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Showing posts with label roof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roof. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2012

How to Decorate the Walls of Your Home?

The best part about decorating your home is that you need not be a professional home interior designer to decorate your home beautifully. All you would need is dedication, aesthetic sense, willingness and skills to do so. If you have that creative instinct inside you, let your home reflect that. A beautiful home is a true reflection of your own personality. Let the walls speak about your aesthetic taste and creative mind.

                                   

Well painted walls do not always add color, charm and your own decorating style to your home without painting the walls. A wall decoration project comprises of things like proportion, balance, scale, texture, variety, color, size and the list is long. Here are a few ways to beautify your home with decorating ideas that are a bit off the wall!


Arrange for a gallery wall:
Locate some focal point sand learn about dimensions before venturing out on wall decoration of your home. Draw a rough plan on a piece of paper before actually starting with the decorating. Put some photo frames on one wall of your living room and you will create a beautiful gallery wall. Measure the distance between the art piece, so that there is equal spacing between them. Select one picture that would serve as the gallery's main attraction. You can also hang some frames without pictures as this form of decoration is in vogue.Read More...

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Go Green With Roof Top Gardening

An experienced handyman is able to address all home repairs ranging from repairing appliances and furniture to re-designing and remodeling projects. But not all repair projects are complicated or risky and will require qualified handyman or professionals. Some can be handled in a Do It Yourself way, without the help of experts or professionals.

                                         

Roof top gardening is one of the many home improvement projects that do not necessarily need a professional help. The idea of a rooftop garden has been invading homes all across the world. Yes, as the name is pretty self-explanatory- it is a garden that is planted on your roof. The threats of Global Warming or Climate Change and its effect on the environment has led to evolution of new kind of home improvement projects.

Why Rooftop gardens?
Aesthetically talking, they are beautiful. On top of it, this type of gardening improves the quality of air and increase building insulation. Green plants reduce a building’s heat absorption. A garden on the roof will improve the energy efficiency of the building by retaining rainfall in the soil and cooling the building from the top down. Green roofs provide more spaces to connect people to nature. In urbanized areas, these gardens cleanse the surrounding by switching carbon dioxide for oxygen.Read More...