Black & White Interior Unique
Interior Design November 5th, 2009
COLOR black and white can be a unique choice for the interior of the house. However, it should be a special flair for combining the two colors are firm.
In building a house, many things that must be considered. One of these color problems. Color is believed special effect in a room. Colors in the room did not have to choose colors that are neutral or striking. Domination of black and white only one can actually give a special appeal if applied in a room.
Color not only a matter of taste homeowners. Given residential houses will be occupied for a long time, then the combination of color and composition must be considered. This is because color can support the concept of a dwelling.
“One important factor is the color that is able to create its own atmosphere and characteristics of a building,” said interior designer, Princess Gobel.
The same thing also expressed architect Wendy Djuhara when asked how important affairs of color in a residential interior design. “Of course it is very important color because color can set the tone or mood you want in a house. So, until there is a separate discussion about the color of the interior.”
The combination of black and white colors are basic colors that are assertive. Precision necessary to deal with these two colors to keep the colors to create the aesthetics of the house. In addition, the desire and personality also play a part owner of the house, whether the room wanted to nuanced masculine or feminine. color to paint furniture and walls to be two important elements. Black and white colors are demanding a sharp flair if the two colors are dominant in the interior.
“Simple first step is to choose colors that match furniture furniture functions,” suggested lady who worked at PT Toimoi Indonesia.
Princess gives one example of how to deal with kitchen interior colors are deliberately given the dominant black and white. “Kitchen’s one of the rooms dirty quickly, so the black color can be applied to its top table. There is also the color of the door top table under a white color can be selected.
It should be recognized that the mix and match the interior color of black and white only not as easy as imagined. “If you do not want to seem too boring because the room only rely on black and white, the walls can be installed in the house painting, or anything that could be used as accents to create an atmosphere,” said Princess.
The addition motifs on fabric sofa or carpet can be a trick to black and white became less innocent. However, once again on “additional accent” will still be considered a suitable color composition concept of black and white colors.
In addition, the color of the furniture selection is also adjusted to the concept of home is really just black and white. According to Wendy, the owner of the house must be smart to outsmart these two colors on furniture elements that do not seem “hard”.
To avoid the impression that hard, consider the case that the chairs in the living room white selected, while the black desk. Or enter the color gradations, for example, both gray warm cool gray or gray (gray-green toward the alpikat). “The way to give the impression that software in a room,” says Wendy.
Iron Fence metamorphosis
Exterior November 5th, 2009
ART and the trend has been to place barrier rail is not just a house, the protector of the page, and giving a sense of security alone. But has evolved into an art so fascinating.
The beauty of a home can be radiated not only from one side, like the exterior or the interior alone. Both elements must be able to work together to make a house look beautiful and charming.
In terms of the interior of the house, there is much to be decorated or designed. There are the rooms, furniture, doors, windows, and much more. As for the exterior, there are parks, pools, hedge, and many other things.
One that could affect the exterior look of your home is a fence. The fence there are many kinds, depending on the material. There is a wooden fence, vinyl fence, concrete fence, or iron fences. Well, the latter is a common fence used in Indonesia.
At first, the form of iron fence was limited to a thin iron or a wood block model or zinc without a touch of art. However, now the preferred iron fence and a favorite because it gives the impression of luxury and strong. Models and motives iron fence was increasingly diverse, such as vertical and horizontal motives of ornate flowers, leaves, or animals. In fact, some are adding decorative calligraphy or letters.
“The fence can iron with other materials such as concrete walls, plants, or wood,” said landscape architect from the University of Trisakti Jakarta, Arwindrasti.
Because of the process of evolution and innovation in designing a fence that is now the traditional type of fence without getting evicted art charm. Although the development of increasingly widespread iron fence, installed a fence design to beautify your home should be adapted to other home decor. That way, a beautiful harmonization can be created.
It chose a beautiful iron fence with a variety of interesting accent is important to highlight the aesthetic value of your home.
Still, there are other basic considerations should also be considered.
“Like the power, security, and comfort both in terms of material and structure of the fence construction,” said Arwindrasti.
Another consideration is the model, length, width, and height of the fence must be adjusted to the area, function, proportion, composition of the building, and location placement.
“Psychologically, its iron fence that hard if too high will give the impression uncomfortable. At least one meter in maximum height from the ground-iron fence about 25 cm. When combined with the plant, plant height should not exceed 75 cm.
In addition, in terms of spatial and security, must also be transparent so that outsiders can see if there is something unwanted in the house, “explained the architect. Adjustment of the fence with any model of the house must be considered because it is so beautiful to influence the impression you want to appear house as a whole.
If the form of a minimalist style building with an area of narrow yard, rectangular fence model with the ends of the top of the fence geometric shape. For minimalist house, Arwindrasti suggested, should be shaped gate drive. Therefore, minimalist home page tends to have narrow that by placing the shaped sliding gate will give a broader impression of the page.
For traditional homes, the form of a fence is usually tailored to the culture of its inhabitants. For Java house, usually the form of a fence at the end of the tapered or sometimes round and dome shaped. While the classic model of a house, fence, hedge and large tend to be high.
Besides the size, colors also play an important role for the harmony and beauty created the impression of a combination fence with the house. So, select the color wall fence with a homogeneous color or one color is still in its derivatives. Traditional-style house and is more appropriate to use the classic colors of nature, while the house or a modern minimalist style tends to use the colors brighter.
Now, who was a favorite is the wrought iron of pure material of iron and copper-iron mixed with black and red. Wrought iron original color can be painted according to taste their owners. Meanwhile, for the model, which is currently being loved is the fence minimalist with a small density and is usually given a transparent fiber.
Green Gazebo
Home Improvement October 28th, 2009
Leisure can be enjoyed not only in the shelter. Environmentally friendly gazebo in the yard can be used as an alternative family leisure area. If you have a yard or garden large enough, you can use it to bring the gazebo according to taste.
With the view that, its presence can invite your interest or your guests to linger at home in the tiny cabin. In the gazebo that is made at one with nature by using materials from nature, you can get together and do activities with family accompanied conditioning elements, such as plants, swimming with the rush of water, stone, air, and pets.
With these supporting elements, gazebo as a place to relax outside the house very nice. It may be that the gazebo will become your favorite place. As in the residential weekend maestro Rudy Hadisuwarno hairdresser in Indonesia Puncak area, West Java, gazebo placed beside the swimming pool is adjacent to the bale-bale with materials from wood carvings that covered pillows of white gloved.
Rudy’s Gazebo country with a material concept of the wood structure and roof are covered with flowering vines, add a natural sense, and harmonization with the nuanced Indonesia occupancy. “It’s like I want it so in residential atmosphere is more cool, calm, and Indonesia,” he said, pleasantly.
Building a gazebo are made permanent, semi permanent, or non permanen with various materials and finishing (final settlement) different. “Better to make a semi permanent could removable and not wasted,” said Chairman of Indonesian Association of Landscape Architecture (IALI) Good Tatang Dewantoro. The shape and style of the gazebo were diverse.
There are tailored to the concept of residential architecture or ignore the standard and preferred because of the demands of taste residents. “It could have been. However, there must be a sense of displacement from one concept to the concept of home. There. If you want to give the impression of overall harmonization in the shelter, so the concept of the gazebo with architecture architecture should be the same house,” he said.
Regarding placement, Good said, the gazebo could be placed in the middle of the courtyard garden or the front or rear. However, for the settlements in urban areas, gazebo should be placed in the backyard because it is the service area there are still privacy. Placement can also beside the pool with the present vine or plant beautiful flowers to bring the impression of natural green and cool.
However, if there is no pool, plant attendance was nice enough to add a gazebo display beauty. He reminded, in the middle of the global warming issue that hit the world and this country, should be selected gazebo materials originating from nature. “Reduce the use of materials from steel and plastic. The use of natural stone can also be customized with the design,” he said.
Another thing that needs to presented in a gazebo is a chair and table from wood and trash. Regarding lighting, Good suggests, the lighting in the service area that serves as a place to relax is a dim light. One type of gazebo is a gazebo environmentally friendly carving which is one of the Holy unique carving handicraft, Central Java.
In pondokgebyok.blogspot.com sites described, gazebo carved a component part of the Holy customs house. However, over time, besides carving gazebo as part of the traditional house, also located in a modern building. Carved gazebo functions for modern building is a decorative garden or building a house, a place to rest, gathering place, and relax.
While the size of this carving gazebo vary, depending on the size of the building and reservations. Basic materials were a variety of wood such as teak and jackfruit wood. However, if you want a nice wood materials, choose teak. This carved gazebo with a starting price of marketed Rp20 million
Decorative glass
Decoration October 28th, 2009
A residential component consists of many supporters. One of the complementary components of decent homes is often used glass.
Glass can be used in a variety of basic components such as house windows, doors, roofs, and even can be used as wall insulation. One of the many types of glass used in designing a home is a decorative glass, the type of glass is not merely a plain and clear. Decorative glass is still divided into several related species, the stained glass, frosted glass, glass Melton, opalescent glass, until wisspy glass.
Stained glass is a type of glass that looks like a painted surface with colors that range. “Stained glass is usually found at the house decorations of worship such as mosques or churches at the corner of the outer wall, just below the roof,” said Mila Djuanda architect.
This glass when the sun will refract light beautifully throughout the room and the colors on the surface would produce a rainbow of bias.
Frosted glass is a type of glass that is not too transparent, so rather dull view from the inside out and vice versa. “If this glass-house use, may be somewhat reduce the curtain,” said Mila.
Glass of ice there is a neutral or white color and some are colorful. However, the most widely found in urban Indonesia is a white frosted glass, while the colored glass of ice found more often in mountainous regions such as villas or bungalow.
Melton is a kind of glass surfaces such as glass that have carved the shape of the surface and rather arise. While glass and opalescent glass are wisspy equally frosted glass kind. The difference, opalescent glass has a smooth surface texture and looks cloudy as milk, while wisspy glass surface texture is more rough and uneven.
“Actually, from the types of glass on top there’s more types of other decorative glass that can be used as a component of home design. There is a glass of water and Tempered glass,” said Mila again.
Water glass is glass ornaments that can be irrigated at the sides. This glass is now gaining popularity, as seen in some hotel or salon. Water flowing fit on the side of the glass and the flow will prevent the glass so it is not transparent so that the glass is often used as a barrier or partition.
In housing, a glass of water rather rarely used as insulation. Water glass is usually used as decorative components and placed in spaces that often get people’s attention. Tempered glass has a shape like the glass in general, but the difference is the glass is much more resistant to impact than other types of glass.
“This glass including safety glass, as if broken, the glass would have cracked into thousands of small parts and broken with a form of very small fragments that are not as dangerous as regular glass if broken bongkahannya large and sharp and can hurt us. Glass is often used in vehicles such as cars, planes, and trains, “said Mila.
The use of decorative glass should be harmonized with the design theme of the house. Decorative glass worth a lot more expensive than ordinary glass. So, do not let the application of glass is very expensive damage because of the atmosphere differs significantly from the basic theme of your home design
Alternative Hangout at Housing Area
Real Estate October 22nd, 2009
MANY residential area that offers several advantages for the occupants. In addition to the comfortable dwelling, also equipped with many facilities.
No wonder that in residential construction, snack centers, commercial, supermarkets, and other facilities continue to writhe in residential areas. With increasing population in a residential area, not covered are likely to increase the amount of traders. For this reason, some developers trying to sell arms traders in the area of housing. One of them by developing snack center.
Usually in that place, is a variety of snacks. Class began five feet to upper middle class. In the housing area, snack centers are usually found and is always coupled with the market. The presence of snack center is also to accommodate the development of lifestyle habits and constantly changing society perspective. When the first portion of the food menu will be judged by a sense of beauty and form of presentation. Now the assessment is also added to the atmosphere. Of course the food will taste better if it supported a comfortable atmosphere.
Marketing Director of PT Alam Sutera Realty Tbk Sukotjo Lilia said, as a residential and commercial area of the prestigious in Serpong area, it saw a very good chance of being the center pocket. Moreover, Alam Sutera area often referred to as one of the most strategic areas in Serpong area because it is in the midst of the five major areas, including Puri Indah, Karawaci, Serpong, Bintaro, and Pondok Indah.
Increasingly turn to the area and surrounding Alam Sutera, PT Alam Sutera Realty Tbk, he said, is currently working on an area of two hectares at the gate Alam Sutera Serpong Road side, or precisely in the area of the old Marketing Office Alam Sutera.
The area is named Flavor Bliss provides several options for land leased to the owner of the catering business. There have been four tenant who joined with us, namely Total Fruit Fresh, Hoka-Hoka Bento, Dunkin Donuts, and Bandar Jakarta. “There are a few more that we offer to other entrepreneurs who are interested, both cafes and restaurants,” said Lilia.
Flavor Bliss’s location could be said to be very strategic. In addition to the main gate is located in Alam Sutera, this area combined with the Family Park, which is a family recreation area, Alam Sutera Marketing Office, and also the exact opposite with Omni International Hospital.
Its strategic management that makes sure that Alam Sutera bukanhanya Flavor Bliss will bring its own color to the area and surrounding Alam Sutera, also provides many benefits for the tenants. In addition to presenting a variety of snack choices interesting, Flavor Bliss, which will begin operation in April 2009, also plans to provide live music entertainment every night.
In Jakarta, probably no one who does not know a hawker center in Kelapa Gading. According to Executive Director Sentra Kelapa Gading Saleem Anwar Arifin said the company already has a center snack food market with a concept that was carried, the Eat & Eat. In the place has a nostalgic atmosphere is very thick. Even at the entrance, visitors are greeted with decorations from the hommy lawas, complete with a bird cage hangers. It was like being in a corner of the ancient city a warm and homely.
Eat & Eat professionally managed by PT Marche International and an area 2350 square meters. Its existence is due to present market concept used by decorations and knick-knacks are very unique. There are approximately 34 food counters offering a variety of traditional foods from various regions and various options Peranakan cuisine. Various menus are presented somewhat unique and complete. “From the food of Indonesia, China Peranakan Indonesia, Malaysia, to Singapore,” he said.
Meanwhile, Senior Manager Corporate Communication BSD City Idham Muklis said, the park snack at BSD City amounted to seven units, scattered locations from Park City, business areas, and schools.
