Studio Apartment – Make it Maximize

Studio apartments have a lot to offer, even though the available space can be skimpy. They’re cozy. Don’t underestimate the ability of a small space to create intimacy. The trick is to add the other necessary elements, like furniture, color and storage, carefully. It’s easy to make a small space look too crowded if you aren’t paying attention to detail. You might have way too many things for the space, but then again, they might just be organized incorrectly for the flow of traffic.

1. When you don’t have the luxury of lots of space, the first thing you have to do is strategize how you’ll make everything work well together. One foolproof way to start is by using a monochromatic palette. It will make the space look larger and will work with, rather than against, the other elements in your design. Choose the same or similar shades for the walls, carpets and drapes. This doesn’t have to be a compromise move, even if you love vivid color. Just indulge yourself in your choice of accessories, wall art and textiles.

If this sounds bland, there are hidden benefits you may not have considered. If your studio apartment has odd angles or other irregularities that you want to camouflage, they’ll tend to blend into the background when you keep it neutral. A neutral palette will also make it easier to perform seasonal wizardry, like switching out a cherry red area rug for a pastel green option in spring.

2. Scale is important in rooms that are either too small or too large. Instead of a standard sofa, use a loveseat or two. Take advantage of the ability of glass to blend with its surroundings by using it liberally in your choice of shelving and tables. When you shop for furniture, opt for pieces with onboard storage, like headboard/bookshelf combos, storage ottomans and side tables with built-in drawers. Evaluate the footprint of all the pieces you buy. Once the furniture is in place, you’ll still need space to walk around it. Shallow dressers, drop-leaf tables and modular computer desks are easier to incorporate into a small space than their conventional counterparts. Be choosy about what you buy, and look for scaled-down options.

3. Your studio apartment design should conform to the flow of traffic in, out, around and through the space. Determine how you and your guests will use the space, and then establish dynamic living areas based on that. The location of the entrance, bath, kitchen, windows and other stationary fixtures will get you started. Defining specific areas with dividers, specialty lighting or carpeting will help anchor the space and create natural breaks and focal points.

4. Studio apartments usually have meager storage, so make the most of modular storage options and clever solutions like space bags and open shelving. Wall-mounted and freestanding shelves can do triple duty as dividers, wall storage and decoration. If they’re partly made of glass or glass block, they can also help open up the space and maximize the available light.

Small spaces can make a big impact when you incorporate scale, neutrals and a practical layout into your design. It’s a winning combination that’s always in style.

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Mixed Picture – Ups and Downs in Indian Real Estate Market

There is a mixed picture in the Indian residential property market at present with some locations seeing prices and sales rise while they are falling in others.

Chennai’s central business district has seen the highest price increases due to surging demand, according to NHB Residex, an RBI-supervised mechanism that tracks housing prices in 15 cities.

However, prices in North Chennai, most notably Tondiarpet, Perambur, Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar and Narayanappa Garden, saw a fall due to slow infrastructure development.

 

Despite the economic slowdown, high interest rates and inflation, prices of houses in the city’s hotspots of Anna Nagar, Kilpauk, Nungambakkam, T Nagar and Adyar have been rising. Prices in areas close to Nehru Nagar, Chepauk and Marina rose 62% compared to the quarter ending in June.

‘Chennai’s residential market is expected to see unabated growth during the next few quarters. Active demand will be concentrated in locations closer to the city centre,’ said a recent report Cushman & Wakefield. House prices in Chennai have jumped 9% in the third quarter compared to the June quarter.

Prices in Virugambakkam, Anna Nagar, Kilpauk and Nungambakkam have quadrupled since 2007, when the National Housing Bank (NHB) begun the Residex for Chennai. The demand for residential units in Chennai is likely to see a compounded annual growth rate of 11% during 2011 to 2015.

Real estate consultants blame limited supply and huge demand for property for the surge in prices in the central business district. The city, awaiting the metro rail, monorail and extension of MRTS, will continue to see demand for property near these infrastructure developments, and a surge in prices seems natural, they believe.

But a slowdown in demand for residential properties has affected Ahmedabad’s real estate market. The latest quarterly Residex figures point towards an overall dip of 4% in real estate prices for the third quarter compared with the previous three months.

The western part of Ahmedabad has seen a rise prices largely due to upcoming car plants on the Sarkhej-Sanand stretch, and the metro rail project.But other areas like Prahladnagar, Ambli, Bopal, Jodhpur, Satellite, Solagam, Shilaj road, Vastrapur, Vejalpur, Ambawadi and Chandkhedagam has seen 5.46% in the same quarter.

But in the western zone that prices fell by 9.38% between January and September this year while the northern part of the city such as Buddhnagar, Saijpur-Bhoga, Sardarnagar and Vishnunagar prices have increased by 10.77%.

The central zone saw a rise of 7.51%, which includes areas like Bhadra, Dudheshwar, Gaikwad Haveli, Girdharnagar and Wadigam. The steepest fall in real estate prices was in south zone at 26.11%.

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Feng Shui – Tips for Entrance Door and Hall….

Your main entrance door is the most important thing you should balance in the first place. Your main entrance to your home is the entrance for the energy and what kind of energy will come in your home depends upon your main door(whether it is balanced or not). Your main entrance will determine whether the Feng Shui of your home is good or bad.

Before even you think about feng shui of your home, protect and feng shui your main entrance first. Below are important feng shui tips for your main door.

1) Main door should be always of color according to your individual feng shui map.

2) Main door should look solid and protective.

3) Main door should open inwards

4) Main door should open into an open space.

5) Main door should look out to an open space.

6) Main door should not be under a toilet/bathroom

7) Main door should be located at one of your house’s fortunate location

8) Main door should face one of your personal fortunate direction.

9) Main door should not face a stair case or toilet

10) Size of main door should be measured to fortunate dimensions using aSecret emperors’ sizes

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Vastu For Kitchen

A place of ladies personal world, experiments, tastes, happy to ladies, some times sorrow to gents. There is no ambience in the home more loved and lived in by all the members of the family, the best of the family, the best place to savor the pleasure of being together with all the tastes, memories and daily habits of the family. These are feelings which need a suitable ambience, where the warmth of wood combines with the strong character of the stony materials, such as marble and granite of table tops and the counter may be with glass also.

1. Kitchen should always placed at Southeast (Agneya) corner of the house.

2. The second best place for the kitchen is Northwest (Vayavya) corner of the house.

3.Observe this plan where the kitchen has to be placed in the house.

4. At kitchen the hob also has a central position with a canopy formed by its hood which destroys odours and fills the ambience with light at the same time. The electrical appliances are carefully concealed beneath the worktop.

5. Olden days our elders constructed two or three houses, but in our period one house built is a climax of the interesting movie, built the house with all amenities like the marked personalities of those modern and innovative kitchen brings into the home the soothing atmosphere of colourful and lively activity. There are as many as four colours which gladden the eye and communicate a note of joyful serenity of the ambience which they furnish, creating together a happy scene.

6. Feel king at your house, you are maharaja of your house a kitchen layout should be customised to the specific requirements and needs of the users. Hence, it is important to ascertain the individual preferences overall lifestyle and eating habits of the direct users, built the kitchen with your own style and requirements.

7.The kitchen should be in the south-east portion of the house. The door of the kitchen should be in the north, east or north-east direction opening clockwise. The lady should face east while cooking, for it brings good health to family members. If the lady faces west while cooking it may lead to health problems to ladies; while cooking with the face towards south may lead to financial problems in the family.

8. The above picture is the layout of kitchen at house.You can place the dining table as shown above.

9. You can place all food articles at west side of the kitchen.

10. The flooring level of the kitchen is equal to the remaining house floring.

11. The sink at kitchen placed at Ishan corner.

12. The women folk should be facing the East while doing their cooking. This is good for health.

13. There should be abundant use of green in the kitchen. For example green granite for flooring or green pictures. This helps improve the appetite of the family members and also promotes peace and harmony in the house.

14. If possible, the cooking gas and the washing sink should not be kept very close to each other. The logic being fire and water are not comfortable close to each other.

15.The cooking stove should not be visible to the naked eyes from the outside. Hence always shield the kitchen from the outsiders.

16.There should be no leaking taps in the kitchen. This affects the money flow, and actually water should not be waste at any place including kitchen.

17. Shelves for the storage for grains at south,west and southwest sides only.

18. In Vastu Shastra its strictly prohibited that do not construct toilets and pooja-room next to one another.

19. The kitchen should not be directly in front of the main door, try max for this tip, if not maintain one curtain always hanging to the kitchen door.

20. Kitchen should not be placed at northeast corner of the house, if kitchen is at the North – East direction, it would curtail peace and mutual love in the family, and heavy expenditure occurs, might quarrels at home etc.

21.vastu for kitchen takes into consideration various things, which where properly placed, pave way for safety in the kitchen. Some of the essential determinants considered are: proper location of the kitchen, direction and placement of doors and windows, placement of cooking gas, gas cylinder, sink, refrigerator and other electronic gadgets etc, if everything is according to vastu, the inmates live happily and enjoy the peace at home.

22.Better no shelf should be placed above the cooking platform.

23.Refrigerator can be placed on the northwest corner in the kitchen or southwest corner.

24.While constructing the kitchen, make adequate provision for cross ventilation for good health, and fresh breez . While cooking items smoke will be automatically go away and we will safe by this cross ventilation.

25.Kitchen (or dining room) is the best place to have your daily meals; but never face South while having your meals it creates stomach disorders, indigestion and other related problems.

26.If the kitchen is adjoining to a bedroom, the wall between them should be thicker than other walls.

27.Cooking Gas/Range should be in the south-east part of the kitchen.

28.Exhaust fan should be installed on the eastern wall in the south-east corner.

29.Drinking water may be placed in the north-east; water filter will be installed in the north east, if required, or it may be placed at northwest corner.

30. Better to get suggestions from the vastu expert while constructing the house. The theoritical matter cannot renders satisfied vastu experment in our house. By reading books of vastu we know only the important things that may be the essential factors, but general folks cannot find the serious things (vastu defects).

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Dining Room – Feng Shui Tips

The dining room is a place where you take meal, spend time with your family and friends.This room should be a calm and peaceful place. Lighting is an important element in creating a good dining. The flow of energy through the dining room should be gentle but not stagnant.

A mirror will help to improve the chi flow in the dining room. A mirror facing your table will double your food, the sign of riches and plenty: perhaps the center piece can be a full bowl of fresh, crystal, juicy fruits.

Use round, oval, or octagonal shaped tables.

Your dining room shouldn’t be too close to the front door.

Always try to eat facing one of your best directions.

It is also very important to choose a table that fits the size of your area to make sure there is enough room to walk around the table (equal space around the whole table works best).

A faceted crystal ball or crystal chandelier over the center of the dining table will help to balance chi in the room.

Always use soft lighting in the dining room

Be careful of sharp angles form wall partitions or furniture pointing at you: soften them by hanging crystal balls or a plant in front of them.

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Kitchen Cum Dining – Spend A Quality Time

The kitchen is the heart of the home so by creating an open plan area that combines the dynamics of cooking, eating and living, adds real value – not just in terms of monetary worth, but in terms of quality time too. Whether a small breakfast bar in a W1 pied à terre or a 12-seater table in a cavernous loft apartment, it’s a space that will be used from breakfast through suppertime and beyond and one which feels distinctly more contemporary and urban than a formal dining room.

In the zone:-

Think carefully about where to define your areas of activity. You don’t want guests in your way while you’re preparing food but you do still need to be able clink glasses with them. The kitchen island is a good way of naturally dividing the space and if you choose one with a tall backsplash (which can also support a breakfast bar) it’ll hide the preparation clutter and dirty dishes too.

Try to position the eating area as close to natural light as possible. If you live in a house the optimal view is over the garden. If budget allows you could open up your kitchen to the outside space by installing French windows or floor to ceiling glass – a dramatic contemporary statement. If you live in a flat position your table next to a window. If your kitchen/diner is big enough to allow for a separate ‘living area’ try to anchor this space with a focal point such as a fireplace or sofa and coffee table. If space is more limited you could introduce a nook or alcove to the plans. This is a great way of creating a little privacy in an otherwise busy room – ideal for homework, office work, reading or chatting on the phone.

However you arrange the room just make sure that people at the table can pull their chairs back freely and have room to move around without traversing obstacles.

The rules of light:-

In the kitchen/diner you can reinforce the notion of separate ‘zones’ with distinct lighting for each of the areas, for example in the cooking and preparation area of the kitchen you’ll need task lighting. You can also adjust track lights to illuminate a particular area and angle spot lights over say, a painting. In the dining area low-hanging pendants on dimmer switches will create atmosphere, particularly if combined with low-level lighting. If there’s an area that’s often used for reading or working, a funky anglepoise lamp will work perfectly. 

Style advice:-

This is the area of your home with the highest footfall and passing traffic so it needs to be easy to keep clean, particularly if you have children. Use paints which are wipeable and if your chairs are upholstered make sure the covers can be easily removed and washed. Steer clear of carpets – where lots of food is being served the inevitable spillages will happen. And try to harmonise the styling of the kitchen and eating areas. The rustic Tuscan themed dining area will jar unhappily with an industrial stainless steel kitchen, but add a glass table and white leather chairs to the mix and it’ll work perfectly.

The air we breathe:-

The smell of cooking is delicious in the kitchen but not so great in the bedroom so to prevent odours wafting from your open-plan into other areas of your home you’ll need effective ventilation ducted through the roof or exterior wall. A cooker hood with a strong extractor fan is an essential investment.

Declutterbug:-

If you’re knocking a wall down to create a new space you might have to sacrifice some high level cupboard space. If so choose an island or a peninsula which can offer up valuable cupboard and drawer storage. Do bear in mind that in the open-plan space all your clutter, preparation, utensils and foodstuffs are in full view of your guests so be ruthless with what what’s allowed worktop residency.

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Home Decor – False Ceiling is Must

• When another ceiling is installed beneath the original, it is referred to as a drop ceiling, suspended ceiling or false ceiling. Its purpose is to hide such things as the heating and air-conditioning ductwork, wiring, pipes and anything else that needs to run from one area to the next. Other reasons for installing a false ceiling are thermal insulation, soundproofing or something to accommodate a change in lighting, such as recessed lights.

METAL STRIPS :-

• You can buy long metal strips in a variety of colors to add a different dimension to your ceiling. These have a base piece that hangs from the original ceiling and the metal strips latch into the base. The final result is very streamlined and without gaps.

PRESSED METAL PANELS :-

• Pressed metal includes tin, aluminum, copper and any other metal you can think of that has been made into a panel for the ceiling. Some manufacturers have started making an interlocking grid that the tiles slide into. When that isn’t available, use the traditional metal suspended ceiling grid, with some modifications to adjust for the size of the metal panels. Another option is to use strips of wood that the metal panels can be tacked onto.

FIBERBOARD PANELS :-

• This is what most people think of when they think of ceiling panels and false ceilings. They are called fiberboard because they are made from a mix of fibers from wood or cane and chemical binders that are pressed into flat panels. These are typically installed by resting them on a metal grid installed across the entire ceiling. Special chemical treatments can also be added to these for fireproofing and moisture resistance.

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Vastu For Office

Vastu for office determines the efficiency of the work inside the office premises. Vastu principles help in the arrangement of office desk and office seating. Office is a place that has to be designed with the right procedural practice, as it gives an unbiased movement in work! If an office space is not designed as per the right vastu principles, then there will never be any balanced workout and progress. An office room that is designed without following the vastu principle will be less effective with effortless employees, disabled workman, owner might lose the power to manage or control his staffs, which leads to failure. Pursuing the vastu standards for office will ensure effective and efficient workout, and thereby proves to be a valuable asset to the company and much more.

Vastu for offices includes several different factors such as right office setup, office exteriors with respect to shape, slope, direction of various departments, location of the reception, placement of electrical gadgets, position of office desk, and many more. Apart from these, there are several other factors that you must take into your consideration about vastu for office. They are as follows:

• The direction of the office entrance way
• The right direction of the placement beams
• The right direction to fix the doors and windows
• The right direction and setup of the owner room
• The right direction for the employees to work

Set your office as per these vastu tips. It is sure that you will progress in all aspects of your work.

• The place of seat arrangement for managers, executives, and directors must be located in south, west, and southwestern direction of the office premises.
• As per the vastu principles it is really good to set the accounts department in southeast direction.
• The appropriate place to set the reception is in the northeastern direction of the office.
• With respect to vastu principles, it is good to seat the employees facing the north or eastern direction.
• The central portion of the office must be set empty.
• As per the vastu principles, it is good to place rectangular desk for the MD.
• Placing bore-well or fixing tank in the direction of south is not really recommended. This will affect the owner with less and insufficient cash flow.
• The best and right direction to keep the storeroom is on the northwest and southeast location.
• It is recommended to set the marketing department in the direction of northwest.
• Fixing of some idols or images of God and Goddess in the right location of mirrors will bring you improved financial gains.
• Setting a water fountain in the location of northeast of the office premises is really good and recommended.
• Placing an aquarium containing 1 black fish and 9 gold fishes in the location of northeast of the office premises is really good and advisable.

Individuals who have set their office besides vastu norms and principals will find themselves out from the assistance of natural forces. The principle motto of vastu is to excerpt the maximum goodness from the natural forces in order to gain improved energy levels in the every face of liveliness.

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The New Land Acquisition Bill of India

Highlights of the Bill :-


The states are free to frame their own laws and if they so desire, are free to improve upon the provisions stipulated under the proposed bill. It allows flexibility to the state government on whether or not to intervene on behalf of private players in land acquisitions .

The urgency clause can only be invoked in national defenses and for security purposes; R&R needs in the event of emergencies or natural calamities. Now, farmers will get only four times the market price in the rural areas while in urban areas it will be double the market price.

In any case, the R&R package will be applicable only when the private parties acquire 100 acres or more land in the rural areas and 50 acres or more in urban areas.

The promised R&R for those subsisting on the acquired land will now be applicable only to those who have been eking out a livelihood for at least three years on that piece of land. Earlier, all those sustaining themselves on the acquired piece of land were made eligible forcompensation. 

While the purpose of acquisition can’t be changed, the bill, however, now allows transfer of land with the approval of the state government; if the transfer is made without any development of the land, the farmers will have to be paid 20% of the appreciated value.

The bill specifies timelines for the payment of compensation. The price of land has to be paid within three months of the award, and the other monetary compensations within six months and the infrastructure entitlements under the R&R package within 18 months. Penalties will be levied on violation.

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Vastu Shastra – Vastu for Office

Enhance wealth and prosper your surroundings by implementing vaastu in office…

The science of vaastu, furnish their offerings in benefiting people in terms of name, fame and power in the commercial areas too. Hence, these offices should be built and designed meticulously. There should be correct balance of the energies everywhere in the office in order to get efficient labour from the employees and higher ability of working.

Here are few quick tips which when applied in your office, can benefit you in umpteen numbers of ways:-

• The exteriors of the office such as the location, shape, size, height and slope of the officebuilding must be taken care of before the building is created.
• Talking about the interiors, the architecture should be such constructed that it lets in all the positive energies from outside and hence helps in flourishing the business.
• There should be proper ventilation in entire office, the doors and windows must be opened for sometime every day. The boss should sit in south-west direction fronting either north or east.
• Marketing department must be in south-west where as pantry must be in south-east or north-west direction.
• Cashier must be in the north direction and reception in north-east direction for advancement in wealth.
• The direction and placement of AC, cooler, audio systems, electronic equipments, stairs etc is also crucial in vaastu.
• The placement of safe should be such that it faces north direction. This direction should be kept free from the heavy furniture.
• For prosperity, an aquarium with nine gold and one black fishes is considered very auspicious and must be placed in north-east direction.
• Placement of mirrors and idols of god and goddesses in their benefiting directions enhance and prospers the business manifolds.
• While entering the office, there should not be an empty wall. Side tables and telephones must be placed in south-west direction.

There are crucial directions for keeping files in offices. These tips must be implemented for optimal results. The income tax file should be kept in south-west corner shelf, import and export file in the north-west corner shelf, cash purchase file in south-west corner shelf, litigation file in north-west corner shelf, purchase file in south-west corner shelf and the sales file in north-west corner shelf, account file in south-east corner shelf, estate file in south-west corner shelf, shares file in north-west corner shelf.

Implementation of these tips in your home will lead to a growth and prosperity in commercial areas leading to satisfied lifestyle.

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