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Home and health are two things that are an integral part in the life of modern society today. That’s why housing construction continues to be associated with health requirements. That is for residents of the house protected from various diseases, especially infectious diseases. Health is no longer just a doctor problem, designers / architects who planned to stay home also has a role to improve the quality of health of the household through home design he made.

To determine the design of houses in the process of development is, of course architect position can not be released. The role of architects, who design houses offer a good fit with the ability of home owners, should be equated with the role of prospective residents who have health awareness. Both are equal and parallel, because the house that meets the requirements of healthy also means keeping the environment clean.

To obtain a dwelling (house) is decent, home environment must meet health requirements. If not, this will have an interactive relationship that adverse effect on health. Healthy home so many aspects, among others, there are aspects of sociology, physics, chemistry and biology.

At the present time, construction of houses is based on several considerations. Financial factors into consideration for a mediocre economy. While good finance consumer build a house by taking into account only the beauty and luxury.

The criteria are based on the needs of healthy house the size of which related to the size of the floor of the house. Ideal for one person requires a floor area of 4.5 m2 and for children aged 1-10 years is about 1.5 m2. During this small house filled with a lot of content is family, so it looks crowded. Thus, the growth aspect neglected family. Aspect is also important to note is the ventilation. That is, the floor must be assembled house good ventilation system, in order to get cleaner air quality. The results, good ventilation approach based on health are 10-20 percent of floor area house.

Interior Health House

Ventilation is one of the essential elements to support health. We can not postpone breathe, but if we’re thirsty, we can still be put off drinking for a while. And unfortunately in our homes often find sources of pollution, especially cigarette smoke and from the burning stove, paint, asbestos. Everything that contributes to air quality inside the house.

Last physical environment, radiation from televisions, radios, other electronic devices as well as noise. Workers at the company radio and television, according to one study, there were complaints menstrual disorders. It is said that this is the adverse effect of radio radiation. Therefore needs further research, whether even this can be suffered by residents of the house?. Demand for housing is dominant, and community awareness for healthy living at home is increasing. This is certainly not out with the mushrooming of housing-housing development in suburban areas by the developer (the developer).

Even the beauty aspect of culture and luxury has its own meaning, but when viewed from the point of health, healthy home is not being met or not depends on two things mentioned above. Based on the statements of American Public Health Association (1959), one house is seen in accordance with the principles of health if it meets four basic requirements.

- First, be able to satisfy basic physiological needs of residents.
- Second, able to satisfy basic psychological needs of residents.
- Third, to protect residents from possible outbreaks of infectious diseases.
- Fourth, to protect residents against possible accident hazards.

Exterior Home Healthy

In other words, the house is really healthy is a house that can guarantee the preservation of the health of the occupants. The house is luxurious, if the occupants are always getting sick, then this is not a healthy home. Conversely, even though his health is relatively simple, but if residents can be assured, then the house can be regarded as a healthy home.

In the end, the problem is indeed a healthy home can not escape from the residents themselves. By maintaining cleanliness in the home means health of environment come awake. When home and healthy environment, then formed what is called a healthy home.

Prepare the cabinet to hold all the kitchen furniture. Eating and cooking equipment are stored neatly in one place. Each kitchen set is always a closet as storage space. The size and design may vary from the overall design kitchen set. Usually there are cabinets on the kitchen set up and down. Several other designs are also placing a high cabinets to store all the kitchen utensils.

Kitchen cabinets set at this picture 45cmx50cmx200cm size. Inside were six shelves, each 30cm high, enough to store a variety of kitchen equipment. Eg cooking utensils, dishes, and various food containers. Sure thing what can be stored there depends on the willingness of owners, because in this closet there is only the shelves as well as general cabinet.

Has a large closet of course based on the aim that this cabinet can store various kinds of goods. However, although large, not all goods can be placed there, in a crudely apalai. Storing furniture should be in a state of neat and easily accessible when needed.

For that there are some things to consider, namely: the size of cupboards and shelves, the size of the items to be stored, types and functions of the goods, and how often goods are used.

Items that are rarely used, can be stored in the deepest part of the cabinet or on the top shelf. Instead, place the goods or equipment that is often used, in the outer portion, which is adjacent to the door.

Similarly, to election of the rack. Items that are rarely used, should be kept on the shelf at the bottom or top. While the rack in the middle, parallel with our height, used to store goods or equipment that is more frequently used. Thus, these goods are often used more easily accessible.

Are you bored with the look of the floor in your home? The solution, you can lay the carpet to get around the boredom or lack of in your household, because the carpet is the home accessories that have diverse motives, so that certainly makes your home look more attractive. You can put the carpet from the living room, family room or living room, bedroom or at your favorite place at home. You need to consider in choosing a carpet that is in terms of colors, patterns and sizes of these rugs. In arranging are also required accuracy, which would be placed where the carpet the carpet is and whether it fits with the concept of interiors and spacious rooms in your home. It can be a reference you in putting the carpet.
The carpet is quite modern style house as the accent is placed under a table or chair. Carpets of this type are called accent rugs or scatter the size a bit small. Even if the big one just put in the room, usually in the living room. Large carpet area rugs are called. Room with a classic interior concept is patterned carpet can be placed, for example, Persian carpets are famous for the bustling motif.

Meanwhile, the concept of minimalist room, the carpet is more suitable to be placed is a plain rug with geometric motifs and designs are simple, such as motive or plaid lines. For business colors, minimalist style of the room decor was not demanding too many colors. Self-carpet basic colors (basic) and neutral that can be easily harmony with the interior room. This is also because the concept that impressed minimalist house simple.
Whose in (trend) is now the fur rug with a slightly thicker and slightly longer or called shaggy hair. To give a different touch, though, could the color of the carpet color that contrasts with the color of furniture or office wall. But do not hit the origin of color, must remain matched to the overall composition of the interior color.

The use of carpet is sensitive to dust and dirt from carpets so that the view was beautiful to the eye becomes even carpet can become a den of disease. For that you also need to maintain the cleanliness of carpets such as:

* Clean the carpet on a regular basis, with a vacuum cleaner and washing at least once a year.

* Wash the carpet, to get the carpet clean inside and out, with a rented carpet cleaning services, carpet cleaning wash yourself with or use the washing machine carpet.

* When you want to own the carpet cleaning, spray cleaning fluid in one direction. Brush with a damp sponge.

* Once dry, clean the rest with a vacuum cleaner. Before using the carpet cleaners should try it on an area rug to make sure that the cleaning substance is not destroying the carpet color.

* Avoid carpeting from direct sunlight so the colors do not fade. If possible, cover the carpet with the cloth as the sun was blazing.

* To remain fragrant carpet, sprinkle baking soda on the carpet, wait for 30 minutes, then wipe with vacuum cleaner. For a more sharp fragrance, rinse the carpet with a mixture of vinegar and water with 20-80 ratios.

* While attached to the carpet stain, immediately clean the stain as possible by white cloth. The longer the stain is attached to the carpet, the more difficult to clean.

Is your home cluttered? Too much stuff is the most common problem faced by owners of small houses. Irregular storage mode can also make great house looks a mess.  The easy way to handle this is by doing the color game. Here are some tricks that can be used as a reference for setting the goods at home for the better.

Kitchen
Children are often hungry when rummaging through a cupboard. Label names are often ignored because they are back to read one by one. For that use a colorful box. As for the cereal yellow, the color red for a biscuit, or blue colors for the candy. Do it also for the storage bottle of juice or sauce.

Bathroom
Specify color for each member. Let your child choose his own color. Starting from a towel, bathing suit and toothbrush so he would not use someone else’s.

Learning spaces
Having more than one school age children at home allows them fought each other learning tools. This condition usually occurs because all the books and school supplies look the same. Try using a different color label for each book. If you only have one child, use different colors for different subjects.

For workers, use color labels to files and folders to be more easily found when needed. Use a similar trick to separate bills, taxes and other official documents.

Medicine chest
Make sure the mark of all drugs with colored tags. For example, use green label for vitamins, yellow for general medicine, or red for child medication. In this way, the medicine cabinet will look neater, as well as facilitate choosing the right medicine.

Bookcase
Bookshelves can be very messy, especially if the whole family uses only one rack. Color can help you find the right book fast.

Paste the book with appropriate category labels. For example the blue label for a relaxing reading a book or red for reading books when you need eagerly mood. So do children’s books. Let them select their own favorite color for the pasted on the side of the book binding.

Nowadays, stairs is made to be able to influence the interior display space. His presence could make the room look more beautiful. You must know how to apply the upstairs so no one put it. According to architect Shindu Oka, there are some things to consider before applying the upstairs in the house.

The first thing that must be questioned, it serves as what steps? That is, the stairs just as a means of liaison work that is routine or she is made simultaneously to connect the decorative elements in the room?

Notice, where the stairs are to be placed? This question relates to the question above. After that, think of how much land that you provide to the stairs? This is related to the width of the stairs you will apply. After all it was missed; you can automatically decide what kind of steps that must be used. You are drying clothes in an upstairs room, while washing in the basement. That means, you need the stairs that was in the laundry room.

Well, kind of stairs which is applied here does not use good materials. Surely you would prefer a regular ladder in character, whether it is steel or kind of a simple wooden staircase. Land needed was certainly not as much as you want to apply the stairs in the family room stairs.

Another case if you want to apply the stairs as a decorative element. The selected location of the most prominent and easily visible. The material used is also not that unusual, but selected materials sufficient to support these elements make it more interesting.

Usually the most affecting beauty of the staircase is the choice of railing and stamping steps. Because if we’re wrong concept just a little on the railing, it can destroy the concept of space. Thus, two elements important to note its quality, whether it be in materials and types of railing choices consistent with the concept of space..

It’s not easy to design the upstairs because these elements are associated with placement and forms that will be used, whether the type of straight stairs, letter U, the letter L, or a spiral staircase?

Consideration of placement of the stairs can be influenced by several things. For example, the main staircase is usually located in the family room. Family room is where the hub of activity and control at home so that the placement of the ladder is usually not far from the location and out of the living room. Another consideration is, usually the steps are not placed in a hidden place, because the upstairs is also an access to exit in case of fire. Therefore, try to have a backup steps that can be used if there is danger of an unwanted. This reserve upstairs may have a range of 20 cm between child stairs.

Moreover, in designing the most important steps is convenience, especially for users who are relatively old. Between children tall upstairs that is often used is 20 cm. In fact, already exceeding the limit of comfort for the average Indonesian.

Comfort zone for us is 15 cm-17, 5 cm for height stairs, while the width of the stairs bodies for the sole of the foot is 30 cm. While the width of road space for stairs, based on anthropometric standards Indonesian people in general. So, it is known that the Indonesian people need space with a width of 60 cm to walk. While for the walk by bringing goods, then the required width of the space of about 80 cm-90 cm. Keep in mind also; do not make the upstairs that is too long. At least for the objects of the house can be divided into two parts which are restricted by the landing.

Landing function is as a place or a short break before climbing down the stairs again. For the structure of the upstairs, can be used wood, steel or reinforced concrete. Its function is almost the same. Only, the major difference is the selections of structural materials are usually influenced by the themes that will be applied in the room or house.

When viewed from the system, the road to the next floor there are two, namely the stairs and ram. What are the steps we have seen before, while the ram is upward sloping street without stairs. The ideal slope of the ram 1:7. One meter to seven meters high and the size is the length of the horizontal.

When we want to do home renovations, of course we have to calculate the costs needed and if we are not careful, could swell the budget originally. Then follows the step-saving tactics so we can keep our house dress but in a way that saving and of course without prejudice to the beauty of our homes.

Here are some tips for saving and renovating homes with quality:
• Define the concept of careful renovation
At this stage, we determine which parts of the house that we want to fix, how to design, whether we will use the old material back or not. If you want to use old materials would be unloaded carefully to prevent damage. While useful in order to determine the design in accordance with the results we want. Because if the results do not fit, we have dismantled it so more cost. By knowing the concept with cooked also help builders work faster.

• Determine the quality of building materials to be used
If indeed our funds are limited, there is no harm we use medium-quality goods or used goods. If we choose carefully, we can find a secondhand but good quality.

Use of medium quality of goods such as ceramic tiles, wood, frames, or paints the interior. Ceramics are fitted with good technique can produce a beautiful floor while using the ceramic medium quality. While parts of the compulsory use of the goods with good quality is at the foundation of the house, planted by the water pipes, building structure, roof truss. Can be imagined when the earlier part of such a leak or damaged, we would have to dismantle again which means that the expense of another. For exterior paint also advisable to use good quality because the outside of the house is usually exposed to rain, hot sun or moist air.

• Eliminate one part of the renovation work
What is meant here is that we do not do one part of the job, so time is used more quickly and can save costs. For example: without the plastered walls that can make the walls seem natural, or painting without the plamur.

• The selection of payment methods
Payment methods are generally divided between the wholesale and daily. If indeed we are uncertain what will be renovated and we already know the concept of the renovation is done, then it is better we use the wholesale system. Conversely, if we are not yet clear concept of the renovation we can pay a daily basis.

• Choose a good time to renovate
Renovation should not be done during the rainy season, because the builders who worked on this season may have difficulty. In addition, for parts that is beyond being renovated into a dry hard and can even be damaged.

Floating houses is an alternative lifestyle solution for living on water, and best suited for low ying regions.

Floating houses has been a long time tradition especially in the region of Lake Union, Seattle. Even though from the exteriors mostly all the house in a particular vicinity look same, from the inside most of them have their own charm. Earlier, modern Interior designs were not preferred but now most of these floating houses are used as holiday homes and are designed with modern amenities and good looks. The site or area on which these houses are built is quite small and there are few selected architects who are chosen to build these floating houses. The most attractive and common feature of these houses is a terrace or balcony in every room where one can relax and get a feel of a moving ship. Vandeventer and Carlander Architects are one of the famous architects for floating houses.

If the house interiors are like a body of the house, especially the living room is her clothes. In this space the guests who came to spend his time. As the host, of course you want to make your guests feel comfortable.

For that, the idea of making your home living room with a calming and soothing touch really feels right. To achieve this we need a choice of colors that can strengthen the impression of cool to be carried.

Iridescence in the living room that will give the impression of cool can find with a touch of neutral colors, white, ash or combined with cooler colors.

Why these colors are recommended? According to the book ‘Managing the Modern Minimalist Interior Small House’ essay Samaya Living Stylish colors are inspired from fresh plants and bright sky. The most important thing from cool colors are able to give residents peace and quiet at home.

However, do not just apply all these colors on the walls or floor. You can apply a game similar colors on decorations or furniture to prevent monotony. choose form of furniture and decoration that interesting.

If the living room that you have less than vast, strategies that need to be taken is to apply the white color on the walls broken so clean and airy impression.

The slim model selection sofa also help the impression of space in order not to appear narrower. Some accessories may be present on the credenza as aesthetic elements as well as air freshener.

Garden presents in the house nowadays is a necessity. How to set it and what is the appropriate herbs planted there associated with conditions that are full of earth pollution?

Park in a house supposed to be represented. Only, his presence should not be based on the trends and habits of follow-up, follow-up, while the “mission” you create the garden is neglected. Indoor garden that you made it clear need to provide positive effects for you and your family.

Parks contribute many benefits to humans. In addition to the surrounding air becomes cooler and a refreshing eye view also you can get. But, if you want a function that “more”, for example removing harmful substances in the home, certain plant species can lho do it.

Now you try to check again, is there any type of crop grown antipolutan in your household? Plants absorb pollutants antipolutan work around residential areas. According Giwo Rubianto landscape architects, many benefits can be obtained if the plants grow healthy. Among others, keeping the air around the place to stay to keep them clean because these plants can absorb pollutants and produce oxygen that is useful for humans.

Pollutants such as benzene, formaldehyde, and trikloroetilen who are all around us believed could lead to various diseases complaints, such as vision problems, skin allergies, fatigue, and weakening the power of recall. In the long run, if people constantly inhaling these materials, can cause damage to liver, kidney, as well as various types of cancer and leukemia.

Well, one way to solve that problem is to grow ornamental plants that can reduce or absorb the pollutants. As for the type, among others aglaonema, Dracaena, Sansevieria ficus, clorophytum, chamaedorea, spathiphyllum, philodendron, aloevera, scindapsus, nephrolepis, Moses, and anthurium.