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MOVE THE FURNITURE! ITS GONNA GO DOWN! This is a grappling match that was set up in our apartment (thanks to the incitement of our roommate Hector). Its pretty rediculous and our other roomate and our neighbor end up looking pretty retarded. If you will note, they start on their knees in order to minimize slams (we live on the 3rd floor). Our roommate completely disregards this and slams himself on the floor, stands up, and at the end delivers a wonderful surpise to our neighbor. Be sure to add your comments.

In this video www.WatchMojo.com checks out some new styles and trends in home decor.

A good lighting plan for your living room is often one of the more difficult plans to make. Why? Your living room lighting plan must be flexible enough to serve multiple functions. And some want their lighting plan to change as they decide to change the arrangement of furniture in their room. As a result lots of thought should go into what type of lighting you use in each area.

Ceiling and Recessed Lighting
You might be installing recessed or track lighting to provide light all over the room or to light a specific area in your room. Regardless, you’ll need to use the same principles. Placement of fixtures isn’t something we’ll get into here, but the type of light bulbs you’ll need is something I want to recommend.

If you are using recessed lighting all over your room, you’ll want to use a light bulb that will give you all over lighting. Using incandescent standard A19 style light bulbs or going to a compact fluorescent twister style or A shape will give you an all over light.

If you need recessed lighting to light a specific area, you will then want to go to a flood or spot light type light bulb. Over a fireplace is the most common place to use these. Some also like to use wide flood light bulbs in recessed lighting. They give a large section of light without a total bright room and provide some interesting contrast of light.

Portable Lighting
What do I mean by portable lighting? Anything you can pick up and move, mainly table lamps and floor lamps. These need to be placed at the end of sofas or beside chairs and sometimes in corners or areas not well lit by other lighting options. Use portable lighting not only to light a reading area but to give a different dimension to your lighting plan either when overhead lighting is on or not. Mini Deco Twister CFL light bulbs are perfect for these as they are super energy efficient and you don’t see the bulb….or shouldn’t.

Art or Photo Illumination
There are three ways to illuminate art work or photos on your walls: sconces, recessed lighting or track lighting. In this application you will definitely want to use a spot light bulb in your recessed or track lighting. Depending on the fixture you use, there will be different specifications as to how far from the wall and the angle in which you have your can. Sconces can use lots of light bulbs. Sconces will give more of an indirect light effect where it’s not spot lighted but just brightened. Which application depends on the desired effect you have for the piece of art or photo.

Wet Bar or Game Table Areas
Areas off to the side where you plan to have a table or bar can take some low hanging lighting. Pendants are nice hung over a bar area and are generally hung in odd numbers; 3 being the most common. Pendants should be hung 72″ from the floor. This allows for folks to stand across the bar and talk to each other and the pendant to not be in the way of conversation.

If you are installing a larger pendent or chandelier type fixture over a game or hobby table, these you’ll want to hang at about 60″ from the floor. The biggest concern here is getting the light down to the task area.

Inner Cabinet Lighting
There is nothing more interesting that having room to put a very small portable lamp on a bookcase shelf. If your shelves are adjustable this might be an option for you. You generally don’t want anything taller than 18″. It’s often hard to find those petit good looking lamps but they do exist.

The more prominent way of lighting a book case or display case of sorts is to have puck or Cove Powercore lighting. Puck lights are small round lights that are installed roughly 18″ apart on the underside of the shelf. Cove lighting is a longer fixture that provides more all over lighting. The fixtures can be added on to each other to go the length of the shelf.

The top 3 or 4 shelves are most often what you’ll want to illuminate. Sometimes folks will want to light the entire case but you don’t need to do this as your most important items will be on the eye level shelves and higher.

Using these guidelines should help you formulate your living room lighting plan. With some thought about what your room will look like and the functions of the room, a plan will begin to evolve.

This property, situated in the historic centre of Noto, comprises two separate apartments (about 200 m² in total) with separate entrances, a garden and panoramic views of the hills and the sea.Ground floor: dining room, master bedroom, smaller second bedroom,kitchen, bathroom.First floor: Kitchen/dining room, two bedrooms, bathroom, small terrace. Approx 70 m² of garden and 30 m² garage space.

Living room, as the name suggests, is where most of the time is spent by families. It has to be furnished with utmost care and personal touch. It has to be furnished to the liking of all the people in the house. Some times friends sit to have a chat after a dinner party sipping coffee. It has to contain very cozy sitting arrangement which should be both comfortable as well as rugged to withstand excessive usage. Of the various fixtures there can be used a coffee table, TV cabinet, CD and DVD storage area, nest of tables lamp tables and sideboards. It is more or less the entertainment area of the house. There are exquisite pieces of furniture available for the room. It just needs a little imagination to make a drab looking room into a snug den. Every article in the room has a purpose and should be chosen with utmost care. A coffee table is a helpful fixture of the room. The whole range comes in two tones painted. Choose the one which is most suitable with the rest of the furniture. Match it in such a way that it could be moved into any room if and when the need arises.

 

The next item is the TV units-cabinets which is to be kept in the room. It has to be perfect fit and does not occupy too much space. These stands come in many designs and sizes to suit every budget. There are some Hi-Fi cabinets which house most of the entertainment stuff into it. They can house wide screen plasma TV, music systems or the DVD players. There is proper storage space for CD and DVD. They come in wood including pine, oak or totally glass. The pine and oak are classy and fashionable and elegance to the room. The cabinet or the unit can be placed in a corner or along a wall so that the space can be utilized to the full extent. The corner TV units are designed to fit right into the corner without leaving room behind the cabinet. They come with doors fitted with glass or racks for storage. There is furniture made of reclaimed oak or pine wood which gives an antique look.

 

Sideboards of various sizes and designs are seen flooding the markets. Two door or with drawers incorporated are some of the various designs. Extra cutlery and many others things which are required in a dining room are placed in it. It can be used as an extended food counter during a dinner party. The Side boards come in painted wood oak or pine or reclaimed wood. The correct size is dependent on the requirement of the family. It is always better to buy a slightly larger one than the present requirement. As time passes one always needs more room to store things which get accumulated.

It happens to all of us at one time or another, and it doesn’t matter what type of home you live in, whether renting or you are a homeowner. You take a look around your home and decide that it’s time for a ‘design facelift’. The surroundings that have provided comfort and enjoyment are now looking tired and ordinary. But, your home decor budget is slim to none, so what do you do? Don’t give up before you start. Here are five easy, simple, inexpensive to no cost home decor changes you can make right now that will give any room in your home a fresh, new and interesting look. These strategies will be applied to your living room in this article, but will work effectively in any room of your home.

First, clean out the clutter. Our ‘stuff’ has a way of accumulating without us realizing it, and after awhile can become more of a hindrance than anything else. Take each room in your home individually so you won’t become overwhelmed with the task. Then, remove anything that you have not used in the last three months. If it is an appliance taking up space on your kitchen counter, put it in a cabinet and out of sight. You may have set a floral arrangement or some other type of nic-nac on a table thinking you would find a permanent home for it later, and there it still sits. Move it. You may be surprised at how much brighter your rooms look when they are clutter free.

The next home decorating idea in this project is to rearrange the furniture in at least one room, and preferably two or three rooms of your home. You may need to enlist some help with this step, so plan ahead and gather a few pairs of hands to accomplish the task. If your sofa has been in the same place in your living area for more than two years, it is time to make a location change! You may not have many options if your living area is small or limited in other ways. At a minimum, pull the sofa away from the wall (I know that’s where it is right now for most readers) and angle it toward the television, or whatever the focal point is in this area. You might be limited to a move as subtle as pulling one end of the sofa about a foot or so from the wall. But wait, that’s not all. Then, take the other seating in the room and angle it just a little bit, swapping locations of chairs (if you have more than one in the room). Now step back and notice that your room has taken on a different feel because the position and angles of the larger pieces have been changed. Your interior decor project is making progress!

After giving your room’s largest pieces a new perspective you will now do the same for the accessories. I always advise that you physically remove them from the room or area you are working in. Bring in accessories from another room, or take the extra inventory of pictures out of the closet and try something different in this room. Go ahead and take a decorating risk!

That leads right into the fourth easy and no cost home decorating idea for you. Carefully consider the existing color scheme in this room and introduce a new, never before used accent color. If you’re not sure what type of color could be added, here is one course of action. Purchase something small and returnable, such as an accent pillow, and just try it. What is the worst thing that will happen? You won’t like it and will take it back to the store. But, you might love it, and it is always so much fun when the decorating ‘aha!’ light goes on. When that happens, you will be able to add, in a small way, more of this color to the room. Remember this rule, though; more is not always better. Be thoughtful and particular about where you place this new color. If you don’t overwhelm the room with it, the result will be that breath of new life for your room.

If you desire, there is one more home decor idea to introduce to the room, and that is the addition of some beautiful greenery. Placing greenery in the room can provide the finishing touches to your interior design project. Again, use a light touch with the silk plants or trees, and if possible use good to better quality merchandise. The thoughtfully placed, better quality silks will enhance the class and polish of your newly redecorated area.

Now that you have successfully made these easy, simple and low or no cost home decorating changes, step back and enjoy your surroundings. Better yet, take a break, have some refreshment and enjoy the view from a new perspective!

How do new real estate agents make money during periods they have not sold properties. Do you work 2nd jobs, have someone supporting you? Just curious. I am really interested in starting a career in real estate, but I know during the first few years you don’t sale as much as agents with years of experience. So how DO you make a living off of you real estate career with no sales as a new agent?

The 2009 economic scare has seen many people shift their concentration and their savings away from the purchasing and selling of property and towards ways that will increase the value of their homes. The number of home renovations have recently increased with many people seeing this as the best way to increasing the value of their major asset. The tax advantages of doing this are also clear. So what are the major renovation trends of 2009?

It seems that one of biggest and most popular trends at the moment is the installation of an outdoor kitchen. Taking advantage of the outdoor area is a great way to give your home a new updated look without breaking the bank. It is also a great way to optimize your space and create an environment where you have the opportunity to spend more time in the outdoors with your nearest and dearest.

Outdoor living and outdoor kitchens have become real focal points in the home design sectors. They involve creating a space that is like a sanctuary away from the every day life. People are entertaining more and more at home as it is seen as more economical. With this brings the appeal of areas specially designed for entertainment, and most especially alfresco entertaining. The humble BBQ has grown up into an outdoor kitchen and is now a dominant home “appliance”.

Another trend in the outdoor living space is desire to create a seamless transition from the indoors to the outdoors, and vice versa. This trend further demonstrates the importance people are placing on the outdoors. The outdoor kitchen is not just a big BBQ, but a kitchen that is outside, an outdoor kitchen that includes a sink, a bench, a fridge, storage area and multiple heating elements, AND a big BBQ.