The location of this living room can be at the front or back of the house. It is better to be located at the back because the living room will be beside backyard. The backyard can become fishpond or stoned garden with some plants.

The furniture on this living room should be simple and slim. You can put some furniture that can be moved easily, for example: a table that has wheels at it foots. It would better if the table has storage for collecting your DVD or magazine.

The furniture colors can be combined between neutral color (ex: brown or yellowish) and contrast color (ex: red, yellow or orange). For example you can combine a brown sofa with orange pillows.

Lighting is an important thing that makes special effect in the room, including in the bathroom.

You need to pay extra attention when planning to choose the location of lamp in your bathroom. You know, water and electricity are two element things that cannot be united together. So, bathroom lighting must have right system and material for safety. For example, a bulb lamp must have protection from water sprinkling.

Generally, there are two lighting types that can be applied in bathroom. The first is global lighting (ambient lighting). Global lighting is used to light up whole bathroom space. It’s usually placed at one point at the center of bathroom. One bulb lamp that hanged at center of room creates dramatic effect if combined with some of lamp that placed at corners of bathroom. These lamps model can be the imitation of gas lamp or modern-simple ceramic lamp.

The main lighting can use halogen lamps that placed at center or some corners of ceiling with right distances. Halogen lamp produces white light and makes room fresh and clear.

Second is lighting for mirror and washbasin. It can be applied by placing small tungsten lamp or halogen lamp at hidden place. The reflection of that light makes shiny effect on the wall.

Bathroom also needs natural lighting. Natural lighting can save electricity energy and it makes pretty effect. It can be applied by adding a glass window at one-third space of its ceiling. If bathroom is on second floor or higher, it is better to add a wide window that faces directly to specific panorama, like garden.

In the living room, many activities go on frequently. In order to keep the room feels comfortable, especially at night, the lighting setting on living room should be flexible. General lighting is used to light up some activities at many room corners. In other side, specific lighting is needed for lighting up special activities so these activities go on without obstacle.

It’s better to use downlight lamp for bright up whole spaces. Put some lamps at ceiling with proportional distance between one another, so all of general activity places can be reached by light.

Special activities like reading newspaper, knitting or doing cozy activity – can be bright up by specific light. Table lamp and standing lamp are better enough to light up these activities. Adding indirect lamp light at ceiling, wall or furniture is good idea for increasing the beauty on your living room. The deviation of lights increases your cozy feels.

Managing lights in living room is not only placing lamps on corners of its room, but you must to notice what condition you want. If the living room style is modern futuristic, it can be applied by adding different light colors. For example mix yellow-green light or white-blue with the room theme.

Living room is also often used to put some arts or your family photo at its wall. These decorative things are good to dramatize the room atmosphere. Painting or family picture can be lightened by spotlight every frames. Spotlight can be applied for sculpture or another interesting art. If the art object is high enough, directing the light upper so it looks dramatic. With fit and flexible lighting in your living room, your family will fall more enjoyable.

In order to appear a beautiful garden at night, it needs right lighting setting to produce nice and romantic situation. Lights that come from garden lamps are usually used for security function. In other side, garden lamps can show the beauty of garden as you want, such as romantic or spectacular purposes.

For example, if you want to show romantic garden, you have to choose the right places to put the lamps. You should pay attention about what kinds of lamp you want to use, including the lamp shape. If the lamp has pretty shape, it should be placed at viewable place, so the lamp can be point of interest in your garden.

If you like using deviation effect, it’s better if you use spot light that is inserted between bushes or stones. The specialty of this lamp can create both romantic and spectacular atmosphere.

To make spectacular effect in your garden at night, try to put some lamps that shine to objects. For example, lamps shine to some big trees – exactly to its branches or leaves.

The other important thing is the choosing of lamp light color kinds. There are many kinds of lamp light colors like white, white-blue, yellow and the other.

If you want to put some lights under swimming pool or fishpond, there are many available water proof lamps. So, you can swim with clear vision or see beautiful fish in your fishpond at night.

What condition can make a house looked modern? Of course, the house that designed at the latest style with minimalist concept and simple shape but supported room distribution that follows the owner life style dynamically.

Next, the building exterior usually colored by white and gray gradation. Those are pure colors in modern design. Then, using natural stone that has dark color can catch the attention. It looks elegant and matching for tropical situation. In other side, using wide glass in front of the house brings the concept of open atmosphere and makes natural light enters the house easily. It also makes the house looks more beautiful. This house also uses the tile for its floors and wood for some part of furniture, so it makes balance of feeling hot and warm.

This Lisa’s house shows modern aura and elegance. Her needs can be satisfied in this double floor house. Lisa and her husband want their house looks modern and elegant. They use big and wide window glass of their house so they can look out the garden and let sun light enters the house so the situation becomes more comfortable.

This modern style house is determined by the design of walls, composition of window glass and main stair that makes the guest feels comfortable. Here the symmetrical concept applied in the front house and its garden.

To enter this modern house, we must walk through stairs to the main entrance that directed to wide room inside this house. The distribution of rooms is set effectively because the owner likes tidiness and the hospitality to welcome the guest.

Existences of arm chair, double seat (love seat) and corner table are the main characteristic in this minimalist living room. Modern-minimalist style in living room is also marked by simple sofa shape and existence of corner lamp with clean wall background. And then artless curtain, small carpet as room accent and simple painting are good for minimalist-living-room creation.

This house style follows minimalist trend that looked from interior setting. Living room and dining room united without using separator. Four dining rooms (including servant room) are available on upstairs and downstairs. So this interior setting fells wide and comfortable.

The selected materials like vase, lamp and painting depend on minimalist design principal. White-yellow flowers and a full color abstract painting give more beautiful on this living room.

This small living room with a set of simple sofa follows minimalist trend. White wall and abstract painting feel cool and comfortable.

In the past, stairs only placed into building. But now stairs also placed at garden, front of terrace, beside of garage or the center of living room. So, no wonder if you see stairs that placed at the front of a house. Basically, stairs is OK if placed outside of building.

For safety and comfort, exterior stairs should have some criteria. Because located at unprotected place, the exterior stairs material must have high-resistance, ex: iron, aluminum, stainless steel, etc. Exterior stairs must have weather resistant, so add other protection like paint-finishing, veneer or wax.

Using stone for stairs is good for making natural atmosphere.

Although placed in front of house, using ceramics for steps and stainless steel for handle are good for stairs beauty.