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Best Cheap Decorating Tricks You Must Remember

26 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Whether it is a matter of decorating the homes or refurnishing our offices, it is mandatory that we make plan according to our budget. Renovation on budget is like a dream comes true. This not only has to match our pocket, but also should give our home/office a shiny and marvelous look. Here are the fun-filled and best cheap decorating tricks you must remember.

1. Stay Organized

Clear clutter and get organized. This is the very first step to achieve a beautiful home. While thinking of decoration, it is better to not rely on an interior designer until you have enough amount to spend on his/her fees. Be creative yourself and organize the things as per your daily needs.

2. Sparkle Your Home with Daily Vacuuming

Yes, it is true that daily vacuuming and washing of floors can give you home sparkling and hygienic look. I know it is not a pleasurable way of decoration, but this can certainly save you from the extra money which you are likely to spend on brand-new tiles’ floor. Why not adapt the habit of daily floor washing or carpet cleaning instead of a total-change of the floors that will cost you more than enough!

3. Get Rid of Dust

Getting rid of that film of dust coating your existing appliances and furniture is helpful to breathe new life into tired spaces. It is again a nice trick to follow. You will have not to spend some extra amount buying those new appliances and expensive furniture. Be regular in dusting the things on a daily basis, and this will save a lot of your money.

4. Get Creative Eye

Sometimes it is all enough to be productive and creative for renovating any room. But what if your creativity has gone? In such a situation, consult a friend or relative who really knows your requirements. For example, if you are confused about which color of the walls should be of your bedroom, your friend/relative can help you choose the right one. Usually for such things we hire interior designers. There is absolutely no need to pay anything to a professional decorator when a friend is just a call away.

5. Place Decorative Items at Different Places

If you have a handful of decorative items, don’t worry and don’t bring a lot more. Place all of those items randomly at different places of your home. For example, if you have ten decorative items and there are three to five rooms in total, it is better to place 1-2 in each room. If possible and your budget allows, pay much attention to placing décor items in the living room because this is the most important part of the house that will be used to entertain guests.

6. Let the Sun Shine-in

The use of fancy and costly lights has been much in trend. Let the sun shine in and avoid those expensive lighting equipment. What a wonderful idea that the sunlight will enter the rooms from windows or doors directly, making you turn-off the extra lights. In your study room, there should be enough windows to allow the sunlight to enter and make the room look bright.

By concentrating on small things, you can definitely get big, positive results. The above tips will surely help you come up with the right decision of decorating the home at cheap costs. What do you feel?

Tips for Eco-Friendly Home Environment

26 June 201509 March 2023 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

It is like the dream of everyone to have eco-friendly homes. For this, we don’t hesitate to spend thousands of dollars. Hiring an interior designer means you have gotten freedom from the designing-related problems as he/she will manage everything. Allow them some time and give space so that their creativity results in marvelous and well-decorated homes. Once the decoration is completed and you are still not satisfied, turn your home into an eco-friendly environment. How? Here are the tips for eco-friendly home environment.

Spacious and Charming Windows

Spacious and charming windows should be a part of every room. Replace the old windows with eco-friendly versions as this has a big payout. Double and triple-pane windows insulate much better than single-pane styles. These are also energy-saving, and environment-friendly. These also play their vital role in reducing the amount UV rays entering the rooms. Installation of new windows has not any alternate if you are curious about eco-friendly environment. Spend money on brick-to-brick replacement rather than retrofitting.

Landscaping and hardscaping

Homeowners put lots of work to make the inside of their homes green, but paying attention to outside environment is also important. Corporate hardscaping features such as patio stones, and plant native plants. Maintain the beauty of your garden. Plant shady trees, shrubs, flowering plants, and water them on a regular basis. In short words I can say that both landscaping and hardscaping are must to ensure an eco-friendly environment. Strategically placed trees are responsible to provide your home with more shade, and keep the overall environment cool.

Lighting

Proper lighting plays key role in the beauty and charm of your homes. Replace traditional light bulbs with energy-efficient ones. I would like to recommend that you use LED bulbs in every room. These may be a costly option but are known for their superb characteristics such as a lifespan of 25,000 hours, so you may never have to replace them. Make sure all the rooms have proper lighting arrangement. Avoid the use of bright and irritating tube-lights. Try to keep the lights at 80% of full power for better results.

Appliances

Outdated and old appliances can leave bad impact. Why not consider to replace them with something better and amazing! It is okay if you love your old home appliances, the new ones can save your energy bills and can have much better properties to ease your lives. Start replacing the old appliances with the new products of the kitchen. Have a new dishwasher, microwave, and refrigerator. Then come to your bedrooms and replace the heavy, odd furniture with something lightweight and pretty design. Last but not the least, consider to replace the dining table of living area as well as the bathroom products. If this sounds like you’ll go over-budget, then the ideal option is to spend some money on used yet branded items that cost cheaper than the new ones.

In any of the above situations, you can give better look to your home. Some of these tips can be applied to offices and other areas as well. The purpose is all to give you freedom for enjoying eco-friendly environment. At the same time, you need not to cross your expenditure limits. Remember to take the right decision at the right time to avoid any kind of confusions.

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Why to Clean Your Gas Range

26 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

When it comes to kitchen’s cleanliness, thorough and proper dusting and washing is a part of your job. I know the housewives find it tough to manage the home, especially the dirty areas of kitchen and of course bathrooms. But as this is your home and you are to take care of it.

Keep your gas range look spotless. Why to clean your gas range? Here is the useful article:

It is Main Attraction of Kitchen

Just because you are having a lot in your kitchen doesn’t mean the gas range can be ignored by an outsider. This is, in fact, the main attraction of the kitchen. This is where you will cook the food and will enjoy the company of during your hours in kitchen. If the guests have just arrived, you need to make sure that they are entertained with a lot of delicious cuisines. Remember if some of your friends arrive in the kitchen and sees that dirty gas range, the whole impression will go wrong.

Stylish Product of Kitchen

A gas range is a stylish kitchen product. It accommodates both regular cutlery and larger cooking utensils. It should be a great alternative to countertop counterpart. The idea is to choose commercial-style gas range for your newly decorated kitchen rather than giving preference to a classic product. the gas range should look appealing, sleek, unique, and well-maintained so that it adds great value to the overall appearance and beauty of your kitchen.

Cleaning of Gas Range is Must

You can clean the gas range by keeping in mind the following tips:

Remove the grates and any griddles, as well as the burner heads and caps. With the help of a non-abrasive sponge, wash the gas range using dish soap and warm water. Make sure it is properly washed from all the sides.

If you feel that the gas range is too dirty to require washing, consider dusting it on a daily basis. Rinsing and thorough drying of all of its components can be of great help.

For a beautifully clean finish, it is ideal to remove the knobs and wash them on a monthly or weekly basis. If you are a busy housewife, having no time for this, just use a wet cloth to clean the knobs every night before you finish kitchen’s work and are ready to go to bed.

Wonderful Kitchen Equipment

It is not only a necessity while you cook, but also is a wonderful kitchen equipment. When you decide to decorate the kitchen, this part of the home requires your attention. Mostly the people keep on using the same gas ranges years after years. Yes, you can do that but only if the product is reliable and has come from a nice brand.

Those who have spent over 10 years with their gas range should think of finding an alternative. This is because the continuous and more than enough use of the same gas range can cause gas leakage, leading to severe accidents like burning of fire.

Don’t shut your eyes from spending some money on a new gas range, and invest in a good product at least after every five years. Trust me, you won’t regret your decision.

Give Your Home Decor a Spruce-up with These Budget-Friendly Decorating Tips

25 June 201525 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

It is good to think of revamping your home décor. But this doesn’t require you to invest a lot of money every day. You need to adapt the ways of spending reasonable amount, and getting the best results.

Give your home decor a spruce-up with these budget-friendly decorating tips.

Decorate the Rooms with Contrast Colors

To add real brightness and beauty, it is good to decorate the rooms with contrast colors. You can combine light shades with the dark ones for living area, and keep on repeating them throughout the house. For example, keep the row of yellow and white pillows on a sofa, and have the walls painted with green-red. For the children’s room, it is good to go with all-bright furnishing.

Updates Lampshades

Whenever possible for you, invest your money in lampshades. Keeping on update them can give more contemporary look to your indoor environment. This is a better option than a costly decoration item.

Painting Walls with Different Colors

It is an ideal and modernized option to paint the walls with different colors. An advantage of this is that you will not need to re-paint each and every room separately. For example, if one of your room’s walls are painted with sea-green color, then re-paint any of two walls with red and leave the remaining two as such. This will create a contrasting look, making your room well decorated.

Update Your Kitchen

When choosing the so many things for the bedrooms and living area, how can we forget to renovate the kitchen! This part of the house is busiest and where you will spend most of your day’s time. It is not mandatory to bring home all new utensils, microwave, refrigerator, and other kitchen essentials. What you have to pay attention to is that it looks neat and clean, giving an impression of being new and well-furnished. For this, organize the things in kitchen appropriately.

Pay Attention to Study Room and Storeroom

Study room and storeroom are two of the most ignored parts of our homes. Let us start with the study room: here you have to keep the bookshelves look new by painting them a little with new and lighter shades. Also the lighting of this area has to be proper because here you and your children will often sit and enjoy reading books, journals, etc. Now comes the turn of storeroom: it is okay to spread the things here and there. At the same time, you need to see that there are no bugs or the walls of storeroom don’t look odd. If it is so, renovate this area to make it look superb.

Update Your Window Dressings

Update your window dressings. Bring home reams of readymade draperies, or make your own from sheets or lengths of designer outlet fabric. Hang the curtains using a fancy-looking rod. The curtains of each room have to give positive and amazing impression.

Don’t bulk your rooms with so many accessories. Keep the things in minimal quantity, and enjoy the adorable look of the house. The above tips are easy to remember, and trust me, if you really follow them, you will not have to worry about heavy home decoration costs.

How to Paint Wood Floors Nicely

24 June 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

How to paint wood floors nicely? Sometimes it becomes difficult for us to find the answer of this question. Painting wood floors can breathe new life into a space. Some people will think that the idea to paint the hardwood floors is sinful, but it is actually not so. For those who are tired of seeing the same boring brownish colors with brightness, painting the wood floors is quite interesting.

Choose the Right Colors

It is important to choose the right colors. What you select is dependent upon your taste. Obviously some of us would like to have classic colors with little brightness, while others want blue, red, and purple like dark shades. For the wood floor of your playroom, go with pastel or even brighter shade. For porches or sun-rooms, the combination of classic and modern colors look superb like you can have a light blue with a slight turquoise tint to create variety. All of such ideas are purposed to give fresh and seaside look to your indoor environment.

Stenciling Painted Floors

Stenciling painted floors is a wonderful idea to create freshness. Make patterns with stenciling, stripes or any design you want. This is the beauty of the house and will make you more and more creative. These days, lots of condos come with parquet floors. For many individuals it is boring, but I personally like it a lot. The specialty of it is that once you stencil the floor, you need not to create any further patterns and need not to make it look too shiny with excessive polishing.

Keep the Wood Floors Dust-Free

To get wonderful results, it is mandatory to keep the wood floors dust-free. For the housewives, this may be a tough task because their children will be obviously very busy spreading dirt everywhere. Here you have to show some patience to get desired look of the wood floor. Once it is kept clean and dust-free, then you need not to spend extra money in its renovating whenever you decide to go for wood floor painting.

The Secret to Painting Floors

The secret to a great floor-painting job, like any paint job, lies in careful preparation. As we have already told that regular cleaning can keep your floor safe and can maintain its beauty to much extent. Remove the lingering grease or dirt, followed by sanding it so that much of the urethane or varnish is taken off. End the procedure with good vacuuming, or dusting with the help of tack cloth and mineral spirit. This is all purposed to get rid of the dust and specks that cause most of the damage of the wood floors.

What You Need

A roller can make the work easier, but this is likely to leave an unattractive nubby nap. Thus, it is better to go for four-inch-wide natural-bristle brushes which are meant to paint the floors to “set-up” to a gleaming, super-smooth finish. You should not coat heavily. Apply thing and even coats of colors for wonderful results. We recommend to have three coats in a particular area. Allow the floors to get dried under the air. During this time, minimize your walking like activities inside the room.

You can walk on your floors once they are dried. The job takes around 72 hours, but avoid heavy traffic or dragging furniture on the newly painted floors for the few months.

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