With a capacity of up to twenty people(due to its 4 meter diameter), BeHive is definitely a concept designed to improve your social life.
Perfect for late home parties and long talks that last throughout the night, this “product” creates an Oriental atmosphere and a cozy one as well.
The side cushions and the fabric take comfort to new heights as the conversation and the good mood slowly takes over.
This may come in useful when your cat is acting up and you’re not. In case your food gets overheated while you have an important document in hands that needs your full attention, here’s a solution on how to stop your playful pet from ruining your work.
The Kitty Keyboard Cover is a great way of not disturbing your pet and letting your cat enjoy the quiet walks in your house, on your furniture, on your carpets, etcetera.
These uncommon cups of tea only prove that design is more and more a part of our lives with each passing day.
The first one is called ‘Chismosa’ and is thought and created by Juanico and in the second picture we can observe ‘Sexy Legs’ by Undergrowth. They both have an unexpected look, but than again the future of design is all about creating surprising and unexpected things.
So whether you imagine you pull someone’s ear or firmly grab a lady’s …cool heels, enjoy drinking from these!
Usually, moving into a new home is not an easy task. An even harder one is moving out of the old one. Why? Well, you have to pack, for one. Let’s remember our last vacation, when we had to pack our bags. Moving is fairly similar only on a larger scale and with more headaches. Not to mention the costs. Here are a few tips for when you move both to make it easier and cheaper.
1. If you look on the spending side, it’s easier, cheaper and more useful and fun to pay your friends in a night out or a night in with beer and pizza, to help you move your stuff, then paying a moving company, whose employees you don’t know, to move your stuff. I’m not talking furniture, fridge, washing machine. I’m talking clothes, sheets, kitchenware and so on.
2. Every piece of furniture and cavities must be filled. If you hire a moving company to move your stuff, be a jerk and leave your clothes inside the furniture. Fill the washing machine. Put your kitchenware into bags in a trash container.
3. Look around stores for free large size boxes. I’m not telling you to look in the garbage, but big stores like shoe stores, appliance stores are a great place to find huge cardboard boxes: TVs, washing machines, dish washers, refrigerators, are stored in huge boxes that get thrown away once displayed in a store.
4. Before you move, start getting rid of unwanted things. Think what you have in your new home. If you don’t have a garden, give away your gardening tools. No use keeping unwanted or useless stuff.
5. Don’t get cheap on insurance with a moving company. Also be very careful who you’re dealing with.
6. Don’t leave empty spaces in boxes. If a box is only half full of items, use stuffed animals, bed sheets, pillows to fill the empty spaces. Use up all the space at your disposal. You won’t get away without a general cleaning anyway.
We talk of air pollution everyday, but what we miss is WHERE is the air so polluted? Outside, because of the cars and industrial plants and the smoke they produce? Well, that’s toxic as well. But recent studies have shown that the air in our homes can be even more toxic. Not to worry though… unlike industrial pollution, this can be avoided more easily. Every day we hear of saving energy. That’s a good thing. That’s why we started building insulated homes for the heat to be retained and sealed doors and windows, for draft prevention. But what we don’t realize is that these technologies, besides being energy efficient and saving you a lot of money, can seriously damage your health. This is because once you wrap your home in a plastic bubble, harmful substances like CO2, tobacco smoke, freon, cleaning chemicals, are trapped in your living space. This means instead of leaking out with the heat, you breathe them in. This is where air conditioners come in handy for pulling out the polluted air, or air purifiers to help clean the inside air.
A few of the most dangerous substances in your home:
CO, or carbon monoxide, is the gas that comes from burning. For example furnaces, fireplaces, heaters and so on. Your car is a CO producer, too, so remember not to leave your car idling in the garage while you run back in for your wallet and leave the door open (you save up fuel also). The gas gets trapped in the house, an if there’s someone sleeping inside, they can even die. Be careful with your fuel-burning appliances.
Mold is a frequent problem in heavily insulated homes. It appears because the moisture is trapped inside and the walls do not “breathe”. Besides being dangerous for your health, it looks very ugly on your walls. You wouldn’t like that.
Radon. This was news for me, too. It is the product of decaying uranium in the soil beneath our homes and apparently it is sucked up by the walls of the basements or by the foundation. It is extremely harmful and it is recommended that we check th radon level in our homes every few years.
So, it is a good thing to save energy, but we must be careful not to do it in our healths’ disadvantage. It’s better to open a window now and then, even if we pay a few bucks extra for the heating.
