http://www.apnaghar.co.in India's First Comprehensive Site for Housing Solutions Apnaghar Settle Forever http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:18 +0600 Kitchen is an important space in your house. The house lady spends maximum time in the kitchen. Like your living room and bedroom, the kitchen also needs to be trendy. But many homes today have less kitchen area and the storage that goes into it is enormous. A space saving modular kitchen is a good option to fulfill your storage needs and also make your kitchen look great. A few points listed below should be considered while designing kitchens. Colour: The colours of your kitchen cabinets and the wall tiles usually depends on your personality. You may have bright colours like yellow and red or light shades in cream or white. It is best not to use more than two different colours for the cabinets. For example go for red and yellow or cream and brown. Metallic colours can be used as accents to give your kitchen a trendy look. If the kitchen is too small, it is better to go for light colors as they reflect light and make the kitchen look larger. The overhead cabinets which touch the ceiling can be painted in the colour of the walls to make the kitchen look less bulky. Ventilation: It is very important to have a window in the kitchen which gives you fresh air and ample light. Invest in a good quality chimney even if the window is of a fairly large size. Chimney makes the kitchen less suffocating and keeps it fresh. If the chimney is not compatible, install a good quality exhaust fan. Layouts: Decide the layout of your kitchen depending upon the size. If the kitchen area is very small, a compact C-Shaped layout would work well. This way you can utilize maximum space for storage. An L- Shaped or a parallel layout would work well for an elongated kitchen. If your kitchen is large or you plan an open kitchen, go for the island concept. You can have colorful lamps hanging over the island counter to add a zing to the kitchen. Storage: Try to keep most of your appliances inside the cabinets. This would make the kitchen look neat. Plan for storing your toasters, blenders and food processors inside the cabinets to keep the counter free. Besides the kitchen should have multi power points so that the fixtures can be used at a number of places. We can have a separate shelf above the counter for your microwave. Use the corners below the platform effectively by placing magic corners or revolving units. Use pull outs for storage of vessels and grains to avoid the task of bending to reach these things after you open the shutters. Lighting: As mentioned above, it is important to have natural lighting in the kitchen. Besides, have ceiling mounted fixtures which will illuminate the kitchen well. Use pelmet lights below overhead storage to light up your kitchen platform. You can have spot lights to illuminate crockery units or cabinets with glass shutters. With a little bit of your imagination you can make your kitchen functional and trendy. So go ahead and design it to make it the best part of your house! http://apnaghar.co.in/Sample%20Drawings/Details/DOOR,WINDOW%202.pdfThu, 11 Mar 2010 15:07:50 +0600 Layout planning is nothing but taking some clues from site itself. Layout planning can be evolved from basic elements like Site Context, Design Elements, Design Programme, Climatic conditions, Sun Movement, Wind Direction, construction, Structure, authorities rules and regulations, Landscape, use of residual spaces around built form also the social and political conditions some times. All these elements are quite interlinked with each other; we can't separate these elements from each other. Such as special configuration of volumes we can't differentiate those from shadows created by sun movement. Likewise every element of layout planning Layout will come into picture while designing a master layout plan. Sometimes layout planning also termed as master plan.Layout Planning mainly gets affected by Site Context. Topography of site, type of landscape, peripheral constitutes Like roads, surrounding buildings creates strong impact on layout. Any natural resource like water body, any monument near site any spectacular thing will give you a clear vision how to use them as a background for our building. Design programme gives requirements; further exploration leads to circulation pattern, spaces required, interconnection of requirements. Again from orientation shape geometry gives character to our conceptual volumes of requirements. How to organise closed, semi open, open spaces as we need, like one want a cafe semi covered space, how he will create that space? Connection between these spaces like axes, vistas, passages gives clear idea about layout. Configuration provides creative ideas for layout planning. Mass voids interlinked with shades and shadows. Rules and regulation also affect layout. Set back boundaries shape the geometry of built form. FAR, Ground Coverage, Parking, Height restrictions green building regulation come into picture while designing layout. Also climate is very essential element. Rain fall can affect the skyline of the building. By understanding Sun path we can manage light inside outside open and closed spaces. Also heat regulation within building arises from these elements. Wind direction provides axes orientation to build from. Sometimes construction techniques also affect the layout planning. Area remained around the building how we use it also refines our layout programmatically. Social and political conditions also provide more imaginative perspective to the layout planning. http://apnaghar.co.in/Sample%20Drawings/Perspective%20view%20and%20Floor%20Plans/Final%20view.pdfThu, 11 Mar 2010 15:07:50 +0600 We provides the guidelines for vastu shastra for house and home, vastu tips and consultancy and all the processes from the selection of site to the construction of building,house,offices along with orientation of rooms and the restrictions or passage of various natural elements like light, winds etc.http://apnaghar.co.in/vastu.aspxThu, 11 Mar 2010 15:07:50 +0600 Excellent collection of Residential House Plans, Bunglow House Plans, Building Construction plans, Modern House plans in India, Master Plan Architecture Elevations of house.http://www.apnaghar.co.in/Readymade_Designs.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apnagharfeed+%28House+Architect%29&utm_content=FeedBurnerThu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:35 +0600 In an effort to revolutionize the world of Construction and Architecture by providing the best available technical assistance of the same Era, to make optimum use of time, money and other resources, in order to contribute in the development of country. We introduced the latest, unique and extremely beneficial concept of providing best technical help Online, so that we can reach and serve the people in any corner of the country. http://www.apnaghar.co.in/Online_Consultancy.aspxThu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:18 +0600 Professional Landscape designs Architect provide Architectural Drawings Building Layout Plan, Farmhouse plans and Toilet designs, Bathroom designs, Kitchen designs Structural drawings services in Indiahttp://www.apnaghar.co.in/Online_Consultancy.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apnagharfeed+%28House+Architect%29&utm_content=FeedBurnerThu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:38 +0600 Apnaghar built this depository to contain information regarding Architecture, Civic Infrastructure, Urban Planning, and Services in designing like sanitary, Electrical, Plumbing etc It has a large collection of information funded and maintained by apnaghar.. 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