Tampa Bay consists of all the fascinating aspects of your ideal theme park. It is full of entertainment where all amazing types of roller coasters and rides are present. Busch Gardens even gives you the botanical garden image. In addition to close encounters with its animals, you will surely enjoy your Busch Garden visit.

With every ticket you buy, you are entitled to experience the Gwazi, Montu, and Python rides. There are also rhinos, hippos, elephants, alligators, and white Bengal tigers to enjoy for near observation of their forest habitats while riding a safe jeep safari.

You can also entertain yourself with the various tastes and angles in Busch Gardens. Some of its popular attractions include the best rhino rally. Tourists are craving to experience this type of white rhino rally. Nonetheless, these Gardens gives a high sense of entertainment due to its mixture of 17th century ambiance along with high technology atmosphere of 21st century. Busch Gardens theme park gives you the advantage of seeing modern technology by creating the Curse of DarKastle.

Not only do Busch Gardens provide you with paradise of rides however, it also provides you with various shopping, live shows, and eating places. The most applicable time to tour around the Busch Gardens is during late fall or early spring. Nonetheless, this Tampa Bay theme park is commonly crowded during all seasons of the year. Every season at Busch Gardens surely offers a unique park attraction. However, summer can be worse to some tourists because of the hot weather. Hence, the spring seasons of March and April plus the fall times of September and October gives appropriate atmosphere to experience the Busch Gardens wild attractions.

Islands of Adventure are another thing to enjoy at Busch Gardens comprised of five unique islands. All are located at Universal Escape Resort where these islands have advance features and unique themes to impress your taste. The names of these islands are Seuss Landing, Jurassic Park, The Lost Continent, Marvel Hero Island, and Toon Lagoon.

These islands all have various kinds of exciting rides fully depending on the unique park themes. For you to experience this awesome adventure, you need to purchase tickets of Islands of Adventure that come with the famous Disney World Tickets.

Tampa Bay’s Busch Gardens greatly represent the African theme during the 19th century comprised of different kinds of combinations from animals of zoological importance to fantastic tourist places. The exciting Busch Gardens’ rides located at Stanleyville section and Congo section are the popular Kumba and Shreikra roller coasters. If you long for experience like rotating, jumping, twisting, and ultimate speed of roller coasters, then this is the best ride for you. Also, this theme park gives other fabulous attractions different from their usual rides. People can always look and experience breathtaking activities.

walls

Horse Wallpaper Border for Wall Decorations

Redecorating, rearranging your home can be a cheap relaxation technique. If you don’t have much money to go to a spa or salon, you just have to think of some other way that can help you free your mind with stressful things that surrounds you. You don’t need to spend a lot to make an added drama into your home, bedroom and others. You just need to move your creative mind to be able come up with a good wall decoration idea. A horse wallpaper border can make your home, room, kitchen and others look good even when it’s just handmade by you.

Making a horse wallpaper border is easy and simple, but the satisfaction it can bring you will surely be one of a kind and worthwhile. Horse wallpaper can make your home look like you are in the western part of the world, it can also turn your room into a horse heaven, and a kitchen with horse border can also look good and different considering the different aura it can bring.

Horse wallpaper for you can be readymade wallpaper which you can make into wall borders to enhance it. This idea can also be effective for room and in other parts of the house. It can be bought in leading arts shop and home decoration shops. It is also available in most online shops now a day. If you are on a limited budget, you can just make your own wall borders, it’s a great idea especially when you can do it with your kids, ask them to help you cut out horse’s pictures and let them choose the backgrounds you need. This activity can really be a great bonding moment with your kids and the whole family.

That kind of wallpaper will make your home a relaxing haven, horses’ combined with clouds and blue paints or wall papers can really make your home a peaceful place to stay. Though there are numerous decorations you can combine with a horse wallpaper border, you should remember that less always looks better than more. Over decorated home will not make you look relaxed, it will just make you feel like you are in a crowded place, whenever you will redecorate your home or any part of your house, always remember that simple is best.

This wallpaper with border is just enough for your redecorating needs, it can be an effective way of accessorizing your home without over decorating it. Your creativity will take you to the place you want to be. Your uniqueness will surely bring out the child in you for every design you make. Inspire your household with a unique horse haven that will surely bring harmony within your home.

Feng Shui

Improve your fortune: Get our seven thirty-minute Feng Shui tips

Do you want to improve your fortune and make the best out of your life – from wealth, relationships, health and life-long happiness? Then, Feng Shui is just perfect for you. Feng Shui is a century-old Chinese practice of putting things at its right place to help generate more positive energies or Chi in Chinese and to eliminate the negative one. Though Feng Shui is perceived as a complex discipline, some of its basic principles are not hard to learn either. If you are keen enough to have a life that is something new and refreshing, you can try our seven thirty-minute Feng Shui tips below. What you have to do is only to do a little fixing in your home, just a little bit really, and will only take about 30 minutes of your time.

1. Clean your room from any clutters. The positive energy could flow better if your room is fixed and free from any litters. If not in use, your things and other personal belongings are better kept in cabinet. For other smaller objects that you frequently used such as remote, keys, writing pens and the like are better kept in an organizer. Also, do not place anything under your bed so you will have a better and more relaxed feel.
2. Get some plants for your home. Plants generate a positive energy and can keep the air circulation clean and fresh. However, there are some types of plants that are not good as your houseplants. Keep away from those thorny and spiky plants or those that have sharp, pointed or dying leaves. These could distort the energy flow and is not good for Feng Shui. Also, avoid bringing inside your bedroom huge plants but instead get something that is just enough to add to your decoration.
3. Keep you bedroom peaceful and relaxing. You bedroom should make you relax, so keep it free from any distracting sound and whatsoever noise or too much and unnecessary entries of air. If you feel that there is too much air entries or noise, look for the leaks and try to fix it using available materials in your home.
4. Arrange your bed to improve your sleeping pattern. Your bed should be positioned in a way that the door of your room is visible to allow the entry of good energy from the room’s entrance into your bed. However, it should not be positioned directly opposite to your door. You should not also place human-sized or large mirrors inside your bedroom especially if you are experiencing sleeping disorder.
5. Get rid of the old memorabilia with sad past. If you want to improve your romantic potentials, you should not place anything associated to your failed past relationships such as us presents, love letters or photographs of your former fiancé. Instead, display something that could generate love energy such as flowers, a pair of hearts, candles and romantic artworks.

6. It’s now time to check your bathroom. You bathroom serves as a storage place for the not-so-good energy in your house so it is advisable that you keep them always closed. Also, keep the toilet bowl cover down when not in use. Putting a mirror outside your bathroom door is also advisable.
7. Let the water flows as well. Feng Shui experts suggested that it is good to have a fountain or even just an aquarium in your home. Accordingly, flowing waters can trigger the flow of good energy. If you want to improve your fortune in wealth, you can position your fountain in the Southeast area of your home.

So that’s it, so simple indeed. Enjoy fixing!

Bedroom

Hockey Themed Bedroom

A sport particularly hockey fascinates boys of every age, and there are so many possibilities you can consider for a sports motif room. Parents can make a sport themed bedroom without sacrificing their budget. Since sports are always a hit, you can look for more cheap room stuff on the web. There are some great products online and in other local stores which can help you in redecorating your boy’s room. A themed room is a good idea because it can be useful regardless of your child’s age; sports can be for all ages so you don’t have to worry about money because when you buy furniture and other room decorations, it can be useful for a longer time.

There are wide selection of hockey furniture and decorations to choose from, you just have to choose carefully for durable items that can help you minimize spending. You can start with the wall of the room, you can buy wallpapers and other wall decors that will make your child’s room a big hockey play field. You can also put paint in replacement of wallpaper; it’s longer lasting and.

Once the walls are covered you can start putting on a carpet and wall ornaments. One of the most important things you should change is the bed, the sofas and the bathroom. They should also be hockey inspired to theme up with the walls and floor. You can buy readymade hockey beds and accessories that look like hockey players’ uniform. There are shops that offer customization. Customized bed and bathroom accessories looks good than readymade ones but they are really expensive. You can invest on your child’s room if you are sure that this is what he wants and he won’t change his mind until he gets older.

Headboards made out of hockey sticks are really inspiring to start with, you can also buy bed sheets and pillow case with hockey designs. Side chair and sofas can be hockey ball; there are shops that offer these items, readymade and customized. Take your child to a hockey field within the comfort of your home. It will be a big surprise to provide them with this one of a kind hockey themed room which for sure they will surely love.

It’s not so hard to redecorate your child’s bedroom eve when you don’t have enough budgets; there are lots of ideas that can be very helpful to you. When you do the decorating process, you not just satisfy your child’s needs, you also satisfy yours. Using your resourcefulness will be one enhancing thing for you; it not just brings out your ingenuity, it also brings out the child in your. Through enhancing activities like this, you grow up with your child in a more relaxing way.

Remodeling

Sending you Old Furniture into the Future: Painting old Furniture

Furniture, like any other object in this world, ages and gets old. Even furniture in your homes that have been sturdy enough to last for decades, would also lose its beauty at some point. Conventionally, most people would want to replace them with a new one, who would want to keep something that gets less and less useful, and would eventually get defective anyway? But for people who are on a budget, or people who want to preserve furniture of sentimental value, certain alternatives have to be considered. You actually don’t need to replace your old furniture with new ones. Preserving your furniture can be done simply by painting them, reviving or even surpassing the lost luster that it once had. Here are a few helpful suggestions when painting you old furniture:

Ask first all of the members of the household if it is okay for the furniture to have a paint job. There’s nothing worse than having your family heirloom lose its antiquity unintentionally. If it is okay for them to have the furniture reworked, then you can start getting those materials needed in repainting old furniture.

First and foremost, you have to strip the old furniture of all aspects of its former self. Chip away bulky and excess old paint and dirt in the furniture by scrubbing it off using a wire brush or a stiff scrub brush. Make the former paint finish dull by using a sandpaper to scrub the old paint off the furniture. Remove all hinges and other parts that are not part of the main body of the furniture and put them together in a container for reattachment later. Then wash the entire furniture using soap and water, and make sure to wipe off all residues using a clean damp cloth.

Second, you should know some common ways of applying paint onto a surface. If you want a “store bought” look into your furniture, then spray paint is highly recommended. Be careful though, spray paints need a lot of free space to be able to work with them properly. Spray paints also demand proper ventilation and well a protected work area, so it’s best if you use them outdoors.

Preserve the paint on your newly painted furniture by coating it with polyurethane. If you have sanded your furniture well before applying paint to it, then applying a coating of polyurethane shouldn’t a problem. Just remember to apply at least two coatings of polyurethane for maximum furniture protection. As for certain painting styles, like the famous “shabby chic”, you would still have consult certain specialists if you want to successfully apply any of these techniques in painting your old furniture. With proper execution of these techniques however, you should have your furniture last until your next paint job.

Bedroom

You can create railing on the floor

After painting, the bed can look like a train car. By mounting painted plywood on the edges of the bed, it can resemble a train car since buying a train car-shaped bed would easily be outgrown and it would be far too expensive. At least, when making these kinds of projects, the child can easily participate as well. Bed sheets, pillow cases and blankets with train prints are available at your local department store.

What’s a train without rails? You can create railing on the floor and use it as areas to place toy boxes, train models, books, and other belongings. You can add those red lights that go on when a train is about to pass by cutting out from cardboard and placing it on a stand at the end of the “rail”. For accessories, you can place train tickets around the walls or a desk. You can also mount photos of different “destinations” such as postcards around the bed. On train stations, there are usually vending machines. You can construct a cabinet that looks like a vending machine with the child’s belongings in it. Perhaps you can convert that into a bookshelf as well.

Remember that it’s possible for girls to like trains as well so just add elements of girly stuff to suit the child. Other add-ons can include a recording of a train making the “choo choo” (or even the chugging) sound and setting it as the alarm sound. Lastly, you can also cut out and paste together a creative “station name” with your child’s name. The decorating process is actually the fun part so get your child involved with the project, as it is his or her room that you will be decorating; that way, seeing the end product of the train themed bedroom would be more fulfilling. So go on and design a train themed bedroom with your child today.

Decoration

House Decoration: Hang it on Brick Walls

All the things you want are easy if you know how to do it. Although you have the appropriate materials, they are still useless if you know nothing. Various houses have plastered or paneled walls, some has log cabins that uses timber walls. However, the most common used is brick walls as it is used for fireplaces for the entire house. If you are one of those who have brick walls and wants to give new look to your house, hanging pictures, shelves, etc is a great idea. In order to do it properly, you need special techniques and materials. You must be extra careful because brick is a strong and you can break, crack or crumble it easily.

Basically, you have three options to choose from, such as:
1. To use brick or concrete picture hangers. This type of hanger is made of small piece of gold or silver colored metal, which has small hooked bottom and a hole on top to hang it. A small, unbendable nail which is brass plated was indicated for every brick or concrete picture hanger. For easy insertion, nail has an extra sharp. For this type of application, hanger was considered as the best option available. Aside from being easy to use, it can be installed properly and it can hold up to thirty pounds. To hang objects using brick or concrete hanger, you can install it by positioning the hanger on the wall. Then insert the brass plated, small nail in to the hole. Gently tap it into the wall using hammer.

2. To use concrete screws. This type of screw can handle the stress brought by the boring into hard-rock surface due to its extra hardness. They also have special threads which help to dig into hard surface. Screws are suitable not only for objects on brick wall, but they are also appropriate on concrete, stucco and other masonry. To install it properly, you need an electric drill set into lower speed and a carbide masonry bit. Slowly drill a hole in the wall. Drilled hole must be smaller than the diameter of the screw. Securely install a screwdriver drill bit in your electric drill. Lastly, insert and tighten the screw into the wall.

3. To use lead anchors. They are somehow close relative of plastic anchor as they are made the same. They differ on the materials they were made out of. Latter are stronger and more durable. Plastic Anchors are great for hanging light objects on plastered walls.

To install, you need an electric drill set into lower speed and a carbide masonry bit. Drill a hole that is large enough to hold the diameter of the lead anchor. Gently tap it into the wall using hammer. Lastly, insert the screw into the lead anchor and tighten it using screwdriver or a low speed drill into the wall. Everything can be done easily if you know the proper procedures. Usually, wring steps caused imperfections.

Remodeling

Room Updating: The Fast and Budget Friendly Way

Updating one’s room is never that hard and expensive. There are a lot of ways that you can update your outdated room without having to spend so much and you can even do it the quicker way. Here are some tips on what you can do to get your room a makeover that it needs. First thing that you can do is to have the plan on what to do with the room that you want to arrange. Decide if you would just use the available things that you have or if you are willing to spend some amount for your redecorating plans. Then, plan out the things that stays and the things that goes out of the room. See which things needs replacement and which of the things needs repair. This way you can start cleaning up the room by placing all the things that are not needed in the garage.

Start cleaning up. Tidy up the room for you to better plan out where to place things. You may want to have a look may want to have a research on beautiful lay outs that you can make use of in the room that you are designing. If you want to change the mood of the room by changing the colors of the wall, you can make use of the paint or make use of wallpapers to design the walls of your room. You can now start deciding on the colors of the curtain that you will have.

Decide where goes where. If you want to have a working space in your room make sure that you separate space where you can place books, computer or other things that you will use for your work. And the work space should not be placed at a spot that is prone to disturbance. Start arranging. Start from the bigger furniture before you do the details of the room. You can also start from the undermost things like the carpet. Place the carpet first, then arrange the chairs or the beds or the entertainment showcase that you have.

Then update the bed. Be sure that you have the colors of your beddings and your pillowcases coordinated with the color of your room. It may not necessary match the color of the room but make sure it coordinates to make it look good. These are just some of the ways that you can update your room with a minimal cost or at no cost at all to you. This would help you redecorate your room to give it an updated look. Updating one’s room would not mean spending thousands of dollars to make it look good. It is just a matter of how you arrange and match things to give it the look that you wanted your room to have.

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