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Exploring Slow Home Design

What is slow home design? Basically, it is the principle of slowing down to design homes and spaces that are sustainable, practical and functional.

The slow home movement began in 2006 when John Brown, Matthew North, and Carina van Olm wanted to create a "critical response to the poor design practices that pervade the mass housing industry. Our intent is to advocate for a more thoughtful approach to residential design that improves the quality of our daily lives and reduces our impact on the environment". Slow home design strives for a more "considered, calm and intuitive" approach to residential design. The concept is to use well-considered design principles to create smaller homes that will be both environmentally sustainable and literally so, in the sense of being built to endure. The practice also includes remodels of existing, appropriately sized older homes that need updating.

Brown says in an interview with The Chicago Tribune that a slow home is "reasonably sized and carefully designed to support its occupants. It might have an entry where family members can easily take off their boots, stash their keys and store their backpacks, for example. It might have a living space that encourages people to talk or read, not just watch television or surf the Internet. It's energy efficient, filled with natural light and designed for easy flow among rooms and access to the outside." Read More...

Acoustic Insulation for the Home

Most new homes these days will come with some sort of insulation batts installed. Now it is possible to insulate against the temperature and noise with just one insulation batt.

With the hustle and bustle of everyday living, it is somewhat difficult to get away from noise completely. Even when in a completely silent room, you will still hear yourself breathe. Low levels of noise are all around us and enter into our ears every minute. This is perfectly healthy; however, louder noises can present a danger to our hearing. Constantly being subjected to loud noise can be considered noise pollution, which can cause major stress in some individuals. acoustic insulation batts are used for three different reasons: keeping noise contained, keeping noise out, and reducing echo within a certain space. All major industries use some form of acoustic insulation, such as the recording industry uses insulation in studios. It can also be used in residential homes for the above reasons. It can help keep outside noise out of the home, keeping noise in one room contained, and reducing the echo if there is exceptionally loud noise that will be coming from a certain room.

For instance, if there is a room in your home that you know will be exuding a lot of noise, you want to prevent as much of it from escaping as possible. You can soundproof a room with acoustic insulation by suspending materials within the walls, floor, and ceiling. This will trap as much noise within the room as possible. Read More...

Choosing the Right Colour Schemes for Your Home

 

If managed property, your home is a place where you would like to spend most of your home. Manage properly in sense of right colour schemes, excellent furniture, modern bathroom fittings, and nice ventilation etc. There are lots other but I just mentioned a few. Those days are completely gone where people were used to paint their entire homes with a single color. For example, the application of sky blue colour on each room even the bathroom. The trend has changed a lot in the past few years with the evolution of advanced painting techniques and technology.

Nowadays, painting your home is extremely easy with using advanced painting tools and calculators. For example, there are hundreds of websites that can suggest you a great range of colour schemes best suited for your home. All you need to do is to just enter the dimensions of the rooms and walls, and you can even get the budget for your painting project. How easy it is?

In my opinion, the best way to choose right colour schemes for your home is to go online and browse through myriad of paint websites. Your own colour preference is of high importance as it will help you filtering from a range of wall paint colours. This move will also save a huge amount of money and you wouldn't need to go here and there for finding the right paint. Moreover, you can browse through a number of colour schemes right sitting on your couch. It means you can decide the right paint scheme for your home just in front of your computer screen. Read More...

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