Articles Tagged ‘wood’
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...
Care and cleaning hardwood surfaces can be a very complicated and difficult, that's why we provide decoration from ok some tips to make this task much easier and bearable. These surfaces may be the most beautiful home if you know how to care for, but never misses the spill, the dent or scratch and that's a rather unfortunate on a hardwood floor or on a beautiful piece of furniture of the same material. Spills are particularly difficult to remove on a surface of these at home. Wood surfaces are very difficult to treat especially when the spill is of a painting or other strong liquids such as nail polish, because this material is naturally porous and everything comes very easily to the deeper layers and is very difficult to remove. Two factors that determine when to tell how severe the damage done by the spill and how much of this will be a reality in the wood are on how porous the wood is particularly what type of laminate is on it or the kind of treatment that this material was t...
When thinking about changing the color of the wooden doors that painted the main thing is to take into account that we use a good quality enamel. After acquiring a good painting, as the first part we cover the hardware and doorknobs painter or remove tape and then with a small roller for enamel start with the first coat of paint. To achieve an excellent finish, before you start painting you can use a chemical stripper that leaves the door open for old layers of paint, or failing that, sand the old paint, brush wood and then start painting. To use the flux, you should apply it like paint roller, without forgetting to use mask because it could be toxic, and performing this operation outdoors, leave it to act and when you see it start going up removing the paint with a spatula then clean the door with a clean, turpentine, and a fine steel wool. Then you need to give the wood a coat of primer over the entire surface, and once it has dried, sand it again. After giving the first coat o...
Many times we think is a problem in buying a child's bedroom, especially baby, especially when we think we can really only be used for a short time, the ideal in this regard are probably evolutionary rooms, made up with furniture can gradually be adapted to our needs and transformed to be used in diverse applications. In the picture above we see what appears to be a normal room that could correspond to a young or an adult, a classically designed bed and storage units in dark wood, apparently giving the appearance of a bedroom as normal and even fairly traditional, but if you look at the pieces in detail, we realize that some of them are multifunctional. In particular, the bed is a convertible crib and furniture container, with a small accessory to coat the surface becomes a comfortable changing in the image below we can see the room become a perfect bedroom chair, so we with a proposal for two in one bedroom that can be used interchangeably for baby, child or adult. The propo...
Youth a way to decorate favors more open, flexible and fun, in the quarter juveniles can use resources in other rooms are rarely used, is in the bedrooms where we dare more with color contrasts, with original forms and which gives us less fear of breaking conventions The joy and enthusiasm are identified with young people, so their spaces have the power to convey those feelings, however, in common areas or adults almost always opt for color distributions more serious and sober, albeit within a modernist style, hence the spaces for young people occupied much of magazines and catalogs, as it is one of the most fun aspects of decorating a home. The color display can include a fourth youth, is almost limitless, lacquered furniture in various hues combined with natural wood, special coatings for floors and walls, carpets original forms, lamps, textile art and accessories casual and carefree, are the basic elements which form a fourth youth dream. In the picture a very colorful propo...