Month: October 2019

Home is where the heart is, so everyone likes to decorate their homes very beautifully.  There are as many ways of decorating a home as there are people and everyone decorates their home according to their taste and liking.  Some like to keep it simple, some like to give it a traditional look, whereas some others like to decorate it in a modern way.  No matter what the choices are of each individual there are some common things that are often found in homes that we call “beautiful” and these are discussed below.

Art work:  The beautiful homes have lot of art work like paintings displayed on the walls.  They have many art pieces decorated in the specific corners or areas of the home.  The owners of beautiful homes are generally art lovers and they buy paintings or other handmade craft items like puppets, dolls, teddies, and other art collectibles.

Travel finds:  In the beautiful homes one finds many things collected or bought from the different parts of the world or country that the owners purchase when they travel.  These are unique pieces found in the specific places or only those places.  Like one visiting Tibet may buy Tibetans bowels that produce a peculiar sound.

Collection of books:  Beautiful homes also generally have a collection of variety of books displayed in very nice book racks that are artistically and aesthetically designed.  Books though are meant to read and are a source of knowledge at the same time they look decorative when placed in a shelf or book rack in a nice way.

A Green space:  A beautiful home definitely has a green space, whether it is a small lawn or it is a terrace garden or a balcony with lot of pots with green plants in them.  There are many types of pots available these days made of china clay, terracotta, ceramic and a beautiful home has lots of them displayed in different areas, be it the porch, living area, drawing room or a balcony, or even windows.  The green plants that a beautiful home has range from rubber plants, variety of palms, asparagus, and many types of flower plants with lots of flowers in them.  A green space adds to the charm of the house.

So if you like to decorate your home in a nice way it is always good to take help of experts.  You can take help of our interior designers and architects at Creativebuild and they will help turn your home into your dream home.  If you want to have a look at some of our designs and take help of our interior designers you can visit us at http://creativebuild.in/

If you are bored of the existing look of your room and want a change or you find that suddenly some guests are coming and you need to makeover an unused room that you generally use as a store, all that you need to do is change a few things, add a few things, and remove a few things and you will find that your room has been made over. Not just that you can do it in a very small budget if you love to do things yourself.
1. Clean the room: First and foremost clean the room if it is not already clean. Take out the unnecessary stuff and junk and completely clean it.

2. Rearrange the furniture: If you want a makeover of your room, you need to rearrange the furniture. If you do not have an extra bed you can set the thick mattresses on the floor and cover it with a very nice bed sheet and put some nice pillow cover on the pillows and arrange pillows or cushions with nice cushion covers on the bed and it will look very beautiful.

3. Redo the lighting in the room: Another very important aspect of making over a room is the lighting in the room. If you place a nice lampshade in the corner of the room it not only looks elegant, it gives the room a very warm and cozy feeling. You can also make a lamp shade if you like to do things yourself or you can buy one from the market. It is not very expensive and looks good too. Also you can add some extra LED lights if you do not already have them as they add to the brightness of the room.

4. Place family photos on the wall: You can buy a nice cardboard sheet and stick some nice colored paper or velvet paper on it and arrange your family photographs on it and make a collage of it. You can then get it covered by a frame and transparent gelatin paper. Alternatively you can take some nice photo frames and place your favorite pictures in it and mount them on the wall.

5. Change the curtains of the room: One very effective way of making over your room is to change the curtains of the room. You may keep two sets of curtains for every room and keep changing them from time to time for the fresh feeling. If you keep your curtains long enough that they hit the floor they look nice and elegant. You can use sheer curtains that are transparent to let the light in during the day time.

There are many more ways of making over your room, it depends upon your choice and taste.

At Creativebuild we help you makeover your home and your room as per your taste and liking. Your home is an extension of your personality and if you do it with little help from our experts it is bound to stand out and becomes a nest that you grow even more found of with each passing day.

Kitchen is an important part of home and a place where you spend a considerable amount of time if you cook yourself and even if you don’t cook yourself, it is essential that it is organized properly for even the maids to access everything easily and be able to manage it well.

When it comes to kitchen a lot depends upon the space available for your kitchen.  If the space is small it is all the more important to organize your kitchen in a proper way. These days mostly modular kitchens are used to utilize the space to the maximum.  Even in a modular kitchen you have to use your imagination that how to utilize the space to store your items.  Here are a few important points that you must take into consideration while organizing your kitchen.

1.  What you keep in the front counter: Front counter is generally kept for your gas stove, water purifier, and sink.  You can keep your tea and sugar in a tray on the front counter along with the spice box.

2.  What you keep in the back counter: You must have a back or side counter in the kitchen for the working space.  Though it is not possible in a straight kitchen, it is very much possible in the L-shaped, parallel, or U-shaped kitchen.  The back or side counter must be empty so that you may do your cutting, chopping, and kneading of the dough in the kitchen.

3.  Keep space for big containers: In the Indian cooking we generally keep wheat flour and rice in larger quantities so we need space to store them.  You can give a storage under the back or side counter for them.  So you can store your big steel containers with rice and wheat flour in this space.

4.  Put organizers in simple storage: You can put organizers to utilize the vertical space in the simple storage.  You can place your utensils like pans, hot plate etc. or can put your mugs, saucers etc. in the vertical or high rise steel organizers.  It is a very good way of using the limited space.

5.  Keep baskets to organize different stuff: You can put a small basket to keep greater, mortar and pestle, and steel stands to keep the hot utensils.  You can use basket to keep rolling pin and chakla i.e. your roti making essentials.  This is a good way to organize your kitchen.

6.  Use InnoTech Drawers to keep cutlery: You can use the top InnoTech drawer for placing your cutlery, spatulas, and tea strainers, folks and spoons, knives and scissors, and ladles etc.

7.  Keep a drawer for plastic and steel containers: You need many containers in the kitchen to keep the leftover food in the fridge or also to keep the vegetables that are cut.  So you need a storage for that also in your kitchen.

8.  Keep a bottle pull out: You can keep a pull out for bottles like all kinds of oil and ghee.  The bottom one can be used for keeping mixer jars.

9.  Fit a swinging shelf: You can have a swinging shelf in the storage for all the casseroles and your vegetable choppers.  In the bottom swinging shelf you can put mixer and big strainers.

10.  Storage for plates: You can have one InnoTech drawer for placing all the steel or Melmoware plates big as well as the small ones.   You can also keep glasses and bowels in it.  The bottom drawer in it can be utilized for keeping glass lids, chopping boards, and trays.

11.  Storage for utensils needed for everyday cooking: You can have a big shelf for utensils needed for everyday cooking like the pressure cooker, kadahis, big steel bowels, milk boiling vessels, and tea making pan.

12.  Storage for vegetables: You can also have one storage drawer for keeping vegetables like potatoes, onion, and, garlic.

You can put perforated baskets in the storage drawers as they can easily be removed for cleaning.

13.  Storage for Kitchen towels and other accessories:  You can keep a storage for keeping kitchen towels and other accessories like paper napkins, foil, butter paper, zip lock bags, brown paper bags, straws etc.

14.  Storage for spices: You can have storage for spices in the top cabinets.

If you have a modular kitchen you can keep storage for all the things and can designate space for everything that you need in your cooking process.

At Creativebuild we keep the needs for Indian cooking in mind and give storage space accordingly.  Also we try to utilize the space in the most efficient way.  The kitchens designed by Creativebuild are not only comfortable they also look clean, clutter free, and good as storage is planned for each and every small thing that is there in the kitchen.

 

 

Bathroom is a place that needs to be cleaned daily for its proper maintenance else it starts to look bad.  For a feel good factor in your home, you must have a clean, organized, and decorated bathroom.  So here are few tips about how you can keep your bathroom clean and organized.

1.  Remove all the dirty laundry: First and foremost keep all your dirty laundry in the laundry basket to be washed.

2.  Take your cleaning kit: Prepare a cleaning kit with all the cleaners, scrubbers, and brushes to get started with the cleaning process.  Pick up the broom and wiper to sweep and dry the bathroom after cleaning.

3.  Pre-treat the toilet and leave it for 20 minutes: Spray the toilet seat with a good toilet cleaner and leave it for at least 20 minutes.

4.  Clean the mirror and glass divider or door: Spray the glass cleaner on the mirror and on the glass divider if you have one.  Then wipe it with a clean towel or a piece of newspaper to wipe it clean.

5.  Clean the washbasin and the surrounding area: For cleaning the washbasin, spray the cleaner on the washbasin and the area around it, leave it for a few minutes, scrub it properly and then wipe it away with a damp towel or scrubber. Also clean the tap as well.

6.  Clean the toilet:  Now let us clean the toilet seat.  Keep two separate brushes, one for cleaning the seat and other for cleaning the inside.  Scrub properly inside and then flush.  Spray the water in and out and clean the brushes right away.  Dry the seat with paper napkin or cleaning towel.

7.  Clean the floor: To clean the floor you can spray some surface cleaner and pour water.  Now sweep with the broom and pour some more water.  Then clean the floor with the floor wiper to completely dry it.  You may as well use the dry mop to dry the floor if it is needed.  You may leave the bathroom door open and switch on the exhaust fan for the bathroom floor to dry.

8.  Change the garbage bag:  Change the garbage bag from the dustbin.

9.  Place fresh towels and toilet roll: Place fresh towels in the towel  hanger and place the toilet roll.

This is the daily toilet cleaning routine and you can do more weekly cleaning by cleaning your buckets, mug, and stool.  Clean all your bathroom fittings with vinegar as it gives a sparkling shine  to them.  You can also disinfect them with disinfectant wipes.

You can also make your toilet look luxurious by keeping nice soap dispensers, hanging nice towels, and putting a small green plant in the bathroom window if you have any or near the washbasin.

At Creativebuild we provide you with many ideas to decorate your bathroom according to your space and provide for the bathroom storage as per your needs.

Kitchen is the place where a lot of cleaning is required due to everyday cooking.  If we do not make it a habit to keep it clean, it would be a ground for bacteria to grow and many pests to come and dwell there.  Therefore it is very important to keep it clean and germ free.  If you develop the following habits you will be able to keep your kitchen always sparkling clean:

1.  Keep a towel handy: To dry your hands after washing before cooking keep a towel handy so that your hands are clean while touching the vegetables, flour, and pulses and you don’t touch any containers if your hands are not clean.  You wash and dry them with the towel before using any containers.

2.  Keep a kitchen towel under the chakla: If you keep a cloth under the chakla while making rotis it helps in two ways, first the chakla will not move from its place while rolling chapatis and second all the dry flour will be collected on the kitchen towel, which helps in cleaning later.

3.  Wash the knives and chopping board immediately after use: To avoid any germs on the knives and chopping board, wash the knives and chopping board immediately after use.  If you don’t wash it immediately the chopping board may get stained and it may get harder to clean it later.

4.  Put peel of your vegetables in a plate: While peeling your vegetables don’t put the peels on the countertop of the kitchen as it would then require some effort to clean it.  Instead you can put the peels of your vegetables in a plate so that your kitchen countertop remains clean.

5.  Wash the blender immediately after usage:  If you do not wash the blender immediately after using it, the food residue will accumulate and it will be difficult to clean it.  It will also leave stains on the blades. So after using it pour some water with few drops of dish soap and blend it.  The blender will be cleaned easily without any efforts.  Wash it now with normal tap water and let it dry.

6.  Place all the food containers and spice boxes at their place after cooking: Once you are done with the cooking always put the food containers and spice boxes at their designated place.  It helps to keep the kitchen clean and organized and avoids unnecessary clutter on the countertop.

7.  After cooking clean your oil dispenser, spice container, and fridge handle: After cooking you must give a good wipe to the oil dispenser, spice container and fridge handle as you touch it many times during cooking and it gets stained.  Giving it a wipe every time you cook will keep your kitchen stain free and reduce the effort of cleaning it later.

8.  Soak the dishes in the water during night: If you wash your utensils yourself, then wash them in the night before going to bed.  If you have a house help that comes in the morning to wash the utensils, then soak all the dishes in the water during night.  Remove all the leftover food from the dishes before putting them into the sink.  This will keep germs and pests away from your kitchen.

9.  Remember to wash your sponge and scrubber: One of the things that absorbs water and gives a foul smell if left unclean is the sponge and scrubber that is used to wash the utensils.  Also it becomes a house of many germs if left unclean.  So soak it into the soap water and completely rinse the soap water.  You can disinfect scrubber in plain hot water.

10.  Rinse and dry the cleaning cloth and sponge wipe after cooking: You should always rinse and dry the cloth and sponge that you use to wipe after your cooking is finished.  This helps in keeping your kitchen countertop sparkling clean and your cloth bacteria free.

If you put the above practices into your habit it will keep your kitchen always clean and organized and you will love to cook there.  At Creativebuild we provide you with a modular kitchen that is functional, easy to maintain, and easy to organize.