Learning how to Choose a Real Estate Agency

Employ tile, scrubbable vinyl wallcovering, or enamel paint all the way up walls wherever possible. Use safety glass mirrors and safety glass on shower doors, and make sure all electrical outlets are grounded and located away from the sink or tub. If children are of widely different ages, install a full-length (safety glass) mirror that all can use and towel hooks or bars at appropriate heights. Ask for a slip-resistant tub floor if you must use a shower/tub combination. Insist on slip-resistant flooring, Bangkok and make sure front corners on vanity countertops and cabinets are rounded. Be sure to also put the light switch near the door low enough for younger users to reach. Safety tips for kids’ baths really apply to any bath.

So, whether your bath is a superspa or a tiny powder room, make sure these principles are at work. You know when you see a fireplace mantel with a huge vase on one end and a tiny candlestick on the other that the balance is off. Balance is the sense that objects in a space (or fixtures and furniture in a room) are weighted equally on both sides of a given center point. It makes you innately uncomfortable.

The complementary scheme of yellow and violet can be regal in gold and purple or springtime-pretty in jonquil and iris tones. Double-split complementary. Often seen in designer fabrics (which you can always copy, including the proportions of each color), this sophisticated scheme uses two colors on each side of a color plus the two colors on each side of its complement. For example, blue-green (perhaps as aqua or teal) plus orange (peach) and red (pink) for tropical flair or yellow plus red-violet (orchid) and blue-violet (periwinkle) for a spring garden look. For example, if you like red and true blue, shake it up with red-orange and red-violet plus blue-green and blue-violet. Split complementary. This attractive scheme uses the colors on each side of its opposite.

If you’ll be living in your home while the work is being done, ask if the workers left the place “broom clean” at night or in a mess, if they woke the baby with loud music, and if they were easy to live with. When you meet with your prospective professionals, be sure you have an elementary rapport with them. Do you believe they’re knowledgeable? If anything “just doesn’t feel right,” look further. Honest? Pleasant and responsive? Reliable and unflappable? Do they seem interested in your needs, your lifestyle, and your dreams? Ask if they’d hire the contractor again or recommend him or her to family and friends.

You can get the same look for less if you opt for large marble tiles set flush to each other. For even less, you can choose “cultured” marble, which is marble dust bonded into a solid slab, or, for still less, select a laminate countertop with a faux-marble pattern. Handmade, custom-colored, imported ceramic wall tiles. If they’re too costly to use throughout, use them as “bath jewelry” in tile borders and accents.