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  • A Reflection of Our House Through Time
    [Home-and-Family] The focus of the home has changed over the years. The television has replaced the hearth and the kitchen becomes a common place for family to socialize, drink, cook and party. Indeed, home tells a story about life and family.


  • How To Determine Good Furniture?
    [Home-Improvement:Furniture] How do you determine whether a piece of furniture is good? Quality furniture is comfortable and durable. We can determine the integrity of good furniture by observing four elements- the frames, the springs, the cushions and the upholstery fabric.


  • Laminate Flooring For Your Home
    [Home-Improvement:Flooring] Laminate flooring is great when you know that you need to install a wood finish at a traffic heavy location. Faux wood and faux stone laminate floors provide you with the look you want tempered with physical wear and care properties that you and your family can live with.


  • Designing With Natural Light
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] To a human eye, the desirable norm is sunlight. Hence, when we design with light, we have to consider natural light first. The charm of using natural light is that it is ever-changing...


  • What To Look Out For When Selecting Paint?
    [Home-Improvement:Painting] What do you need to look out for when selecting paints? What are the properties of paint that you should be looking out for? What are the qualities of paint that you should be aware of?


  • Appreciating The Use Of Paint Primers
    [Home-Improvement:Painting] Paint primers are often not appreciated for what they can do. Paint primers are really important because they reduce the possibility of problems that are not only present now but in the future.


  • Compositional Technique in Art
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] Composition is the integration of many different kinds of art techniques and philosophies with one' s technique and style in painting. Composition technique is never easy and should be studied in great details for anyone interested in the study of Art.


  • Designing With Day Lighting
    [Home-Improvement:Lighting] The sun is a constant source of light. It does not change its quantity and intensity. But the earth in which we are living in changes every now and then! Hence, our perception of sunlight does vary with our location, time and changes in the atmosphere.


  • Using Contrasting Colour In Painting
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] How do we do achieve form in painting without sacrificing colour tone. Are you an artist that rely heavily on earth tone colour to create great form? Or you are perhaps the colourist who create paintings with loosely stated form.


  • Art of Shading
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] The art of shading is developed by learning to recognise volume as represented by the pattern of light, medium, and dark values of the subject before you. Once you have understand the pattern of light, then shading becomes very easy.


  • How To Choose A Piece Of Old Furniture?
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] If you buy an attractive piece of furniture, check first to see if it can be restored to its formal glory. But make sure that it is not too costly or it will cost more than the second hand furniture! You can engage a reputable dealer for professional advice.


  • Planning Your Children's Room
    [Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Children' s room got to be planned carefully. Your child will be growing up and hence, the design and decoration got to change every now and then. As the child grows up, the children's room needs to prepare for multiple functions. It will have to double up as a playroom as well as a bedroom. When your child starts to go to school, you will have to provide study area within the room.


  • Graffiti Art - A Solution to Urban Decay?
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] Graffiti is a social expression as much as one would associate it as a personal one. Many people who are opposed to graffiti, see it as a reflection of social breakdown, rebellious attitude and a lack of sense of citizenship.


  • Language of the Art
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] Is there such a thing called language of the Art or Art language? Is there a secret to cultivating an artistic expression? The answer lies in understanding the basics of Art language. There are seven components of the language that organize and relate images on the painting which will animate and unify the various elements in the painting.


  • Understanding Space in Painting - Pictorial Space
    [Arts-and-Entertainment:Visual-Graphic-Arts] Space is an essential knowledge in the understanding of design. Human beings live in space but a picture comprises only of a 'flat surface' with no actual space. It would be foolish to disregard this 'flat surface' as something insignificant in the context of Art. In fact this ' flat surface' can be transformed into what is known as 'pictorial space'


  • Why Sketching?
    [Arts-and-Entertainment] Sketching is the fundamental skill of a designer or Artist. A good foundation in the technique of pencil sketching is important if anyone wish to become a master painter.




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