Condo Living 101

Art For Drunkards

If you are a partyphile and do constantly hold social gatherings in your house, this is the perfect art piece for you. You have to have it because this piece comes with form and function.

Well actually, this piece of art is still tucked in a gallery and is made by artist Hans Broecker. And this piece is very special and you would want to have this because this piece of art contains a drink that can make your party go wild.

Image: http://dpimg.com/2008/02/drinkable-art-001.jpg

You may want to look at the hitslot website for more information about this. For a quick visit, go

here: http://hitslot.com/?p=205#more-205 or here: http://dvice.com/archives/2008/02/drinkable_art_i.php

The Top Four Questions to Consider When Choosing A Condominium Insurance Policy

Condominiums and townhouses have special insurance needs. They don�t need as much insurance as a house, but owners have more to insure than a renter. The insurance needs for a condo owner include personal property and liability coverages. Special policies for condominium owners, known as form HO-6, will provide the liability and personal property protection a condominium owner needs.

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Space…. Where?

Ever wonder why the space you moved into has turned into a suffocating one? Well then you may have forgotten to get rid of stuff you owned and never stopped adding to. A stuffed apartment never reflects good design so getting rid of stuff is essential to keeping your space clean and clutter free.

You’d be amazed at the stuff people keep, more often than not things they’ve forgotten they had in the first place. Schedule a peek around once in a while, when you take a close look at each and every crevice of your space. From the overhead cabinets to the cabinets hidden by your new sofa, open them up and you may find stuff you’ve been missing for a long time. Take out the old and give them another life, selling is a garage sale or donated to charity for the less fortunate. There’s always more than one way to reuse old stuff so be creative and take a chance. Who knows, the recycling bug may be in there waiting to be released.

A Bright Idea Indeed

Tired of the way your Condo looks and feels? Well how’s about a simple yet very effective way to spruce up a boring space. Get ideas from condo catalogs or even go as far as taking a few tours of new ones out for sale. Ideas abound and a trip to the local home depot can get you some more added ideas. Swap out those old and boring globes for recycled fixtures you can get at local markets or from artists on weekend markets.

Bare bulbs getting the best of you, get fixtures that come in many shapes and sizes, they turn harsh artificial light into soothing hues. Try better energy efficient bulbs that do come in more shades and colors, now starting to come into the mainstream.

Wonder Box

According to hitslot.com, “It might not look like it, but inside this box, there’s an armoire, a desk, a height-adjustable stool, two more stools, a six-shelf bookcase, and a bed with a mattress.”

Who says an entire ensemble of furniture cannot fit in a box? Any takers? Good, none.

Actually there is this German designed thingamajig that cramped every basic piece of furniture that you know into an 80 cm x 120 cm box. And it’s called a casulo.

Is it still unbelievable? You might as well check out the pictures instead.

http://hitslot.com/?p=204

http://www.mein-casulo.de/img/fotos/casulo_animation_www.gif

Or you might want to take a quick look at their video.

Or watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYCTcPkIIBI

As of this writing, the designer still has not found the right company that will carry it for mass production. I hope that this will be out in the market soon.

Visit their website at: http://www.mein-casulo.de/

You Need To Go Low

Space is everything when it comes to living in a condominium unit, and you would want to buy for furniture that is not too spacey and would have another function or two for that piece.

Also, in a cozy unit, you might as well would want to become comfortable with the place, and to have that comfort is to go on the ground, low – by low platform furniture.

These pieces are actually for storage as side table has a drawer, console which has two drawers, and the dresser with four drawers. But you can always double the side table and your console as a table when you are sitting on the floor while your partner is laying beside you. Now, ain’t that sweet?

All About Condominiums

What is a Condominium?

Under a condominium plan, residents hold legal title to their units, as if they were freestanding houses. In addition, they own a proportional share of �common elements�, like lobbies, yards, roofs, parking lots, and recreation facilities. Condominiums come in a wide range of sizes and styles, including town houses,
garden apartments, high-rise towers, and even freestanding houses sharing private
streets or courtyards.

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Easy Lifestyle

Most condo living is easy to maintain and dust are unlikely to be present on coffee tables, china cabinets, and entertainment centers. As an alternative, buy double-duty furniture like day beds that can turn into a sofa and other decorative chest for storage. Unnecessary items can be stored on these and allowing more space as well for other things. The other side is that little spaces blow up anything that is less than white-glove dirt free.  If you forget to make your bed for example or clean the floor, you need to do quickly so that when you arrive with a visitor you’ll have a stress free environment.

Living together

The word condominium came from the Latin words ‘con’ which means together and ‘dominium’ which means property. This makes condominium as common property which is shown between people who live in a condominium. In condos, there are lots of families sharing the same building but they live in individual units. There are area where they gather such as lobbies, cafeterias, pools, activity rooms and gardens. Condo life is more complicated that living individually because you share property with yourself and you must learn to live and tolerate people living with you. Thus it is important to know what each one can do and cannot do so that you could live in harmony within shared property.

Earthy Homes – Efficient Homes

There is a constant revision of the way our homes are constructed and what do you know, we are again turning to technology that has been in use for millions of years till now in impoverished homes in Africa and elsewhere. A move to make earthen homes again all the rage is one of the the best solutions to the energy crisis for the many enticing advantages these homes offer us. First, they are made of dirt and straw so they can be way cheaper. They can be made to work with current modern framing technology, that can only get better with the advantages of a better understanding of what needs to be addressed. They are naturally insulated from external temperatures so they mostly maintain a proper balance of moisture making them a joy to live in. You may have to trim down on the painting and rich colors for they work best left natural hence they may lose their insulating properties. Earthen homes was one of the earliest forms of home construction that served our ancestors well, why can’t it serve the same purpose for us now?