Fish Decoration

I saw these cute fish decoration at the same café where we ordered the sausage pizza that I shared in my last week’s MYM post. Was it made from brass? The pic looks rather dark as I didn’t use flash light.

MellowYellow. 

High Quality Rig Mats

When were the last times you see a kind of road mats? I remembered that I’ve ever seen it –many years ago- when I’m still a college student. At that time, I was visiting a frozen shrimp factory located near a wide river to complete a short research for my final assignment. The factory used road mats to create temporary roads on the muddy ground.  The factory owner decided to apply road mats as one heavy and expensive equipment has ever been sunk into a swamp before. He said that placing road mats seemed costly at first but in fact, the potential advantages that he may benefit values much more!

You can find road mats in different specific functions; for example, rig mats are a sort of road mats which its name refers to oilrigs since they are commonly applied to offer impermanent road to oilrigs and support heavy equipments.  As mentioned before, placing rig mats can offer many advantages.

Compared to oilrigs that situated in the Middle East, lots of oilrigs in Canada and Alaska face completely different climate and topography. Oilrigs that located in areas that have large wetlands and long rain or snow period must utilize high quality rig mats to ensure the easy and safe access to oilrigs and mining sites. To attain the optimal benefits of rig mats, make sure that you have chosen the reliable producer like Quality Mat Company that has broad experience and expertise in this industry –since 1974. It won’t be a wrong decision!

Big Smile

 The drink was offered with a big smile :)

The Weekend in Black and White

How to Bring a Country Feel to Your Home

More and more people are realizing that working overtime doesn’t do them any good if they do not use the free time they have to enjoy themselves. When it comes to enjoying, people have to be able to relax and enjoy their home, because living in a home that is not comfortable and nice to spend time in will never be a good idea if you want to enjoy the time spent here. What’s more, when asked about enjoying their homes, people most commonly have the idea that a country feel is needed in order to fully relax in and enjoy a house. Well, we will here discuss some great ideas that will help you bring a country feel to your home.

Concentrate on Wood and Wooden Furniture

Hardwood floors, wooden furniture, and a fireplace in your living room will surely scream country feel. Make sure that you have a feeling of walking into a log cabin when you enter your living area. Regardless of the fact whether you have a spacious or a small home, there is always place for a nice fireplace. Aside from this, never insist on having a TV in your living room, as a fireplace and some good, comfy furniture will surely suffice in most situations. If you simply have to have a TV and you don’t want the country feel of your living room, hide it in a beautiful cabinet which can be opened when and if needed.

Use Only Warm Colors

All the furniture, upholstery, rugs, curtains, and decorations should be in warm colors, such as brick red, pine green, russet, darker yellow, beige, and so on. This will definitely bring a warm feeling into your home, and this combination of colors will work for all seasons as well. Furthermore, warm colors go perfectly with the natural color of all types of wood, and you will be glad for choosing these colors when your furniture arrives and blends in amazingly.

Get Your Decorations at the Flea Market

Decorating your home in a country style will definitely require you to get your hands a little dirty and rummage through some very old stuff to find the perfect decorations. Things like old ceramic kitchenware, wooden figurines, vintage furniture such as old armchairs and coffee tables, old and obsolete items such as old coffee grinders can and will be perfect additions to your country style home. However, it is very important to remember not to overdo it, as a crowded home can never be a good place for relaxation. Rather than this, decorate your come tastefully and in the way you see fit.

Chris has been blogging about decorating for the last 4 years. Chris is passionate about French country furniture and English farmhouse decors.

Add Value and Style to Your Backyard with a Shed

Our suburbs are getting squeezier, no doubt about it. Speaking as I am from a cramped flat in inner Melbourne which I share with a tall man, a fat dog, a needling cat, two messy children and an incubating fetus, I feel I have some first hand experience with this problem. But it’s not a problem restricted to those of us occupying the inner city. Plots of land in outer suburban developments continue to shrink in size, and with property prices so criminally high ( I mean, really- this is not the goddamn Cote D’azur we’re talking about here- why the stupid price tags for a simple home?) many of us are being forced to occupy smaller premises than we’d ideally prefer. There are canny solutions, however- if you just know where to look. National Sheds do a fine line in backyard sheds that add value and style to your property, and provide the significant bonus of being detached from the rest of the house. This means that even the most smelly and anti-social of pursuits can be indulged without bothering the sensibilities of your fellow housemates.

The humble backyard shed has come a long way from the days when your Dad would get loudly shickered of a Sunday arvo, announce his plan to erect a shed- ‘a real man’s shed!’ and proceed to  limply assemble a shamefully shambolic structure that became a blight on the backyard. Sheds these days are so sturdy and practical, in fact, that they can easily be used as guest sleeping quarters or a teenage retreat. The only limit is your imagination.

It’s a well established fact that home buyers look more favourably upon backyards with sheds, too- few of us, after all, don’t have a stash of something or other that just doesn’t fit in the house, or a passion for crafting one’s own pungent cheeses (ok, so not that many of us make our own cheese. Alex James from Blur does, however, and he seems like a decent sort).

If you’d like to learn more about the many different options available in backyard sheds, visit www.nationalsheds.com.au.