1. Note the size of the space where wood flooring will be installed. When a large enough space, then the sub-floor structure needs to be strengthened.

2. For the manifold hard wood floors, use nails to reinforce the wooden floor structure, although its use depends on the location.

3. For wood floors that are soft, sub-floor should be coated with other materials such as PE forms. Form functions as a flexible joint is the first and second floors, as the adjustment to prevent water from below is not directly absorbed into the wood floor. (more…)

The plan to renovate the house often makes my head dizzy. Planning and budget setting is the key to successful mature at least a renovation. You can follow the practical steps that can be used as a guide to do renovations. True, buying a house from the developer is different from building their own. In addition to inner satisfaction factors, build your own home makes us more flexibility to determine the room we want the need for a larger renovation if buying a house from the developer. Then, what if doing renovations? How to do, and when the right time to do it? Reasons for Renovation:

1. Expand: This means that residents have increased so that additional space. Able to the side because there are remaining land / yard or up because of limited land. Even more difficult is up, because the floor beneath inevitably be disrupted and there are parts of damaged buildings, the difference with renovations to the side that does not interfere with relatively residents.

2. Repair: Is expensive but does not provide a new atmosphere, for example a house hit by termites. The position of the house remained, just replace the parts eaten.
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Narrow house you do not be confused. The concept of urban homes may deal with limited land to create residential stay comfortable, even can be customized to the owner’s condition. There is limited land and high land prices in urban areas would provide little choice for the city to be able to have residential dreams. Land is limited to the ideals and hopes for significant spaces are spacious and comfortable in the shelter was impossible to achieve.

However, calm down. Such constraints can be solved with the right design concept. Houses that will be discussed this time is a reflection of urban housing conditions (urban). If the land is owned limited and the need for space was not balanced with the existing land area. Thus, the concept adopted is “vertical development” where residential development is done by increasing the number of vertical building floor.

If you are still status “single”, but with a land area measuring 4 m X 15 m, the desired house will also be able to accommodate as a small family dwelling. To accommodate this, the function of each room is designed to be multifunctional, where space is at this moment can change function in accordance with the needs in the future.
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Different touch to the house can be started from the view outside the outer wall of the house, aka. If you want a wall to steal more attention for anyone who looked at it, there are many methods to try.

1. Give Texture
The wall is a limit of massive field, which lies on the inside and outside space. Its main function is to support the roof and the ceiling. To beautify the wall display, usually he just covered with smooth and finishing using paint, So that the resulting color is a flat surface. As the design development, today many variations of ingredients that can be used as raw material to make walls, such as red brick, brick or similar to but more solid brick and precision. This means more choices that can be applied as the final touches on the wall. Another alternative is to keep finishing wall paint but is a touch of texture. At first the texture is given as “cover” the wall is not perfect (not flat, peeling). But, this time he became an idol to the next grade for finishing the walls, especially for a minimalist modern house on the rise.
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