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Friday, May 23, 2014

Wooden Furniture Cleaning Tips

Tips on Cleaning and Beautifying Wooden Furniture

Wood furniture is still the main choice to decorate the house. However, the tropical climate and high humidity levels often make wooden furniture dirty, either by dust or mold. To clean wood furniture and make it look like new, there are some steps of wooden furniture cleaning tips you can take:

Check the Wood Furniture

Begin by examining the furniture, if any part is broken, decayed, or eaten by termites. If nothing is broken, then you can start the cleaning process.

Wooden Furniture Cleaning Tips
Wooden Furniture Cleaning Tips


Clean the Furniture

Mix water with dishwashing soap in a bucket, then use a sponge to wipe the entire piece of furniture. Be sure to squeeze the sponge, so that the wood is not too wet. Clean entire surface of the wood and do not let the wet too long. Clean it until the liquid is completely dry.

Wooden furniture cleaning tips, If you want the furniture looked cleaner, try using thinner that is safe for wood coatings. But to test it, you can wipe the hidden part of furniture first with a cotton ball that has been soaked in paint thinner. If there is nothing suspicious, clean the entire surface of the furniture with a clean cloth that has been soaked in paint thinner. To clean up the remnants of paint thinner residue, re-clean the entire surface of the furniture with a damp cloth.

Furniture Coating

To enhance the look of furniture, you need to coat the furniture surface with coatings such as varnish or lacquer. If you want the result is perfect, you can add a candle (wax) special for wood. Apply wax on the surface of the furniture with gauze. After that, wipe with a clean cloth.

Important Notes

Always use a soft cloth to clean the dust on the surface of wood furniture. Do not use a feather duster, mainly made of chicken feathers, because it is not effective and has a sharp edge that can scratch the surface of wood. I hope this wooden furniture cleaning tips will be helpful.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

"Vertical Forest" Apartment Building in Italia

Green Apartment Building Design, Bosco Verticale by Boeri Studio

Architect from Milan, Boeri Studio, will soon be completing two "vertical forest" in his hometown. Studio headed by Stefano Boeri, a slick combination between vertical densely populated residential development and solutions for tree planting in the center of city. The project is called the Bosco Verticale or Vertical Forest.

Vertical Forest (Bosco Verticale)
Bosco Verticale by Boeri Studio, Italian Designer.

Both of these unique skyscraper located in Isola, an area with rapid development in the district of Porta Nuova. Each tower has a height of 80 meters and 112 meters. Both will be open to the public later this year. Before people can feel living in the "vertical forest", this building had already become home to 900 trees. In addition there are 900 trees, both of towers also has 5,000 shrubs, and 11,000 flowers. According to the design team, their work could help in reducing air pollution in Milan.

New Standards of Sustainable Home Developments

"This project is intended to create new standards of sustainable homes," said construction company Arup, who worked with Boeri Studio. "As a new development model for the regeneration of the urban environment, this vertical forest design creates a biological habitat in an area of ​​40,000 square meters."

Boeri Studio said, this vertical forest apartment, is a form of biological architecture, which refused to adopt fully technology and mechanical only for environmental sustainability. Not just build and attach the label of "go green", in the two buildings, Boeri Studio also includes a system that facilitates the management or owners of residential to care for the trees around the building. Each floor and position of the apartments also have a special irrigation system for the plants. Source: dezeen com
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