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A Beginner's Guide to Home Renovations

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  Everyone has a different vision of what their perfect home would look like. Unsurprisingly, home renovation takes a significant amount of time and effort to ensure that you may pursue and realise your ambition. Create a Checklist It might be useful to create a checklist to serve as a guide to ensure that you are meeting your renovation goals and giving you a better understanding of what you want to do. Checklists can help you remain on track with your budget because they show you exactly how much everything costs, potentially pointing you to certain items and services. A checklist can include items such as budget monitoring, where to find the best-priced materials, and local planning rules, as well as a timeframe for what you want to happen and when. Simply having that extra bit of organisation can help you in the long run since it allows you to keep track of whatever progress you make while also allowing you to plan your approach. You run the danger of falling behind s...

BASIC PAINTING PROCESS

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  In India, however, we do not paint our homes ourselves. We simply hire a painter and assign all decision-making to him. To be honest, learning about the painting process can only help you understand what is expected from your painter in earlier days. But now you get so much information via the internet. Before starting the process you all should know i.e for every different wall treatment the process might change ex: If you want to paint on a textured wall, repaint on an existing wall, or if it is dampness on the wall. For every work there is a reason, so let's see the purpose of the painting  To hide defects in the surface to be painted, such as cracks, holes, patches, inaccurate levels, and unsightly offsets. To enhance the positive features such as offsets, windows, and so on.  To protect and strengthen the surface against the elements as described above and by applying a coat of paint that prevents normal cracking, peeling, staining, and dusting, etc. ...

HISTORY OF 20th CENTURY INTERIOR DECORATION AND FURNITURE — PART 2

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Contribution of Eileen Gray Eileen Gray's early lacquered furniture had both Art Deco and Chinese influences. She progressed to elegant functionalism later on her sofas and tables, in particular, are highly original.                                   Eileen Gray                      A Retrospective of the Enigmatic Eileen Gray Following WWII, two distinct trends emerged in France: one promoting traditional historic styles for mass consumption, and the other promoting hi-tech and Scandinavian fashion for a niche market. Furniture development in England    Art nouveau and art deco, which emerged on the continent, was never fully embraced in England. Designers like Mockintosh, Mackmurdo, Webb, Shaw, and Voysey were working on a modern, simple style of domestic furniture in the spirit of the Art and Crafts movement without fearing the m...

HISTORY OF 20th CENTURY INTERIOR DECORATION AND FURNITURE — PART 1

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History Of 20th Century - Part 1 The 19th century had exhausted all the vocabulary of the old design, and creative people in all fields were searching for a new design continent like Columbus. What they sensibly did was dump what they had consumed, go back to the basics, and learn about different ways. There was also another application involved. The Clear Cut in the Past The design of the 20th-century furniture marks a clean break with the past. Something that never happened, even when civilization took over another civilization. Accepting the Industrial Revolution People understood the importance of the machine and acknowledged the increasing value of the machine and the dependence of the final effects of mass manufacturing on a good initial design suited to the machine and not to the craftsman. Then, from the late 19th century, the idea of simplicity and the superiority of feature over shape had spread. Influences of Social and Technology Changes There have also been major...