The Essential Furniture Of The Living Room

You degrade your first home, your first apartment, or whether you simply want to change your furniture to ensure that it reflects your current needs, here are the unavoidable for develop your salon and choose your lounge furniture.

A comfortable sofa

For you sit down, a sofa is a must in the lounge.

Despite that the sectional drive version and the oversize sofa has the side at this time, all the houses are not conducive to receive one. A sofa structure, with sober lines and elegant, is never good sound and can easily be agency to a contemporary decor as much as to a decor more classical or country style. A loveseat would agree, with regard to it, in a small room without compromising the look of the decor.

A lamp ... or two ... or three

A problem virtually universal in all homes is the lack of accent lighting. The natural light often suitable for day, but it is to the penumbra that the lighting of a room becomes deficient either because it is too intense and cannot be adjusted, or because it is not sufficient.

The occasional seating

When you receive, of additional seating are useful to avoid all you return to "rope" in rank of onions on the single sofa from the work piece. Small ottomans of ceramic or upholstered, benches, antique chairs and armchairs, all avenues are good and depend on the place and the budget that you have for the decoration of the room.

The storage compartment

The type of storage that you choose depends in large part on the primary activities that are happening in the room.

You read a lot? Then libraries are of updates. You are rather of the style movie buff? Instead opt for a  TV cabinet which contains a lot of storage space for your video equipment, DVD, and games consoles.

Finally, plan of the storage compartment to receive all the items of the daily, which will tend to drag otherwise: gamepads from TV, magazines, thrown, knitting etc.

Complete your decor with items that are dear to you, these useful objects or not that remind you of the memories or make you smile.

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Decorating Ideas For Family Rooms

Part that was not in any residence of the last century, the family room is now becomes an indispensable part where space permits. Practical and sophisticated at once, this last is far from comprising only the television. Here are 5 examples of family room to give you ideas of decoration.

Not only reserved in the basement, the family room can be used for more than simply watching television. Bar or game room, place to relax by reading a book or doing a part of friendly cards, this part must agree to multiple needs. Unify these different activities under a single theme with a color palette of the uniform furnishings. Also, add a focal point to the wall as the wallpaper.

For the decors permanently, opt for a positioning of symmetric furniture to create a point of balance in the room. Use the television as a focal point of interest but add a mirror to against balancer this large black rectangle in the decor.

For a casual look and warm, warm the palette of colors with natural hues of cream and lin. add the heavy curtains and wrap around the windows for smoother.

The ultimate luxury in fact of sofa to watch tv, this cut oversized is organized to form a rectangle welcoming and cozy, ideal for hosting the whole family.

To avoid doing the TV on the central point of the work piece while you adding storage, remember to add a wall unit containing electronic devices and other gadgets of modern life. The wall of wood just to echo the furnished and adds a point of interest to the room.

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Decoration Of The Lounge : Trends 2014

The year 2014 will be rich in fact trends for the decoration of the living room and the family room. Here are 5 that will be to monitor.

The juxtaposition of geometric patterns

Color or in black and white, the reasons are additive to create a dynamic decor and energising. The key is to choose the grounds of dimensions variables, in a register of complementary colors and geometric shapes to maintain the contemporary look to the room.

The tartan

Seen on the scarves, the kilts and Scottish school uniforms, the tartan is found in 2014 in our lounges. Think incorporate this look with a brilliant coup! A discarded or throw cushions will introduce the pattern in subtle ways. A chair or curtains will have an effect more daring, especially when declines in rich, saturated colors.

The mixture of purple and yellow

Two colors that can appear difficult to arrange them ... especially the one with the other. And yet, the yellow chick and the violet marry to marvel to create an unexpected decor and timeless.

The natural fibers

The natural fibers have a place from year to year in the pantheon of trends and 2014 there will be no exception. Toquilla, bamboo, straw, sisal, or jute, all these natural fibers are found in the decors and add a key organic and relaxing in the lounge. A more to use the natural fibers in deco, is that they are more often than not to viable sources for the environment and form a choice eco-responsible. We liked it!

The wallpaper wall to wall

The presence of wallpaper returns timidly a little more each year in the decors. After decades of abuse, the latter has been discount ... with reason. Must I remind you the orange flowers  and brown on the basement walls of grandparents? Well, 2014 will mark the return of the wallpaper wall to wall. Declines in tone-on-tone, with geometric patterns or oversized floral, it has nothing to envy to its predecessors.

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How To Decorate Family Room

Let us begin this summary of important aspects family room by a interesting example of sets of lights. Various types of lights make this part already beautiful, warm and welcoming. The halogen bulbs recessed in the ceiling and above the fireplace create interesting accents.

The light, always the light. In this case, the brightness is natural. Large windows, or even french doors, provide warmth and ambiance. If the structure of your house does not allow a whole wall of window, you could opt for french doors separated by a beam. 

In manufacturer of libraries around your home, you increase your storage in addition to maximize your workspace. Add-y of moldings for more stamp. If you are painting in white, opt for the MDF or other composite; you will save yourself a lot with the same effect. Wow! 

An interesting way and aesthetic d'integrate your plasma to the decor. You use the planks in pin of 1 ×3 or 1 ×4 inches that you assemble in framework with crown moldings for the interior of the framework. Paint, false-finished and that is that! Small hint, attach three of the sides to the wall and the fourth, install-y only two screws holding in the framework itself, on the side of the wire. If you must play in the wires, this will be more simple! 

A version very "family" of the library & tv. Simple and effective, you can add doors to hide the toys and other contraptions less aesthetic. 

A bench seat on the edge of the window is also convenient for the reading, for the comfort and for more storage. You the manufacture on the spot with a skeleton of 2 ×3 inches and moldings for finishing.

The home, always the home. In this example, we withdrew the tablet of fireplace, mounted a structure of 2 ×4 inches and finished with concrete panels which have been added to the false brick (or stone).  And that is that! The false stones are light and inexpensive, considering the surface to cover. 

A ceiling in fabric? And yes! In fabric taut. This product more popular gives an effect of height and brightness. Very convenient for a basement, it offers a multitude of options with very interesting results. 

This lounge is grandiose, i agree, but take your attention to the speakers of the home theater in the walls. In fact, the roasting under the library hides the speakers for a chic look without compromise on sound quality. When you think about it, the concept is fairly simple.

Finally, the temple of entertainment with bar, foosball table, pool table and home theater. The first, in a room with architectural details impressive? Beautiful! 

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Decking Supplies

Through Amazon, we offer a broad range of materials and accessories for Decking Supplies qualitative in order to allow you a construction and easy installation of your wood deck.

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Decking Designs

Do you plan to build your own game? In concluding the design of your terrace ideal, perhaps you have met many different types of materials for your deck. The owners of the past were limited to cedar, redwood or pressure-treated wood. 

Today however, a wide range of construction materials are available , which includes the whole range of domestic wood up to recycled plastics. In fact your choice, you need to weigh the relative advantages and disadvantages of materials that you plan in relation to having a certain look for your new terrace which follows design. There are useful materials used in our days:

Hardwood

Planking hardwood is sustainable if they are properly installed  and well maintained over the course of his life. However, the deciduous trees are by nature quite expensive, and they are therefore used only for visible surfaces on the bridges as the staircase or parquet. One of the most broadleaves popular, red cedar, has been traditionally used in the designs of terraces in the past 50 years because of its beauty and its sustainability. The natural oils of cedar resist rot and most attempts to insect attack if, as all the wood, cedar does not tolerate very well the humidity. The average length of life of cedar is approximately 25-30 years. These last few days, the rising costs of hardwoods such as mahogany and various types of tropical hardwoods as the balau are more and more popular in the design shelving because they have a longer life (up to 40 years).

Yellow Pine

Yellow Pine is primarily used for the invisible surfaces such that the poles, beams and joists in your deck  because of its low cost. If it is used for the visible surfaces, you can dye the wood in some of the colors that are most unique in order to create a custom design terrace.

The average length of life of yellow pine is approximately 15 years. The pretreatment is strongly recommended if you plan to include yellow pine in the design of your terrace. Otherwise, the yellow pine must be treated  against water every two years. However, the preprocessing of yellow pine involves the use of chemicals highly dangerous, therefore, you must take the necessary precautions for its elimination.

 Composite Decking

There are many arguments in favor or against terraces in composite material. Two types of composites exist on the market: the composite wood and PVC composite. Composite wood are created from a mixture of recycled plastics and wood pulp. The supporters of the claim composite planking design that this type of design of terrace is a very environmentally friendly because it is manufactured from recyclable materials. However, the cleaners for this platform are harmful chemicals that despoil the arrival and are dangerous. PVC Composite are much better than those in wood containing, however, PVC is easily damaged  by ultraviolet rays. Composite bridges are also quite expensive, benefit from a guarantee debatable, and can not be refurbished but cannot be replaced.

As well, these are the common materials used to decorate drawings at the present time. As the technology progresses, hardware of terrace of more and more appear on the market, to the benefit of consumers. It is therefore, to you to choose what hardware you want your terrace or, in the case of cost, your needs, and the amount of time that you are willing to spend to maintain your deck .

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House Renovation Costs

Let's start from the beginning.

Why Renovate a property: because it allows us to buy less expensive! The well will cost 30 per cent less expensive can be, we have had the house at 188,000 euros , a home without work of the same template cost approximately (in the same city well on) 230 000 Euros minimum! But caution the House is less expensive, but it will add the cost of the work.

Found on the forums of the estimates of the order of 100 euros a square meter for sure, 500 euros per square meter for other..!  The renovation of a house costs between 5000 and 170,000 euros depending on what there is to do, the surface and what you want and can do (therefore with or without labor).

I have a friend who in 2013 bought a house of 70 square meters, it has just renovated and it has cost him 25,000 euros (walls and false ceilings, windows and entry door, heating, electricity, kitchen, WC, tiled floors).  According to several sources on forums the complete renovation of a barn where everything is to be done is around 170 000 Euros (exterior walls , tile floors, complete roof ... ).

The renovation only inside of a house will rather avoisinee the 30,000 euros without masonry, without without renewable energy system, with conventional materials (type home Phoenix lol!) .

To estimate the cost of the renovation of a house it must be rather the set from each domain. When you visit the home it must assess its potential, that is to say after work is that it can be functional, practical, have a good distribution of parts, a accessibility to parts practice, spaces of sufficient parts ... all this according to your criteria well on. Then if yes you need to know what are the types of jobs to undertake, evaluate the meters, and then assess the cost of the work. The reality will never be the same as the achievement because there are always surprises, there is a change of view, are added ... therefore provide at least 25 per cent more. The different areas of renovations are:

• The roof
• The plumbing fixtures (sinks, toilets ..)
• The heating
• Electricity
• The masonry (slabs, floor, exterior walls, closed ... )
• Walls and false ceilings
• Doors (windows and doors)
• Decoration (not always neglect, for example repeat the sitting room floor of 25 square meters with tiled floors cost approximately 15 Euros a square meter 375 Euros of tile but we also need the glue or the slab of PAFS ... we can easily arrive at 1000 euros if the fact am even, and then it takes time, knowledge ... it is not a question of changing the wallpaper)
•  Modification of carpentry
• Kitchen and bathroom. It is found not too expensive in the DIY stores, 2000 Euros the fitted kitchen that is feasible (i don't speak, well on, kitchens kind student with 2 furniture of recover, a sink, 1 micro-wave and 2 electric plates, if if I have known! ).
• Treatment of wastewater (septic tanks or fitting at all to the sewer).
• Thermal and phonic insulation

 We are going to give averages of prices of renovation according to the domain for a house from 70 to 150 square meters approximately, to be able to make an estimate of the cost of renovating the house that you just see (because well on it never has the time nor the courage to fully encrypt the yard, it is of the almost).

•   The roof : Renovate the structure may vary from 5000 to 30,000 euros depending on if it must go back or not ... I have been able to do a quote via a carpenter (because the roof is to little ready the only area that I do not control correctly).  To change the tiles, change the battens (wood on which the tiles are posed), put a tarp of tar under the tiles for sealing, reseal the chimney, change all the gutters he offered to me 17,000 euros . It is a roof 4 hexagon (composed of 2 triangles surfaces and 2 surfaces trapeziums, of 9 meters long and 9 meters wide, for 2.8 meters of maximum height. The roof is about 80 square meters. In a broadcast on France 5 to redo the roof of a house (tiles, battens ... ) the artisan had proposed a quote of 30,000 Euros

• The plumbing fixtures (sinks, toilets, pipes of arrival of water and wastewater discharge):It takes approximately about 3000 euros for the pipes or copper PER with the fittings and or welds, the disposal of sewage, taps, sinks, toilet.

• The heater : If it is a gas heater of town approximately 8000 Euros (boiler, radiators, pipes, fittings, welds, but without the annual discussions and the faults), if electricity 8000 Euros (radiators to inertia, electrical cables, control thermostat for all the radiators).  If heating by heat pump approximately 13000 euros , if heating by solar thermal panels approximately 14,000 euros the solar system coupled to a network of conventional heating for bearing to the lack of sunlight. If you install a heated floor that does not cost more than the water radiators. On the other hand is not to forget is the slab to sink above as well as the coating for decoration ...

• Electricity : There is the power sockets, switches, cables, electrical panel with circuit breakers and differentials, simple light fixtures, wiring for the oven, washing machine ... It takes approximately 3000 euros without home automation, and the price can vary greatly if you install electrical appliances type "Legrand" color whatsit and modern luminaires widgets tricks ... (And without moving or installing to nine of the arrival ERDF)

• The masonry (slabs, floor, exterior walls, window openings ... ) : It is difficult to say, it all depends on what there is to do. A ceiling tile (the ground of the floor) about100 euros a square meter, concrete, flat girder, you (cinder blocks of slabs that have just been put on concrete beams).  Redo the ground floor slab for example approximately 60 Euros per square meter for the cement, sand, scrap metal .... To renovate an exterior wall if it is a stone wall it must be repeated with lime to around 10 euros per square meter. If it is a facelift 30 Euros a square meter. Whether to build a wall in cinder block (front, closed ... ) about 25euros per linear meter for the foundations (rebar, cement, sand, pebbles) and 20 euros per square meter for the wall(cinder blocks, cement, sand).  A portal costs approximately 800 Euros.

•  Walls and false ceilings : For the ceilings approximately 15 Euros a square meter in BA13 with the frames and a little bit of insulation; 25euros if it is BA13 water repellent (bathroom for example).  For the partitions in BA13 cell 9 e the square meter and 18 euros for the repellent. It turned rather to the vicinity of 20 euros for the aerated concrete 10 cm thick, approximately 12 Euros in tile of plaster and 15 in water repellent. If the bulkhead is a wall porteurc'is to say supports the ceiling the wall may be in cinder block as seen just before 20 euros per square meter (no foundation to make).

• Doors (windows and doors) : If the windows have conventional dimensions, a simple window cost approximately 100-200 Euros for a 75 * 75 cm standard depending on if it they are wood, PVC, size, to classic opening or with option double opening (large and small opening).  A window on measure 175 * 175 cm approximately 1100 euros. PVC Unefenêtre pane with integrated rolling stock costs approximately 300 euros. A roof window (commonly called Velux but it is in fact a trademark) 150 euros depending on the brand, the options cut sun ... Unvolet motorized rolling stock cost 200 euros, a pane PVC rolling stock manual 70 euros , a pane double flying wood 60 euros and in PVC 100 euros . A door window cost approximately $300.

•  Decoration : Has not always neglect, for example repeat the sitting room floor of 25 square meters with tiled floors cost approximately 25 Euros a square meter 625 Euros of tile but we also need the glue or the slab sealing ... we can easily arrive at 1000 euros if the fact am even, and then it takes time, knowledge ... it is not a question of changing the wallpaper . Here it is rather complicated to do a costing approximate because the price difference between a simple paint more lino and tiles a hyper modern with paint deco more false stones to paste can be huge. Good say that the soils are well done, the walls also. There only remains to make the pure decoration. A lino costs about 10 euros a square meter.A very nice tile (say a very very nice ) can cost 50 euros a square meter. For the paint there are a multitude of choices. Take a low average, 12 euros per liter for approximately 10 square meters. A nice painting will cost 4 times more expensive, therefore 50 Euros per liter for 10 square meters. Expect 45 euros per square meter for stones of indoor, 15 euros for the wall tile bathroom.

• Modification of carpentry : This point is to take into account if you have of the attic (that is to say height sufficient to make rooms, an office, a bathroom ... ) but that the structure of the framing done that there are beams, which prevents the passage to height of man therefore is either one cannot do door either it can not have the bulkheads as one would wish. I have this case my home, 4 beams to cut with reinforcement to be put in place. I am come a craftsman, 3700 euros without remove the tiles in the home. I will speak to you of this quote in the heading modification of the structure. We can say approximately 3000 to 5000 euros depending on if you need to remove a few tiles, ease of the yard ... But attention this is not always feasible! All depends on the type of structural framing, the overcommitment (Ca degrades from 80).

• Kitchen and bathroom : It is found not too expensive in the DIY stores, 2000 Euros the fitted kitchen that is feasible (i don't speak, well on, kitchens kind student with 2 furniture of recover, a sink, 1 micro-wave and 2 electric plates, if if I have known! ).  But a nice kitchen is around the8000 - 9000 euros.

• Treatment of wastewater (septic tanks or fitting at all to the sewer) : A septic tank costs around 6000 euros , a fitting at the everything to the sewer depends on the distance between the home and the ducts of the sewage, if less than 10 meters 500 euros, if 80 meters approximately 2000 euro . And it also depends on the subsidies that can allocate you your common.

•  Isolation : The insulation is important to decrease the heating bills. It takes approximately 5 to 40 euros per square meter depending on the thickness and type of insulation. For glass wool in 10 centimeters of thickness approximately 8 euros.

 Now that we have defined the price "types" that remains is to apply it to the well that you visit (or had).  Then we are going to define the exact quantification in function of the equipment that you put, of quantities.. but before that it must be well define its project. 

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