Sunday Lunch

Happy Monday to all. I don’t want to scare you here, hehehe. I met this ‘guy’ at a café (Abc Chocolate & Spaghetti in Bogor, Indonesia) yesterday, when we had lunch there. He’s one of the staffs there. It’s a unique café with horror theme. I can’t share the pictures here; there’s no yellow, even if a bit.

We ordered Indonesian food for lunch. It has good presentation, but the taste is just average. Though some of decoration items are scary ones; this place is very cozy!

Orbs?

These orbs were captured in one night, under my aunt’s carport. Based on Wikipedia source, the term orb illustrates unanticipated, typically circular artifacts that occur in flash photography, especially common with modern compact and ultra-compact digital cameras. Others also call orbs as backscatter, orb backscatter, or near-camera reflection.

The Paranormal have different perception. Orb backscatter has been broadly interpreted as a highly variable range of paranormal phenomenon without confirmable causation — including invisible spirits, auras, angels, ghosts, energy fields, psycho-energetic artifacts, and energy balls.

The Weekend in Black and White

Home Decoration Ideas (2)

Chalkboard Wine Boxes

Marry Black gave the idea. Have a wooden wine box at your home? You can change it into this unique storage. On one side, add the chalkboard paint. Use this side to label the box content.

Fabric-Covered Pots

It could be your favorite craft. Pretty fabric can modify a little Mod Podge becoming a beautiful pot. Christine Chitnis has made lots of these.

Cheery Children’s Table and Chairs

You can make this cheery table and chairs by yourself. Follow Belinda Graham instructions. Use Japanese masking tapes to create thin strips on the table and seat tops. Then you cover it in a clear sheet of contact paper. Beautify more the table by painting the frames with super-glossy black paint.

Bold Fabric Wall Art

Wall art mustn’t be expensive. Check out the creation of Jessica Jones. She made this punchy fabric piece on a shoestring. Turning a piece of fabric into wall art was a simple and smart solution. Do you like it?

Source:ivillage.com

Commercial Premises Best Practice- High Quality, Low Maintenance Carpets

There’s a sort of myth that “cheaper is better” with commercial flooring. Nothing could be further from the truth, or more certain to lead to extra cost for commercial building managers. The fact is that high quality flooring needs less maintenance, and lasts much longer. The best flooring solutions for commercial premises are the new generation carpets, and there are added benefits as well.

Flooring issues

The big issues for flooring are all bottom line issues:

· Cost: Commercial interiors aren’t cheap, and outlay on a large area like flooring is a natural issue.

· Maintenance: Repairs and replacement of many types of conventional flooring can be disruptive and expensive. Low grade flooring of any kind is notorious for being easy to damage and costly to fix.

· Safety: Some surfaces are better than others for safety. Wood, concrete and tiles are hard surfaces, and a slip or fall can be expensive for building owners.

The long term view is usually the best with any kind of major business outlay, and flooring is no exception. With flooring, the idea is to contain cost and benefit from long product life to deal with these issues.

Carpets- The new best practice option

In the past, old style carpets were a debatable option, because the high quality broadloom carpets were not only very expensive, they were prone to serious wear and tear over time. Repairs and replacement were also costly.

It was the limitations of the old carpets that spawned the new generation of ultra-heavy duty carpeting. If you’ve seen those extremely tough-looking carpets at airports and other high traffic areas in public buildings, they’re very good examples of the new ideas.

The new carpets are actually carpet tiles, although they don’t look like tiles. An innovative US carpet manufacturer got the message about the failings of the old style commercial flooring, and the whole idea of commercial carpet would never be the same again. The idea was to create very high quality carpet tiles, with their own underlay and glued, not stitched, together, to provide a seamless single surface.

With this fundamental rethink came new technology which allowed for sustainable production, driving costs down. New software also created a brand new way of customizing carpets, giving customers a way of viewing their carpet design choices in different environments and colour mixes.
The new carpets are really totally different technology:

· Tiles rarely require maintenance and can be replaced very quickly, with minimum disruption and cost.

· The new fabrics are extremely durable, and provide good surfaces for customer safety.

· There’s basically no limit to the customization possibilities. The new carpets can be tailor made for any type of commercial premises.

The new carpets have revolutionized commercial interior design. They’ve also become the industry standard best practice solution for commercial building managers trying to achieve that difficult mix of best quality design and best quality materials.

The other commercial angle to the new carpets is one that all business people will appreciate: They’re much better business propositions for their customers. The market has spoken, and these are the floorings of the future.