Jun 15, 2011

Home Decoration Ideas

If you are crafty enough, you surely love Do-It-Yourself projects. Here are some inspirations for you :


Layered Planters
It’s lovely, right? This creative planter is made by Lucy Ancheta-Atkins.

Pallet Headboard

Do you like this kind of headboard? If you still have some left pallets, you can make this. Recreate the natural dark look by painting them with drift-wood stain or using a wire brush.


Herringbone Drawer Shelves

Julie Petrella gives you the idea. Do you have old drawers? If you don’t, it’s easy to discover it at yard sales or on the side of the road left out for trash. Cut it down before painting if it’s too deep for your wall.

Bedside Table


If you need a tall enough bedside table, you can imitate this unique table which created by Katie Steuernagle. Well, you can put your lamp, candles, glasses, and books on it!


Snowlake Curtain
If you love making paper snowflakes, create it become into a lovely curtain.

Polaroid Magnets
Jennifer Kirk offers this idea. I guess lots of you like putting on photos on the fridge. To protect the photos and display them beautifully; you can use Polaroid magnets. Not only to expose your pics, you can also apply the magnets to tack up other things like your kids schedules, paintings and letters.

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Jun 13, 2011

Tumpeng Rice




Happy Monday, everyone! Yesterday we attended our nephew’s circumcision celebration. Her mother prepared tumpeng rice for our lunch together. All aunts and uncles were coming. It’s a special celebration for only close family. The bigger celebration will be held later, if my nephew’s pexxx has recovered totally.

Tumpeng rice is a ceremonial dish of yellow rice served in a cone shape. When it served in any special occasion, it will be completed with other various kinds of food. Tumpeng rice will also be decorated beautifully. It’s very inviting, right?
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Jun 11, 2011

Rental Properties Basics Managing Light and Heat and Improving Your ROI


If you own a rental property, you may well be aware of the “interesting” issues which light and heat can cause in any house or apartment. The heat can practically renovate the building from inside and out. The thermodynamics of buildings can be very complex, and it’s often a matter of “find a solution or face the costs”. Fortunately for landlords and tenants alike, new sunscreen blinds, window screens exterior screens and awnings are coming to the rescue.

The Problems, Explained
Heat can demolish buildings. Constant expansion and contraction can quite literally take a building apart. Different materials heat differently and expand and contract at different temperatures. The result is chaos, and if you’ve ever wondered why your rental property has that sad look about it, this is “normal wear and tear”, but in a different and sometimes dangerous form.

The interior is also subjected to heat effects. The interior does the same thing, to a lesser extent in most cases, but that just means a separate problem. If the interior has rising damp or mold, the heat triggers growth and corrupts surfaces. Expansion and contraction of buildings can also affect wiring and plumbing.

A building can literally pull itself apart with expansion and contraction, unless these things are managed. Gaps and cracks don’t just happen. If you’ve seen one of those mysterious new gaps around a window frame, (always in some nice, semi-accessible place, of course) the usual suspects are heat or water, but heat can do this without any help. Any sort of problem of this sort has another trick to play- It can become progressively more of a problem, and in a hurry. A small gap or crack can turn itself into a cost base overnight, or over the course of a hot season.

The Solution – Blinds and AwningsThe safest, and definitely the simplest approach to these problems is mercifully simple- External screens, retractable awnings and similar straightforward fixes. The exterior screens block heat before it makes contact with building surfaces. That effectively stops the problem before it happens.


Even the exterior of old buildings gets a boost, because the outer faces of the building are spared the ravages of heat. This cuts down on costs for everything from painting to just holding the building together. Window frames aren’t heated to egg-frying temperatures, either.

Tenants appreciate the improvements, and the old buildings get a new lease of life, literally in one sense, because the heat effects inside are minimized. Carpets don’t get bleached, and the interior of the building isn’t subjected to heat-based expansion and contraction.

Best of all, you can get customized, tailored blinds, screens and awnings to deal with the problems on a case by case basis if necessary. You can arrange for a consultation to protect your valuable property and talk through the options, finding a good working solution to any situation.

Check out the options, and you will find solutions.

Windows

These are windows of Saung Dolken (Dolken House), a rented wooden villa. The villa located inside a fishing place area. It takes only ten minutes car ride to reach the place. I've never yet rented the villa, as it's too big for only one family.

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