Interior design ideas

Something that you should have in your hall

June 5th, 2007

Advice ????????1: do not buy closed case with a hanger for a coat hanger! It is beautiful, accurate and ??????? so inconvenient. Besides such case a hanger with hooks is desirable.
Just think over: will you hang up a wet thing into the case? And if visitors have come and there are not enough coat hangers for everyone?… Besides practice shows, those things of daily use will remove from a coat hanger on the chairs, door handles ??????? especially, if there are children, teenagers or students in the house.
If you are afraid, that the open hanger will acquire mountain of things, and one-two lonely coat remains in a case, make a hanger with hooks for doors.
Concerning mirror, there are some variants here: a hinged mirror (oval, rectangular or figured) with a little table - its main disadvantage is that you cannot see you in full growth; the mirror door of a case which, besides functional purpose, will allow you to increase the size of the hall, but has that lack, that the bottom part of a mirror in hall is usually gets spoiled and becomes soiled, especially if there is a dog in the house. And, at last, the combined door, which bottom part, is made of the panel, and top - from a mirror cloth. The height of the bottom part pays off so that you could see your reflection in full growth.
Shelves for scarves and caps are usually placed above the hanger, footwear - in the bottom part of the case or in separately standing box. It is convenient and it is practical to have it under the open hanger with hooks. It is possible to decorate a lateral wall of a case with angular or rounded shelves.

Garden paths: walkway slab and stone blocks (Part 2)

June 4th, 2007

STEP 2. Your lay-out
Plan the future path or a platform on district: draw contours; hammer pegs on bends and turns; pull on them a cord almost at ground level.
STEP 3. Preparation of a line
Now it is necessary to take out the top fertile layer of the ground and on what depth? So that the gravelly-sandy pillow (lining) plus a stone blocks was located. Thickness of a pillow depends on loading on the future path. If it will be foot then the thickness of???? 15 cm. will be enough, but if the cars will be driven trough the path or a platform, the thickness should start from 20 cm.
STEP 4. Stacking of the pillow
Pillows for a stone blocks and walkway slab are prepared differently.
Stone blocks: the bottom layer is complicated from gravel (rubble, slag), top layer - from sand.
Under a tile the third, uppermost layer is required: a mix of cement and sand at the rate of 1 cube and a meter of sand plus 100 - 150 kg of cement. Sand and cement should be mixed up “till dry “. This dry mixture will absorb moisture from the ground! Thickness of cement layer should be about 2 cm.
STEP 5. Pressing
The pillow may be pressed with different means.
So that the future path “has not parted”, lay a plastic border lengthways of its contours and then it can be hidden with a lawn.????
Lay stone blocks on 1 cm above the final level. The backlash between separate “bricks” should be about 1 - 2 mm. Then the dry sifted sand is strewed on a path.
When you are buying a walkway slab, you should learn its basic characteristics, for example, “absorption of moisture - 5 - 7 %”, “frost resistance - 100 cycles” etc.
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Garden paths: walkway slab and stone blocks (Part 1)

June 3rd, 2007

You have started to build house and now it is a high time to start stacking walkway slab…
At once you should remember that it is quite difficult to lay out stone blocks or tile greater surfaces hardly without professional help.
For example, to brigade, consisting of 4 professional builders, requires 12 hours to arrange the area of 50 m???? with walkway slab.
Besides at arrangement of greater areas it is necessary for you to you use special machine for plates pressing, a diamond disk for sharp a stone blocks, etc. But even ordinary man can lay out paths or a small platform for a barbecue with walkway slab or with stone blocks.
STEP 1. Choice of material
You can lay out a path a stone blocks or walkway slab. Their basic difference relies in their thickness and ways of stacking also differ because of thickness.
The stone blocks can be of the different form (”wave”, “trapeze”, etc.), but their thickness is always about 10 cm.
Walkway slab is also rather various: “wooden plates”, “a tree”, simulating a stone, a river pebble, a granite, etc., but walkway slab is much thinner.

Platinum arowana: Aquarian small fish for $400 thousand

June 2nd, 2007

Do you consider your hobby not moderately expensive and think to pass to cultivation of Aquarian small fishes? It is not necessary: this business is interesting, but it is completely not so cheap. For example, invaluable and unique platinum arowana - is the top of dreams and the welcome guest in any aquarium - it may manage you in hundred thousand. Is it reasonable to sell then such scaly friend? Ordinary offered price is about $80 000 and it offended the owner of one of precious copies.
It is possible to manage, certainly, with usual cockerels or traditional “small gold fishes”, but real judges of the house underwater world prefer more exotic variants. The present exotic is that fish, about whom everyone dreams, is the one that can????????t be bought in the ordinary market. Platinum arowana, which has become the most popular fish at last exhibition in Singapore, - it has been brought from South America and belongs to large fish producer Aro Dynasty. Knowing, that similar fishes are often being sold at the price of up to $400 thousand, he has exposed it on sale.
In general in the world there are 200 kinds of arowans, which differ from each other by color, the form of fins and the sizes of scales are totaled. Most elite of them - are gold, red and violet arowans. The mutant which belongs to Aro Dynasty differs from all of them the unusual color: there is no color spot on a body of the fish and it is completely white.
In Dynasty????????s opinion this fish is unique. To a word, now this “dragon” name invaluable as the owner has cancelled the decision to expose it on sale. Dynasty approves, that he has received the offer from the person, ready to buy arowana for $80 000, and has refused to do this. Business, as the owner speaks, is not only in insufficiently high price. This mutational kind is very rare, and fish producer does not wish to sell it even for hundred thousand dollars.
However this fish has a small lack. The right eye of arowana starts to mow downwards. Experts consider that it happens because the fish should search for forage at the bottom whereas in natural conditions it catches food on a surface. But even cosmetic surgeons promise to correct this lack.

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Indian magnate will surround him with 600 servants

June 1st, 2007

One of the richest Indian businessmen Mukesh Ambani builds the house in the cost of 1 billion dollars, where he is going to lodge his family, consisting of businessman????????s mother, his wife and three children, and also 600 person of a maid.
The new dwelling of the billionaire named as mystical islands “Antilla”, will be in height of about the 60-storeyed house, however, because of very tall ceilings and in total the house will have 27 floors. The 171-meter tower “will grow” in financial center Mumbai and will be equipped with a platform for the helicopter, fitness center and a 6-storeyed parking.
On hearings, the area of a building will be even more than the territories of Versailles (1738 hectares). Outside the construction will be decorated with trailing gardens. While Ambani family temporarily live in the 14-storeyed building, but their new house will be ready till the end of next year.
50-years Mukesh Ambani is the head of the largest petrochemical company of India. His present capital exceeds 7 billion dollars. As known Indian journalist Praful Bidwai writes, a precipice between rich and poor in India becomes indecently large and Ambani erects a building to flatter his ego, but local citizens do not understand such mad expenditure and do not approve construction.
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