Parrot on a PorchA Journey Toward the Little Mansion Dream

When thinking of putting up a home decor but got no spare money to spend, here’s one creative solution that you can resort to.  Take out and unearth all accessories that you have.  Include holiday home goods and stores Christmas blings-blings that you have stocked.  You’ll be surprised about the possibility and how many objects that you can enhance and make a home decor with using rhinestones, beads or even those simple stamped brass lapel pins and brooches.

Here are your options:

1. Pillows – To dress up  an occasional chair, decorate a throw pillow with a flash of rhinestones.

2. Christmas Stocking – For Christmas, you can come up with your DIY stocking by pinning brooches and pins.

3. Framed Collections – Arrange your label pins collections and have it framed.  Hang them on the wall to use as accent in the living room or hallway.

House moving entails a lot of complicated and strenuous details.  From packing the house stuff to the actual moving of huge furniture, it surely wouldn’t be possible if you’ll just do it alone.  A professional help from house movers and specialists are needed to make things easier and organized manner.  They have the necessary equipment that will not only be able to carry, lift and unlift heavy and huge loads but these will also secure your delicate stuff from incurring damages and careless handling.

The mechanism of the same equipment can be highly compared with a davit.  Probably, this term will appear new sounding to most of us.  So for the benefit of those who are clueless here’s the davit definition.  A boat davit or a or sometimes referred to as dinghy lift is a very helpful equipment (a machine like) that is placed on the decks of boats and ships.  Depending on the size of the boat, a small or big davit can be utilized.  The primary use of these boat davits is to lift heavy weight items or even for hanging other smaller boats (remember Titanic?) or rescue boats.  In the olden times, these davits were operated by manual labor.  But in these modern times, these can be run by electricity as well.

There are different types of boat lifts to date.  They vary in the manner of installation: some can be built on your own (Do-it-yourself) while some require professional help with the setting up.  It may also depend on the waterfront you live on, your budget, the type of boat that you have whether it’s aluminum or fiberglass and the size of your boat.

In a nutshell, a davit or dinghy lift is just one of the things that help in carrying, lifting and unlifting heavy cargoes.  Without them, marine life would surely be difficult.

We have a neighbor who’s into on automotive buy and sell business. Recently, he got a chance to talk to the husband and he was sort of wooing our Green Machine, the husband’s ever reliable 10 year old Nissan Sentra car. It’s been maintained very well over the years and still looks good as new. The car’s performing and serving us well but the husband is thinking if it’s time already to do an upgrade. After all, it’s been 10 years. So now, he’s thinking if he can sell the car or trade it in with another available model that our neighbor currently has. No final decision here yet since we’re concentrating with the Little Mansion at the moment. But we will see. Who knows by the end of the year, we’re parking a spanking new car at Little Mansion’s carport.

Speaking of cars and vehicles, I’m quite drawn with one particular auto these days every time we pass by the showroom of Chevrolet along EDSA. It’s the chevy silverado 1500, a line which falls under the Full Size Pickup Trucks. I normally do not fancy huge pick up trucks but the exterior styling and features are just gorgeous. It’s charmingly huge that it can claim the “King of the Road” title. One of the line, which I think is the 1550, comes in three trims in regular, crew and extended cab body models. I further researched about this truck on Trusted Dealers and came to know that the Chevrolet 1500 Silverado is the driver’s choice in terms of engine specifications among full size pickup trucks. With the Used Ford 150 as its close competitor, the engines have been efficiently modified and refined for that everyday cruising and towing and with its hybrid model, made with a better gas mileage. Many consumers favor this over the F150 and in fact, it ranked fifth in the trucks with the best gas mileage. The hybrid engine enables the electric motor to keep the truck running when idle so the gas engine can be shut off, thus, saving enormous amount of gas. Now it’s possible to own a truck that has a good towing capacity, power, able to carry large loads and best of all, a remarkable gas mileage.

The architectural works of this house (a.k.a. Nakahouse by XTEN Architecture) is simply stunning!  The chromatics is also very pleasant to the eyes…all white inside, black on the outside and extra color additions to the interior arrangements.  I also love how the interiors are kept with minimal finishes.

The surrounding views towards the Beechwood Canyon as well as the Griffith Park Observatory are also breathtaking and captivating.  On the pic above, you can probably picture your man standing by the white curtains, smoking al capone cigars on a bright sunny morning while beholding a great view of the mountains.

Credits: Pictures from Freshome.com

Having a medicine cabinet at home is mandatory.  This will safely keep all your medicines in one place and at the same time, the family members know where to head to and get the necessary first aid meds should an emergency arise.  Usually, a corner medicine cabinet is strategically installed on the bathroom wall, just enough to be easily reached but not too low that small kids can access.  Medicine cabinets can go as simple as a small wooden or plastic compartment and it can also be as decorative as a vanity cabinet.  However it is designed, it must be remembered to check and organized regularly the medicines inside it.  Check for the expiry periods.  Further, research about each and every medicine that you would stock.  Remember that not all medicines are for the good because there are certain drugs that can cause harmful side effects as in the case of Actos for which an Actos lawsuit is now filed in courts.  Diabetic patients who took this have suffered certain heart conditions like heart attacks and heart failures.