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THE SELECTION OF HOUSE PLANS: FIVE KEY QUESTIONS
August 27, 2011 | 
Author In order to plan the best way to avoid distortion to ensure that plans are well thought out to begin. Like any builder or housing 
developer designer can tell you, choosing the plan of the house on the right is probably the most important part of home building process. Housing plans contain all the information that manufacturers need to make your dream a reality, it is important that plans for the house you really want.
Below is a guide to five key points to address when going through the selection process plans for a new home.
First: What will your life in this new home?
Families with children have different needs than those without children. This is just one example of how life should be the house waiting to be informed. Important aspects to consider:
Transportation: You need a garage for two cars, or enough space to store bicycles.
Career: Did you work from home or office? To entertain clients or colleagues?
Family: Do you intend to have children, or just have an extra bedroom for guests of the family?
Habits: Do you spend much time in the kitchen, or rather to read the entire room?
The room bedrooms, bathroom and others in your house plans will be determined by the answers to these questions.
Second: How much space do you need?
Many aspects of your new home is easy, once you change in. For example, you can easily take an electrician to add a lamp. However, others after structural changes are difficult.
Adequate storage is one of the hardest things to find in a house. Also built in cupboards and other storage areas are very difficult to extend to a later time, so be sure to provide enough storage space to accommodate. Coat closets, large pantry bedroom walk-in closets are just some of the storage facilities at a glance the design of the card. Benefits can also check if your family is a locker room or a certain area near the main entrance, backpacks, handbags, raincoats, umbrellas and muddy boots are used, so that disorder in the rest of his home.
Third: How long lived in the house?
It is advisable to plan ahead for decades, is planning on selecting your home. Movement up includes designing your card as the aging of avoiding obstacles. For example, older people often suffer from fatigue, joint pain, the stairs in a very difficult task can be executed.
Floor, if you are in your new home to grow old regime, if plans for a single plant, which is not the old home of the obstacles that may seem a high level. It is also worth considering the installation of curb-less showers and offer opportunities for sitting and standing. This design choice to age in place will allow you to grow old at home as long as possible, compared forced to move to a later age, because their house is not well equipped.
Fourth: Do you want to enjoy the outdoors?
You can improve the living outdoor space of your home at a much lower cost than building a larger home. If you stay out too long, consider adding a patio or porch to your house plans. On the other hand, if you can in a place that is warm all year, it leads to a series of walls, the design capacity of roads.
Fifth: Where the home will be located??
Lot Size, shape and location are key elements in choosing will go home. Many long and narrow, for example, offer more opportunities for multi-level home. On the other side offers a flat, a lot of spacious one-story house.
By geography is another important feature of your home think. His house is in a bent piece? If so, garage and basement are in the lowest level of light, which would be built on a hill. The landscape is also home to determine how your plans are. If your home is with great views, large windows to enjoy the countryside.
Finally, make a list of all the features you want to make sure this information is not overlooked in the final design. It is perhaps the kitchen is the island home of his best friend will be repeated in your house plans. Or maybe you have fond memories of the holidays around the fireplace with your family and friends, has a fireplace would be a good topic to add. A well thought out planning, design, needs and preferences to guide their house plans will not go wrong.
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Tags: Home Building, Island Home, New Home, New House, Story House | 
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HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FURNITURE
Our furniture is easily damaged in a number of ways. In general, run the primary cause of injury, but animals, especially cats, 
scratching furniture and small children are often good to make food and drink on the couch. The sun can also cause much damage, because it makes the rooms in cloth and leather to fade and you can hang the curtains, and even graphics and photographs on the walls begin to lose their color. With an awning or porch can help create shade on the exterior of your home and keep the windows of the direct sunlight and helps to protect your furniture.
Take note of the rising sun and see if it falls on your furniture, which has the potential to disappear. Arrange your furniture if you are in any room of leather or fabric in the sun and other materials that are not in the way. Things like blinds, carpets, bedding faces, and pictures on the wall. It may be impossible to keep all the sun, but you can use other protective measures, such as the use of UV glass for your photos, which are set to reduce the harmful UV rays. Arrange your furniture so that is not in the way of the main artery running through the house. In this way, will not equal or beaten and scratched or damaged. If you have small children, you can leave fragile or expensive furniture in the warehouse until they are old enough not to harm them.
With the blinds at the right window treatments is an effective method for the sun to keep your furniture. Make sure the curtains are difficult to sustain because it best to keep the heat in summer and retain heat in winter, which can significantly help you save on air conditioning and heating. Remember to close the blinds during the heat of the day when the sun shines through the window on the furniture.
Covered in the classroom are a good idea, especially for the poor, which can easily be removed and washed. You can also protect the fabric and leather products especially designed for this purpose. Let your fabric sofa dry at least once a year. It is relatively cheap and makes your room like new. If animals are a problem and refuses to leave, could, in the child safety gates to keep the rooms in which you have a good furniture. Cats tend to scratch the furniture and can do much damage, so you buy a scratching post and train, instead of using your couch. You can also discourage animals from jumping into programs with a spray bottle and spray with water every time they start to jump.
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INTERIOR DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Whether you’re working with existing furnishings and fabrics or “from scratch” with an empty space, you should always use the 
elements and principles of design as a guide in choosing everything. The elements are the tools or raw materials, as the colors are the basis for a painter. Design elements of space, line, shape, color and texture. The design principles are about how you can use these elements. The principles of design are balance, emphasis, rhythm, proportion and scale, and harmony and unity.
Principle 1: Balance
Visual harmony in a room is called balance. There is a sense of calm and a sense of accomplishment. A well balanced carefully consider the placement of objects in their visual weight. The elements of line, shape, color and texture to identify all the visual weight of an object, the amount of space that seems to be full. Balance also refers to how and where the elements (line, shape, color and texture) in a room. To maintain balance, try to separate the elements of space.
- Formal balance, often referred to as symmetrical balance, creates a mirror effect.
- Informal balance uses different objects of the same visual weight to create a balance in a room. It’s subtle and spontaneous and gives a warmer feeling more relaxed.
Principle 2: Focus
The focus is on the center of the room. The focus should be on hand when you enter the room, the area where the eye is removed. What can be the center of attention, a fireplace, artwork or a window treatment framing a beautiful sight to see – it must be emphasized enough, so that everything else leads the eye to the region in the center of attention. You can focus on a natural focal point or create one in a room through effective use of line, shape, color and texture.
Principle 3: Rhythm
Rate of supply of the discipline that controls the eye, is a moving part. Rhythm helps the eye easily from one object to another, creating a harmony that tells the eye everything in the room belongs to everyone. Rhythm is created through repetition of line, shape, color or texture. Can also be created through progression. The gradual pace is a gradual increase or decrease the size, orientation or color.
Principle 4: Proportion and scale
Size relationships in a space defined by the proportion and scale. The indicators related to how the elements relate to an object, the object as a whole. The scale is the size of an object relative to the size of the room in which you reside.
Principle 5: The harmony and unity
A well-appointed room is a brand that encompasses all other elements and design principles. Unit creates a sense of order. There is a consistency of sizes and shapes, a harmony of colors and prints. The ultimate goal of decorating is to create an atmosphere of unity and harmony and a sense of rhythm. Repetitive elements, balancing the other side of the room, then a small variation, the room has its own sense of personality accomplishes this. The unit may be too boring, too much diversity for a feeling of discomfort. Juggling the elements and principles for getting the right combination is the key to good design.
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THE INTERIOR DESIGN OF A SMALL APARTMENT
The demand for flats to reach a particular installation. You have to decorate your home with the feeling of a room without running 
conflict with the owner to go.
Most rents are often faced with the same lighting, wall colors, carpets, floors and furniture. Perhaps your creative idea of ??adding notes, which are durable, but it is not.
Since your landlord may not even be able to paint large wall stickers, such as poppy seeds from the ground to reach the ceiling to add color to boring walls, then your room a hand-painted effect.
You may need permission to make a cozy touch to curtains to hang. Many landlords require that the wall of white curtains to match the rest of the window treatments in the building.
A simple thing like a big change for the overall appearance is a statement furnished. You should know a little more expensive to get into pieces with style. Look at the total area of ??building design, the idea of ??his style and decorative furniture to be taken.
For example, if you live in an Art Deco style building, or similar flat pieces in turn. If you are decorating a building with a modern look in a coherent, try to keep the legs in stainless steel.
You may be a small bank, do not overwhelm the room to get through. Try a stool instead of two or fewer table lamps and bedside tables with the card for free. With a platform bed, a room seem larger than a conventional roof, which is important for your room does not feel like a lounge inside.
Get the look of color. Even if the Interior Department, you may feel that your house still naked and white. Select furniture painted with colors, to advise the white walls look like pottery or stained plaques on the walls.
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