Rain Care For Homes

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Its time for umbrellas and rain coats, yes the rain is at our door steps! Both you and your home will be drenched in the water drops, The season of water damages to your interiors as well exteriors of your favorite home. Heres some rain care tips to keep your home safe and enjoy the rains ,

Depending on your demography, you may be subject to heavy storms that can potentially damage or ruin your home without the proper precautions. So learn how to prepare your home for the rainy season in order to keep your family high and dry, and save yourself in repair costs.

Get your roof ready for the rains. Inspect your roof twice per year to avoid costly problems that can escalate into tremendous cost.Look for cracks along the ridge of your roof and where your shingles fold over to form the cap.Inspect the valleys of your roof (the area of your roof with a downward slope)

 Make sure that the sheet metal flashing does not have any holes or rusty spots. Ensure that you do not have any missing, loose or curled shingles. Replace any in that condition that you find as soon as possible so as to avoid moisture leaks inside your home that can weaken your wall and/or ceilings.

Say It Up Loud With Drapes And Curtains

Take a look at your gutters to make sure that they drain well and don't cause water to back up. Also make sure that there are not a lot of little granules collecting in there. Granules in your gutter are a sign that your roof's coating needs to be resealed.Make sure that you don't have any down pipe clogs.


As per the designs from Carion Bilta ,Work from the inside out. Inside your home, check out your ceilings to make sure that you are not experiencing signs of roof or other leakage.
 Be on the lookout for water rings, mold or wall or ceiling discoloration. Make any necessary repairs to fix the issue and prevent it from happening again during the upcoming rainy season.

Tackle your doors and your windows. Make sure that both close and seal properly, and make any repairs or improvements as necessary.Make sure that dead branches have been cleared from around your house. This will reduce the risk that they will fall during the storm and damage your home.

Think about having your basement inspected. If water is seeping in, you may have to have the whole thing resealed

So lets welcome the dews and drops to our homes with a smile on our face,keeping our precious house safe and secure, Carion Bilta .wishing you a very safe and enjoyable rainy season ahead.

Summer Tips For Interior Design

We are in the midst of a fired up summer at Cochin, Kerala, During this time not only is the mercury rising but so is your electricity bills.

The most basic thing you can do to as a Keralite, is to keep your house cooler without air conditioning is to keep as much sunlight out as possible and let cooler air in at night. During the day, keep windows, drapes, blinds, or shades closed, especially on the southern and western sides of your home. If you have a porch, you can put up large plastic or bamboo shades to cut down on sunlight.Here are some tips to keep your infrastructure cooler during summer: 

- Give your air-conditioner a rest for some hours during the day. And while you do this, open all the windows in your home. Let the occasional breeze grace your home, instead of keeping your home completely closed all day.

- Ensure that you have light-coloured curtains, drapes, blinds at home. Light-coloured fabrics reflect away the harsh sunlight and heat unlike dark-coloured ones which absorb heat.

Ventilation and apt drapes adds the bliss

 -Moving air is cooler air. At night, place fans in windows to bring more cool air in. Ceiling fans can also make a big difference. In terms of cooling, even a one-mile-per-hour breeze will make you feel three to four degrees cooler Ceiling fans have two settings, one to pull air up (for winter use), and the other to push air down. Make sure your ceiling fan is blowing down.

- Keep potted plants in your house. Not only will they disperse oxygen in the atmosphere during the day, giving you clean air but they also make a pretty sight with their greenery, making Kerala greener.

 

Greener, ecofriendly living enviornment

- Replace your ordinary lights and bulbs with fluorescent ones. They cost more than the average lights and bulbs. However, they provide a lighting effect that is much cooler and consumes less electricity, and provides a pleasant workable environment, feel free to try out LED lightings which is cochin’s new trend in interior lighting.

-Keeping your electronics on a power strip provides a quick way to "power-down" before leaving for the day.

- As Keralites,we do cook daily, Ideally, one should avoid cooking during the hottest part of the day, i.e. afternoons. But if you have to, use a fan to direct the heat out of the house via windows. 

- It's a good idea to paint the ceiling or the roof of your house white in colour, as the colour helps in keeping the home cooler.

Classy white cieling adds the right ambience.

Designing your home and office to be more energy friendly as well as Eco-friendly by making use of simple ideas like mentioned,can make a big difference in both the living environment as well as energy bills. 

Modern love for colours

Soft orange in one and poppy red in the other. The inviting extravagance, extremely eclectic from every corner leaves you spellbound. You start to realise that slowly, these cool and crisp luxe of captivating contrasts is making you fall in love with colours. And that's when you start to think of keeping them around for a good long time.

The age of the Colourful 

With the foray of more exciting and colourful hues in the palette of modern day interiors, this is indeed the age of the colourful. Sleep cool and start your day admiring the muted glamour of the high-energy shades that stir up your spirits.

Vibrant orange

Orange resonates myriad of effects to a room. The vibrant citrus feel deepens the inspiration, adding a lovely warmth to the room. Burnt oranges and splashing dark shades are real happy colours.

Joyfully orange

Blues and greens - in more shades than ever before

Tame the vibrant hue of reds and oranges; blue is the new neutral. Easy on the eye, easy to live with. It goes well with almost any wood type and is slowly gaining the classic appeal.

Green is the new bright. The deep and earthy hues of green show off the fresh, spring-like feel of your interiors. The inherent mellowed nature wrapped in the invigorating freshness of green enhances the dramatic appeal in your homes.

Red Romance

Red is the colour that defied all odds. For the ones who've always steered clear from dynamic shades of red, now is the time to add some romance with the radiant red setting. Shades of crimson and burgundy hunt down a plush contemporary home appeal.

Red hot hues

Made in Mustard Yellow

Mustard Yellow is growing in both fashion and home furnishing fabrics. And it seems like a great colour on walls. Also, it is a great catalyst as a colour on accent walls.

Yellow fever

Contemporary Grey

Walls in grey sync with any type of decor. The dignified vigour of grey elevates the appearance and is really cool as a backdrop. Not just that, grey is slowly embellishing the interiors in various other ways as well. Fabrics, seating and floor coverings in grey have made a flashy return.

Living in luxe grey

Undo the saturation

And when you have too many of these reds and yellows around, you can seek a change with the nuetral shades of off-whites. The sublte elegance of off-whites are back in vogue. Also, these light shades are a great choice to make your smaller interior look more spacious.

The colourful house - more bang for your buck

The wall paint options today, are literally endless. It's fascinating; the newly-inspired love for colours and how people use it in their homes. You can go wild with colour on your fabrics, floors, accent walls and backdrops. You can also add colourful 'wow' buys and accessorize with the surprisingly intricate look. Designers and do-it-yourselfers in the mood for more colours can luxuriate your decors with a gladdening embrace of colours.

Or if in any case you are itching to give your rooms a colour-inspired makeover, opt for the service of Carion Bilta, the leading architecture and interior design company in Kerala. Be on trend with the cheerful retreat of exciting colour combinations. Switch to stylish simplicity and minimalistic luxury of colours. It's more bang for your buck any day, with your rooms exhibiting a dash of colour splash and unmatched style. 

Lighting in Interior Design

Perhaps one of the most overlooked area in interior design by amatures is lighting. The reasons for this is unknown however, considering the magnitude of the effect it brings to the room, it is definitely something that could make or break the design's success. The implications of this factor is vast in the areaof interior design, let's take a moment to analyse the effect and features this element adds to a room.

1. Space (Illusion of course)

So you're stuck with a room you think is not big enough, and you cramming stuff into it doesn't help the cause. Well don't worry, a well lit room can take care of the problem. A space can appear bigger...much bigger if you follow a bright lighting pattern. Try throwing in a mirror as well into the mix, which would help to reflect the light. Stay clear of dark colours in a small room, it only helps to confine the space further.

2. To see stuff (Obviously)

Depending on functionality try to analyse the purpose of a room, is it designed to do something serious, for relaxation, or just for show. The quality and quantity of light used for each of these purposes are different. You definitely need decent bright lighting in your study or wherever it is that you do your reading, or work. For places like bedrooms and halls you would want to have both bright and dim lights, consider using a dimmer in these cases, just to set the mood. To show off your show pieces us e dim lighting techniques, a bit cliched but it works.

3. To set a focal point.

 Lighting can be very important to set a focal point in a room, just consider the purpose of a spotlight. A focal point is a single point of focus which would stand out in a room. Correct lighting condition can help to emphasize the focal point in a room. Bright light would not be reccomended for such a purpose since it would tend to drown all the beautiful shades and highlights that a less intense light would provide.

4. To beautify.

 Without the play of light a 3-d object would appear bland and uninteresting. This is especially applicable to photography and interior design. The perfect lighting in a room would serve whatever purpose its supposed to serve and also imparts beauty to a room. Lighting can be used to emphasize, de-emphasize, brighten, darken, highlight and shade particular areas or objects in a room. This can be done by using three types of lights

. Ambient - The general light or the ambient light in a room.
. Task     - Task or work light is used to illuminate small areas where      intense lighting is neede.
. Accent  - Accent light is used to illuminate objects or areas you wish                                                            to highlight.

 

5. Decoration.

  Light by itself is a decoration in many sense, since it beautifies a room and adds and element of interest, but when you add a decorative element to the light it becomes even more attractive. The chandeliers and those neat lamp shades could so a long way in creating a beautiful design and ensure a flow in the theme of the design. 

How To Choose An Interior Designer

With so many skilled and companies out in the field, its quite a hectic task choosing which designer to trust. We will be discussing about a list of tips to help lessen your headache.

1. Do your HOMEWORK

The first thing you should do before anything else is to research. You can refer potential designer's websites or you can ask some of your friends whose rooms have been done admirably or inquire at spaces that are done in your taste. 

The research is as important as other things as this will help you in choosing the right designer, and in case if you fail to choose the right designer, other things go in vain.

 


2. Portfolio

One thing that is important to look out for in a designer is if their portfolio is up to date and commendable. Projects that they have featured show the benchmark set by them in the field of designing. You can also refer their experience in this field and the most important part is the user reviews. 

User reviews will clear half of your doubts regarding the interior designer which you are going to opt for. And if still you have doubts regarding the designer then you can run a demo sample test, so as to know how the designer performs on the sample test. Of course you will have to pay for it.

 
 

3. Style

Speaking of style, another important aspect you must look at when deciding between designers is if they have a unique identity or signature. While interior designers should be flexible working with a wide array of styles, most normally have a signature style. Once you have pegged down your desired theme for your home deciding on a designer who matches your style will be much easier. The designer has to be well versed with all concepts and should have thorough knowledge about designs from all times.

4. Lifestyle

It is good that a interior designer understands your dreams and is willing to work according the way you want but a good interior designer doesn't promise miracle results. The best designers aim to fit the style of the room to your dream and personality, not their own. Beware of the designers who talk about unique designs but deliver only previously used theme designs. Choosing a designer is a tough task and takes time but its worth it as afterall its all about your home which means a lot to you.

5. Meeting your designer

When you meet your interior designer, the first few cards you will have to play at the table is, of course, the budget card. Let the designer know your budget and what you expect. While a good professional will bring his or her ideas to the table, she should be willing to work to make your vision a reality. If you feel that the designer you met will not yield the same output as you expect from him then go for the second one. Its your home so you are the King.

6.Describe your vision

Already you must have sourced images from internet, books and magazines about how your home should look. Work on the color combination, design and patterns that you would like to see in your home. 

Also make sure of things which you totally don't want in your home. As even if the designer works exactly according to your directions there are chances that one thing or color you hate the most which can ruin your mood instantly.



7. Be Flexible

If your designer tells you no, you have got to listen. If they say no, it can only be for a good reason. Their advice is same to a doctor's for they alone know what might be right for you. Your designer is ultimately delivering the right and expected look to your home. Product availibility, Contractor scheduling and custom work are just a few aspects that can cause unavoidable delays in your project so be accommodating.


Carion Bilta was established in 2009 as a professional Architects and engineering consultancy organization to provide Engineering and Project Management Services. Currently we are rendering Total Construction Engineering, Interior Designing & Project Management services to many projects in India and abroad. Sourcing out for good Kerala interior designers and attractive office/home renovation package ? Get free quote from the recommended interior designers. Submit your enquiry now.

Need For Interior Designing At Present

We have evolved from an era in which design meant pictures on papers, rocks and walls to an era which has a lot to offer like digital painting, spray painting and many other things which the technology has a great impact on. Perhaps in olden times there were no interior designers or fashion designers, people used to decorate their homes by themselves. Life was not as challenging as it is today. As the population has increased over these years competition is also increasing at a steady pace. Therefore people only manage to earn to build their home, buy car and other things which give them happiness. So is there a need for interior designing for a beautifully built home ? 

Yes. Interior designing includes all mantras which can bring positivity around you. It enables all the elements in your house to talk to you as they are placed exactly where they should be  to bring that contentment from your inside. Waking up looking at your beautifully designed master bedroom brings the positive energy in you which furthur helps you to stay fresh all the day. Interior designing has lot to offer. Colour balancing is one of the main and most interesting and integral part of interior designing where colours are chosen depending upon the different moods of the people. Apparently everyone has a favorite colour so if you have your walls painted in your favorite colour then they tend to be more happier.

Feng shui which also falls under this category and has influenced millions of people all over the world in following this practice. It is an art of using laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive energy. Fengshui means "wind-water" in English. It reveals how to perfectly balance the energies to assure good health and fortune for those inhabiting it. 

There are a lot of emerging creative and talented designers. Choosing the right ones is up to you depending upon which one provides the best tailored designing and decorations. Carion Bilta is one of them and delivers excellent interior designs which are in perfect harmony with the external environment. They give more importance to excellent lighting and ventilation facilities. They blend traditional styles with modern facilities in the right amount and this give admirable indoors for your architectural projects.

Interior Design with Carion Bilta

Interior design is the art of decorating the available room space in an aesthetically pleasing manner. It is not an easy task and many people approach professional interior designers to guide them through the process.

An expert designer can emerge with a great design concept, if he knows the client requirements. So, to begin with, the designer might ask a client the following questions:

• What they intend to use the room for?
• What are the likes/dislikes in terms of style?
• Are they after a relaxed or formal atmosphere?

...and so on.

These questions help the designer to assess the lifestyle choices of the client and provide a design that meets their expectations. It is important for an interior designer to place the client's aspirations above their own personal choice in design.

Once the client has chosen a style, the designer can go into the details like texture, color schemes, flooring etc. that go with the chosen theme. While choosing a colour scheme, it is important to assess the availability of natural light. Warm and neutral colours can make the rooms bright. Lightning is introduced as per   the requirement. Furnishing can be used to bring more colour to the rooms. In addition to that, a good interior design should wind up with a furnishing that creates conversation points for the inmates.

At Carion Bilta, we have a team of professional architects and designers who provide you with designs that are tailored to match your unique lifestyle.