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| Ideas that they will make feel less pressed in his small apartment |
| With the decoration I extended his apartment |
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To live in the only space, in an apartment of an ambience or in small study is something challenging, but even more challenging it is to do it in comfortable form. To the above mentioned end, it must know the tricks to do that his small space feels more spacious and fresh; these tricks that will allow him to combine the efficiency, the comfort, the functionality, the beauty and the style in the decoration of the hearth simultaneously that you "make" the space for all his activities: to sleep, to eat, to work, to study, and to amuse yourself with friends.
• Buy furniture I multiuse with storage capacity.
• Three keys exist to live to the big thing in the only space:
• To hide sheets, cosmetic and small articles in containers that could be slid below the bed or placed in furniture with storage capacity.
• To use the walls. It places shelves, built-in lamps, television in support. It uses actively the vertical space.
• It resorts to the superposition. Chairs, tools, clothes, and towels can pile up some on others.
• Five things to be born in mind while you live in a simple space: color, divisors, furniture, lighting, and storage
• The organization is an obligation. Avoid the disorder and the consistent sensation of chaos that accompanies it.
• It recreates a calm and serene ambience. The subdued and relaxed decoration is vital to "construct" a bigger space and repairer.
• If it is possible, it leaves one of the walls completely in target, without adding elements of any class — they should be already settled, decorative elements or art pieces—. This way, his ambience will seem more spacious.
• Instead of resorting to screens to divide the ambience, it resorts to spaces divisors with shelves that could be used to store things.
• Libraries of medium and low height, offices with wheels, sliding doors, furnitures of low lines, are always good options for the limited spaces.
• Velvety cloths falling down from the roof towards the apartment create an interesting fund and can hide tools and dirty clothes at the same time.
• Venetian or American blinds on the windows contribute a cleanliness sensation and do that the space looks like more an aeration.
• Chairs that can be placed under the table, furniture with wheels or that can be transported when they are not in use, couches that turn into bed at the time of sleeping, Loft beds with workstations, closets, offices or offices under the bed offices can do that a small room shines like a mansion.
• Tables and couches can join to do a big table.
• A narrow bed can do the armchair times with some cushions above.
• The flexible lighting and for layers — making use of the lights of the roof, of halogenous lamps and of tenuous and soft lights — can be the key to adapt the ambience to the activity that you are realizing.
• It uses mirrors and brilliant surfaces to reflect more light.
| Almost half of the cost of the energy owes to the heating |
| Do his most efficient house in the energy saving |
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For Department of Energy
In accordance with the Agency of Environmental Protection (Environmental Protection Agency) the average owner spends approximately 1,500 dollars per year in energy consumption. And it is anticipated that by the end of this year, the number will increase 50 per cent.
Almost half of the cost of the energy owes to the heating. In average, the houses calefaccionadas with natural gas had 41 per cent of increase in the past winter period, in accordance with the Administration of Information about Energy (Energy Information Administration). Then the houses follow him calefaccionadas with oil, with 27 per cent and, finally, the houses that use electricity, with 5 per cent.
According to the experts, the way simplest to remedy this situation that reverberates in the pockets and the environment, it consists of applying a series of rules and simple advices as the following ones:
• It replaces the lamps of incandescent thread.
• Use fluorescent pipes: especially in those rooms that more are used or in the places that the corridors need to be illuminated permanently, how.
• It chooses green domestic appliances: or rather those who have the symbol of "Energy Star".
• Improve the efficiency of the water: the systems of accumulation of warm water are more efficient than those who warm the liquid in the moment.
• Take care also of the cold water: since this one comes to many hearths impelled by electrical bombs. Repair the faucets that drip and do the water to run while you do any activity like cleaning the teeth or shaving.
• Watch the heating: Cover the exits that provoke air currents with draft excluders, silicone or putty. He remembers that it is advisable to support a temperature of approximately 20 degrees centigrade (68 grades Farenheit) and to extinguish the night heating. Close the blinds and the curtains to support the heat.
• Rinse the clothes with cold water: 90 per cent of the energy used, on having washed the clothes, one spends in warming the water. Use warm water only when it is absolutely necessary.
• Seal all the hollows of the house: where the air could slip in be already cold or warm. The most important areas are "forgotten" like the attic and the cellar. Seal windows, doors and the earnings of the water services and light.
• I isolated his house: the insulation grade depends on the climate and on the type of heating that uses the house. Once it has the walls isolated, a specialist must verify that the systems of ventilation of the heating and the air conditioning are working correctly. To consult on the isolation measurements visit: www.ornl.gov/sci/r
| Combine classic, modern objects and minimalista |
| Know the new decorative tendencies for 2009 |
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Contained ALTAR
Although in interior design there seem to be the climatic stations those that they define what to set or to remove for the decoration, there are always a few general tendencies that determine colors, forms and objects, which will emphasize during one, more or less long, decorative period.
During the last years, in the interior decoration, the domineering tendency has been the minimalism, although in the last 2008 there were already evident desires to leave the extreme minimalism on the part of some signatures and especially in fairs of decoration and hearth.
The decorative tendency that enters with more force in this 2009, proposes to combine classic, modern objects and minimalistas.
The heavy furniture and of value, which in other periods has lost importance, it reappears with more force and, sometimes, the decorative center will become I half-close to the one that decorates a stay or room.
The experts coincide in speaking about two big decorative tendencies for this year 2009.
On the one hand, it continues present the tendency minimalista in this 2009, although it is smoothed and the ends give in.
The second clear tendency in decoration for the year 2009 is the eclecticism and the styles miscellany.
The tendency of the reformed minimalism
On the minimalism, it is necessary to say that it is already not a question of creating in the hearth or in other interior places or empty and cold ambiences.
The eclectic tendency in the decoration
The second big tendency of 2009 in decoration is the eclectic one or it mixes of decorative styles.
In decoration the styles miscellany is imposed, especially on having gained importance the recovery of objects of the past, which they make coexist in the same space with objects completely the last one.
This year, more that never for any time, they turn the objects of the past, to obtain concepts of interior design left during a time, in which decorativamente impose the rich ambiences on themselves speaking and a taste for the ancient thing, which in many cases will be able to be only an imitation of the ancient thing.
It is necessary to emphasize that, for some experts in decoration and decorators interioristas, in the stays of 2009 any considered value piece for his antiquity will be able to be capable of turning into a decorative object for the hearth. Thus in 2009 we are going to find decorating stays from pieces of archaeology up to more or less ancient sculptures.
Other decorative tendencies for 2009
The decorative forms of vegetable inspiration are other fashionable elements and of important decorative tendency for 2009. Both in cushions, and in glazing, in luminous ceiling roses or any other decorative object, the sheets, the flowers or the fruits are a tendency in decoration this year.
As for the predominant colors and of tendency this 2009, it is possible to mention the browns, creams and coffees like stars, although they accompany them red, orange, stained, black or green. It seems that the nature enters our houses to remain.
| Advices for the remodeller beginner |
| Improve and save in his hearth |
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Latin context
Although it is tantalizing and perfectly understandably that the housings proprietors look for ways of saving and of looking simultaneously for the progress of his hearths, a project for proper account can imply more work of the awaited thing, both for the beginners and for the experts. Everything the one that should have in mind to realize a project for proper account must consider these advices:
• He believes a budget. A successful project for proper account can cost him less than if it requests the services of a contractor, since the cost of the labor will save itself. Prepare in advance a budget, and fulfill it perfectly. While more there lasts the project, major propensity to spend, hence he must consider the available time at the time of creating the budget.
• Be realistic. Although the idea of the saving in the current economic climate is tantalizing, the housings proprietors must not fall in love with the idea of doing reshapings for proper account if they have not even had previously the opportunity to use hammer and nails. Although a beginner can attack some projects, others are definitely for professionals. To overestimate his skills and to initiate a project that probably could not conclude might transport more expenses of time and money that if it hires in the first instance a professional.
• Ask friends or relatives for help. Although it might be feasible that only one presents herself attack a small project, it is a good idea to request the help of a friend or relative at the time of realizing a project of major importance. Be already for reasons of safety or of quality control, to have help is a good idea.
• Request the local officials the corresponding permission. One of the benefits of the work of a contractor is that this one knows how to handle any bureaucratic step regarding the laws of zoning and any another possible restriction. Nevertheless, more than one remodeller for proper account has confronted difficulties at the time of attacking their own project of progress of the hearth.
• The safety is essential. When we see how a professional contractor attacks a project, the facility with which it realizes it has the tendency to conceal the preparation and the accident control measures that it takes before fixing the first nail. In case of a remodeller for proper account, the safety is essential.
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