King bedroom set is needed for your master bedroom. First thing first, your main bedroom is the vocal point of a home; it is the reason why you should choose the best set for your master. In addition to the bedroom set, most of master bedroom have canopy. To get a great canopy you don’t need to have a bed frame to get a luxurious canopy for your king bed. You can make your own king bed canopy by using a few yards fabrics to get a great canopy without using a bed frame. You can benefits from your outdoor materials such as reclaimed timber and old branches. It can be used to make an inviting and rustic canopy.

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You can easily get the items around you to use for a convenient retreat. An affordable canopy for king bed can easily be found outside.

Modern king bedroom set

You can collect the twigs and branches for your handcrafted design. You can use wire for attaching the branches and twigs together. After that, you need to attach branches to the wall or headboard. In addition, the branches are also need to color. For this, you can paint the branches. Let the branches dry about a day or 24 hours. To get an inviting space for canopy you make, you can string a couple of lighting for the around of your canopy that match to your king bedroom set.

Prepare a curtain rods and hang it from the ceiling to make the canopy for king bed. First, install a rot for the foot of bed, continue to the center, and the last is head perpendicular that perpendicular to your king size bed. After that, prepare your material to drape over the rod to make a bed canopy. Before, you make this canopy; of course, you have prepared a design of canopy you will make. Based on the design you have made, allow material you have chosen to cascade over the curtain rods, instead to the floor. For the material of the canopy, you may choose velvet or twill. These are very nice for bed canopy. In addition, it also can keep wrinkles down for the minimum. Continue reading →

Roof garden actually has a history. The Hanging Garden in the Babylon is really roof gardens. It was built over the arcaded palace with ascending terraces. There is asphalt and reeds were laid and it’s covered with thick sheets of lead and brick leads to make waterproofing to the rooms below. To watering the plants, water is raised up by using pump. The roof plant can be planted flowering shrubs or with trees such as birch, cypress, acacia, cedar, mimosa, and larch. Roof plant offers spectacular view from the rooftops. It can be applied regardless wherever the location of your home. You just need some tips on how to start it, so you can get a beautiful roof planting to support green living.

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Roof garden design

Roof garden today is very popular to use for their garden because it provides more green in the garden. You will get many advantages if you have roof gardens in your garden. We know that the global warming effect has change the climate and weather, so one of ways to reduce the effect of global warming is making roof gardens. The advantages you will get from roof planting such as are reducing CO2 emission and improving the air quality.

In addition, roof planting will also provide longer growing period for organic garden because soil is closer to the sun and it retains heat. If you want to try making roof planting, you can try with the small garden on a shed or dog house before you plant in a larger surface. First, you need to exam your roof to make sure that the pitch of roof is no more than 30 degrees, so the roof is capable to sustain the additional weight of your garden. For the cold climates, you also need to account the snow weight in the winter. Continue reading →

Home security tips will very helpful to optimize the security of your home. Having a home security of course will protect your home from intruders. It also will allow you to have a nice sleep at nights. Many people are relying on home security system to get the protection they need. However, you have to spend quite expensive budget to get home security system you need. If home security system is too expensive for you, you can choose other choices to protecting your home. One alternative to prevent the intruder from entering your home is making entry to be difficult. You can installing high quality locks or deadbolt that are recommended by U.S Department of State for your gates and all of your doors that is providing entry into your house. You can use a thick dowel for your sliding glass doors to prevent the door being opened. You also need to install locks in the swimming pool gates and guesthouse doors.

Always keep the windows and door locked, even when you are at home. Exterior security is also need to consider as important as the security for interior. You can trim your trees and shrubs, so it will make emergency personnel and your neighbors have a clear view from your home. Trimming trees and shrubs also will make intruders have no place for hide.

Home security tips and tricks

Maybe you think that protecting both interior and exterior of your home is enough, but you have to take steps to protecting valuable items in your home such as cash, jewelry, and other important items. You can save it in a safety deposit box. In addition, your home is vulnerable when you leave it for vacation. To prevent intruders, one of home security tips is you can stop mail delivery and newspaper for the duration of vacation you have.

You can install timers for your lights so it comes on at night. It will give appearance that someone is home. Don’t have same routine activities every day. Mix your activities a little. It will make anyone observe that you will not be sure when someone might be at home. In addition, you need to ensure that everyone in your family is aware to the location of someone else at all times. Continue reading →

Stair design sometimes makes us confused. Determine the most appropriate stair design for your home of course is not easy thing. You have makes many consider to choose the best design. Stairs actually has a functional means for moving between levels of a house. In addition, stair is also a decorative element. Some components like aprons and balusters are decorative elements. Having aprons stair of course is a nice choice for the stairs in your home. You might be confused of how to design and construct apron stairs to install in your home. Actually, the design and construct stairs using aprons is using similar process for design of stairs without aprons. First, you can start to determine the stair building basics. Stair apron is a piece wood which forms vertical surface below the landing tread that is the bottom surface of step.

Stair design

There are also some stairways have aprons along the upstairs surface. Apron is decorative than load bearing which refer that apron stairway design needs stringers forming staircase side to provide additional support for the middle of each step. Then, respectively treads and risers form stairs both vertical and horizontal members. The Dimensions of each component is depending on the size of staircase, shape, and style.

During the process of stair design, you need to determine the size of stairway apron. This will let you install aprons at the appropriate time in the process of construction before your stairs project is finished. Aprons are same width as each people riser matching the staircase width.

Stair design pictures

It also can be thin, once it does not support for any weight. Apron that is commonly used is three quarter inch. In addition, the apron height is taller than height of other risers, since apron fits to a notch cut for the landing tread’s bottom that secures apron stay in its place. For the Apron construction, you can cut the wood to the size since you know about the dimensions of apron. After an apron is covered with the landing tread’s top and it sits flush against the floor, there is no need to add decorative elements or finish the edge. Actually, apron is important for the surface. Continue reading →