Feng Shui Based Asian Kitchen Design

A good feng shui kitchen brings good health and well beings to the occupant. This is an important room both in the East and West. Not only it reflects a family fortune and prosperity, it is also the most heavily trafficked room connected to fond memories of pleasant aromas and intimate conversation.

Choosing the Right Feng Shui Colors

White is a good dominating color to use here as it symbolizes purity and cleanliness. This Metal element color goes well with the strong Fire element in this place (Fire destroy Metal. Refrain from using Red (Fire element), Black/Dark blue (Water element) and Green (Wood element) as the dominating element color. Introducing Fire and Wood elements (Wood Produce Fire) as the dominant color create an overwhelming Fire element in the kitchen. On the other hand, Water destroys Fire. Instead, selective introduction of light leafy green, Red and Dark Blue/Black to the kitchen color scheme are fine.

Furniture Placement

The heart of the kitchen is the stove and much emphasis is placed on its positioning.

* Take note that especially for the stove,

1. Should not be directly in line with the front door.
2. Should not be position directly under the window as it lacks support. If relocation is not possible then keep the blinds down while cooking.
3. Should not be place directly beside the fridge or sink since this create direct clash of the water and fire elements. You may place green crystals between them to act as a moderator.
4. Should be placed away from the direct line of door.
5. If you live in a 2 storey building, ensure the stove is not place directly below the lavatory.
6. Stove should not face the toilet.

Another rule of Feng Shui:

• Keep the floor of kitchen in clean and clear, Do not put any items on the kitchen floor: It could be more dangerous than any other rooms in your house. It's not only about Feng Shui Kitchen or the energy flow, it's also a simple house safety rules.
• Kitchen under ladder is not a good feng shui kitchen, Some small house has to use space under the ladders to be cooking area. This is not a good Feng Shui Kitchen at all. People who use the kitchen may have accident easily.

believe it or not, its just a rule of Asian feng shui based kitchen.

Simple Apartment Designs with Colorful Room

Simple room designs are favorite design for apartment, with good arrangement and decoration, the apartment will looks beautiful, here are several picture of simple apartment room design with colorful decorations from Risoisorgimento.
This 35 sqm (400 sq ft) apartment is situated on the ground floor in an elegant 19th century building near the Vatican Museum. It sleeps up to 3 people and has recently been redecorated and refurnished.

The unit consists of a cozy living room with a single sofa bed, a dining area with table and chairs, a fully furnished, mini-kitchen with 2 ceramic top heating units, a sink, a refrigerator, a toaster oven allowing preparation of snacks and simple meals, an iron and iron board. The bedroom has a double bed which can be separated into two twin beds and an ensuite bathroom with a stall shower and a hairdryer.

The unit has a mix of modern and older antique furniture, parquet floors and high ceilings. The windows look out on a private street minimizing any external traffic noise. The heating & hot water system is self-controlling and provides plenty of hot water and the apartment is air conditioned.

Best Country Home Interior Design Collection, an Alternative for Your House Remodeling

Here are the best collection of country style interior home design, traditionally designed to describing the natural of country environments. Dominated with wooden material with warm color paint, the room looks convenience and matched with all 4 seasons. Suitable used for ideas for your house remodeling.

Here are another ideas of modern country home design, the rooms are designed with new edge style, much of the room used modern-minimalist design and used more brightness paint color. Pictures are taken from mimocode.

Mexican Home Design, A sense of American Old Home Design

Mexican architecture characterized by the use of curvilinear gable, heavy tile roof, arcaded entrance or porch, wrought iron grillwork, ornately carved details, round arched windows, and a plaster finish. --newdesignstudios--

Best Asian Home Design with Natural Materials

From stone bathtub to stone wall, wooden decorations, and another natural materials are used for designing and decorate new home today. Back to nature! this concept become a trend this decade, by the effect of global warming and the need of re-cycleable materials, these natural material usage become important in all around the world.

These concept has been adopted by most of Japanese home designer, by using 'back to nature' concept, they create several natural home design as new and modern home.

Traditional home design not always seen ancient and ugly, but on these images, there are elegant and natural looks room design with traditional concept, a perfect combination between material, color and the design of furniture and room arrangement.

Living room is one of the most important room of a house, a simple room is the main ideas of creating a traditioanl room design.

Old and ancient bedroom always dominated with most natural material and decoration, but with smart and good room setup, there is no more ugly ancient room looks with traditional bedroom concept here. And the most important is the special material that used.

Simple Asian Home Design

Asian is one of multi culture big island, with most of the country is located in tropic weather, that's why, most of Asian home used traditional material for their house, such as wood, bamboo and rattan. Here are a simple Asian home design with Chinese home decorations, taken from talkzori, a simple house design from Asian.

Green and dominated with tree is one of tropical country, it's a convenience house with much oxygen you can breath there.

Japanese Room Design Inspiration

Traditional Japanese style is inspiring many a modern architect. Japnese room design inspiration can be applied in much home designing part, Bedroom, Bahtroom, Living room and another room, with minimalist design of chair and table make the Japanese room style allow us to use as minimum as possible.

'Gebyok', Javanese traditional door design

Gebyok, or Gebyog is a traditional door or room divider in javanese culture, made from a choice jati wood, this wooden sculpture is suitable for an ancient sense house, in Java, gebyok is an expensive door, because the cost of material is expensive, and spent long time to create it.

An old gebyok has special value, so the price can reached up to 1 thousand dollars more, it better to search gebyok in the center of Javanese culture.

Natural Tree House with Wooden Materials

This tree house is not a really a house over the tree, it's situated in a dense grove of pines and hollies at Fire Island, New York.

With a beautiful wooden exterior such as a carved wood sculpture, a full wooden interiors that make every one who stay there will feel comfort and convenience, there was an attracted to the treatment on the interior wall and cabinet surfaces - using raw looking cut cypress - as well as the bleached oak floor.

Basic Japanese Room Design

This picture as taken from flickr, described a Japanese room design. On this design, we can see a basic Japanese room design, actually, Japanese room design has a perfect design. This fact profed by there are a lot of house like this that had hundreds years ages. Japanese home design and constructions was planed to survive with any seasons, on Japan, there are 4 seasons but it's had perfect home design for this. In bringing the atmosphere of Japanese interior design, the basic of it's design is the using of special material from natural qualited wood.

Wooden floor and sliding door named shoji is the dominant room component. For the wall, Japanese basic home design usually used some material like a paper, so it doesn't need more lighting. So, today we can see more best home design at Japanese room design.

Shoji Japanese Traditional Sliding Door and Screen

Sliding door is a special door design in Japanese culture, all Japanese culture have a high sense of art, on home design, Japanese culture was a best home design on culture, they can build a house with high quality and have a high resistance with wind and earthquake. The basic Japanese home design is the choice of the material. Wood is the favorite material for the floor, door, roof and also the wall. The special wall and floor design is called "shoji", a special screen made of paper and wood framed. Cherry and Amber Kinwashi Paper is the favorite material for the wall and the door (shoji). On this picture, I found the design of living room with traditional wall screen named shoji from shojidesigns.com.

On this picture, we can found the shoji sliding door with wooden material, for the windows, it's enough to use a special paper from Amber Kinwashi. See Shojidesigns.com to get more design

Traditional Room Design for Comfortability

Traditional room design is usually used for a bigger house, this design is not suitable for small house, the choice of the furniture usually used a bigger an more elegant one. With a darkner color for the furniture is a common choice for this interior design. The benefit of this design is we can feel more on comfortability with unlimited fresh air and views.

We can found more of this design on Javanese culture in Indonesia, and another Asian country. With more of wooden furniture, thoose country were the best of wooden furniture source, so is not impossible if their house usually use much wooden furniture.

Chinese Home Design, Feng shui Based Design

In many Asian countries, before building a build or placing some furniture, they used special way to guidelines. It's named Feng Shui, Although practiced in many Asian countries, but it is becoming increasingly popular in Western cultures. This is a set of ancient Chinese guidelines for properly placing objects and buildings. Feng shui states that all objects have energy that is positive or negative, so care should be taken to balance these energies.

Chinese inspired interiors display bold colors along with ornate furniture and accessories. The furniture pieces tend to be carved wooden designs with hand-painted details and high-gloss lacquered surfaces.

Accessories continue this dramatic style by featuring animal motifs and mythological beasts, such as monkeys and dragons. Porcelain ginger jars, large vases, and fish pots painted with complex patterns in multiple colors or in classic blue and white are also fashionable in Chinese interiors. Other stylish items frequently seen are large wall murals, plaques, and folding screens which depict historical characters and legendary scenes in vibrant or striking color palettes.

Red is a prominent color in this Asian style interior design, perhaps because it means good luck in Chinese culture. Other bright colors such as yellow and green are used as accents as well. Colorful paper lanterns are often made in very vibrant colors. Wood tones tend to be dark and rich in color.

Chinoiserie is an art form where furniture and accessories are patterned after the detailed embellishments and complex decoration of Chinese designs. While Chinoiserie is very much sought after today, it was originally popular in mid-1800’s Europe. This Chinese influence can also be seen in the architectural style used in many pavilions and garden pagodas.

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Heart Pine - Vertical Grain Solid Wood Flooring

Wood Floor is an amazing and elegant design for our natural sense of the room. One of the several design are made by Southern Wood Floors. Southern Wood Floors makes and sells nationwide all grades of Antique Heart Pine, Heart Pine, Wide Plank and Southern Pine solid wood flooring, and solid pine products for cabinetmaking, walls and stairs. Southern Wood Floors harvests buildings, not trees, to make antique heart pine: the company meticulously mills reclaimed beams and timbers of historic wood from 19th-century -and older- buildings to create a rich, noble wood that can be as much as 200 years old. Not just a renewable resource, Southern Wood Floors antique heart pine is a renewed resource. Heart Pine wood flooring is my favorite design. Here are the complete description of the product:

• Model: Vertical Grain
• Style: Traditional
• Design: Plank
• Material: Heart Pine
• Floor Type: Solid Wood
• Installation: Floating (Also available in Glue-down, Nail-down)
• Dimensions: 0.75" Thickness x 7.58" W x 72" - 96" L

You can buy this at: www.homeportfolio.com

Creating Timber Frame Home

A timber frame home is a complex structure -- a skeleton of sorts -- that holds the home together. The vertical members of the timber frame structure are called POSTS and the horizontal members of the structure are referred to as BEAMS. The beams are connected to the vertical posts with joinery to form cross sections spanning open spaces. You can't find the big beams of a timber frame home at your local lumberyard.
The design are taken from www.cedarhomes.com, using this design, will make our house more comfortable with wooden and traditional material. But we need special maintenance.

Interior Design with Wooden Art Decoration

Sometimes, we confused in configuring interior design, how to fill our room? with electronic goods or with handicraft? or maybe we just emptying the room to make the room more wide. In this case, we would like to design interior design with placing handicraft goods. People whom have high taste and desire in wooden art would place several wooden art decoration in their corner of the bar. Several wooden handicraft or traditional chairs with big wooden bench. Small cabinet in the corner of the room are placed to put the ceramics or other small rag doll or wooden doll. The picture was adopted from www.kabarejogja.com.

Javanese Tropic House Design

There are so many choice to design comfort and delightful house, after designing the house, we can adding suitable decoration in around the house and the details of the room, to create tropic impressive house, don't be afraid to try to planting several ivy flower above the roof. We can also put in order small stones to form small footpath. We can also create and forming the wall by sticking the split stones.
In above picture, we had adopted from www.kabarejogja.com, the design describe traditional and comfort house in tropical area. The location is in Markus Winarto's house in Jogja.