1. Open Your Mind To New Methods. Never assume that you recognize the best ways to carry everything out: arrogant persons are closed with regards to learning. Be open when it comes to ideas and insights from whichever source -- counting a client, a child, or a spouse once you get to that point. The less familiar they are, the more likely it is that you’ll hear some stuff that you would’ve never considered.
2. Allow Enough Time. The time you take on considering the job is perhaps more based on your fond hopes than pitiless reality. Jobs often engage in problems that only appear when you have started. On those rare and splendid occasions once the task sets off faster than planned, you won’t think that you might have miscalculated—you’ll be too obsessed in estimating your genius. Having planned enough time, be sure to have it. As what carpenters would suggest, "measure twice and cut once." In fact, what that signifies is to take time to measure carefully.
3. Good Work Morals. A task worth finishing is worth doing fine as well. Moreover, it’s a responsibility, as with the electrical code consent that each work must be done "in a workmanlike way." You’re literally or metaphorically going to be part of that job, thus make a grand name for you.
An excellent work ethics has to do with each phase and aspect of a job, and it always comes out during the final results. Such as, when slinging a picture frame on a wall’s midpoint, don’t gaze and guess at the wall’s center -- make use of a tape measure as well as a pencil in order to mark it.
4. Clean-up. The task isn’t over unless the tools have been cleaned and tidied up, the dirt being gathered up, and the trash removed. This is a feature of an actual pro. Plan ahead to ease that clean-up by means of, e.g., using drop-cloths, cleaning the work area from things that could get dirty, closing the work area off to prevent dust from spreading, or making use of fans so as to circulate dust out.
Lunes, Disyembre 8, 2014
Lunes, Marso 10, 2014
Color Patterns for Home Painting
Pattern unifies colors and textures with design, bringing new vitality and rhythm to a room. While it may feel safe to limit pattern to fabrics in the room, you can establish the style and personality of a room with pattern on your walls. Stripes, faux wood or stone, checks, plaids, and stenciled designs can all be created with a brush and paint. The key to using painted patterns successfully is to know how patterns will appear on walls and how they will interact.
Wallpaper can also set a theme or provide a supportive background for other design features in a room. Today, the variety of wall coverings is enormous, from playful borders and linen look-alikes to embossed wall coverings designed to look like stucco, pressed tin, or plaster fresco. Most of the textured wall coverings carried at Lowe's can be painted to complement your color scheme. Consult a Home Painting Specialist for advice on choosing and installing the right covering for your walls.
Pattern Scale
The size of a design motif or repeated line in a pattern is known as scale. Scale can be small, medium, or large. Small-scale patterns have the softest effect, since they tend to read as textured or solid from a distance. Use them with solids, or as visual relief among other patterns. Medium-scaled patterns are more versatile because they retain their design even from a distance, yet rarely overpower other patterns. You can easily use them with small-and large scale patterns. Use large-scale patterns with care since large, bold patterns look even bolder over large areas. They can create an atmosphere of grandeur in a large room, but in small room large-scale patterns have the effect of drawing the walls closer and consuming space.
Pattern Style
The patterns you may sue to decorate your home range from realistic depictions of nature - most commonly flowers, leaves and wood or stone - to abstracts and geometrics such as stripes, dots and plaids. The lines in a room will suggest how to choose and apply pattern. In a room with a high ceiling, avoid strong vertical patterns, instead, try a random pattern or one with horizontal design. Vertical stripes can raise the ceiling in a low-ceilinged room. In an angular room, patterns that have dominant motifs will be broken as they go in and out of corners. A better choice to unify walls is a small-scale design with no noticeable repeats.
Wallpaper can also set a theme or provide a supportive background for other design features in a room. Today, the variety of wall coverings is enormous, from playful borders and linen look-alikes to embossed wall coverings designed to look like stucco, pressed tin, or plaster fresco. Most of the textured wall coverings carried at Lowe's can be painted to complement your color scheme. Consult a Home Painting Specialist for advice on choosing and installing the right covering for your walls.
Pattern Scale
The size of a design motif or repeated line in a pattern is known as scale. Scale can be small, medium, or large. Small-scale patterns have the softest effect, since they tend to read as textured or solid from a distance. Use them with solids, or as visual relief among other patterns. Medium-scaled patterns are more versatile because they retain their design even from a distance, yet rarely overpower other patterns. You can easily use them with small-and large scale patterns. Use large-scale patterns with care since large, bold patterns look even bolder over large areas. They can create an atmosphere of grandeur in a large room, but in small room large-scale patterns have the effect of drawing the walls closer and consuming space.
Pattern Style
The patterns you may sue to decorate your home range from realistic depictions of nature - most commonly flowers, leaves and wood or stone - to abstracts and geometrics such as stripes, dots and plaids. The lines in a room will suggest how to choose and apply pattern. In a room with a high ceiling, avoid strong vertical patterns, instead, try a random pattern or one with horizontal design. Vertical stripes can raise the ceiling in a low-ceilinged room. In an angular room, patterns that have dominant motifs will be broken as they go in and out of corners. A better choice to unify walls is a small-scale design with no noticeable repeats.
Lunes, Marso 3, 2014
Cutting Tile as a Form for Tile Installation
You’ll likely need to cut all of the tiles around the perimeter of the floor or wall to make them fit, and you will need to notch around objects like doorjambs and make holes for pipes and other penetrations. Many first-time tile setters worry more about tile cutting than anything else, but it’s actually a fairly easy job. There are many different tools you can use, and none of them – even the power tools – are difficult to operate. Just make sure you always wear eye protection when cutting tile using any of these methods. Wear respiratory protection when doing any power cutting.
Using a Snap Cutter
A snap cutter is inexpensive and it isn't a power tool, so it’s a good choice for beginners. However, it can make only straight cuts and it doesn't work on stone, porcelain, or some other extremely hard tiles, including many quarry tiles. It’s also difficult to use a snap cutter for cuts near the edge of a tile.
Mark a cut line on the tile with a wax pencil. Position the tile firmly against the snap cutter’s front guide so the cut will be square. Lift up the handle and push or pull it to score a line across the tile. It’s best to score a single, continuous line, but if you score an incomplete line, go over it again. Allow the wings of the cutter to rest on both sides of the scored line. Push down on the handle, and the tile will snap in two. If the cut is within an inch or so of the edge of the tile, use of tile nibbler to break away the excess material little by little. Brush away all debris from the base of the snap cutter before making the next cut.
Using a Rod Saw
If your cut isn't straight and you’re working with a soft ceramic tile, you can make the cut freehand using a hack saw loaded with a rod saw blade. Mark the tile with the cut you need and then hold the tile firmly in place on a work surface so that the area so be cut is overhanging the edge. Saw with steady, gentle strokes.
Using a Snap Cutter
A snap cutter is inexpensive and it isn't a power tool, so it’s a good choice for beginners. However, it can make only straight cuts and it doesn't work on stone, porcelain, or some other extremely hard tiles, including many quarry tiles. It’s also difficult to use a snap cutter for cuts near the edge of a tile.
Mark a cut line on the tile with a wax pencil. Position the tile firmly against the snap cutter’s front guide so the cut will be square. Lift up the handle and push or pull it to score a line across the tile. It’s best to score a single, continuous line, but if you score an incomplete line, go over it again. Allow the wings of the cutter to rest on both sides of the scored line. Push down on the handle, and the tile will snap in two. If the cut is within an inch or so of the edge of the tile, use of tile nibbler to break away the excess material little by little. Brush away all debris from the base of the snap cutter before making the next cut.
Using a Rod Saw
If your cut isn't straight and you’re working with a soft ceramic tile, you can make the cut freehand using a hack saw loaded with a rod saw blade. Mark the tile with the cut you need and then hold the tile firmly in place on a work surface so that the area so be cut is overhanging the edge. Saw with steady, gentle strokes.
Martes, Enero 21, 2014
Color Profiles for Handyman Painting
Yellow. Yellow, the color of the sun, is an energetic color that can lift the spirits and warm a room. It can also enhance concentration and speed metabolism. While it’s associated with happiness, yellow is also disturbing when overused. Studies have shown that people lose their tempers and babies cry more often in yellow rooms.
Blue. Considered the most relaxing color in the spectrum, blue causes the body to release tension. But it can also create a sense of formality and be cold or even depressing. Blue has been found to be an appetite suppressant, so it should be used only as an accent in areas where you prepare or serve food.
Painted a vivid yellow, the all contrasts with adjacent white surfaces to magnify the room’s sunlit quality. Always clean and refreshing, aqua reflects the calming influence of blue. A range of blues creates a tranquil bedroom, highlighted by white furniture and trim.
Green. The easiest color on the eye, green is both calming and refreshing, providing a feeling of renewal and harmony. It has also been associated with feelings of safety. It is more versatile than blue because it is a blend of warm and cool colors (yellow and blue). One of the basic hues of nature, green is effective in almost any room, but particularly appropriate in kitchens and dining rooms.
Violet. Like green, violet mixes warm and cool colors. It combines the calming effect of blue with the energy of red. Violet is associated with royalty and luxury, but – perhaps because it is rare in nature – it can feel artificial. It is the favorite color of many young children.
White. Although white is non-color, it does impart a specific mood of cleanness, purity, and innocence. White reflects all light and is a good choice for rooms with odd or irregular features, because minor flaws will nearly disappear in the absence of color. For anyone who finds imperfections stressful, this can have a direct effect on mood.
When painting a house, you need to think about the following color profiles and decide on which color is perfect for the kind of home environment you live in.
Blue. Considered the most relaxing color in the spectrum, blue causes the body to release tension. But it can also create a sense of formality and be cold or even depressing. Blue has been found to be an appetite suppressant, so it should be used only as an accent in areas where you prepare or serve food.
Painted a vivid yellow, the all contrasts with adjacent white surfaces to magnify the room’s sunlit quality. Always clean and refreshing, aqua reflects the calming influence of blue. A range of blues creates a tranquil bedroom, highlighted by white furniture and trim.
Green. The easiest color on the eye, green is both calming and refreshing, providing a feeling of renewal and harmony. It has also been associated with feelings of safety. It is more versatile than blue because it is a blend of warm and cool colors (yellow and blue). One of the basic hues of nature, green is effective in almost any room, but particularly appropriate in kitchens and dining rooms.
Violet. Like green, violet mixes warm and cool colors. It combines the calming effect of blue with the energy of red. Violet is associated with royalty and luxury, but – perhaps because it is rare in nature – it can feel artificial. It is the favorite color of many young children.
White. Although white is non-color, it does impart a specific mood of cleanness, purity, and innocence. White reflects all light and is a good choice for rooms with odd or irregular features, because minor flaws will nearly disappear in the absence of color. For anyone who finds imperfections stressful, this can have a direct effect on mood.
When painting a house, you need to think about the following color profiles and decide on which color is perfect for the kind of home environment you live in.
Altering Moods with Color
With only paint colors, you can modify the sense of a room and the atmosphere of the space. In choosing colors, one must consider how the area will be utilized. Will the area be utilized for work, amusement, studying, relaxing, or leisure? Will it be a private, family or public place? More importantly, how’d you desire people to experience in these places? Comfortable, vibrant or someplace stuck in between?
Color Profiles
According to research, a color communicates its own fashionable psychological outcome. One can have an improved ability of building rooms that do not only appear good but experience right through perceiving how the brain and body might react to particular colors.
RED. Red is a psychologically passionate color that intensifies body temperature and heart rate. Energy, effectiveness, jeopardy, and passion are always connected with this color. Red is also a color that usually commands interest. According to studies, the color red has showed to encourage appetite which makes it a fine choice for dining areas. Pink or burgundy which are examples of shades of red, are easier on the body and the eyes than the highly simulating bright red.
ORANGE. Orange still offers the feeling of warmth and forms wisdom of delight. It is less insistent than red. It increases mental activity because it enhances the supply of O2 to the brain. Orange gives a refreshing and friendly atmosphere in its various differences.
In a high energy space for a kid, a neural mat and light green bureau balance the strength of intense orange walls. In a powder area, a temperate orange is appealing and welcoming. This occasionally tricky area is a great place to experiment with lively colors. Painting red in a living area should maintain the conversation bubbly. The custom carpet contests with the dark blue fireplace. Slow starters in the morning can get to moving swiftly in a red bedroom.
Color Profiles
According to research, a color communicates its own fashionable psychological outcome. One can have an improved ability of building rooms that do not only appear good but experience right through perceiving how the brain and body might react to particular colors.
RED. Red is a psychologically passionate color that intensifies body temperature and heart rate. Energy, effectiveness, jeopardy, and passion are always connected with this color. Red is also a color that usually commands interest. According to studies, the color red has showed to encourage appetite which makes it a fine choice for dining areas. Pink or burgundy which are examples of shades of red, are easier on the body and the eyes than the highly simulating bright red.
ORANGE. Orange still offers the feeling of warmth and forms wisdom of delight. It is less insistent than red. It increases mental activity because it enhances the supply of O2 to the brain. Orange gives a refreshing and friendly atmosphere in its various differences.
In a high energy space for a kid, a neural mat and light green bureau balance the strength of intense orange walls. In a powder area, a temperate orange is appealing and welcoming. This occasionally tricky area is a great place to experiment with lively colors. Painting red in a living area should maintain the conversation bubbly. The custom carpet contests with the dark blue fireplace. Slow starters in the morning can get to moving swiftly in a red bedroom.
Miyerkules, Oktubre 16, 2013
House painting Pros and Cons
Primer
Primer is the key to meet paint finishes; it creates a bond between the surface you want to paint and the paint finish you are applying. The right primer creates a solid, nonporous surface for the base coat by sealing new drywell, new piaster, concrete, raw wood, and any repairs you have made with caulking or spackle, if you miss the step, your paint job will be uneven and unpredictable. Primer should never be used as a base coat; however, if you want to apply a dark base coat, your primer can be tinted to half the formula of the paint color. This will reduce the number of coats required to achieve the desired depth of color.
Primer is available in acrylic, alkyd, and latex varieties; each one has its specific uses. Latex primer must be used over new drywall, as an oil-based (alkyd) primer will make the drywall’s surface bumpy. For new wood, use alkyd primer, as water-based primer will soak into the wood and raise the grain, making an uneven surface. Thanks to advances in manufacturing, it’s possible now to buy high-adhesion primers specifically designed to cover metals, ceramics, laminates, and most other shiny surfaces. These primers are wonderful because they save you a lot of hard work; for example, you no longer need to remove all the old varnish from a table or chair before you repaint, if you use the proper primer. Check with a knowledgeable sales-person to make sure you are buying the right primer for your project.
Shellac
Shellac is an excellent primer for plaster and raw wood. Apply with a foam brush to seal in the wood resins found throughout the wood but especially at the knots. The resins will bleed through your paint finish unless you seal them first. Shellac is alcohol-based and dries very quickly. It’s toxic, so wear a mask and work in a well-ventilated area…..
Latex paint
Latex paint is water-based, and contains vinyl and acrylic resins. The better the quality, the more acrylic the pain contains. Latex paint is tinted to your color choice at the point of hardware store using a recipe of concentrated color pigments called universal colorants, that are both water and oil-soluble. The same tints are used to color both types of paint. It is generally sold by the quart or gallon.
Oil Paint (Alkyd)
Due to its oil base, this paint is smooth and easy to apply and covers the surface well. It is tinted to your color choice at the store a recipe of universal colorants. If it is available in pints, quarts and gallons.
Primer is the key to meet paint finishes; it creates a bond between the surface you want to paint and the paint finish you are applying. The right primer creates a solid, nonporous surface for the base coat by sealing new drywell, new piaster, concrete, raw wood, and any repairs you have made with caulking or spackle, if you miss the step, your paint job will be uneven and unpredictable. Primer should never be used as a base coat; however, if you want to apply a dark base coat, your primer can be tinted to half the formula of the paint color. This will reduce the number of coats required to achieve the desired depth of color.
Primer is available in acrylic, alkyd, and latex varieties; each one has its specific uses. Latex primer must be used over new drywall, as an oil-based (alkyd) primer will make the drywall’s surface bumpy. For new wood, use alkyd primer, as water-based primer will soak into the wood and raise the grain, making an uneven surface. Thanks to advances in manufacturing, it’s possible now to buy high-adhesion primers specifically designed to cover metals, ceramics, laminates, and most other shiny surfaces. These primers are wonderful because they save you a lot of hard work; for example, you no longer need to remove all the old varnish from a table or chair before you repaint, if you use the proper primer. Check with a knowledgeable sales-person to make sure you are buying the right primer for your project.
Shellac
Shellac is an excellent primer for plaster and raw wood. Apply with a foam brush to seal in the wood resins found throughout the wood but especially at the knots. The resins will bleed through your paint finish unless you seal them first. Shellac is alcohol-based and dries very quickly. It’s toxic, so wear a mask and work in a well-ventilated area…..
Latex paint
Latex paint is water-based, and contains vinyl and acrylic resins. The better the quality, the more acrylic the pain contains. Latex paint is tinted to your color choice at the point of hardware store using a recipe of concentrated color pigments called universal colorants, that are both water and oil-soluble. The same tints are used to color both types of paint. It is generally sold by the quart or gallon.
Oil Paint (Alkyd)
Due to its oil base, this paint is smooth and easy to apply and covers the surface well. It is tinted to your color choice at the store a recipe of universal colorants. If it is available in pints, quarts and gallons.
Huwebes, Setyembre 19, 2013
Specialty Tile
Mosaics
Any grid of smallish tiles that work together to create a whole is a mosaic. In some mosaics, the tiles function like the pixels of a digital image, creating a mural effect. Other mosaics are composed of an eye-catching pattern of colors. Even a field of like-colored squares is considered a mosaic if the tiles are 3 inches or smaller.
You’ll find mosaics made of virtually any tile material, from glazed ceramic to natural stone, colored glass to metal, or combinations thereof. And the tiles or a mosaic aren’t always square. They can be hexagons, rectangles, circles, random shards, or even the shapes of little fish or vegetables. The more irregular the shapes, the thicker the grout lines likely have to be. Tiny, opaque glass mosaics are particularly popular now, as are mixed textures – smooth glass with rough stone, for example. Another intriguing look is that of a river rock mosaic of whole round stones, an inch or two in diameter, packed tightly and grouted.
Almost all mosaics are sold already assembled on a mesh, paper, or rubber backing, typically as 12-by-12-inch squares, making installation not much more difficult for standard tiles. Some prefab mosaics are specially designed as borders or inlays for floors. Of course, you can also use individual tiles to create a custom mosaic in any artistic pattern you can dream up.
Decorative
Retailers use this term for highly ornamental tiles – anything beyond the basics. A decorative tile might be brightly colored, painted with an image or pattern, filigreed, embossed, or otherwise textured. It might even be encaustic tile, with an embossed decorative pattern filled with clays of different colors (a process invented by 12th-century Cistercian monks).
Use decorative tiles en masse to create striking focal points, or sparingly as accents to dress up a field of simpler tiles. Either method is an effective way to create something special when you’re tiling on a budget.
Trim Pieces
Trim tiles are the solutions to three-dimensional problems: the edges and corners of tile jobs. Bullnose tiles provide a finished edge where a tile field ends, chair rails offer a cap for the top edge of a tile wainscot, and V-caps finish all the edges of countertops. Baseboards are the finishing touch where walls meet floors, while corner pieces are used for outer and inner corners of walls, fireplaces, and outer complex surfaces. You may also find crown moldings, picture frames, and any number of other useful shapes.
Some tile lines include matching trim. Others come in limited configurations, while still others are available only in field tiles. If you’re using tiles that have no matching trim pieces, look for complementary trim from another line.
Any grid of smallish tiles that work together to create a whole is a mosaic. In some mosaics, the tiles function like the pixels of a digital image, creating a mural effect. Other mosaics are composed of an eye-catching pattern of colors. Even a field of like-colored squares is considered a mosaic if the tiles are 3 inches or smaller.
You’ll find mosaics made of virtually any tile material, from glazed ceramic to natural stone, colored glass to metal, or combinations thereof. And the tiles or a mosaic aren’t always square. They can be hexagons, rectangles, circles, random shards, or even the shapes of little fish or vegetables. The more irregular the shapes, the thicker the grout lines likely have to be. Tiny, opaque glass mosaics are particularly popular now, as are mixed textures – smooth glass with rough stone, for example. Another intriguing look is that of a river rock mosaic of whole round stones, an inch or two in diameter, packed tightly and grouted.
Almost all mosaics are sold already assembled on a mesh, paper, or rubber backing, typically as 12-by-12-inch squares, making installation not much more difficult for standard tiles. Some prefab mosaics are specially designed as borders or inlays for floors. Of course, you can also use individual tiles to create a custom mosaic in any artistic pattern you can dream up.
Decorative
Retailers use this term for highly ornamental tiles – anything beyond the basics. A decorative tile might be brightly colored, painted with an image or pattern, filigreed, embossed, or otherwise textured. It might even be encaustic tile, with an embossed decorative pattern filled with clays of different colors (a process invented by 12th-century Cistercian monks).
Use decorative tiles en masse to create striking focal points, or sparingly as accents to dress up a field of simpler tiles. Either method is an effective way to create something special when you’re tiling on a budget.
Trim Pieces
Trim tiles are the solutions to three-dimensional problems: the edges and corners of tile jobs. Bullnose tiles provide a finished edge where a tile field ends, chair rails offer a cap for the top edge of a tile wainscot, and V-caps finish all the edges of countertops. Baseboards are the finishing touch where walls meet floors, while corner pieces are used for outer and inner corners of walls, fireplaces, and outer complex surfaces. You may also find crown moldings, picture frames, and any number of other useful shapes.
Some tile lines include matching trim. Others come in limited configurations, while still others are available only in field tiles. If you’re using tiles that have no matching trim pieces, look for complementary trim from another line.
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