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Summer is a wonderful season! Most of the folks might agree with me at the point that long days provide you lots of time to enjoy your favorite activities at home (& outdoor too). No matter who are you, a school going kid or just a housewife. To get the best excitement & fun of summer I always suggest going for an exclusive summer renovation plan at your home. Summer makeover is all about bringing a fresh look to the interior of the house. & off course! Making your home more comfortable, by adding climate control, cooling system, swimming pools renovation, applying fresh colors themes on walls & adding other summer accessories. Here are few tips you can follow to get better results in making your house more beautiful in summers. People from relatively hotter places across the world also check these tips for giving their house with a fresh look.

The first thing you can start with is the color theme of your house, specially the colors of walls at your bedroom & drawing room. if you feel that it is giving a dull impression, Try out different light & bright colors like white, sky blue, baby pink, light green.. However! to give a sparkle and bright effect to your room. I always suggest white in the summers. You can also use colorful custom wallpapers if you are intended to make something exclusive in your bedroom. moreover try adding the furniture in contrast with the walls color.

Give a little attention to flooring also. Check the tiles at bathrooms & kitchen. Replace broken tiles or if your budget allows, renew the old tiles with fresh tiles. Moreover if the floor is wooden or bamboo. Polish it. Don’t opt for carpeting flooring in summers. It creates heats & dust so I didn’t suggest it for summers. add a couple of indoor plants..

The garden: Yes this is the place where you are expected to spend a part of your day. Try adding some new plants in the gardens. Buy a set of elegant garden furniture if you find the old one rusty. Make proper arrangements for watering the plants. Specially the garden grass, which is surely the center of attraction in summers.

Decorate the terrace with fresh money plants; you will feel a more refreshing day while gazing outside from the terrace of your house. Add windows Blinds for a gentle & fresh wake-up. Probably a green one will work more efficient. Moreover a home insulation works better to make your house cooler in summers. Cleaning up the swimming pools & renewing bathtub & showers (if necessary) are another important element of home makeover in summer.

With the arrival of heating & cooling equipments, the air conditioners, cooling plants, heaters & state of the art home automation solutions. where in one hand we are able to control the temperature of the house according to our requirements to make your living more comfortable, but one the other hand we have to face some extra burden when it came to energy costs. in modern living it is certainly impossible to ignore the importance of cooling & heating system in the house. so here i am to share some tips that makes you able to save a little bit of your heating & cooling bills.

The first thing is learn about the heating & cooling equipments, all you need to do is to make sure all the family members are education enough to use the cooling & heating machines. for saving your bills i always suggest to use the heaters & air conditioners in extreme weather conditions only. keep the thermostat at medium level & check the owners manual for precautionary maintenance. things like cleaning the cooling system every year are very important if you want to save your electricity bill.

Just make an awareness among all the occupants of the house that wasting energy is very bad practice. always remember to switch off all the cooling & heating systems associated with your house while you & your family is planning to stay outside your house for some outdoor tour. Why waste energy heating and cooling if it’s not occupied. during daytime open all the windows & try to utilize maximum daylight, this is also good to save electricity bill. During winters the use of underfloor heating is very beneficial when it came to comfort while on the other hand it also cuts your electric heater expanses. similarly to curb the electricity bill in summers, the use of cooling tiles on roof top is advisable at single story buildings. in short make a check on everything that is run by electricity or gas, & you can easily save your money.

Home decoration didn’t always requires you to spend extra bucks on new furniture, decoration tools & other conventional accessories. there are some ways to make your house a new looks without spending huge money. this posts describes it well, these tips are easy to implement & gives you rapid results.

1.Paint Light - Paint Right: paint one of the wall the you believes is the center of attraction when you enters the room. use light shade color in contrast with the entire paint of the room. there are many cool paint designers who paint the wall with unique texture instead of just applying regular coat of the paint. select the paint theme & texture according to the use of the room.

2. Remove Extra Furniture: A room with excessive furniture looks like an inventory store. that’s why i always prefer to keep less furniture. this is good in two ways, first it allows more space in the room for exercise & other activities. second it is easy to clean the room provided with less furniture. yes it gives the room a fresh & spacious look.

3. Rearrange The Furniture: Changing the placement of your furniture is always good after a couple of months. it gives you a fresh feeling. so try to arrange it in such a way that it looks elegant. making intriguing angles from the furniture is preferred as it looks good in any living space . make sure that there is no hurdles due to your arrangement for coming in or leaving out. Seriously you will love the new layout of your room.

4. Add Indoor plant: Green always looks elegant in rooms. so bring in your favorite indoor plant, there are many beautiful wooden & aluminum plant cabinets in the market, buy one according to your taste & place your plant in it. i prefer silk plants as it looks more fresh as compare to the others.

5: Lamps & Wall Paintings: Hang your favorite wall painting in the middle of the wall, remove sticking pads notes & other pictures from your walls, i always advise not to use glue for sticking your picture to the walls, maybe you feel good with it but i am not sure the others will like it. place your picture in table frame & place it in the bookshelves or decorating cabinet. add the lamps, add new bulbs in it & place it wherever you feel convenient.

The steps mentioned above can easily be done in 3 hours & required very limited budget. so if you are expecting some special guests in the morning then you still have a lot of of time for your home makeover.

Having a stylish & customized furniture in the garden is the main element in luxury houses. honestly speaking there is nothing good at more when in a silent evenings you are sitting out in the garden of your home & enjoying the sunset & having your favorite drink. so garden’s makeover is the mainstream of any home improvement project. obviously when we talk about luxury living, we came to the point that everything needed to be set at optimum level. garden decoration in this regard required state of the art furniture & some creative modification is the plants arrangements.

What so important while choosing the garden furniture is mainly concern with the material used in the furniture. for instance, despite the fact garden furniture looks good at every shape but i am not always in a favor to recommend wooden furniture at the garden & any outdoor activity. one of the reason is the harmful weather effects on wooden furniture. however some wooden benches & tables are good for outdoor, but that is expensive these days as you can buy anything of the same design in plastic or aluminum at less price. yes they are durable too. however on the other hand if you have a good budget & want to enjoy luxury class outdoor furniture, you should try any quality wooden furniture.

The design of outdoor furniture does matter,.as i mentioned earlier, you can find many conventional furniture & the retail outlets but what makes the difference is custom garden furniture at which you can give you garden an exclusive look by designing unique garden benches & sitting stools. so beside custom water falls, decent plant beds & beautiful flower arrangement, this is what i believe the most essential item if luxury living is your main concern.

First impression is the last impression, in conventional home designs, garden is the place which represents the overall theme of the house. for instance, if you are a real estate agent & is going to show the vacant house to your client for the first time, then you must have to keep in mind that a well decorated garden worth more if you want to grab the deal. when it came to rent a luxury house most of the clients attracts towards a well establish garden, so garden furniture in this regard is of great importance. but remember a well designed wooden work in the garden is better then any ready to use outdoor furniture if you want to maintain house where quality is the main concern.

Latest designs in garden furniture allows us decorate our garden in the best way. you can find many ready to use garden furniture in the market but i suggest you to go for the one which is suitable, durable & comfortable. you can see one of the famous design of garden furniture in the above picture in which the connected table & benches made from wood are giving the comfy & decent look. you can create this kind of benches from any wood but the latest techniques revealed that if you are looking for a cheaper & durable garden furniture you can use the left overs of wood from the bridges & shipyards because this wood has not effect with rains & gives the classic look to the garden furniture.

For every modern house, there is a spare room called guest room. This room is not used frequently by the people living in that house. Guest room is dedicated to guests who visit you & wishes to stay at your home for a couple of days. A guest room is designed in such a way that it reflects a beautiful & comfortable effect to the guest. Keep in mind the guest room to design & decorate it as that of any luxury class hotel room. For example

(1) Attached bathroom with fresh towels tidy floor
(2) Comfortable bed
(3) Trendy Sofa with adjustable side table
(4) Balcony
(5) Air conditioning
(6) A beautiful indoor plant at the corner
(7) Table lamps

Additionally you can also add other things of your interest like a piano or a home theater for entertainment purpose. One important thing that I would like to share with you is that you can also consume your guest room for commercial purpose & earn money with it. For example you can get paid guest or can give your living room to another party on rent. In big cities where living is expensive, most of the folks do this to cut cost of living. Infect this is a good idea to generate money with little hassle.