In the history of humankind, wood and timber is one of the main and important materials ever. Use as the charcoal until building construction, wood will not separate from the history of humankind. There many kinds and species of woods used, ranging from hardwood, softwood until non-wood products such as rattan and bamboo which widely spread in Asia. Wood is a flexible and high-performance material, low in weight, yet high in density, with excellent load-bearing properties. The durability of wood makes it low in maintenance and resistant to heat, frost, corrosion and pollution. The wide range of timber...

Increase of global warming encourages the emergence of the movement that advocated for saving electricity. This is a little hard to do considering that people have been very dependence on electricity. However, power saving is not something impossible. Savings can be made of little things from our own homes. Electricity consumption at home more often derived from the use of air conditioning and lighting. But with the proper home design, we can minimize the uses of electricity. To minimize the uses of lighting, add the number of your windows and ventilation so the more sunlight incoming. To minimize the...

Have you ever considered to bring your outdoor atmosphere to your living room? I believe you will say that it is impossible thing to do. But changing times make people more creative in overcoming difficulties by creating a new innovation. Bring the outdoor to the living room is a creative idea. It is start by carrying a replica of a gravels garden into the living room. The gravels are use for the floor by spread coral gravel over the surface of the floor. Distribution should be organized to cover the entire surface of the floor. Gravel can use different colors in one room. It is depending on your...

During this, the image of a family room is a room with a sofa that is trusted more to give comfort. Combine sofa and chair is not bad idea anyway. It will only further enliven the atmosphere in the family room. Combination of chairs and sofas will feature interesting mix.  Size of chairs is usually more slender than the sofa. Chairs can be equipped with or without cushions. For a different look, try to put a reclining chair in your family room. A reclining chair is an armchair that reclines when the user lowers the chair’s back and raises its front. It complete with a backrest that can be tilted...

A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces using modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal, or any other material that can hold a person’s weight. Many homeowners who are do not pay attention to their floor in greater detail. Probably because of the location of the floor below for more intersect with the foot, so that often unnoticed of the eye. Floor of your home can be a thing that determines the identity of your home. Although the location below, this floor also as a determinant of the overall beauty...

Perhaps you have an apartment or House which have ignored space under the roof? Space that we usually seen as the “rest” in our House, can also be used when it is well designed. Space below the roof is usually a narrow size and never used by people. The room is leaved emptied and dusty, or used as a storage warehouse used goods. Maybe we often underestimated that there’s nothing we can do about the space which has uncommon contour. Space room under the roof usually form a triangle on the roof, so it seems to be narrow, tapered at the tip. Do not be discouraged. First, you can paint the entire...