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6 Signs Your House Is Just Waiting to Be Robbed

13 July 201513 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

According to FBI reports, every minute a home in America is burglarized. When you plan to decorate the house, you obviously spend lots of money. Try to understand that you also need to be attentive towards its complete safety and security. Thieves never look much beyond the opportunities that they see, and may be are ready to rob your house, making all the family members suffer.

Here are 6 signs your house is just waiting to be robbed and needs your immediate attention.

1. Trash barrels are out — days before pickup

If you have kept the trash cans outside the front door, and the day for trashing is Monday, this clearly indicates that you aren’t home on weekends. Beware to not leave the boxes even when they are full of garbage. It is okay if your plan is to go out for an event, just don’t make it known to everyone.

2. You’ve got a lot of big bushes

Entrances shielded by trees and shrubs or that tall privacy fences are a way to provide burglars complete cover they always need for fiddling with a lock or for force opening your doors. If your garden area is full of bushes, it is time to remove them all as everything has to be clearly visible. Thieves love to hide themselves in tall bushes. To avoid any uncertain situation, you should not have overgrown grass. Keep the garden plants look fresh and medium-sized.

3. There are windows on your garage doors

Do you have windows on your garage doors? Obviously, this is a sign that thieves can arrive as burglars are offered easy access to your home due to these doors. Survey reports have suggested that in different parts of the world, almost 70% of home invaders peek in garage windows to see if the homeowner’s car is inside. Another 9% gets in the green light and enters homes through the garage doors. So, why don’t be careful!

4. You have a cat

If you have a car or window decal signifying that you have a cat, thieves find it to be a welcoming sign. They can easily assume that this can be the entry point to your house. Don’t leave the windows open, and don’t try to allow the cats wander inside and outside during the night houses. Experts suggest that a yappy dog is best to prevent theft because they bark and make the most noises.

5. Your name is on the mailbox

Your name is on the mailbox? If so, the burglars can call to see if you are at home. It is an easy way to recognize your identity. You should not leave your name or number on the mailbox—never ever.

6. Your neighborhood is full of rental properties

Living in an area where neighborhood is full of rental properties is a sign that strangers can be around all the time. It is commonly thought that renters aren’t trustable individuals until or unless they have been verified by the police of the area. If you have neighbors who have rented the house, be very careful.

Keeping in mind the above, you can definitely avoid any of the situations when you and your house has to suffer from theft.

Modern Kitchen Designs with Islands Look Fabulous to Try

10 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

When it comes to think of decorating the kitchen, we start planning a contemporary, classic or modern style with all common things placed within the premises of the kitchen. This is time to get out of the box and be more than enough creative. Before going through the article, don’t forget to explore these modern kitchen designs with islands which look fabulous to try.

What You Think About Kitchen Designs with Islands

After reading the title, what you thought about kitchen designs with islands ideas? Do you feel they will look contemporary or traditional? Actually, we have shared the ideas of both modern and traditional kitchen styles. The application of island-like look inside the kitchen gives a soothing and magnificent feel.

A contemporary kitchen island can be colored with simple yet attractive color tones, having a marble or granite surface. A traditional kitchen has a wooden countertop on its body. You just need to follow your brain ideas to come up with something highly innovative and extraordinary.

Contemporary Kitchen Designing with Island

The contemporary kitchen design with island looks dominating when you have black and white colors everywhere. First of all take a look at your kitchen cabinets and cupboards. Do they need renovation? Are they colored contemporarily? If you feel it is No, then you have to plan their renovation. Make sure to install kitchen cabinets and cupboards with black and off-white color combinations. Give them a contrasting and appealing look. Now comes the turn of the walls, ceilings, and flooring. All of these things need to be painted with white with a middle area of the kitchen of black color. The black body combined with white marble surface exudes modernity in maximum way. Such an idea goes well both for large and spacious, and small or medium sized kitchens.

Farmhouse Kitchen Designing

If you live in a farmhouse, then its kitchen must be spacious with a lot of wooden touches around the area. Have a look at your ceilings, what colors they are of? Some of us decorate such parts of the kitchen with shiny colors with the roof being colored with light shades. Include whites and blacks a lot in your farmhouse kitchen. Yes, here again the same idea is applied because without these two shades, it is not possible to have an island-like look. The kitchen island should a quarter of a circle with sleek black surface. Built-in display storage for wine bottles needs to be created on the body.

Mediterranean Kitchen Style

A Mediterranean kitchen has a medium size having white combined with dark brown. The white areas are given by the ceiling and wall around. Make sure such a kitchen has spacious and beautiful glass windows. Install glass doors if possible to beauty the overall environment with natural looks. Apply lots of brown cabinets, and all should be made from quality wood.

A Mediterranean kitchen is always styled with a lot of wood, having simple yet appealing look. It surface has to be sleek, and it is better to have floor with white granite or simple brownish wood.

Key Decorating Tips to Make Any Room Better

10 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

I always hate to live in a home where rooms aren’t decorated beautifully. This has always left bad impression on my guests. It is not tough to think of renovation. We need to imagine, dream and explore, and most importantly follow our intuitions. If this sounds difficult to you, hiring an interior decorator can be the ultimate option. There are not special and tough tricks to follow. Anyone can renovate the house. Consider these key decorating tips to make any room better for developing your quirky, creative, rule-breaking intuition.

Picking the Paint Color

The very first thing to consider is picking the paint color. This is obvious that we cannot pick the colors which we find boring. Why not arrive to walls with a fresh coat of paint? Believe it or not but there are thousands of paint colors with numerous tints, tones and shades. Each of them has its beauty and distinctive charm. We cannot mix any of the two shades. Have the color that best compliments your artworks, rugs, and whatever you want to keep in the room. Also consider to combine any of two beautiful colors, preferably a light one with dark one.

Give Furniture a Breathing Room

We often ignore this fact that the furniture has to be kept in spacious room. It is alright if yours is a tiny one or a small apartment with little space. For such places, there should be a lightweight bed and handful of foldable table, chairs, and cupboard. Don’t crowd your room with so heavy furniture as this can ruin its beauty. You don’t need to fill up the space with lots of chairs and low-quality furniture items. Spend some money on high quality products to get good results.

Hang Artworks at the Right Height

This is great if you love artworks. Hanging them all around is not good idea. Galleries and museums are the places where artworks are placed on almost all the walls. In case of your bedroom or living area, don’t hang them anywhere but at the right height. In a room with ceilings soar, there might be tendency of hanging the artworks higher. But keep in mind this should look relevant to your room’s environment.

Arrange Furniture on Rug Appropriately

You need to know how to arrange furniture on rug appropriately. We all know that rug is a large place where the furniture is kept, and this has to be well-organized creating a luxurious and comfortable feel. In case, your room is small, keep all legs off the rug as this is a cost-effective idea. You don’t need to pick the heavy and large-sized things. Such ideas are suitable when you layer a pattern over the large solid or textured rugs.

Focus on a Certain Theme

Focusing on a certain theme is a wonderful idea. For example, if you love a vintage-style room or a classic or contemporary decoration, be familiar with the hallmarks like blue and white nautical palettes, sailboat paintings, and how to keep the things organized. Don’t repeat the same look in every room as this can ruin their uniqueness and beauty. Achieve the desire results with palettes, artworks and materials that give most effective results with little investment.

Most Innovative Open Kitchen Design Ideas of 2015

09 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Choosing an open kitchen design is what you can do if you are fed-up of living in a small home or apartment. Even when any of your bedroom or living area has to be merged with your kitchen, you shouldn’t worry because an open kitchen can give you a lot of benefits. Before we go through the article, explore these most innovative open kitchen design ideas of 2015.

Choose the Suitable Design

It is not mandatory to go with a sophisticated and difficult to manage kitchen, you can choose a suitable design. Even when you have your kitchen in u-shape or rectangular shape, feel free to give it an open-looking environment by designing it awesomely. Consider to design your home interior with open floor design. For the kitchen, you can also go with the option of tile floor which looks highly innovative and fabulous.

Don’t Get Confused about Designs

It is okay if your home is small, you don’t need to get confused about open kitchen design. Use the most modern or contemporary style and don’t try to go with a classic kitchen design. You just need to use your innovative capabilities so that the look of the kitchen becomes out of the world. Have a spacious dining area adjusted in your kitchen premises rather than setting a separate living or dining room. This will not only be money saving, but also time and space saving as you would not need to separately invest in a dining room because an open kitchen is already providing the space to sit and enjoy the food with the whole family.

Getting Inspiration

Try different designs or seek the help of an interior decorator to get inspiration of an innovative open kitchen. You can have a minimalist kitchen as well using wooden kitchen cabinets, but make sure the space is enough for your whole family.

If you have gone with the tiled floor for an open kitchen, make sure it isn’t slippery. Kitchen is an area where you will spend much time in cooking. Chances are that the garbage or other particles will be unwillingly thrown on the floor by any of you. In such a situation, if the floor of the kitchen is of marble or tile, it should not make you slip. If you feel yours is not the kitchen with slip-resistant floor, then best option is to go with another floor which is totally slip-resistant as this can save you from dangers.

Classic Country Kitchen Design

Although we recommended to not go with classic open kitchens, if you still cannot live without them then go with classic country kitchen designs. With this, the kitchen countertop looks so elegant when using marble kitchen countertop. Also this gives an impression of being in an interesting and well decorated dining area. To make the environment soothing, allow natural light and air to come into the kitchen via windows. Having glass doors is good if you don’t live in a populated and crowded area.

There are certainly a lot of ways you can decorate your open kitchen. Whatsoever your style or design may be, you need to make sure that the kitchen doesn’t make you feel bad. It should, instead, double your confidence when shown to the friends or relatives on an event or get together. This is only possible when the kitchen is innovatively designed and is well furnished.

5 Timeless Home Decor Trends in 2015

07 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

When it comes to décor the homes, it is very important to keep up with the current trends. This year has brought a lot for us in terms of creativity and marvel for the home decoration. Some of the ideas are unique and truly timeless, which means they never go out of trend and are used years after years. Styling your home in a timeless way means you need not to plan re-decoration after a few years.

Here are 5 timeless home decor trends in 2015.

Minimalism

Regardless of the fact that in which era you are living, lesser is always more and can be your option. Don’t crowd your rooms too much. Follow the rules of minimalism so that a comfortable environment can be created. This not only gives an edgy look to your home environment, but also dusting of the furniture and the organization of all the things can become an easy task. Proportion of the furniture as per the size and style of your room can give you space, without making it look crowded and disturbing.

Accent Colors

Trendy colors tend to change every year, in fact every season. As compared to this, the accent colors can give soothing look to your rooms. Instead of investing in an orange couch or painting the living room aquamarine, select the accessories like throw pillows, vases and art in bold accent shades. It is an easy and timeless way to make the rooms look fabulous. It is a one-time investment and can last for almost five to ten years.

Functional Furniture

Don’t give preference to trendy or fancy furniture. You should, instead, have functional furniture. Don’t buy something on which you don’t feel comfortable to sit. Investing the money on only trendy items is not enough. Take wise decision by having well-organized and lightweight chairs with tables, coffee or study tables, shelves, cupboards, beds. Apart from this, whatever you need for your home should be timeless so that you get admire of everyone. Buy home décor items which are only made to be used every day and have nothing to do with decoration only.

Comfort

Like function, comfort is an important factor when it comes to buy furniture. Whatever you buy needs to fulfill your requirements, and at the same time this should be timeless. Buy some good looking items which provide you complete and utmost comfort whenever used.

Prefer Quality over Quantity

Last but not the least always remember to prefer quality over quantity. It is of no use to have shelves that aren’t meant to give any benefits, and just due to the reason that you have walls doesn’t mean every inch should be accessorized. These are good for nothing ideas. Don’t use paintings or photos on every wall, and don’t bulk up your rooms with so many useless items. Giving preference to quality over quantity can be both time and money saving.

With the above things in mind, you can definitely give marvelous and superb look to your rooms. These are timeless yet fabulous and trendy ideas and you will definitely find them not difficult to follow. Do you love these tips? Have these been useful for you? Don’t forget to let us know through comments!