Painting Your Living Room and Kitchen

Moving into new house is definitely exciting. At the same time, decorating it according to your tastes and likes can be challenging task. Read on to know more about the ways of choosing colours and decorating your house.

Choosing the right colours for your house is very essential. Colours add a lot to your lives and can work towards influencing you to a great extent. So be careful and take time to choose the right colours for your home. Simultaneously on the other hand painting can actually turn out to be a good way of bringing in a breath of fresh air into your home.

There are multiple ways of selecting the right colours for your home. Let’s focus on them a little more.

Painting the Living Room

The living room occupies an important position in the house. It is the place where you spent time with your family in the evenings; it is also the place where you welcome all your guests. So, decorating the living room properly is very essential. Make sure that you choose appropriate colours. Choosing the appropriate colour depends a lot on the size of your living room. If it is quite big, you can choose lighter shades like white, cream or lilac. Milder shades of green and blue can also be a good choice.

Opting for a theme to accentuate the design can also be a good idea. Each theme will be accentuated with proper colour coordination. So, if you are opting for a colonial theme you can choose to contrast the color with cream and style the place with vintage furniture. The furniture can be deep brown in colour. This will add on to the beauty.

On the other hand, if you are the adventurous one, you can try decorating the living room with some bold colours like deep red or deep blue; opting for a contrasting colours can also give the living room a bolder look , for example bright yellow on one side of the wall and a light green on one side. Accentuate these with brightly coloured curtains. 

If you have a small living room, make sure that you always choose light colours. This will help to make your living your room look much bigger as compared. You can choose to accentuate it with dark colours of the curtain but not very extremely dark. If you take time and tastefully decorate your living room, you can turn it into a great place to unwind and relax.

Painting the Kitchen

Just as decorating the living room is concerned, decorating the kitchen is also essential. You concoct up the multiple joys of life in the kitchen and if you area foodie—you have to spend more time by decorating up the kitchen. While it comes to kitchen decorations, you can choose bright and also neutral colours. Colour contrast can also do wonders for your kitchen. Actually, kitchen is the place where you can choose to take as much liberties as possible. If you want a bright and colourful space—then you can choose colours like blue, yellow and green. For example if you choose to paint the walls with bright yellow, for the cabinets you can use bright blue as a contrast. You can also choose to decorate your kitchen according to some theme —such as modern or contemporary.

Whether it is your living room or the kitchen make sure that you spend enough time in choosing the right colours while decorating them. Understand that colours play a significant role in decorating the house. Choosing colours and decorating the house can be exciting. 

Author Bio: Sampurna Majumder writes on behalf of 99Acres.com, which is an online portico devoted to meet every aspect of the customers’ needs in the real estate industry. One can also read about home, flats decorating tips in the porta.

 

Maintaining your sliding doors – Safety considerations

Although it’s actually very easy to maintain your sliding doors at home – there’s rarely any need to contact a handyman – safety should always be a priority and if you’re maintaining heavy glass sliding doors then safety becomes a greater priority. Have someone help you lift your glass sliding doors off the tracks, for although they mightn’t be overly heavy they often prove quite cumbersome. Therefore there’s a risk that you mightn’t be able to handle them comfortably, so don’t take any chances.

 

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Maintaining your sliding doors – Regular maintenance saves time

Although you’ll need to take your sliding doors off their tracks from time to time, a little regular maintenance goes a long way and reduces the need to disassemble them more frequently than is necessary. When you vacuum or sweep the floors, clean the tracks to remove any debris that has gathered there. This is generally the cause of most problems that you’ll experience with your sliding doors, especially your patio doors, and a little maintenance can help to reduce the frequency in which you need to disassemble them.

Cleaning and maintaining your sliding doors

There are a few things to take note of before you start disassembling your sliding doors to give them a thorough clean, like adjusting an often overlooked mechanism known as the ‘adjusting screw’. This mechanism is located at the bottom of the sliding door just above the track and raises or lowers the roller. Sometimes this mechanism is turned too tightly and it’s this, not debris or dirt caught in the track, which makes opening and closing the sliding door difficult.

You will also need to give your sliding door locks a thorough clean from time to time, just as you would the locks on your UK GRP composite doors at the entrance to your home, so disassemble them, give them a thorough clean with a toothbrush and use an aerosol lubricant to coat the moving parts of the lock. You’ll also need to lubricate the rollers on your sliding doors to keep them moving smoothly, so after cleaning the tracks and rollers with a toothbrush, give the rollers, not the tracks, a thorough spray with lubricant to coat their moving parts before reassembling them.

About the Author:

A company with customers that include seven out of ten of the UK's top home builders, Spaceslide is a leading provider of grp composite doors in the UK.

Inexpensive Ways to Decorate Your Log Cabin

Once you've expertly constructed your new wooden cabin you're going to want to look into ways to decorate it in a style you enjoy while at the same time keeping your costs down.

 

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As with all forms of interior design and decoration, there are expensive ways to do things and cheap ways to do things, and on the whole you can often get away with going down the inexpensive route without it being glaringly obvious that you've done so. With that in mind, below are four inexpensive ways to decorate your cabin, all of which will make a huge difference to the quality of the time you spend in your cabin whether you've just put it up or you've been enjoying it for years.

Cover Old Furniture

Now, we're not talking about covering up old cabinets or bookcases, that's the last thing you're going to want to do. What you may want to look into covering up, however, is any old sofas or chairs you've bought into your cabin, as when you cover them with a sleeve or a throw you can turn them into brand new items of furniture again, while in-keeping with the theme you're trying to create in your cabin.

This is an incredibly inexpensive ways to decorate as you can effectively use the old sofas from your home to furnish your log cabin, giving you somewhere to relax from day one. Rather than scrabbling to find seats for all your guests as they come to marvel at your creation, see to this ahead of time and save yourself the bother of having to throw out your old furniture.

Adding a Clawfoot Tub

Though certainly not the most inexpense item on this list, clawfoot tubs belong in these old wooden cabins and will make a great addition to yours whether it's ten years old or ten minutes.

The reason they work so well in this environment is because they're designed to fit into a more traditional setting, which is exactly what a cabin provides. There are a number of advantages of owning a clawfoot tub rather than a conventional bath tub, most of which focusing on how easy they are to install (they're free-standing, therefore don't require you to fix them up against a wall), and how comfortable they are to bathe in for long periods of time.

Let the Light In

Cabins, due to their smaller windows, are traditionally seen as slightly darker spaces than the conventional home. Don't let this put you off putting together a cabin though, if you haven't already, as there are many inexpensive ways you can go about bringing the light into your cabin to ensure you're never short of natural daylight during the daytime, and artificial light at night.

One of the most obvious ways to bring light into your cabin is by not actively blocking it out. For this reason, make sure you don't put up any blinds or sheets that obscure the level of light coming in at any one time. Once this is complete, put up at least one mirror in each room to help bounce some light around, and ensure a good supply of lamps are available once night falls.

Embrace Rugs

Wooden floors are beautiful creations, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't break them up in certain places, and the best way in which to do this is by putting down a large rug.

Rugs not only look great, they feel great underfoot and can help keep your feet warm in the winter months as you move from room to room.

Exude Small Details

Small details are everything when it comes to interior design. One of the most inexpensive ways in which you can decorate your cabin is by really paying attention to each of the small details you drop into each room to make the room look both unique, yet follow a certain pattern working its way throughout the cabin.

In conclusion, once you've expertly constructed your new wooden cabin you're going to want to look into ways to decorate it in a style you enjoy while at the same time keeping your costs down.

About the Author:

With their own factory for manufacturing their products, Hortons Group is considered a reliable provider of a wide range of log cabin kits, including those for pergolas and gazebos.