Soldiers

 When we were on the road not far from our home, we saw a bunch of soldiers running toward-not know where. There were some yellow shirted supervisors, it’s suitable for Mellow Yellow.  I took several shots, but only this one was clear enough.

5 Hot Trends for Designing Your Kitchen in 2012

If you are planning to give your kitchen a much-needed facelift, like changing the design, types of wood, lighting and coloring, it always helps have an expert opinion. With kitchen design trends changing frequently, it helps to know what is currently in fashion. The following are the hot trends in kitchen design this season.

1. Cherry Wood Is So Yesterday

When it comes to the cabinets in your kitchen, there was a time when maple and cherry wood ruled. However, times have changed, and keeping with the current trends, you should now use oak, birch and bamboo kitchen cabinets. These woods have a lighter finish, which gives your kitchen a brighter look. Also, these are more eco-friendly and can do your bit for the natural environment.

2. Using Various Kinds Of Finishes

You can give your kitchen a completely new facelift if you decide to mix finishes. Yes! It’s completely unthinkable, but mixing steel appliances with granite tops and natural wood eating area can actually work wonders for your kitchen. This even saves you from changing the whole kitchen at once. You can pick one area and change it. This will give your kitchen a new look and be easy on your pocket as well. So go ahead and experiment.

3. Bold Use Of Backsplash

Gone are the days when white ceramic tiles would be the choice for backsplashes. Now you can use innovative materials and bold colours to create your kitchen backsplash. Use brick, granite, and quartz and even tempered glass to add a side of your personality to your kitchen. Kitchen remodeling should make a visible change in your kitchen’s look and it should make visitors go wow. Innovative use of backsplash would help you get this exact reaction.

4. Change In Colour Scheme

Do you want to be a part of the crowd or stand apart with your use of current trends and innovative kitchen designs? If you want to make a bold statement, change the whites in your kitchen’s backdrop. Use grays, canary yellow, burnt orange and honey to give your kitchen a bright change while keeping it warm and cozy.

5. Use Colour To Spice Up

Your kitchen at home can become boring and monotonous if you stick to a particular colour scheme. The current trends asks you to jazz up your kitchen with the use of colours where you least expect them. Use colourful appliances and accessories in bright citrus hues to give a much indeed dose of brightness to your pale kitchen. You can also use wallpaper in interesting patterns and shapes.

6. Lights

When it comes to lighting, LED is topping the charts. It is energy efficient and gives your kitchen a high-end finish. The dramatic use of LED in your cabinets and paneling can give certain sophistication to your kitchen.

These interesting trends from competent experts, for designing your kitchen, is the best start to give your kitchen a completely new look.

How to Make a Dual Fuel Comparison of Prices and Where to Start?

If you use both gas and electricity in your home or business you need to seriously consider the potential savings available on a dual fuel deal and examine the options open to you. The deregulated market economy for energy supplies means a single supplier can supply both energy commodities with great cost benefits to them and you the consumer. To start out you need to make a dual fuel comparison of suppliers and how much you stand to save year on year on your energy costs.

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Deregulation in the energy supply market benefits consumers and suppliers alike

The deregulated market for energy supply in the UK has given consumers far more choice than was available in the days of the regulated market and nationalised industrial suppliers. Gone are the days of a single gas supplier and electricity supplier, with consumers now able to choose from many companies, all of which are vying for a finite amount of domestic and commercial business. As competition in the energy supply market grows the effect is to bring wholesale prices down in real terms.

The more customers an energy supply company has either for a single supply or dual supply, the greater its buying power on the international wholesale gas and electricity supply markets. To attract more customers to help them obtain better prices, these companies make available many different pricing tariffs for consumers and commercial customers alike. Geographical location can have a bearing on the best prices available, one of the elements which are taken into account when making a dual fuel comparison.

Switching from a single fuel to dual fuel supplier is simplicity itself

Once you have made a complete comparison of the cost of a dual fuel supply and the available tariffs in your area, making the switch is simplicity itself. If you have a gas supply from one company and electricity supplied by another company, it matters little if either of these can supply a dual fuel deal or if it is another supplier. All you have to do is make the application online or by phone and the company will do the rest. You won’t even notice the changeover, except for when the first bill comes in.

First of all it should be noticeably less per month than the figures you were paying previously. Secondly, you will notice only a single charge for supply rather than one charge for gas and one for electricity. Third and most important of all the potential to save hundreds of pounds a year simply by making the switch is real.

Making the switch doesn’t mean you are locked in forever to a single company, although there may be a contractual period which you are obliged to stay with the new supplier. In addition, they will have to guarantee the prices and tariffs for the same contractual period, so it is to everyone’s benefit.

When the contract period is over or coming to an end, there is absolutely no reason why you cannot make a dual fuel comparison again to see if you can get a better deal elsewhere.

  

Fence at a Parking Park

 The fence has started rusting. Captured at a parking park of a mall in my city (Bogor, West Java, Indonesia).

The Weekend in Black and White