Month: March 2022

Scented Candles in Home Decor

When I went through the car wash and the attendant asked me what scent I wanted to be sprayed into my clean car, I was always a bit shy about choosing one. Did I want a “new car” smell, or lemon, or mint? My confusion was in not knowing my own preference – and that, of course, is the #1 rule of choosing the right scented candles for home decorating.

Although there are generally accepted associations with particular aromas, the greatest association is your own. The sense of smell is one of the strongest links to memory. A fragrance that may bring pleasant memories to one person may remind another person of some bad experience. That’s why selecting a scented candle for someone else can be a little tricky!

Major hotel chains and airline companies have learned the importance of fragrance and have incorporated their own designer scents into their lobbies and common areas. They know the importance of associating good experiences with the memory of their brand. Realtors have long known that baking cookies during an open house makes the house feel more like “home”.

Interior decorators have even found that the perceived size of a room can be expanded with floral and fresh fragrances that emit the smells of the out-of-doors and springtime. A room can be made to feel warm and cozy with certain food and spice aromas.

Here is my list of general associations:

Autumn – cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cranberry, and ginger – evoking the memories of Thanksgiving

Winter – evergreen, pine, spiced cider, peppermint, baked apple, and orange – remembering Christmas

Spring – chocolate, floral, fresh linen, berries, and citrus – Valentine’s Day and Spring Fever

Summer – melons, tropical fruits, peaches, pears, cherries, flowers, and cappuccino – Vacation Dreams

Anytime – lavender for relaxation and happiness, vanilla for lessening of desire for sweets, peppermint for an energy boost and headache relief, and baked goods and coffee because they always smell great!

I have found that my favorite aromas are food related, so I like vanilla, chocolate, coffee, pumpkin pie, pink grapefruit, lime, and lemon meringue. My dish washing detergent and car wash options are easy for me now and I have scented candles with my favorite fragrances around me at home.

When you find your personal fragrance preferences you can indulge in your favorite memories with the help of quality scented candles. One warning: You can over-saturate your senses to the point of no longer being able to smell a particular fragrance. Change it up a bit and you’ll make the most of your candle choices.

Choosing Your Bathroom Faucets and Fixtures

If you’re planning on remodeling your bathroom, or you’re building a new one, one of the most important decisions you’ll make is the type of bathroom faucets and fixtures you’re going to use. There are many different types to choose from, and a wide range of prices to go along with them.

One of the first things you’ll have to decide is exactly what fixtures you want. Will you be installing a bathtub/shower combination, a separate tub and shower stall or just one of the two?

Do you want to add a bidet to your bathroom, or stick with the more common fixtures – here in North America at least. And will you be using a vanity with a sink in it, a pedestal sink or some other type of sink?

The amount of space you have to work with will be one deciding factor here. If you have a small bathroom, you may not have enough room to have a separate shower stall, so a tub/shower combination might work best. Or, alternatively, you might not have enough space for a bathtub and a corner shower stall would be better.

Sinks are another fixture where you can save some space. Corner sinks, wall-mounted sinks and pedestal sinks are all relatively compact alternatives to the standard sink & vanity.

Once you’ve decided on your fixtures, you’ll have to choose the style of faucets you want. There are a wide range of styles, finishes and materials for bathroom faucets, to fit practically any style you might be using in your design.

You’ll also need to ensure you get faucets that will fit the existing plumbing if you are renovating a bathroom. Unless you want to replumb the bathroom as well. If you’re replacing a double-faucet system, with separate hot and cold taps, you’ll probably be best served to stick with the same setup for your new faucets.

Designing your bathroom can be an exciting project but it can also be easy to go overboard and spend more than you planned. Make sure you consider all your options carefully before you start doing any work.

A Review on Bathroom Renovation

If there is one cost effective place in your house to renovate, it must be your bathroom. To add onto that, it has many benefits to your investment once done. It is hard to let any renovations to your bathroom to go unnoticed.

Therefore, if you are doing some renovations, you should have some of these tips in mind before proceeding.

For starts, you should come up with a budget figure that you are willing to spend and cling to it. Most of the time, if you know the scale of renovation to carry out, getting a rough figure is not a big deal. This needs to be done early before you start the purchasing process, otherwise, you may easily cross your budget limit.

These plans must be ironed out well before anything. You have to work according to a certain strategy so that you do not tear things apart and wonder what next, when you are already halfway through the process. Do not be hasty if you do not have a plan.

A pennywise idea about renovation is to do all the work you can do by yourself. This will save you a good amount of money. There are a lot of costs that are involved in getting people to do certain installations. Why spend that if you can have this done by yourself?

However, if there is work that will need professional help, have it done as much as you can before calling in the pros. This will save you a great percentage of the process.

Since the jobs are therefore in two bits, the difficult ones and the easy ones, leave out the hard stuff to be done for you. This will save hourly fees.

Do you know the sort of materials that you are going to use? If you can, buy all these and store them instead of letting the professional contractor run the show. Even if they are reliable, a good number of them will inflate the prices to get the better of you.

Corner Bathtub – A Striking Design Choice

When selecting a bathtub for a bathroom renovation, one possible option is the corner bathtub. These tubs offer some special design advantages, and can give your bath a unique and stunning look.

This type of tub is often selected to solve design problems. This can be effective in a small bath to better utilize space. When doing a bathroom renovation of a vintage home this can be of particular advantage.

Many older homes have oddly shaped bath areas. When renovating, and in order to keep the cost of the renovation under control, it is often better to work within the space as it is. When there is oddly shaped space or a peculiar alcove, it can often be used to advantage with the addition of a corner tub and give a spectacular result.

Installing a corner bathtub into a large jutting alcove can often create a stunning focal point in an otherwise ordinary bath. Many of these tubs have a large deck which presents the opportunity for either adding decor features to spice up your bath, or choosing among many different types of faucet systems that will further enhance the finished decor in a bathroom.

A small bath can also benefit from the addition of a corner bathtub, this is especially true if the space has an irregular shape.

Corner tubs these days are made of durable materials that hold up well over time, giving long service and good looks in lightweight materials that will diminish the load on bathroom flooring structure.

A bathtub can be selected in either a standard type soaking tub, or one that is fitted with whirlpool jets offering many directional functions and focusing on different areas of the body, special lumbar back rests, and armrests for an invigorating Spa-like experience.

And, some models can even be fitted with doors, if a shower is also something that is needed.

Diverse finish options are also variable, catering to your own personal preference or color needs within your decor.

When considering the design advantages of a corner bathtub, the choice between a standard soaking tub or a whirlpool tub, the additional decor and design advantages of a large tub deck, all the new durable and lightweight materials available, optional finishes, the advantages it offers in an otherwise difficult bathroom renovation, a corner tub can indeed be a wonderful and pleasing design choice.