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In Feng Shui aromatherapy it is important to bring the energy of the body into balance with nature, and clarify the mind, body and soul through the five-essence: Fire (Huo), Wood (Mu), Earth (Tu), Water (Shui), and Metal (Jin).
The Chinese were using aromatics, or aromatherapy, and dates back to 2,700 BC. So they may have been one of the first cultures to use aromatic plants for good-health, and create harmony and balance and so prosperity.
These powerful natural Feng Shui blends are the perfect way to clear and energize your body and home and stimulating the flow of Chi (energy). These flower essences are liquids, which gives an impression of the given flower.
First clean your room for the good energy (chi), take a bath or shower, use a compass (lo-p’an) to click on the eight directions (BaGua).
North – inspiration, career, success: Geranium – Oil comes from the leaves of the geranium plant. It has a rich sweet rose like aroma. It is said to uplift your spirits and calm your nerves, and associated with the Water Element in Feng Shui.
North – east, knowledge, wisdom, education: Grapefruit – Oil comes from the fruit of a grapefruit tree. It has a fresh sweet citrus aroma. It is said to help with depression, headaches, nervous, and associated with the Metal Element in Feng Shui.
East – health, family, harmony: Rosemary – Oil comes from an evergreen bush which is very aromatic. This oil is been used to drive away evil spirits. This aroma associated with the Wood Element in Feng Shui.
South-east – wealth, abundance, Prosperity: Bergamot – Oil is known for its nicely sweet citrus aroma, and is used for stress, and is said to sharpen your senses to help you think clearly. This aroma associated with the Wood Element in Feng Shui.
South – happiness, longevity: Carnation – Oil is a powdery fresh, sweet floral. It is very spring-like. This oil is for protection, or placed in the room of a sick person and associated with the Fire Element in Feng Shui.
South-west – relationships, romantic, marriage: Rose Otto – Oil is a rich and floral, sweet and penetrating fragrance. It gives a feeling of well-being and happiness.
West – children, creativity: Orange Sweet – Oil the smell just like a freshly peeled orange. This oil is said to be an antidepressant and good for depression, and colds. Aroma associated with the Metal Element.
North-west – trade, fatherhood: Ylang Ylang – Oil comes from the flowers of the ylang ylang tree. Has a flowery and delicate aroma, never overpowering. And is used to calm, relax. It is one of the most exotic aromatic oil, so it should be used in small amounts on its own or when blending with other oils. Ylang-ylang oil is used for antidepressant, antiseptic, and aphrodisiac. Aroma associated with the Water Element in Feng Shui.
Try to use one essential oil or a blend of different oils in your burner. Experiment with different blends and find the one you like. Putting 5-10 drops of cut oils or 3-5 of pure oil in your oil burner that is enough to remove negative chi from your space and attracting prosperity (wealth, health, success) into your life.
Or use a spray bottle with water put 10 -15 drops of your favorite essence and spray into all four corners and the center of the room. This will clear negative energies for both you and the whole room. And when your home is clear of negative energies, you will feel better and attracting money.
Aromatherapy is a very important part of Feng Shui. It is used to remove negative chi from your space as well as provide therapy.
Article Feng Shui Aromatherapy by Maureen Le Couvreur
‘Roti, kappra aur makan’ (food, clothes and shelter) is not the ‘mantra’ (magic- words) of this era of luxury and fashion. With this changing world, its inhabitants as well as their demands have changed a lot beyond recognition. Man is no more satiated with the minimum and basic requirements of life. Everybody wants to relish the best of all things, be it food, garments or shelter. Though it is a characteristic of all human beings that they are never satiated with what they get. They always want to have more and more. There is no end of their wish list. But this urge of man to get more, has also helped him to wade through all obstacles of life. It has also acted as a source of inspiration to move forward. And the word shelter carries more weight as it displays one’s living standard and strength.
Now a house does not mean only the four walls of brick and mortar but the ‘term living in style’ has evolved to take its place. Living in style or living kingly is the catchphrase of the time. A more demand for an elegant living will generate in future for sure. The definition of house has been changed significantly. It has moved from a mere shelter to a sign of premium living, from single standing Project to Condominium, from cement paint exterior to plush glass and metal front. There is a gradual leap from simple apartments to A/c apartments. French windows, aluminum sliding doors, terrace pools, a small garden with the living room, spa and Jacuzzi in the master toilet with shower panel, high quality flooring and specification have become the thing of necessity. Amenities like sophisticated waiting lounge, shopping mall, swimming pool, community hall, children’s park, lots of open spaces and garden, health club, club house, high speed automatic lift with top class security and facility management are on the top of their list. What was considered a luxury few years ago has now become a necessity with the changing lifestyle. It is also due to this aspiration of man to lead a life of comfort and luxury that men are coughing up a good some of money on it. The whole world has learned to live a life in a more stylish way.
People are also running after the most sought concept of building automation or the digital homes. The concepts of digital homes have already reached many countries but still there are such countries that are still untouched by the concept of digital homes. The system enables its owners to control everything from lights, curtains and security system and operate appliances like microwaves, air conditioners and geysers through landlines and mobile phones ( via SMS also). The owner can also connect their homes with internet to control the gadgets and view their homes.
Moreover, after you come back home, you can get fresh and cool air around you, your food already ready to eat, all lights on and many more such services can be controlled only through a SMS from your mobile phone from any nook and corner of the world. This system will prove to be a friend in need of yours.
Finger identification doors, video door phone, gas leak detector, smart card and cameras are already there. But a new leaf has been added with the invention of door alarm which will aware the owner if the door is not properly locked.
In near future, we will find that the building automation, which is a luxury now, will no more remain a luxury but a thing of necessity. Few years back, a building with a good elevation and lift was a mark of luxury but now it’s no more that. Today, premium project means value addition of facilities and lifestyle with location advantages. With the rapid escalation in people’s earnings the popularity of the digital type homes are also increasing.
As the life style plays an important role in the buyers’ mind so as in the developers’. The meaning and aspect of life style is not stagnant. It is always changing with the changing time. The gulf between luxury and necessity is getting thin. Men now can afford more for the availability of easy loan terms with many money lenders. Living in style is no more an uncommon word; rather it is a natural choice for all.
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A platform bed is any bed without a box spring. They have a low profile, for a spacious feeling in the room, and often utilize simple lines, celebrating the quieter moments in life – such as spending time in your bed reading, writing, holding your loved one, or, of course, sleeping and dreaming.
Platform beds have been around for thousands of years. In fact, beyond the pile of leaves, platform beds could well be the oldest kind of bed in existence. In modern times, we have augmented the art of simplicity in a number of ways. One of those ways is in the art of contemporary platform bed design. In this context, “contemporary” simply means designed by living artisans or manufacturers. Therefore, the term is a very broad and nebulous one.
Among the more commonly found characteristics of contemporary platform beds are sleek, straight lines; gently swooping curves; solid, easily discernible finishes and colors; simple, tasteful flourishes and other artistic flairs; the use of high-tech foam as a mattress material; and other characteristics.
Modern platform beds are made of one of two main types of material: wood and metal. High-end wood platform beds are all-natural wood, with no cosmetic stains or overlays. They are usually made out of cherry, redwood, or other wood of comparable quality. Middle- to lower-end models usually are made of a middle-quality wood, with overlays that make the bed frame resemble cherry, teak, rosewood, mahogany, maple, dark walnut, pecan, honey oak and other types of quality wood.
Modern platform beds that are made out of metal are usually tubular or sheet steel. These beds are sturdy, and can be shaped in an almost unlimited array of forms and flourishes.
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Contractors are always asking us to recommend a sealer for them based on our experiences. This has become a challenge for us in a way because there are more sealers available than ever before. Years ago we tried every single sealer available, but with the widespread reformulating we saw in the last several years and all the new products popping up it has been hard to keep up with every change. The complications of reformulating any product are obvious, and some sealers changed formulation several times during this short period.
Sealers are made from a number of different bases with a variety of added chemicals. Some adders make the sealer perform better (application, bonding, flow, penetration, etc). Other ingredients simply add bulk to help hold the “cost per gallon” down. For example, what purpose does adding mineral spirits to an oil sealer have? Well, it thins the product to make it easier to spread and it helps carry the sealer into the wood. The fact that mineral spirits have a very low cost also enables a manufacturer to reduce the selling price of his product just by adding more mineral spirits! Of course the EPA has forced this practice to stop, so some manufacturers are actually dropping out of making deck sealers (because they can’t compete).
In any discussion of sealers, it should be understood from the beginning that there is no one perfect product. The most universal product we have ever used is Ready Seal, which we have used on everything from log cabins to docks successfully. Unfortuanetly this product is used more often by contractors than home owners and there are very few resources online it can be purchased from. Just search for ready seal deck sealer online and compart this product yourself, it’s definetly worth the time.
OIL SEALERS
Oil sealers may contain any of several kinds of oil. Oil sealers may be coatings or penetrants or some blend of both characteristics. Pure coatings sit on top of the wood. Pure penetrants sit at and below the surface of the wood. A sealer that leaves any kind of surface coat on the wood is considered a coating, whether that is minor (i.e. 10% coating, 90% penetrant) or a full (100%) coating. Any product that contains linseed oil is a film-forming product (coating) to some degree. Ready Seal is made from 100% paraffinic oil (a crude oil derivative) and is therefore a full penetrant.
Generally speaking, coatings disguise flaws in the surface or flaws in the washing job. The closer they are to being solid color stains, the more they are able to hide flaws. They may be subject to visible wear in traffic areas as well. Coatings should be stripped before applying a new layer because they will not allow new layers to penetrate into the wood and bond to it. Most coatings require careful application, because flaws like drips and runs will show in the final job. In other words, you (or your employees) must have painting skills to apply any coating in a way that it will look good when it is new and as it ages on the wood. Coatings may flake and peel over time if humidity is trapped in the wood.
Generally speaking, penetrants won’t disguise flaws in the surface such as a poor wash job or stains. Penetrants do not show any traffic pattern wear. They normally do not have to be stripped to recoat down the road, either, because the new sealer penetrates through the old coat and bonds directly to the wood. Applications of full penetrants are fully forgiving, which means that drips or lap marks will not show. In other words, less skill is required to apply a penetrating product. Fully penetrating products are not created to be tough like coatings, so they strip relatively easily when you need to remove them.
WATER-BASED SEALERS
Water-based finishes are becoming more popular as more and more homeowners attempt doing their own work. These products are sold by the big box stores with tag lines like “cleans up with soap and water” – which are very attractive words to the do-it-yourselfer. Latex and acrylic finishes make up the bulk of these alternative products. Water-based products are film-forming finishes. Water-based products and acrylics are very difficult to maintain and to work with.
THE INNER WORKINGS OF SEALERS
PERMEABILITY: Sealers are supposed to be permeable, which means that they allow the wood to “breathe”. This means that ordinary humidity can enter and leave the wood during the normal cycle of the day, but droplets like rain cannot enter the wood. The more pigment the product contains, the less permeable the sealer is. A quality permeable sealer will allow sap to exit the wood without damaging the sealer as it passes through, for example.
Paints are non-permeable, which is why painted decks crack and peel drastically after a short time.
Ever notice what happens to latex paint on a window sill? The humidity present in the wood tries to escape when the sun hits the wood and raises the temperature. Since this moisture cannot pass through paint, the only natural result is that the humidity pushes the paint off of the surface of the wood to escape. That is why paint cracks and peels. This result happens most frequently on window sills (horizontal board) rather that on vertical window trim, because the top end of a vertical board is usually not painted (allowing the humidity to escape). This is why we NEVER paint a wood deck.
VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: For many years, manufacturers threw out terms like “percentage of solids” as a selling point for their products. In layman’s terms, this refers to the amount of product that remains in the wood after everything that evaporates is gone. What evaporates are called “volatiles” or “VOCs”. The EPA has been tightening regulations on VOCs for years because they harm the quality of the air and the ozone layer. Many sealers have had to reformulate once (or several times) to meet these changing regulations. Every time a manufacturer reformulates, the product characteristics change.
VOCs are often simple mineral spirits or turpentine.
NOTE: “High solids” does not mean that the product is thick. Ready Seal has the highest solids of any oil sealer we know of (87) and is also one of the thinnest oils you will ever work with. It simply doesn’t contain much volume of VOCs.
Sometimes sealers contain manufacturing by-products that manufacturers want to dispose of, such as benzene. A careful examination of the MSDS will reveal a lot to you.
PIGMENT: Pigment is a finely ground, inert, colored powder that is used to create color in your sealer. In most sealers these particles are iron oxides. In sealers it is the iron oxide pigment which gives it UV protection. The UV rays of the sun are reflected away from the wood by these minute iron particles of color before they can penetrate the wood and turn it gray. Over time, the rays of the sun use up the oxide particles, and the wood begins to gray once again.
Clear sealers, in spite of many label claims, do not effectively prevent graying because they contain no pigments. If you have a customer asking for a clear stain, educate them about this. I always repeated their statement back to them but changed the word “clear” to the word “natural”. Once I got them to say the word “natural” I simply asked them if they wanted Natural Cedar or Natural Redwood color.
LIFE: Most sealers are designed to last approximately two years on the horizontal surfaces and four years on the vertical surfaces. Some claim more, some make no claims at all. Customers will usually ask about the life of the product you are suggesting, and it is important that you know that the answer to that question is “Depends…” The life depends on the sealer, the location of the deck, the condition of the wood, the local weather conditions, the use of the deck, etc. Remember that sealers are never guaranteed to ‘look good’ for any amount of time. They are only guaranteed to repel water for a period of time. Manufacturers are notorious for not standing behind their products. They simply blame a poor application by the contractor and leave you holding the bag.
Some manufacturers sell “lifetime” or “25-Year” finishes. These are almost always water-based silicone products. Silicone is an excellent water repellant, and lasts a long time. It cannot ever be fully removed from the wood later on, so selecting one of these products is a permanent decision. The drawback to these products is the UV protection, which often fails within a few years of the initial application. Once the wood starts to turn gray, the nightmare begins. If you can’t strip the product off, how do you get down to the wood to clean it and add more UV protection? There is no answer.
CONCLUSION
Part of your choice of sealers has to include factors like packaging, manufacturer support, dealer support, availability, exclusivity, colors, etc. The two most important factors to us over the years were 1) customer satisfaction; and 2) ease of training new employees to be successful on their own using the sealer.
Ready Seal enabled us to teach proper sealing techniques and send new employees out on their own with just 2-3 weeks of working with a lead person. The training time saved and the repeat business that we generated with Ready Seal made our choice of which sealer to use pretty easy.
Consider a few other important factors when you think about choosing a sealer. Ready Seal has no temperature limitations for application, which is a huge benefit to contractors. This means that you can use it to seal decks and fences even when the temperature drops down into the 40s or lower! This characteristic alone can add a few months time to your annual cleaning and sealing “season”.
The only thing that limits the use of Ready Seal on wood is the moisture content of that wood.
You don’t have to hold off just because there is a thundershower expected later that day, either. It can rain in as little as 15 minutes after you apply Ready Seal without damaging the look or protection. That adds a lot of extra days back into your work schedule, too!
Other sealers have their benefits and may be easier to get from a local store, but Ready Seal can change your company in ways no other product we have tested could.
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