Decor tips to brighten up your abode this Monsoon

Aug 31,2018 / By Priyanka / No Comment

Monsoon can make your home look dull and glum. Lift your space and revamp your home in smart ways to suit the season. Rains are meant to be enjoyed. Make sure your home is well prepared to welcome the monsoon season and you do not have unexpected surprises when it comes to home repairs!

Quality is the key: The challenging weather can sometimes be unfriendly to the materials used in a bedroom. Soft materials such as suede should be eluded as it can easily be damaged by high levels of moisture.

Let the colors pop: Rains can lead to an overall gloomy environment. A great way to beat the dullness is to incorporate a lot of colors in your dwelling. It can be in the form of colorful décor items (table lamps, vases, paintings and wall art), curtains, and cushions. Pick vibrant colors like yellow, bright pink and, orange to vivify up your home instantly and lift your spirits.

Curtains: Curtains plays an important role in home décor mainly during the monsoon seasons sheer lightweight curtains will definitely give a delicate yet classy look. Also, Sheer curtains do allow passing the cool breeze into your home.

Outdoor furniture: Redo your outdoor living space or balcony, if you wish to enjoy the cool breeze and watch at freshly bathed plants in the comfort of your home. If you wish, you can rent a few furniture pieces to enjoy the outdoor experience and cover the space with inexpensive canopies and umbrellas.

Water Proofing: Moistness and seepage is a common problem people face during Monsoon season. To overcome this, waterproofing your walls from the inside and outside is a wise step to take before the rainy season starts.

Select high-absorbent doormats: Make sure you pick high-absorbent doormats in this season to avoid masses of mud getting inside your abode. Keep away your carpets as they can easily attract mold. You can also make doormats from waste clothes using attractive colors and designs.

A Look over Your Wooden Furniture: For those who are lovers of wood furniture, it’s time to show some love and care of your prized possessions. Wood is most sensitive to the rainy season. Moisture and humidity are usually the main culprits that destroy your wooden assets. Make sure you polish and varnish your wooden furniture and fittings well before the monsoon starts because drying of the polish could be another problem to tackle if it is done once the rains start.

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Tips to Keep Your Home Dengue-Free

Aug 7,2018 / By Priyanka / No Comment

A hygienic home releases positive energy and is a better place to live. With mosquito-borne diseases on the escalation, it is important to make sure that there is no breeding ground for mosquitoes. Besides sweeping the house daily, one should also adopt a weekly routine, of thoroughly cleaning all the corners in the house, cleaning carpets and dust-laden ceiling fans. Similarly, swimming pools should be cleaned from time to time and fogging should be done frequently.

An increasing number of homeowners are now appointing specialized cleaning services for their homes. Dengue is one epidemic that needs your complete attention. Instead of just freaking out you should find ways through which you could get rid of those mosquitoes. Here is how you could make your house a dengue-free zone!

Keep bathroom and kitchen dry: These places are the generally damp areas of the house. Check the bottom of your refrigerator, empty out the cooler if you are using one, clean out dish rack tray, cover toilet bowls, and trash bins, throw away wet kitchen waste and mop the floor.

Ensure your window and door screens do not have holes: Cool breeze is most welcome in your home, but not mosquitoes. Renovate broken screens and keep doors closed to prevent their entry. Stay indoors and if you have an air conditioner, now is the right time to utilize it. Mosquitoes find it very difficult to survive in cools spaces, so stay ‘cool’. Line your window with screens or net. It is suggested to sleep within a canopy that covers the enter circumference of the bed.

Apply mosquito repellant: Repellants offer added protection by reducing your chances of getting bitten by a mosquito.

Spray pesticides in the corners: The probable breeding place for mosquitoes are into dark places. Spray anti-pest sprays every alternative day to keep your home safe from dengue attack.

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5 Property Layouts That Is Outdated and You Should Avoid Them

Jul 11,2018 / By Priyanka / No Comment

While purchasing a property, the layout of an apartment plays an important role in a homebuyer’s decision. For instance, the layout of the property you have put out in the marketplace for sale does not appeal the potential homebuyers, it could be a deal breaker.

What is a bad layout?

Some apartment layouts are either so old that they do not conform to the design sensibilities of the modern-day homebuyer or they are different from the regular ones. Below are some features of a bad layout:

Master bedroom close to the entrance: Home buyers may not want guests to have a full view of their master bedroom the moment they enter the house, making the most private room, most public. A layout like that can create complications while cracking the deal.

Secluded living room: A living room that is isolated from other rooms of the house can be a deal breaker. Living rooms are normally connected to only the entrance and no other rooms in the house. This can be one of the major cause of disconnect between the residents and the property. It keeps them away from the rest of the house making it uncomfortable.

Dining area in the center of the house: Dining table kept right in the center of the house can be distracting and a hindrance. And, it is a bad layout too. Each room of your house should be easily accessible for a layout to be convenient.

No attached bathrooms: You can see in a lot of old properties, bedrooms do not come with attached bathrooms. One has to move out of the bedroom to access bathrooms which is an apt example of a bad layout. Nowadays, attached bathrooms are a must with each bedroom in the house.

No flow of rooms: A layout where there is no flow of rooms – where some part of the home is visible from each room – could turn off the deal. If there is no flow of rooms, the people in one room could feel isolated or feel the lack of space. The flow of rooms makes the house look spacious.

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How to use Different Flooring in Different Rooms?

May 25,2018 / By Priyanka / No Comment

Your home’s flooring is one of the more luxurious investments you will make when beautifying the interior. Your selections are many, and picking different fabrications for each room need not result in a haphazard look. The connection between the flooring types is color.

Select your interior’s color palette before shopping for flooring. You should go for three different types of flooring from any one point in your home.

Color Scheme
Good interior design includes a color scheme for the entire house. Modifications in color choices depend on the location of the rooms and the number of levels in the house.

Starting with the hallway/entrance hall, select either stone, mosaic, tile, wood or a slate to mark the welcoming entry to your home. If you have a smaller apartment, laying one color and type of flooring throughout the main living areas vividly enlarges the living space.

Living Areas
The living room flooring can be sculpted laminated, wood, bamboo, tile, stone or carpet. The main aim is to mix and match the color of the floor with the hallway, as one flows into the other. An exact match isn’t necessary as long as the hues blend.

To avoid monotony in large spaces, consider an insert piece of carpet surrounded by hardwood. A dining room works best with stone or tile flooring.

Family Areas
Your family room’s flooring, specifically if it runs into the kitchen, should continue the color theme and benefits from a similarity to the kitchen flooring. If you choose carpet, go for a sculpted finish in a darker shade to prevent stain marks.

Tile, wood, and stone work best in high-traffic rooms. The kitchen should be tile, cork or stone, and it must keep within the color scheme of rooms that lead into it. Avoid laminate and wood in case water overflows and causes warping.

Bedrooms
The bedroom is where you show your creativity in the flooring. Children’s rooms should have hard-surfaced flooring. A distressed laminate is less costly than wood and stands up to too much wear and tear.

If the main bedroom is away from the living area, the colors can feed off the room’s decor, as long as they don’t clang with the entryway flooring.

Choose a neutral color for the entryway, preferably in laminate, tile, and wood, and your choices of bedroom flooring widen
If you are going for a hard surface flooring in your bedroom, area rugs on either side of the bed provide a warm footpath.

Blend the colors with the flooring you have selected for the bathroom. Placing a faux-Oriental carpet, with rubber backing, in the middle of the bathroom adds stylishness and hue.

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Simple ways to make your home pet friendly

Apr 25,2018 / By Priyanka / No Comment

Pets are most lovable companions and many of us love to have them at home. Making space in your home for a pet comprises small changes and some negotiations on home décor to make sure that your home is pet-friendly and safe.

The following tips will teach you how to make your home pet-friendly and safe so that you both can live happily there.

There are therapeutic benefits of owning a pet. Nevertheless, owning a pet is also a commitment and a concern. Accordingly, homeowners should make sure that the house is safe and comfy for their pets. Things generally change when the pet is fully grown and you learn to adjust to its activities and needs.

Dos and Don’ts

Usually, wooden flooring is slippery. To avoid such kind of flooring as pets love to run around and wooden flooring may cause a serious wound. Vitrified tiles are a better option as compared to glossier flooring which scratches easily.

All staircases must be barred, to prevent small pets from falling down or trying to climb up, unattended.

All windows and balconies with wide grills must be interlocked so that puppies cannot go through them.

You need to avoid strong antiseptic floor cleaning agents for wiping the floor as pets tend to lick the floor and can consume it. Keeping a dog or a cat clean can be more hygienic for your home in the long term.

Regularly bathing and brushing the pet removes loose hair before it ends up falling on the floor or furniture.

For ease, allow a corner or a specific area to your pets. You can keep a small mattress in a basket in this place, where they can sit and sleep. Their playthings can be kept in that place, making it their very own personal space.

Pets like fishes and birds require less maintenance than dogs and are less messy. You can place a fish tank on a table that is specially made for holding it. A tank needs heaters, lights, and filters all of which require electricity, which means your tank has to be close to switchboard for connection.

Toilet training is another important characteristic when your pet is young. Choose a spot where you want your pet to relieve himself.

A hanging wire attracts a puppy to tug at it. So, make sure that all wires and cords are firmly taped up or it is out of your puppy’s reach, including long chords of curtains and blinds.

Store household chemicals in a locked cabinet and it is advisable to keep harmful items out of your pet’s reach.

Common household plants are venomous to dogs. Hence, keep plants like castor bean, lantana, jasmine, poinsettia, philodendron, etc., out of their reach.

Having a pet in an apartment can be a difficult task but not impossible. Most of the apartments in metro cities lack space and open areas. You cannot afford to stay in a congested apartment when you have a pet at home. Your pet needs more space to play around to make it comfortable.

It is difficult to find spacious apartments mainly in cities like Bangalore. But many builders are coming up with pet-friendly homes to attract home buyers

One such project is Arge Helios which is ideally located in the most developing areas in North Bangalore, the Hennur Road. This project is completely pet-friendly with 30% more spacious apartments.

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Decor tips to brighten up your abode this Monsoon

Tips to Keep Your Home Dengue-Free

5 Property Layouts That Is Outdated and You Should Avoid Them

How to use Different Flooring in Different Rooms?

Simple ways to make your home pet friendly