10 Question About The Home Kitchen

November 7th, 2010

1. What is the function of the home kitchen?

The function of the kitchen is to provide a place for activities to prepare and provide food. But at this point the function of the kitchen was more numerous and diverse, in a sense already widened its function becomes a place to socialize or meet with other family members and even guests, so the kitchen must be set to better accommodate the various needs.

2. Where should set the kitchen? front or back home?

In the past, the kitchen is often associated with places that are not clean, dirty, even to be hidden and therefore usually placed behind the house. But now the kitchen with more functions that can be put in place that looks like at the front of the house, in the middle and so forth. Sometimes because of the narrow house, the kitchen could be placed near or combined with dining room, and a little to be near or even blend with the family room.

3. Thing – anything that must be considered to create an efficient kitchen reply?

In restructuring the kitchen should consider how the work flow / activity in the kitchen. In the kitchen there are a variety of goods / objects that must be stored in the right place so that the storage included in a crucially important to design an efficient kitchen. For example, where we put the plates, cutlery, and cooking equipment. Besides, it is important to note where the location of her kitchen sink, where the stove, vacuum smoke, and so forth.

4. What are the characteristics of a healthy kitchen?

Healthy kitchen should have a garbage disposal and waste the good, and can handle air pollution from burning stove. This means we must provide appropriate sanitation systems by providing a kitchen sink, faucet water, sewer lines, vacuum smoke, like a fat catcher from the rest of the food / organic waste. Thus, the kitchen will be clean and always healthy.

5. How good lighting and ventilation in the home kitchen?

Room kitchen, should be considered for the light from the window well so that could illuminate the cooking process is going well and do not need artificial penerngan during the day. This means to reduce electricity usage. This can be solved with good design and attention to the fall of light from the window. Sometimes the kitchen can be renovated if necessary to change the location of the window.
For ventilation is best to use natural ventilation by opening windows and ventilation make enough for the kitchen area. Especially for the bottom for ventilation can be considered for safety when using a gas stove, because we know the gas tube and pipe lines can leak and are very dangerous. For more safety, keep the kitchen floor ventilation is higher than the bottom, so if there are gas leaks can go out immediately through the bottom vents in the kitchen. There is also a preference for using a semi-open kitchen design, the kitchen without a door and facing directly into the garden so that air can freely enter. The drawback is that we must pay attention to the cabinet does not become a den of rats or other animals.

6. How to organize the home kitchen in a small space / narrow?

Kitchen in a small room still must consider the needs of the kitchen that is cooking, washing, preparing food. Therefore, there should at least sink, cabinet, and if needed there is a stove. Today the kitchen is also differentiated into the kitchen clean and dirty kitchen. In the kitchen clean is usually no stove. There is also a shelter that does not need dirty kitchen, for example in the area of apartments is limited.

7. Differences home kitchen large size and small size? How to organize or function?

The difference, apart from size, can also from the many facilities provided by the kitchen. Also arrange different ways, for example, narrow kitchen because of the limitations must be designed with a compact and takes up very little space. For a large kitchen can be more relieved to arrange.

8. Between large and small kitchens more multifunctional, Where?

Small or large kitchen that did not matter, because what is important is the kitchen can function properly. The main requirement of the kitchen is cooking, storing, preparing food. Therefore the main requirement is the kitchen sink, stove, storage cabinet, and a place to prepare or cut up food. If this already exist all the small kitchen that was already good. In terms of practicality sometimes a small kitchen can also be very practical, because a large kitchen sometimes even less efficient, in the sense of the cooking and preparing food to be more complicated.

9. Advantages and disadvantages of a small kitchen?

The advantage can be more efficient and practical.Disadvantages if too small can be difficult when trying to store the goods or on the move as too narrow.

10. How to utilize the small space to be useful and efficient kitchen?

The kitchen is good as mentioned above must have the necessary facilities, in order to become efficient and effective. Especially for the kitchen with a narrow area should be designed in such a way as to be efficient, meaning not too extravagant place but can still have the functionality needed. The kitchen can also be equipped with some sort of bar if needed, namely the bar that are attached to kitchen design setnya. This bar table can be used also as a dining table or breakfast table.

Plants That Can Absorb Pollutants

October 25th, 2010

If you love to collect plants, must have been familiar with the chrysanthemum flower and aloevera plant (Sansevieria). It’s pretty healthy too!Has a healthy occupancy not only created by the landscaping area or the number of openings facing outward. Plants also can know. Besides useful for garden beautifully, some plants even healthful. Chrysanthemum flower and tongue-in-law (Sansevieria) for example.

Based on the research at a University in Sydney, Australia, chrysanthemum flowers are able to reduce 90 percent of pollutants in the room. Similarly with the tongue-in-law plant, plants that contain lots of water is effectively absorb formaldehyde, one of the toxins produced by cigarette smoke.

The second treatment plant is not difficult really. Simply water it regularly to prevent the plants from drought. But it is different with chrysanthemum flowers, colorful flowers that appear this would not hold water. To be durable, put in the room and then irradiate the flower with a light bulb so that it thrives.

For your healthy occupancy, shall be maintained both of these plants. Colorful chrysanthemum flowers can also add aesthetic value space.

Outsmart Confined Space

October 22nd, 2010

In this house, small size living room combined with dining room and kitchen. The goal for the room seem more spacious due to open view into all of these spaces.

But then problems arise. Wall bordering the neighbor into the wall a long and tedious. The room was just a flat box, without any high-low game floor. To overcome this, the long wall was given a yellow color of turmeric, which is much older than the other wall color. As a result, the walls of the house that was empty so more fresh and contained.

Opposite Color Sofa
In the living room can also be seen color games on the couch. Sofa Two different colors (red and white) is placed there. To unify the two, on the couch cushions placed red and white.

In addition, the existing furniture in this house was fused with the wall. For example, in the bedroom; TV shelf which lies across the bed is made together with the dresser. Bedside nightstand cantilever can also be found made bunk. To unify? nightstand by the bed, used a kind of plywood.

The shelves display given the background so it looks different. Things like this are used throughout the rack shelf at home, ranging from living room, master bedroom to the child’s bedroom.

Kid’s Room Area
Children’s rooms are designed very well. Because you want the child to perform any activity in it, made quite spacious rooms. To obtain a wide bed in a limited area, would not want a house should be graded. And downstairs made only one room.

Also created unusual furniture, ranging from cabinets, display racks, and beds. In fact, on the wall beside the bed given the bearings so that the child can lean on it while reading or playing. Children will feel at home.

Eco Friendly Houses / Environmentally Friendly

October 16th, 2010

As the scarcity of gas and oil in the world, prompting many people to innovate to create quality products in an environmentally friendly, economical and efficient. Also the effects of global warming that threatens the world more real, we are required to care for the environment, taking advantage of things that are easy to get around we get big benefit.

Switch to environmentally friendly things like this, can produce energy and technology systems that berfariasi. In addition to providing a major contribution to the environment, by utilizing environmentally friendly technologies will reduce / reduce your bill every month bills, and deliver more value to the property / your house.

Alternative energy that can be selected, we divide into 3 groups:

Renewable Energy
The energy can be obtained from nature such as: Solar Energy, Wind Energy. Items that can be used in products such as: Solar Panels, Heat Pumps, Wind Turbins.

Efficient Heating
Natural heat energy can be produced from natural materials or products of quality products such as: underfloor Heating, Efficient Boilers, Twin Coil Cilinders.

Water Conservation
Utilization of water optimally and efficiently. Product quality products such as: Rainwater Harvester, Dual Flush WC’s, Ecoplay Water Recycling.

In the application of eco-friendly home, many examples of products in the market that can be used such as:
* Solar panels for water heaters, electric lamps / electronic equipment, etc..
* The roof of a house of glass for natural lighting.
* The window of wood covered with netting, at night it will feel cool air from outside and mosquitoes can not enter.
* Place into 2 separate waste disposal, for waste plastics and organic wastes.
* Houses without paint, utilizing the natural color of brick.
* Floors of wood, natural stone, stone.

Lots of ideas and creativity to build eco friendly houses. Your home will be more comfortable when these ideas to build a house combined with the concept of beautiful homes and home technology.