Friday, February 18, 2011
new home sewing machine
Saturday, February 12, 2011
design house kitchens
There are many kitchen design ideas and I will offer my opinions to help guide you design the best kitchen ever. The kitchen has become the most important room of the home; therefore its design must fit your family's lifestyle. Long ago, it was primarily the place for cooking/storing food, however in today's homes, it is the gathering place. It has become the central focal point of the home. More money is spent on the kitchen than any other room of the home.
The first kitchen design idea to consider is its layout. It needs to be functional as well as beautiful. One older method of designing the layout is the work triangle. The range, sink and refrigerator would form the points of this "work triangle" therefore creating an area that would make cooking & cleaning easier. One issue with this concept is only one person typically would fit in this triangle. Today, cooking is usually a family event with socializing therefore its design should take this into account.
Designers now use a zone design that accounts for more than one person in the kitchen at a time. This creates multiple cooking areas. Separate cook tops & ovens and sometimes they will install two sinks, one for prep and the other for clean-up.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The Basics of Home Design Trends For 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
home recording studio design
Personally I love the slick white feel of a Mac Book, and I have also recently got an iMac with an extra two gigs of Ram for ultra speedy home editing.
The other great benefit of a Mac is that it comes with Garage Band which for me is a big player in the recording software market. (More on this later)
Home Recording Studio Design - The Microphone
The nicest cheap Microphone I have found so far is a Studio Projects B1, this is a great little condenser Microphone that is very versatile and can take a good beating. (Which is good for me because I get very passionate and angry during recordings and wimpy little Mics don't stand a chance!!!) I once spent $5000 on a really nice Neumann Microphone only to drop the thing plum on the floor and break it in the first day of use.
This is basically what you need to make your guitar or voice show up inside a computer and make those wavy lines on the screen. I like the Mbox as it has a couple of inputs and is nice and compact.
Home Recording Studio Design - Midi controller
When I want to add some string or maybe a sexy bass guitar I fire up my M Audio keyboard and use a program called Reason which gives me access to over a thousand really nice quality samples; a must if you have an ambitious sound in mind and do not have access to an army of session musicians.