Home and Garden Decorations

Cockroaches are high-risk pests in the house.

They carry a variety of serious diseases such as salmonella, dysentery, gastroenteritis and fever tyhoid. Cockroach droppings can also cause eczema and asthma.

In addition to health risks, cockroaches are disgusting pests as well. Not just from its looks, but cockroaches also produce bad smell that will contaminate food and other goods.

Cockroaches breed fast and powerful animal. Immediate measures are needed to make sure cockroaches do not roam in your home.

There are three common species of cockroach found in homes:

1. German cockroaches are about 12-15mm in length. Brown with 2 dark strips. Wings along the body or slightly overlapping in males and females and they prefer to run or climb.
2. Striped brown cockroaches that are 10-15mm. Yellow-brown. Males and females have wings, but wings of the male is longer. Can fly at high temperatures but more often ran.
3. American cockroach 20-30mm in length. Also known as Palmetto bugs. American cockroaches are reddish brown and pale yellow area around their promotum. Found in a dark place with high humidity

All three of these species tend to be found in large quantities or where food is stored in the kitchen.

Signs of Problems With Cockroaches :

1. Seeing cockroaches live – cockroaches are nocturnal animals (active at night) and hide all day. You will see cockroaches when you turn the kitchen light at night.
2. Pieces of the eggs and pieces of leather – As an adult, cockroach sheds its skin about 5-8 times.
3. Dirt – cockroaches leave black droppings less than 1mm width and different lengths.
4. Smell – the presence of cockroaches produce a very unpleasant odor.
5. Damage – Cockroaches will undermine organic goods including leather and books.

How to rid Cockroaches

Closing the entrance will help to keep the cockroaches come into the house, the main risks are gaps under doors and around pipes associated with the outside area or neighboring property

Also close the gaps where cockroaches can rest – cockroaches are nocturnal animals (active at night) and hide during the day. Cockroaches usually hide in cracks along the window, wall or outlet.

The most effective way to control cockroaches is to keep them away from water and food:

1. Store food in food or cover with plastic bags.
2. Clean up spilled food and drink immediately.
3. Clean food utensils immediately.
4. No food animals, no pet drinking place to stay overnight
5. Do not allow stagnant water in washing dishes or buckets overnight

Electromagnetic or ultrasonic repellents are usually not able to repel cockroaches.

If the pest cockroaches in your home have been very severe, it is highly recommended you to call the company that provide  pest control services.

Usually they will help you to quickly solve pest problems in your home, not only cockroaches but also other pests. Besides look for company that can assist you in planning for periodic pest control costs and of course you have to get a cheap price offers pest control associated with the offer.

A house is certainly not complete without a door. Elements of the building could not be made haphazardly so that the main function and aesthetic met. The door is one important element in the house. Materials and styles are quite diverse. Only, to the main door and bedroom, you should choose a solid material, such as the wooden door. While sliding doors and doors made of glass can be used as a selection of the second door.

According to the science of Feng Shui, the door would be more impressive solid protection for your home and keep away bad chi at home. When the main door is weak, it also means your house is not safe from uninvited guests and chi could have gone. Jenie Kumala as a Feng Shui expert said some other clues about the main door.

Ideally the main door is made slightly larger. When the main door is smaller than the other door will give the impression that the families who lived there could be harassed and exploited by others.

The third thing about the door is, if there is a second entrance which supports the main door, it was a good Feng Shui. So, it would be better if each dwelling to have it. That will increase your luck at home.

Feng Shui the main door is the most important element that must be made with the right proposition. Since the main door of the main gate is like a living room. Through the main doors, all of the good life to come.

The door is always used as a change of luck, the bad, nor good. You are not enough to just put the elements that bring goodness in front of the main door.

In fact, more important, you should be aware that all things are not too close to the main door. Actually there are some additional design layout of the main door. First, do not let the main door opens into a cramped space.

When the main hall is too small, better not have a porch at all or it could also put a mirror on the wall that is not directly facing the main door.

The most important thing is do not let you open the main door of the corridor are straight. This position is like describing a poisoned arrow that pointed at your back every time you go out and stab your heart when you return.

To get around such a position of the door, we recommend placing the separator such as folding walls or partitions to block the energy-killer.

The curtains are also very useful if your main door was already on a straight-line position with another door. Consecutive three-door configurations that make the energy becomes a hurry that turned into a negative. This can be neutralized by providing separation between the location of the door.

The main door should always be in the open position to the great hall and relieved. It is very fitting when applied in the living room. If the entrance opens into the dining room, the occupants will think only about food. If the position of the door opening into the kitchen, all the family fortune will be swept away.

If this happens, there will be competition and a lot of anger in the house. However, if the door opens into the bedroom, it will make the lazy inhabitants.

One more thing that is very taboo, namely the front door facing the toilet. The location of the door like this would have a negative impact.

If the toilet can be seen from the front door, the toilet door should change its position. In addition to change, it could also provide a solid barrier to separate the toilet from the front door.

If you have problems like this, you should try to change the location of the toilet or the location of the main door. And, if you want to perform spatial planning, you must make sure your front door is not aligned with the position of the toilet.

The correct solution for this problem, you can provide light in the ceiling with a very bright light to encourage the bad chi away from the door. This will help give a positive value at home than not at all.

No one wanted his house flooded. Though still the dry season, we’d better get ready to face the rainy season. How do the trick? Factors such as rainy weather in Indonesia is not anything special. Given Indonesia is a tropical country which has high rainfall levels. What else in the area of big cities like Jakarta, which split thirteen rivers, especially the potential experienced flooding. So, what if you live in big cities like Jakarta, which is feared would flood every year? Aspects of the early planning of a building’s important role. Planning has to be conducted when they want to build a house.

Try not to build houses in flood prone areas. Therefore, you must identify the ecological system around your residential area. Design a building foundation that is located higher, at least 40 to 50 cm above the street front of your home.

Height of the house was easy to distinguish if your home is still in its early stages of development. However, what would happen if the house was designed without any preparation for flooding.

Raise the height of the floor so the final solution, but the calculated distance of the ceiling. Try not to get too close to the head of adult males. Raised interior floor has different consequences entrance height so that inevitably you have to make small steps. Or it could also elevate the house starting from the front area of the fence. However, this alternative is more costly due to the additional height is comprehensive. In other words, the garden landscape will change completely.

Another way is much easier and efficient, which is making its blockade on the terrace. This should be a last resort or for the prevention of emergency (temporary) alone. Because tricks like this have less aesthetic value, the beauty of the facade will be reduced and look strange.

The next trick is more aesthetic, namely by making ornamental pond in front garden. However, this one trick that can only cope with minor flooding. Try to make the pond deeper and more spacious so it can accommodate the overflow of water. The risks, you should bother moving your ornamental fish when floods come.

However, what may be created if the flooding had become unwanted guests in your home. Therefore, the houses were built as high as anything, it still floods will disrupt your convenience. Willy-nilly, you must mengakalinya with interior design and furniture selection which can “work together” with you in order to remain prepared for the rainy season and flooding.

There are some simple steps you can do. Simple solution is to make recharge wells in the area of the house or around your neighborhood.

Another way you can do is to plant crops other than grass. So in designing a home, you should leave the green land for water catchment. One of the plants is very important when the rainy season is the bamboo plant. Bamboo tree can absorb water in large quantities so it can function as a buffer (anchoring). Just imagine, a bamboo rod with a diameter of about three millimeters can grow three feet in the next 24 hours, but the bamboo grown.

If your house is already flooded and there are parts of a damaged house, you do not hesitate to consult with contractors. Besides, you still have to consult with contractors associated with the renovation would be done.

Compared to the work itself is time consuming and costs more, the contractor would know more about the technical aspects and details.