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Tips to give warmth to a loft

While the style of a loft is pretty cool and is one of the main features of these spaces, which comes on the heels of its cement floors, concrete beams, and materials that are naked to the eye. No need to resign, the essence of style and to a bit of comfort and warmth in the spaces of our house, we can get only with a few touches. * You can use fabric to divide and define space. * Enter the room with a carpet and small white lights hanging from the ceiling allows us to provide enough privacy zones. * A good idea is to use an ironing board of the oldest as a shelf to put some decorations. * For those lofts that have least amount of square meters of space, you can place mirrors to create a good optical illusion that gives extra depth and choose furniture that serves several purposes, such as a table to fulfill its function of shelf time. * If you need space to store and do not want to sacrifice some space, you can make use of wooden boxes and white painting, you can also put up ...

Wood, a rustic floor of timeless

Wood floors are excellent thermal insulators, in addition to being flexible, versatile and provide unparalleled beauty wearing our home. The variety of colors and veining brings warmth and allows us to apply it in any room in our house, usually in the interior floors will find hardwoods like oak, ash, maple, and beech, which despite having been displaced a little tropical woods like teak, jatoba, wenge and bamboo, are still used because of its high strength and price according to the durability and life. To the application, the wood is applicable to a lounge, a room, and even in the kitchen and bathroom, as it is very decorative and adapts to different styles of decoration. It should also be noted that to implement them in kitchens and bathrooms are adequate treatment is necessary to protect it from wear and humidity, typical of these environments. Find very good imitation wood laminates, are considerably cheaper, but have very good presentation according to their price. There ar...

Opportunities for change and renewal curtains

There are rooms like the kitchen or dining room and main room they need to genuinely benefit the natural daylight, and in many cases the choice of curtains is fundamental. Harnessing a curtain style allowed us to light both above and below the area that covers the same is a good solution, this is a super flexible system that conditioning through the curtain cord stops situated right in the place we want. The same should be noted that when we need to cover the entire window will allow us to protect the same light we do not want to go to our environments. This setting can be performed closer to the ceiling and unrolling the entire shade. Moreover, this type of curtains with its delicate pleated fabric and the way they collect, offers a very good thermal insulation. A good way to keep in mind at the time of renewal and change the curtains in our rooms....

How to create a dining room or the terrace garden

With the advent of hot weather, we began to prefer the outdoor life and contact with nature, what better than avail ourselves of our terrace, a corner of the garden, or porch to improvise a cozy dining room for the duration of the season. To decorate this type of outdoor sites, it is best to avail ourselves of the elements such as plants, which are ornaments for excellence, if we have small ladders or slopes delimiting the place of another, we can place, rather colorful pots on the sides each step, and thereby achieve a road visually inviting to the new environment that we have worked. On the market beautiful goblets made rustic materials such as stones, thoughts, and vegetation colors stand in contrast to the rest of the decor. Another point to keep in mind, the furniture must be versatile and light, remember that will be outdoors, therefore, required to be of high quality materials that can withstand the weather , dust, wind, rain etc. as on other occasions we have said, wrought...

Ideas for repairing floors and walls

Find a masonry wall in good condition is a true treasure, what really should do is check that the glue that binds the stones is in perfect condition. We probably have to clear a space like this with a pressure water system, and then waterproof the blocks and edges. A cheaper option when recovering a separate wall panels placing false finishes and stone designs, is applying a paste (mineral dust and water) that then with a guide or template will give the finish that we want either brick, stone and even rustic because wood. You can also get to mimic or aged cracked paint on walls or choose options such as cement and restored with discolorations and transparent or colored patinas. Another option that we should not forget to give an antique look on the walls is lime paints by painting technique spread by hand or spatula. In soil, keep it has its own charm, especially when you consider that companies can reproduce accurate parts with the same textures, materials and color in all type...