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.

Your Ideal Bedroom Design, with Natural but Elegant Color

Important keys when we build a bedroom is the color and the room positions, suitable lightning and decorations are also other consideration to build an ideal bedroom. For Chinese people, when we build a bedroom, they will consider the positions of the room with the "feng-shui", and the color. For European or American people, thus item are not an important things, but the compositions and the balance of room formations and the bed or floor color.


There are several things to consider before building a bed room: First, choose the suitable place for the room, such as, children's bedroom will be better if it located near the playing room or studying room, but for parent's bedroom, the best locations is near with the living room, because the parents will be more easy to monitor the house. Second, Suitable decorations and color, use attractive color for children's bedroom, and for teens, use expressive color, but for parent's bedroom, use calm color like wooden color. For decorations, locate decorations in the corner, use proportional size decorations, don't use the decoration that will reduce the room space. Third, use suitable lightning, don't use minimum lightning for the children's bedroom, because they would like to playing and learning or watching television in their room, for parents and teen, we can use multiple lamp, use maximum lightning for doing several office job or watching television, and use minimum lightning for sleeping.

Brightness Living Room with Wide Window

Designing and decorating a set of living room furniture are not too difficult, just use suitable sofa and decorations, for small family we can design the room with small sofa or small chairs, but for a big family, use several sofas and chairs. Choose the suitable table with the chairs, we don't need a big or large table, just use simple table, we use the table just for placing snack or soft drink.

The important thing when designing the living room, are the decorations and the lightning, place small bouquet or other simple plants on the corner of the room. To create the room more attractive, we can hang the picture on the wall. Use carpets to make the room more comfort, so our children can playing on the floor safely.

To reduce the electricity usage, we can build large window to ensure natural lightning entering the living room. If we build our living room i the second floor, place the room near the balcony, so we can seeing around the house directly.
The design are taken from www.metricon.com.au,