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		<title>Jakarta Architect : 8 Care Tips For Your Modern Furniture</title>
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Modern furniture has always been the decor we wanted our homes to have. They are both stylish and functional which makes the purchase worth it. Because we want these items to last in our homes, we have to make sure that they&#8217;re maintained very well. Aside from cleaning tips, the modern furniture needs care to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Modern furniture has always been the decor we wanted our homes to have. They are both stylish and functional which makes the purchase worth it. Because we want these items to last in our homes, we have to make sure that they&#8217;re maintained very well. Aside from cleaning tips, the modern furniture needs care to keep them in pristine condition. <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blogg/855521/architect-jakarta?claim=wc7hgc2g9xc">Follow my blog with bloglovin</a></p>
<p>Here are eight ideas on how to care for your modern furniture at home.</p>
<p>Protective Measures</p>
<p>Modern furniture has to be protected all the time. When you sit on your sofas or when you put drinks on a table, you have to secure the furniture from spills and stains. You can effectively do this by using coasters or cloth pads that can catch the dirt or water and can save your modern furniture items from getting damaged.</p>
<p>Rotate Your Modern Furniture</p>
<p>One good idea to maintain the condition of your modern furniture is to rotate them inside the house. This means you should transfer them from one location to another. For example, you can turn your sofas at a different angle so the &#8220;most used&#8221; part of the furniture will be placed to an area where it can be used less. You have to rotate them in such a way that the same spot is not used all the time.</p>
<p>Avoid Sunlight</p>
<p>When exposed under the sun, a person may have sunburns or other bodily manifestations. In modern furniture, the sun may have the same damaging effects. The furniture could easily fade in color and durability if frequently exposed under the sun&#8217;s rays.</p>
<p>Extremes Of Temperature</p>
<p>Extremes of temperature may also be another cause of damage. You have to place your modern furniture items away from air condition units or heaters so they won&#8217;t get exposed to various degrees of temperature all the time.</p>
<p>Cleaning The Furniture</p>
<p>Modern furniture needs regular cleaning. You can dust them or wipe them with a clean piece of cloth. There are also special cleansers designed to clean modern furniture items of different materials. You can purchase these products and maintain the cleanliness of your modern furniture.</p>
<p>Avoid Rough Spots</p>
<p>When dragging your modern furniture items around, be sure to avoid rough spots that can cause damage. Always move them with ease and much precaution so you can be sure of well-maintained modern furniture items.</p>
<p>Frequent Dusting</p>
<p>One good way to care for modern furniture items is to keep them free from dust. As much as possible, you can do the dusting everyday to avoid dirt from settling into the most intricate parts of the furniture.</p>
<p>Polishing</p>
<p>Polishing may be needed by the modern furniture items. There are polishers sold over the market which are intended for modern furniture use alone. You can consider buying these products to maintain the pristine appeal of your modern furniture items.</p>
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		<title>Architecture Indonesia : 2009 Interior Predictions: Timeless Curve</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Intro Timeless Curve is a modern hybrid mix of baroque and hi-tech interiors and is the evolution progression of the &#8217;90s &#8216;Yuppy&#8217; style. Its a sleek and classy style which can work well if you have the courage to use it.</p>
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Colours &#8216;Timeless Curve&#8217; isn&#8217;t about Colour with the main choices being blacks and greys. If you want colour, add some grey-blue into the mix, or some subtle dark burgundy red. The main colour is black though which causes alot of problems in small, badly lit rooms. I&#8217;d only recommend Timeless Curve in large rooms, with large windows for the natural light, and preferably some high ceilings to show off the spaced.</p>
<p>If your unsure you could live with that little colour, fear not as for a total contrast, why not consider a bright red pair of sofas!</p>
<p>&#8216;Timeless Curve&#8217; Colour Palette<br />
Influences As already mentioned, Timeless Curve is a hybrid between baroque and hi-tech style and can trace its roots back to the &#8217;80s style of black on black, which then changed to the &#8217;90s hi-tech. This is the new version of that same trend which has dominated over the last 20 to 30 years.</p>
<p>For decoration, look for retro and classic block images. Vintage wallpaper looks amazing within Timeless Curve and is seeing a huge increase in popularity at the moment for its simple shapes and patterns, but the overall effect is one of elegance.</p>
<p>&#8216;Reverse Abstract&#8217; www.whoartnow.co.uk Conclusion &#8216;Timeless Curve&#8217; could be very easy and cheap to carry out in an interior if you already have the right furniture from the &#8217;90s &#8216;yuppy&#8217; style. Select your paint carefully with some tester pots, and pick the right artwork and your almost there! Due to the popularity of the previous versions of this trend, we predict a huge number of people will be creating &#8216;Timeless Curve&#8217; in their homes throughout 2009.</p>
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		<title>Indonesia Architecture Jakarta : Feng Shui Decorating</title>
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Feng Shui, you have heard it mentioned but still are unsure what it really is. Well let&#8217;s find out the true meaning of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of placement and stands for wind and water. The Chinese used this system to balance out the energy patterns of their physical environment with spiritual forces. Their ultimate goal was to achieve harmony, comfort, and balance, first within their environment and then within their lives. In the Chinese culture the gentle wind and the clear waters have always been linkedwith good health and a good harvest. So from this good Feng Shui means good livelihood and good fortune. On the other had bad Feng Shui means misfortune and hardship. So Feng Shui is a very important part of the Chinese lifestyle. Feng Shui is based around Taoist and their vision and an understanding of nature. This focuses specifically on the belief that land is a living being and is filled with Chi. The ancient Chinese felt that the land&#8217;s energy could either help the kingdom prosper or cause it to fail and fall apart.</p>
<p>There are three principles behind Feng Shui. They involve design, placement, and proportion throughout the space. Without these three principles everything would become unbalanced and interfere with a person&#8217;s health and happiness within their environment. The main tools that are used during the Feng Shui analysis is the Ba-Gua which is an octagonal grid that contains the acient symbols of the great I Ching and the compass. The I Ching is an ancient oracle which is what Feng Shui is based around. Knowing the Bagua for both your home and also your work space will be a great help to you to completely understand how the connection of certain specific Feng Shui in certain areas of both your home and work space can be linked to certain areas and parts of your overall life.</p>
<p>Now we move on to putting the Feng Shui into your home. Generally a consultant would come into your home and look at the five elements wood, fire, earth, metal, water (xuan kong flying star (north star), color, positioning of all the furnishings, and offer out cures for the problem areas). The colors associated with Feng Shui are: wood is blue and green, fire is red and some of the items for this would be a tea light or a tamp lamp with a red shade, earth is beige and yellow and the items for this would be a terra cotta pot with soil and a rock statue, water is blue and black and the items here could be a fountain or aquarium, and metal is an accent color made up of silver, gold, copper, and bronze.</p>
<p>When it comes to the positioning of your furniture you should always face it in the direction of all the action such as the front door or street. This will give you the perfect flow of Feng Shui. Yang is considered to be the most active energy. It is usually lively and busy such as a public place or a flowing river. This is generally the most windowed side of your home. It should contain a nice view and it is usually a living or family room. Ying is considered the least energy. This is usually found in the sitting direction of an alley or backyard. Shade trees highlight this area making it quiet and relaxing. This can be the side of the property and you would find the bedrooms in this area.</p>
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		<title>Indonesian Ethnic Architecture : Setting Up A Herb Gardening</title>
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Herb gardening is becoming more and more popular every day, and for a good reason. Herbs have practical value, serve a purpose, and with herb gardening you can actually use your plants. When most people think of herb gardening they automatically think of cooking, but herbs are also grown for their pleasant aroma and their [...]]]></description>
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Herb gardening is becoming more and more popular every day, and for a good reason. Herbs have practical value, serve a purpose, and with herb gardening you can actually use your plants. When most people think of herb gardening they automatically think of cooking, but herbs are also grown for their pleasant aroma and their beauty.</p>
<p>One important part of herb gardening is drying the herbs for use during the winter months, especially if you plan on cooking with them. First the tops of leafy herbs have to be cut, washed, and hung up for the water to evaporate. Then, tie stems together and hang up in a paper bag to dry. After two to three weeks they must be removed; crumble the leaves, dry them out in the oven, and store in a glass jar.</p>
<p>One of the most common herbs gown in herb gardening is basil. &#8220;Dark Opal&#8221; and regular green basil are beautiful additions to any garden and often used as decoration. Dark Opal has light pink flowers and dark red leaves. Basil isn&#8217;t just used for its looks; it is used for extra flavor in tomato juices and pastes.</p>
<p>Chives are very petite looking and resemble a blade of grass. They are much stronger than they look, however, and will grow well through a drought and a drought. Their toughness and sturdiness makes Chives a perfect plant for herb gardening, especially if the gardener doesn&#8217;t want plants that require a lot of hassle. Chives are good used in salads, egg dishes, and many different sauces.</p>
<p>Mint is also very simple to grow and is good to use in mint jelly, mint juleps, lemonade, and any other kind of fruity drink. Mint is also good in herb gardening for its unique minty smell. Two herbs that appear in nearly everyone&#8217;s herb garden are thyme and sage. Both of these herb gardening favorites are used for flavoring soups, chicken, turkey, pork, and other sausages. Sage is also grown sometimes for its beautiful blue spiked flowers.</p>
<p>Lavender is probably the best smelling herb in all of herb gardening and is often used in candles, as a perfume scent, and to improve the smell in linen chests. The light purple flowers smell absolutely lovely.</p>
<p>Other types of herbs often grown in herb gardening include borage (used in salads), chervil (used in egg dishes), sweet marjoram (flavors lamb, fish, salad, and soup), sesame (flavors crackers, cookies, and bread), and dill (flavors meats and used in pickles). Herb gardening allows gardeners to use herbs from their own garden for cooking, looks, and smell. Herb gardening will produce much fresher herbs with more flavor than store-bought herbs, and are a lot cheaper.</p>
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		<title>Architecture Modern Indonesia : Guidelines For Your Home Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Garden is all about beautifying your trees or shrubs with proper care. Garden decor is the main hobby of almost every person residing in North American countries. Garden is the main focal point of a house which becomes the cynosure of all the people on the streets.
There are varied options to decor garden in different [...]]]></description>
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Garden is all about beautifying your trees or shrubs with proper care. Garden decor is the main hobby of almost every person residing in North American countries. Garden is the main focal point of a house which becomes the cynosure of all the people on the streets.</p>
<p>There are varied options to decor garden in different ways. As rightly said just concentrate on the prime part of garden first, and then take care rest of other parts of garden. To decor your garden if your want to keep fountain in the centre then it’s not a bad idea. Add beauty to your garden by planting various fruits &amp; flowers trees. To add more build a porch or any statue of interest.</p>
<p>To spruce up your garden you can even delight your garden that enriches the water supply. Proper water irrigation or water sprinkling facility should be done for healthy plantation. Keep on experimenting with innovative or creative ideas in your garden that at last will surely give you result. Fountain can also solve the problem of providing water to you garden.</p>
<p>If you are experimenting with garden by trying every different way out, you’re always going to learn some new things that may be fruitful in future. Now if you’re end up doing new things then its right time to shape out garden the way it suits best to you. Under an architecture and planter guideline still there are many things left which can come into use. Like building of an arbor, a rose pillar, porch, fountain and the sitting arrangement of people. If not trying to build this all, even simple garden stuff and artful décor contribute remarkably to the aesthetic value to your outdoor garden décor. Using some artistic ornaments will add beauty to your garden and so to your home. It’s your duty to scatter it throughout the landscape. Appropriate framing of ornamental pieces according to their size, shape or height are important parameters.</p>
<p>Significant features like providing lighting are also to be concerned. You can even think of to light the pathway or some specific tree which seems to be twilight in night because of its appearance. Safety measures should always be borrowed in mind. For that, you can plant cactus tree or thorny bushes which are like hurdles for an unknown outsider or thieves.</p>
<p>Well, all these measures are more seen in outdoor garden décor. Garden décor is not a big deal if you take your personal interest. With some help and guideline you can go through a long way to decorate your garden. Thus, many essential elements are required to make gorgeous, lush gardens. Feel relax and comfortable when sitting and watching your elegant garden done with all effort and handwork.</p>
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		<title>Jakarta Luxury Home Architect : Creative Designing For Outdoor Living Spaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Your outdoor living spaces should suit your family’s lifestyle as well as be an extension of your indoor living areas. Such outdoor areas should be designed to maximize their space, complement your home and lot, and be functional for the types of activities you plan to enjoy – be it for outdoor dining, entertaining, sports, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Your outdoor living spaces should suit your family’s lifestyle as well as be an extension of your indoor living areas. Such outdoor areas should be designed to maximize their space, complement your home and lot, and be functional for the types of activities you plan to enjoy – be it for outdoor dining, entertaining, sports, child’s play, relaxing, or multi-purpose use.</p>
<p>Dining, relaxation, and entertaining areas are best located near their corresponding indoor areas, such as living room, den, family room, kitchen. A quiet, private area may be best located outside of a den; a hot tub in a sheltered spot outside of the master bedroom, and so on. In addition to a sheltered spot near your home, such areas can be located in your backyard as a special nook. If designing with children and pets in mind, remember to plan for adequate ground cover, adequate space, and adequate visual supervision capacity from the more utilized areas of your home, i.e. the kitchen or living room. Plan your outdoor entertaining space so it offers views into the children’s outdoor area as well.</p>
<p>Privet hedges, raised berms, stone walls, fencing, trellises, arbors, and plantings can be used for varying degrees of privacy, noise and wind buffering, and landscape enhancement. Structural and hardscape components of your outdoor living space can consist of decking, patio, pool, spa, or other water feature areas, gazebos, sheds or work areas, game and sports areas, greenhouse, or workshop. A patio sited off of a living room or family room with dimensions of at least 12 x 16 is best-suited as an outdoor extension of its complementary interior space. For quieter outdoor spaces, water features such as a natural stream, swimming pool, fountain, waterfall, small pond, or water garden can be added. Flowing water always lends a sense of tranquility while increasing the beauty of your yard.</p>
<p>Planning for ease and circulation of traffic flow from outdoor to indoor living areas and vice versa needs to be considered. Areas of limited access, like service areas, may not be a part of this circulation pattern, but need to be functional for access. Ease of movement is paramount for indoor/outdoor entertaining areas. Plantings, gardening areas, and outdoor structural and hardscape components are also used to guide eyes and traffic flow between and among the areas they highlight or enhance. Fencing, garden beds, arbors, trellises, foundation plantings, and berms, ornamental grasses, shrubbery, paths, and walkways can be used to define the perimeters of activity areas or to separate them from one another where desired.</p>
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		<title>Jakarta Top Architect : Landscaping Traffic Areas - Driveways and Walkways</title>
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High traffic areas of your landscape, such as driveways, car yard, paths, and walkways must, first and foremost, be functional. Depending on how your house is positioned on your lot, you may have a front door and pathway to the street with a side door to your driveway and garage, vice versa, or only one [...]]]></description>
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<p>High traffic areas of your landscape, such as driveways, car yard, paths, and walkways must, first and foremost, be functional. Depending on how your house is positioned on your lot, you may have a front door and pathway to the street with a side door to your driveway and garage, vice versa, or only one main point of entry for both. Whichever the case, walks, driveways, and parking must be situated to provide easy access from points of entry to your house, garage (if applicable), and of course, the entrance to your home. Depending on your yard, the architectural style of your house, and your family’s lifestyle and habits, plan these areas with access in mind.</p>
<p>Walkways and driveway surfaces should be easy to maintain and durable enough to withstand the level of traffic they receive. High traffic areas are best suited to paving or some other hard surfacing. In the long run, the initial expense of doing so is more than compensated in the reduction of maintenance and amendments required by gravel, dirt, bark, brick work, or sand. Walkways and paths that are less traveled or used are fine with those less costly ground covers.</p>
<p>Driveways must also be wide enough at the street to accommodate vehicles that need to merge easily into the flow of traffic. Common sense dictates that the higher the speed of traffic on your street, the greater the view and the width of the start of your driveway. You need to be well-able to view oncoming traffic from your driveway. Tree and shrub buffers are good for increasing privacy and reducing noise from street traffic, but become hazardous additions when they obstruct your view of the street at your driveway entrance. You need to be able to view traffic coming from both directions, too – both on your street and, if yours is extensive, in your driveway. If surrounding trees or shrubs impede your view, place a mirror or reflecting device on an appropriate telephone pole or tree so you can see oncoming traffic.</p>
<p>Some typically functional dimensions for walkways and driveways? Walkways for more than one person need to be designed are best designed at a width of at least four feet; walkways and paths for the single stroller ar most comfortable at 2 ½ feet wide. A driveway for one vehicle is usually at least 8 feet wide; a two-car drive needs at least 14 feet. Once you have planned for your permanent, hardscape features, such as driveways, paths, and walkways, you can design for your plantings and implement them to suit your site and your preferences.</p>
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		<title>Jakarta Famous Architect : Landscaping Details - Considering Family Needs</title>
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Your outdoor landscape can provide a natural and functional extension of your indoor living space if designed to complement your home and your suit your family’s needs. Hobbies such as gardening (of course!), swimming, lawn sports, creative arts should be consider as should how you spend your leisure time. Do you enjoy dining outside? Reading [...]]]></description>
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Your outdoor landscape can provide a natural and functional extension of your indoor living space if designed to complement your home and your suit your family’s needs. Hobbies such as gardening (of course!), swimming, lawn sports, creative arts should be consider as should how you spend your leisure time. Do you enjoy dining outside? Reading or writing? Do you prefer lots of direct sunlight or a bit more shade? Do you seek a secluded oasis, want a children’s playground, need privacy for an outdoor spa or hot tub? Think about and note anything you like to do or hope to do in your outdoor space.</p>
<p>Once you have done so, plot your desired areas for these activities on your site plan, keeping in mind the different living areas inside your home. It is best to draw them into a rough house layout on your site plan. Activity areas can include a sports area, dining area, public zone, pool- or pondside, entrance, living area, leisure or quiet area, storage, work area, and vegetable and flower gardens. Outline them on your plot plan.</p>
<p>Rules of thumb to consider are: a) remember to have your outdoor activity areas complement your inside living areas, so that an outdoor deck or patio flows naturally off of your living room or family room; your den has a pleasant view from its bay window; your work area is near your garage, etc.; and b) be sure to arrange landscaping areas according to neighboring area’ use and function. If you have children, your pool and any playground areas should be easily visible from outdoor and indoor areas, always most preferably with a view from within your home. Likewise, you may want to buffer or add privacy fences or hedging to block your children’s view of certain aspects on abutting properties.</p>
<p>For younger children, an outdoor environment should encourage play by inviting them into it with easy access, open, flowing, and relaxed spaces, and clear movement from indoors to outdoors. Your landscape should stimulate the senses with change and contrasts in scale, light, texture, and color, provide diverse experiences, and offer safe ground cover and places for creative play. If you have pets, consider both their needs and those of your neighbors. Make notes of all aspects of your current landscape and those you desire to implement. It can be helpful to take a poll of your family members, asking them what they want, what they don’t like, and so on. Once you are done with your initial plot plan, you can transfer it onto graph paper and draw areas and certain features to scale.</p>
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		<title>Architect Indonesia Jakarta : How To Improve And Renovate Homes</title>
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Basically, home improvements refer to the method of refurbishing, repairing, or making add-ons to one’s home. In this way, homeowners get to change, alter, or modify their homes without having to change the whole house.
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Basically, home improvements refer to the method of refurbishing, repairing, or making add-ons to one’s home. In this way, homeowners get to change, alter, or modify their homes without having to change the whole house.</p>
<p>Because most homeowners would like to save more money, they usually undergo home improvements that employ the do-it-yourself system wherein they just buy the kits and are responsible for doing all the required steps.</p>
<p>Today, there are many commercial establishments that offer home improvements. One of the most well known businesses that are into home improvements is the Lowe’s home improvements.</p>
<p>Here is a list of some facts about Lowe’s home improvements. This will give you an overview of the company and probably the main reasons why Lowe’s has continuously been on top of the list in the best home improvements businesses.</p>
<p>Explore your options, make sure you have a list of credible lending institutions to choose from when refinancing. It would do well if you had a list of institutions followed by the pros and cons plus the terms to each lending institution.</p>
<p>Many financial institutions will offer some sort of credit product especially tailored for home buyers and homeowners who seek to remodel. The best place to start looking is your local bank. Not only are they legal, they are also stable, and will prove to be the standard by which you make your financial decisions.</p>
<p>Try exploring the loan plans of the bank you deposit with. They will usually give you better interest rates than other banks. When visiting your bank for this purpose, it will do no harm to seek customer service personnel who can explain to you the various loan products and services their bank offers and the ins and outs of managing such agreements. Good banks will also offer advice on what course of action would be best for such situations, having had much experience with such.</p>
<p>If the water that you just poured slowly seeps into the floor and creates a visible spot, it may already need refinishing touches. You may want to keep it in your to-do list and schedule a time when you can do the refinishing. However, if the water seeps in as quickly as you had poured it, then don&#8217;t waste more time. Your floor definitely needs refinishing, and soon.</p>
<p>Refinishing your wood flooring would require equipments such as a drum sander. Other equipments may be needed for other more detailed tasks in the finishing process. You need not buy those equipments, though. These equipments are available for rent in your local home shops such as Home Depot. You can rent them on a daily or weekly basis.</p>
<p>Different grit papers are used in the drum sander for different floor types. The lower the grit paper number is, the coarser it is for use on more damaged woods. Once you have chosen the right grit paper, you can now start sanding the wood using the equipment. It is suggested that you do the sanding diagonally on both ways then along the grain.<br />
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Research has shown that where and how you eat is very important; perhaps as much as what you eat. Your dining room does not consist of only dining chairs and dining room table; it is also about ambience, about a welcoming and warm look. The dining room should be a place that you enjoy being [...]]]></description>
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<p>Research has shown that where and how you eat is very important; perhaps as much as what you eat. Your dining room does not consist of only dining chairs and dining room table; it is also about ambience, about a welcoming and warm look. The dining room should be a place that you enjoy being in, not just a place to sit and eat your meals.</p>
<p>Accessories: Collect interesting dining room accessories, such an unusual cake platter, Pasta containers, Spice Bottles, Handmade or hand painted pitcher or vase etc. A beautiful vase for the center of the dining table or to place on your dining room hutch, makes an interesting focal point and adds a lovely decorating accent for the room. A cake platter or a decorative salver can be both functional as well as good to look at. It can be used to serve a dessert like a cake or to serve hors d’ouvres or other snacks. Decorative elements such as wall art, photo frames or curios can be used, to create some appealing accents but do not use too many; the drawing room is a better place for displaying those.</p>
<p>Arranging the Furniture: Clutter is never attractive, so try not to crowd too many pieces of dining room furniture into your dining space. Pick a few well matched pieces of furniture; perhaps even a dining room set, so that the room looks well balanced and well laid out. While the dining table and chairs should ideally always be in the centre, you can create a sense of balance by choosing some corner cabinets, to offset the table and chairs or a sideboard on one side with a matching chest of drawers on the other side of the room to give a sense of elegance and also practical storage options.</p>
<p>Visual Impact: Two things create the maximum visual impact: lighting and the color scheme. Don’t be a slave to color coordination. If everything is too color coordinated, the final appearance will be bland and unexciting. Contrasts work better to make a visual impact. For instance if your dining room furniture is made up of dark materials, use light colored table linen, or put light colors on the walls. If your walls are light colored, use bright and cheerful colors for your place mats or the kind of crockery that you use. Mix and match to achieve an interesting and colorful palette that will make the best visual impact.</p>
<p>Also choose your lighting with care, you could decide to go in for a central chandelier (make sure it is not too big for the room, otherwise it will give the impression of clutter) and then use a few other spot lights to highlight some particular pieces of furniture or decorative objects around the room. If you want to use a chandelier, make sure however that your ceiling is high enough, otherwise you would be better advised to use some well placed table or floor lamps. Heavy drapes and tapestry may not be the best option for your dining room, a light and airy look usually works better for this space.</p>
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<td class="bio">Pair Amish furniture with classic lighting and light colors for a warm ambience. A <a href="http://www.amishtables.com/trestle-dining-tables" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5a8c08;">trestle table</span></a> with <a href="http://www.amishtables.com/contemporary-dining-chairs" target="_blank"><span style="color: #5a8c08;">contemporary chairs</span></a> would make an interesting combination.</td>
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