Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Home Decorating Living Room

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Decorating a home in order to be in accordance with our taste, style and liking, we don't have to spend a huge investment to hire a professional interior decorator. You can make your dream house come true with a little creativity and imagination. You may consider these few cheap interior home decorating ideas. The first thing you have to do is looking around and making a list of what all items that you have at home that you would like to reuse.

How to choose home furnishings for the living room we always look good and durable, we must choice the leather sofa sets living room furniture including wooden chairs living room, because the living room furniture is importance for the guest room to offer maximum comfort and a pleasant time.

Leather living room furniture can be selected to match your home decor, and you can try to match the curtains and decorations and other accessories with the furniture too. This can help give a coordinated and designed the pattern to the living room.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

A Low Impact Woodland Home Built In Wales by Simon Dale




Have you ever thought about building your own low cost home, which has minimum impact on the environment?

The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings.

Some key points of the design and construction:


* Dug into hillside for low visual impact and shelter
* Stone and mud from diggings used for retaining walls, foundations etc.
* Frame of oak thinnings (spare wood) from surrounding woodland
* Reciprocal roof rafters are structurally and aesthaetically fantastic and very easy to do
* Straw bales in floor, walls and roof for super-insulation and easy building
* Plastic sheet and mud/turf roof for low impact and ease
* Lime plaster on walls is breathable and low energy to manufacture (compared to cement)
* Reclaimed (scrap) wood for floors and fittings
* Anything you could possibly want is in a rubbish pile somewhere (windows, burner, plumbing, wiring...)



* Woodburner for heating - renewable and locally plentiful
* Flue goes through big stone/plaster lump to retain and slowly release heat
* Fridge is cooled by air coming underground through foundations
* Skylight in roof lets in natural feeling light
* Solar panels for lighting, music and computing
* Water by gravity from nearby spring
* Compost toilet
* Roof water collects in pond for garden etc.


Main tools used: chainsaw, hammer and 1 inch chisel, little else really. Oh and by the way I am not a builder or carpenter, my experience is only having a go at one similar house 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around inbetween. This kind of building is accessible to anyone. My main relevant skills were being able bodied, having self belief and perseverence and a mate or two to give a lift now and again.

This building is one part of a low-impact or permaculture approach to life.
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