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There are several benefits to renew your bathroom if it was built before 90s. The new bathroom designs are attractive in look & easy at cleaning. If you are planning to renovate your bathroom, either for a special event or just as a part of your yearly maintenance schedule. here i am to give you some cost effective solutions. the very first thing to do is to allocate the budget, the cost of renovation however depends upon the size of your washroom, but in general, $3000 to $5000 would work fine at most of the living spaces. Call the experienced bathroom builder & tell them your requirements in a given budget. I believe this practice will come up with the most elegant & cost effective solution for your home interior.

Calculate your budget in such a way that it is spent on priority bases. The first priority is for quality tiles & bathroom sanitary products. The second priority is for cooling & heating machines, & the third for bathroom cabinets & other accessories. These are the things that is not compromised while renovation. Another option is to make a deal with your builder for the whole project; this is good in the case if you don’t want to get into the hassle of buying bathroom, products yourself. Your contractor will do it. But check the quality of the accessories before it undergoes installation. I prefer making a check list for each task you want to do in your bathroom, monitor each task in & keep a record of each step according to its quality as it is done.

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.

One of the common concerns for home decorators & textile designers is to come up with unique & elegant designs each year. This is very creative & challenging task as everyone seeks to give their house a special look, especially the interior of their house. Fortunately the advancements in interior designing allow every one to maintain & decorate their house with best decorating standards, in modern living, When it came’s to window decoration. Fancy curtains are the first item that came into our minds. So this post is all about the latest trends in curtains & state of the art blinds for the interior of your house.

The color & design of curtain depends upon the place where you want to use it. A curtain which is used in bedroom is different from that of drawing room & children’s room. However the main factor that we must have to make sure before buying is, easy to maintain & handle. Note that there are many varieties of curtains in the market, always stress for the one which is made from best quality fabric & easy to wash. One the other hand, the installation of curtains is also a piece of art. For instance, there are different varieties of poles that are used to hang curtains, metal coated is preferred but if you have little budget you can use wooden or even plastic poles. So use the one which best suits with the theme of the room.

Eye lits curtains are famous these days, they are convenient as well, it seems me that it will continue its fame in 2010; you can easily take down these curtains for cleaning, it looks elegant in every living space. while using lits curtains, I recommend high weight fabrics for drawing rooms as they looks luxurious, also best for big halls. However the type of fabric depends on your own taste; here is my pefrences, silks for drawing room & TV room while & cotton for living rooms.

Having a house with fully automated living standards is not a big deal now, fortunately the advancements in technology made it easy for us to make our dreams about the luxury living come true, yes it costs you little more but you will get the more comfort with the money you spent for home automation. For those who don’t know about how home automation works, in simple words it is making the house automatically controlled with state of the art technological devices that can be remotely accessed & monitored. .

However opting a home automation project depends upon your way of living, but when talk about luxury life then you likely to expose technology at every step. So the cases at a home automation is the same where you control your likes and dislikes at your finger tips. How delightful when you will be able to control the cooling & heating of your house while sitting at your office. How convenient it is to manage your cooking while sitting at your garden? Who didn’t prefer to have the highly accurate home security measures, yes! Home automation has the solution for all your requirements.

For those who didn’t experience automated home, I suggest to try it at few places in your house at first, what about kitchen? Yes it’s the best place for first time users to enjoy the thrill of digital life. If your new house is still under construction?, it is highly recommended to consider home automation as deploying home automation is it is much easier at that step as compare to already build houses. I know this sounds costly at the beginning but you will love the perks of an automated house in a long go.

I know most of the people like to spend a part of their day somewhere outdoor; having a beautiful yard in the house is a best choice for dining if you seek outdoor fun. So that’s why today I will give you few tips about how to make your outdoor, specially the yard more enjoyable & best for night parties & summer brunches. Old home designs came up with large yard, with the passage of time the latest designs in houses of big cities; we find limited yard space for outdoor activities. So now it’s all you have to do to make it look more spacious with your renovating & arrangements of furniture.

First of all you have to assume the no of people you seek to accommodate in your yard. After this remove all unnecessary things from the entry & exits. Designing the furniture for yards is depends upon the space available but I always prefer simple & easy to assemble furniture for outdoor, you can also go for folding chairs & big central dining table, while choosing simple benches for sitting is also trends these days. Make sure that your design looks natural, don’t use dark paints on walls. Add few plants in the corners & hang a big lightening globe in the middle of the roof if your yard has the roof top.

I believe with little effort you can make an elegant outdoor entertainment area in your home. You didn’t require spending big money on it. Working smartly worth more then investing extra money on decoration & renovation.

Do you want to rent your spare apartment,or you have plans to rant the upper portion of your house to make extra earnings? if yes then here is some great tips. real estate business is again in boom after the recession so its the time for the makeover of your apartment. being an interior designer i know the critical factors that people observe before getting a rented property. besides the location of apartment & availability of basic necessities like Gas & electricity, the most important thing is how beautiful & tidy is the interior of rented apartment. people don’t like to live in apartments with crap mildew walls & roof. yes they dream about the apartment with tidy floor, clean bathrooms & fabulous kitchen.

Makeover of the property is very important if you seek greater profit. most of the property dealers & real estate agents ignore this factor & loose a large no of customers.this is true that one of the reason is the customers, who always seek cheap apartments to live. but one the other hand there are many people who are willing to pay more for luxurious apartments for rent. so it depends upon you that what category of people you want to serve at your property.

Renovating small apartments is not a big deal. you will get more in return. things like painting the walls & cabinets, replacing the linoleum in kitchen. marble tiles, exclusive lightning work & adding attractive wall paintings & decoration tools didn’t need big investments. yes you can spend some extra bucks on furniture if it is the demands of your clients. infact the more you spend, the more you earn.