Paint Your Room Sunny!

Color of your room affects your mood, your activities and your living style. What type of color to use in a particular room, depends on the utility of the room. For example you need lively and bright colors such as yellow, orange, red in the living room, the kitchen, the dining, etc. whereas the bedroom needs to be colored exactly the opposite way, you need dark light absorbing colors such as blues, greens, mauves, purples to make your bedroom look calm and pleasant.

Color up right

If you have your living room, dining space and the kitchen that appears dark, dull, lousy and inactive you can change the look completely. Choose the right color for the room. A bright shade such as yellow works wonders for lively places inside the house. You can choose from a variety of yellows shades right from golden to lemon yellow. The yellow that you choose should be paired with the right color. Warm yellow colors can be perfectly paired with the right shades of browns, reds and oranges whereas a brighter yellow can be paired with blues, lavender and subtle grey to calm the shade down a bit. An example can be beautiful mango color walls perfectly paired with mahogany floor and ceiling, to add to the color choose the right furniture.

Choose the right décor

Curtains, cover of your couch, cushion cover and also your carpets play a huge role in making the room appear lively and bright. Try not choosing dark shades or heavy curtains for your room. Even if you keep the curtains open it will still block a part of your window obstructing light. Translucent curtains work wonders for dark rooms. Lighter curtains will allow light to reflect to your newly painted walls, making your room look dramatically gorgeous. A light shade couch will add to the charm of your room. Do not forget the cushion covers; you can match them to the contrast you use in the room. Finally the carpet, choose a lighter shade carpet for the room. A lighter shade carpet will make your room appear brighter.

Let Mirrors Work

Use mirrors to reflect light. Place a mirror on the wall opposite the window. The mirror will not only reflect the sunlight it will throw light throughout the room. In case you do not have a window in your room you can place a lamp facing the mirror to lighten up the room. Use natural sunlight bulbs or brighter bulbs to give it a better effect. Mirrors not only reflect light they add volume to your room making it look bigger, brighter and better.When used light colors to color up the walls of your room your room not only looks livelier it appears bigger. Choose the right color as per the utility of the room. Make sure you choose the right combinations of the color to pair your walls up with. The décor of the room also adds to its brightness, so choose it wisely. By adding mirrors to the room you can add more volume and light to your room.

About the author: Bethany is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on home decor and luxury. Beside this she is fond of gadgets. Recently she bought a John Lewis Sofa Beds for her bedroom. She is passionate about cars and had a dream to own a Lotus evora.

Wood Swing Sets: Best Choice for Your Kids

With an abundant array of exciting activities for your children and their friends, swing set is the best option that is available in different shapes and sizes. Swing sets are made using different materials like steel, metal, plastic or wood. There are different researches and studies conducted that have arrived to a conclusion that wood swing sets are the safest, long lasting and most durable play sets available in the market. There are also some reasons that contribute in the wide usage of wood for swing play sets and especially timber redwood. Redwood is a strong timber redwood that is virtually splinter free, has natural resistance to decay and doesn't require constant coats of stains and wood preservatives for maintaining its durability as well as rich exterior color.

There are numerous people, who assume that steel or metal is strongest and most durable material to use for building swing play sets but there are several reasons that support that redwood trees outlast buildings. Weather always remain a threat to a play set frame; there are different factors like year's rain, snow, high winds, excessive UV sunlight, insects and animals that can harm the metal and can also corrode the metal. Corroded metal shows rusted color and sometimes you won’t even be able to detect the weakness of the metal.

Plastic is also used for constructing swing play sets as it is considered to be cheap and lightweight, but it is also under the attack from the environmental elements when placed outside. Plastic play set is considered as the best option, if it has to be placed indoors and not outdoors.

Due to all these reason, wood is considered to be the best material for building strong, high quality and long lasting swing sets. There are different types of timber wood available, including white pine and redwood. Best wood to be used is redwood because it is strong and able to resist natural decay. Splinter free redwood is used for making a solid swing set frame and also ensures that your kids don’t get their clothing snagged on exposed screws and bolts or wood shards from cheaper lumber.

There is another benefit that you will discover after installing redwood swing sets and that is this type of wood does not require preservatives, stains or any other exterior spray for protecting the wood. Redwood is considered as one of the most durable timbers available that can be used for years without any maintenance.

Another most important benefit that you will discover through wood swing sets is that these have the ability to add different accessories in your sets like monkey bars, spiral slides and buoy swings. Metal and plastic sets are usually pre-made and come as is with no option for additions. When your child grows older and wants some exciting features except for only a glider slide then you have to buy a new play set but this is not the case with wood swing sets. With these sets, you can add different accessories as per your child’s specification and requirement.

Cangkuang Temple

Cangkuang temple is a seventh century Shiva ancient temple that located in the small island. The island situated at the centre of Cangkuang Lake (Garut, West Java, Indonesia). We rented a bamboo raft to reach the island.
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