For most families, the kitchen is where they spend most of their time cooking, eating and gathering with family and friends for meals. Majority of these families take pride in the appearance of their kitchen. Therefore, it is no surprise that remodeling this part of the house is a top consideration among many home owners.

Remodeling the kitchen greatly improves the resale value of your home and creates a stylish, warm and comfortable space. To be successful in a remodeling project, you need a well thought-out and functional plan. A project that is well planned and implemented, is convenient and seamless. Here are 4 considerations you will need to bear in mind when planning your kitchen remodel.

Budget Considerations

This is probably the most important aspect of your remodeling project. The budget determines the extent to which you will remodel. It helps you determine your options in terms of materials, design and the contractors you choose. It is therefore, important to set aside money you will spend.

You will need to make some choices on where to save and where to spend more. Make a priority list to determine the most important things first. Breakdown the budget to the cost of materials needed, installation cost and other eventualities.

Choose the Kitchen Design and Layout

One of the reasons it is very important to establish a budget early on is that it is hard to make changes to your plans after the project has begun. The same applies to the kitchen design. A successful remodel begins with a good design plan that can easily be followed and perfectly aligns with the budget.

You can draw a few sketches of the kitchen and try to visualize how you want things to look when choosing the design and layout. If you are planning a big remodeling project however, consult a contractor to get their input or draft of a kitchen design and layout.

Contractor Consideration

Choosing the right contractor is probably the biggest factor in your kitchen remodeling plan. A good contractor will help you with the design plan, do a fantastic job, and complete the project in time. Choose at least three contractors to interview prior to awarding the project. You will most likely want to ensure that they have a license and are insured, have a stellar reputation, fit within your budget plans and make certain that they don’t participate in the change order during project phase price game.

Think About What you Want to Accomplish

Remodeling the kitchen is a big task. Before you can begin the project, you need to establish how the kitchen will be used. One of the primary reasons why majority of homeowners remodel their kitchen is expansion. Kitchen counter space, pantry space storage are always at a premium, particularly in a small kitchen. Expansion means more room to work and move around. Look at how you are currently using the kitchen and what you want the remodel project to accomplish for you.

Conclusion

The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in the home. Majority of homeowners find themselves remodeling the kitchen to change its functionality, install updated appliances or simply expand the space to create more room. Remodeling the kitchen can bring a new life and great atmosphere into a home. With the above planning considerations for remodeling, you will have a user friendly and pleasant kitchen to spend time in.

This article shows you how you can use steel in your home. Steel is environmentally friendly, durable, and long-lasting so is perfect for a busy home.  It also looks fantastic!

Steel may not be the first material you think about for your home but it does have many fantastic applications and benefits that will improve the look and value of your home.

With so many products now being made of plastic is it not time to consider an environmentally-friendly option? Steel is classed as environmentally friendly because it is often made from salvaged scrap and is fully recyclable at the end of use.

It is also extremely long-lasting and durable. Unlike wood, children playing will not damage it and you won’t have to paint or varnish it every few years to keep it in great condition.

So how can you use steel in a home? Here are a few ideas:

I am sure you can think of many more uses for steel in a home.  It is a stunning material that will look fantastic for many years. Its looks do not deteriorate.  If anything, it looks better with age.

For many years researchers around the world have wondered whether there is a correlation between the mood of a person and the state of his or her bathroom.

What is the theory about?

This question has intrigued the minds of researchers because there is a popular theory that says that if a person has a nicely remodeled bathroom in Austin – well lit, good smelling, with excellent tiling and very good bathroom fittings such as taps, showers, faucets, bathroom sets etc, then there are strong chances are that the person will be a happy and joyous person. On the other hand when the condition of the bathroom is bad, then there are very strong chances that the person will be a having some crisis in his or her personal or professional life.

Survey done to determine attitude towards bathroom remodel Austin

In order to make a conclusive assessment of the attitude towards bathroom remodel Austin, a survey was conducted among the residents of Austin. The respondents were carefully chosen on the basis of their age, gender, occupation, ownership and interests. Out of a total number of 500 respondents, more than 82% said that they got negative vibes when they used a bathroom that was bad and not maintained, in the sense that it had any one or more of the following deficiencies:

–    The bathroom had a bathtub that was old and leaking.

–    The tiles in the bathroom were dirty and broken.

–    The faucets, taps and showers in the bathroom had begun to rust.

–    There was no proper ventilation in the bathroom because the window blinds were not functional and the window could not be opened to let in fresh air.

–    The bathroom closets were not functional because the water from the pipes was leaking

Positive results emerge about attitude towards bathroom remodel Austin

On the other hand close to 91% of Austin residents gave a thumbs-up to bathroom remodel Austin. Almost all of them said that they felt ecstatic when they entered a remodeled bathroom in Austin because it generated a feeling of happiness in them and this feeling lasted for a long time and eventually led to positive thoughts and actions.

Readers can avail free services for assessment of their bathrooms and recommendations for bathroom remodel Austin From the above it is clear that in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle that leads to positive behavior, readers must make use of an experienced service provider that can remodel their bathrooms in Austin. Service providers can be reached on their mobile phones and they usually reach your place within an hour’s time. They will be happy to do a free assessment of your bathroom, listen to your pain points and thoughts, give their expert advice and suggestions, make recommendations to you based on your needs and budget and finally submit you an estimate for carrying out the work without any obligation or any charge. Austin residents usually avails the services of such service providers when they have made up their minds to remodel their bathrooms.

Are you considering working from home? How about starting an business? Do you think it costs too much? Here’s 15 ways it actually pays you to work for yourself.

So what’s stopping you? You might not be sure what you want to do. There’s lots of ideas on the internet, just do a search for some. You might not be able to afford to quit work and start an business. I wouldn’t recommend you do that anyway; instead try to start something on the side and work on it in your spare time until you get it going to where you can quit your job.

Or maybe you are afraid that it is just too expensive to start a business from home and work online or for yourself.

That’s why I’ve come up with a little list of 15 ways that it actually pays you to work for yourself. Having a job and working for someone else gives you expenses that you may not even consider.

In no particular order, here is a list of 15 ways you save when you work for yourself:

1. Save money on work clothes – no more expensive suits, shoes, ties, pants, etc

2. Save money on lunches – when you spend $5 per day on lunch, that is $100 a month you are spending.

3. Gas – how much do you spend commuting to work, or if you have a sales job, driving around all day?

4. Association fees – some jobs require their employees to maintain association memberships

5. Union dues – Same as # 4

6. Desk rental fees – Can you believe some jobs actually require their employees to pay for the privilege of having a desk at the office? Insurance agents and realtors are a few.

7. Car maintenance – if the job you have requires a long commute, you car will need more maintenance?

8. Lunches with clients – this will certainly cost you more than $5 a meal, and not everyone has a corporate expense account or gets reimbursed

9. Office gift giving – how many times have you had to pitch in to by the boss a gift, the secretary a gift, someone who is having a birthday a gift?

10. Pay yourself – how much more money could you make if you kept all the profits yourself? If you are in sales, you are making money for someone else when you could be keeping all the profits for yourself

11. Professional upkeep – for personal maintenance, things such as hair, nails, etc. Sure, those might be things you’d do anyway, but maybe not as often

12. Lost time during commutes – in some places it is not unheard of for a worker to commute 1 hour one-way to work – one way! Spending 2 hours driving back and forth to the office each day is 40 hours in a month, or 1 week’s work! Know what, that’s time you lose and you don’t get paid for it. Do you think that’s worth something?

13. Cell phone bills – see #12 above…what are you doing during that long commute? Talking on the cell phone?

14. Overnight stays – some jobs keep you on the road, or require you to attend out of town training. Not all jobs reimburse for that as well.

15. A really big way to save money – tax write-offs! People who start a business and work for themselves have a load of deductions they can take on their taxes.

This is definitely not a complete list, but just a little something to get you thinking. There a ways to start a money making website for very little or no cost to you. There are low-cost franchises you can check into. You could even take a look at what it would take to do what you are doing right now, but as an independent contractor or out on your own.

It is a good idea to start looking now. Put a plan together, work on it in your spare time and build it up to the day when you can finally have your business from home, work for yourself and enjoy the rewards of being your own boss!

If I’d spoken of MLM prospecting and finding MLM prospects being a ‘profit centre’ rather than a ‘cost centre’ in the old days, the men in white coats would have taken me away.

In those days, prospecting was such hard work that many people wouldn’t have done it even if you had paid them. In those days ‘Funded Proposal’ meant getting engaged to someone with a good job.

I’m sure you remember being told constantly about time ‘leverage’. I do. Certainly, if our prospects eventually blossomed into highly motivated and productive distributors then, yes, we would achieve the ‘Holy Grail’ of time leverage. Shame it was so tough for any but the super-charismatic few to hang around long enough to reap the rewards.

The problem was back then that the process of prospecting was so completely ‘unleveraged’ that it usually sucked the lifeblood out of distributors before they even experienced the magic of duplication.

And it wasn’t just the time it took to find decent MLM prospects. MLM prospecting was very tough emotionally. Not many of us like to face rejection from family and friends on a constant basis. Even though there were huge success stories in my own organisation, to me it felt like very hard work for not much return.

The real problem of course is back then we were always in the role of ‘salesperson’. The prospect had never sought us or our business opportunity, so we were always on the back foot.

The problem seemed overwhelming. How could you build a residual income though prospecting when the very act of finding serious prospects was draining your bank account?

Enter the ‘Funded Proposal’ method of prospecting and a wholly different way of attracting real prospects. In the old days, you remember, it was all about us chasing them and gleefully showing people how they could get rid of their J.O.B. and walk the beaches with us. I used to wonder why people ran the other way.

Nowadays the biggest hitters are the ones who attract MLM prospects to them. The most effective way to do that is to offer a free report or mini-series of genuine value, that people will happily give their e-mail addresses for in exchange.

They are then followed up automatically by autorepsonder, and offered a quality e-book for a small fee that will give them practical help. Now your MLM prospecting activities have found a serious lead to whom you can send helpful content and profitable offers for eternity.

The key thing is that this prospect will be a fruitful contact for you even if they never join your primary opportunity. You do of course offer it to them, but roughly 95% will not want that – at least not now. In the old days, a ‘no’ prospect didn’t enter any sort of MLM ‘marketing funnel’, more likely they entered a ‘derision funnel’ – an increasingly large group of people asking you if you’d made a million yet.

Learning to use the ‘Funded Proposal’ system will be pure prospecting ‘gold’ for you, and it’s a hundred times easier to master than sidling up to people in the grocery queue and handing out flyers.

A Funded Proposal system, properly crafted, will pay you more as you prospect more, the opposite from days gone by. MLM prospects will join you and your helpful content, and that relationship will be far more important than sponsoring a tyre-kicker into your primary opportunity only to give you the old ‘we’ve been thinking about it’ routine.

If you can make MLM prospecting a process that earns you some money, isn’t that a better model for sustained growth than having your MLM prospects drain your time, your money and your motivation?

The first and greatest idea that you should have is this you should be able to phantom and think of ways by which you can change and remodel that small space of yours to work for you. This would require a lot in terms of finance. However, be it known that redesigning a small space is a capital-intensive project.

Secondly, invest and furnish your living space with those stuffs that you really need. Desist from buying stuffs that you do not really need.

Keep everything compact and small – if you are furnishing a small space, it is advisable that you should keep everything small, simple, and compact. Desist from the habit of buying big or medium size household equipments.
 
When furnishing a small living space, it is advisable that you should contact a furnishing company to produce custom made or custom fitted furniture’s for you. Apart from designing your furniture, they might also need to work and improve on your current space. For example, to create more space, your walls can be worked on and made moveable. Furthermore, your walls can also be worked on and used as a secret bookshelf or a storage place for books. 

When purchasing household equipment for a small living space, you should learn to invest your monies in purchase of household equipments that can be put to multiple uses. For instance, you can get your kids bunk beds instead of buying them separate beds.

Lastly, explore all possibilities and put every available space in your house into use.

Flat design is a web design trend standing for minimalism and cleanness in the website design industry. This trend has become popular since 2012, replacing the Skeuomorphism trend – the most popular trend until then.

Unlike skeuomorphism, which is characterized by real-life 3D objects and shiny buttons, flat design is recognizable for its flat shapes and objects; not generating depth, dimension or any effects, such as drop shadows, highlights and realistic textures.

The goal of the flat design is users to put their focus on the content, by providing faster and more functional user experience. People undoubtedly are associating this trend with simplicity and cleanliness, modern and colourful design.

The biggest advantage is mentioned in the compatibility with responsive design. Users easily embraced the trend because it offered them quick and easy content access. They are able to use the websites very easily and the loading time is faster. Flexible framework – grid is allowing the design to be organized in consistent geometric shapes. This is another advantage of the flat design that allows content to be easily scanned and navigated. When designs don`t use shadows in the typography, you as a user can read the text very easy. The most used typography font that designers are using is the Sans-Serif font.

Designers love the flat design. They can make beautiful web projects, by using bright colours and simple typefaces. However, there is one problem: users were confused about the design and didn`t know what to do or how the interface was working. There was a need for a new web design trend – Flat design 2.0.

While the flat design was considered as a revolution, the flat design 2.0 is treated as evolution. It has the same characteristics of minimalism, but on the other hand, it adds more subtly skeuomorphic features. Some designers are calling this trend “almost-flat” design because they can add subtle shadows, highlights and layers. You can think of flat 2.0 as a way to overcome problems associated with flat design.

Besides adding depth and dimension to icons and illustrations, flat design 2.0 is focusing on adding large images and videos. Also, the long shadow is a very popular technique of flat 2.0. Clicking is simpler: attractive call-to-action (CTA) buttons are created with just outline and text inside. Maybe this is the most valuable feature for the users.

Flat design 2.0 is first mentioned in 2014 when Google relished its new design language – Material design. This is perhaps the most remarkable example of flat design 2.0. The base of material design is flat design with certain metaphors, where users can find similarity between the real and digital world.

Writing a research proposal can be burdensome if you don’t know the techniques. However, once you get the hang of it, it becomes relatively easy. Follow these steps to master the research proposal writing in no time and ensure better grades every time.

Writing a research proposal requires practice, patience, and dedication. It must identify the purpose and importance of the research. Every university has a different structure and format for writing a research proposal; therefore, the tips may slightly vary. However, few basics are needed almost every time. Here are some essential tips for writing a flawless research proposal paper.

Follow The Instructions

Before starting to write the research paper outline, you need to comprehend the topic. It is essential to read the instructions thoroughly and understand what is required out of you. Check for the structure and format along with words limit, if any. Additionally, read the reference or source materials if provided to find out precisely what the assignment is about. This will enable you to conduct extensive research and draft a well-researched proposal. If you require research proposal writing help, you can always approach your seniors who have become a pro in outlining research proposal papers.

Create A Title Page

Once you have understood the topic, it is now time to come up with an attractive title. Your title will vary based on the topic, but generally, it should be descriptive and concise. Your readers should be able to know what to expect from the paper by reading the title. You will also need to make your title clear and accurate so that it hooks the readers from the first word itself. If you are in doubt about the topic and require research proposal help, you can always approach your professor for clarifications. After deciding the title, create a title page with the title of your assignment, your name, and your institution.

Move To the Introduction

It is now time to move to the introduction. Your introduction should include a problem statement, the purpose, and the significance of your research, along with background information. Center and restate the title of your paper in the introduction. Provide a quick note about the topic and the method of your research. Raise the importance of conducting the research and state what you are willing to achieve. If you are not sure about how to write an introduction to your research proposal, you can always look for experts who provide research proposal help online.

Frame A Literary Overview

A literary overview contextualizes your research. Here you shall show the readers that you are aware of your topic’s past and current research situation. You should demonstrate that your research will contribute significantly to all the existing information. Give credit to other researchers who have laid the groundwork, synthesize their work, and contribute with your own thoughts. Ask experts from research proposal writing services to help you know how to frame a literary overview.

Edit And Proofread

After writing the entire assignment, it is now time for the most crucial part. Edit and proofread to find out any mistakes. Check if you have followed all the guidelines and instructions. Figure out if your formatting is correct and if you have included all the necessary sections of the research proposal. Additionally, edit your paper for any unnecessary filler. Slack off any irrelevant information. For example, if you have exceeded the word count, try to make it more concise. Moreover, check for any spelling, grammatical or typo error in your assignment. Finally, before submitting your assignment, make sure your paper is plagiarism-free.

Giving your workers the warmth in a construction site during the winter months is essential. Electrical construction heaters are what you need for your workplace. Here is what you need to know.

Electric construction heaters have more advantages than fuel heaters in most situations. Not only are they cost-effective but also high-efficiency electrotechnology.

Construction heater function

The most common function of electric construction heaters is to achieve or maintain a temperature. The name itself confirms its heating and allows for direct heat transfer. Direct heating makes electric construction heater more efficient and capable of more accurate heating.

Heating process

Construction heaters play a crucial role in many industrial applications. It is better to use as heating done on a large scale extensively for commercial and economic purposes. There are several aspects of the construction industry that need electric heaters for heating industrial heating. The use of construction heaters is of great importance to space-saving. The removal, circulation of airflow is an essential part of the construction process.

Safety

Electric heaters are safer than fuel-heaters because they avoid the hazards and problems associated with using a combustion process to heat the space. They don’t produce carbon monoxide or any other vapor that may harm your staff in the construction sites.

Simplicity and convenience

Electric construction heaters are simple to use. Consequently, construction heating machines are the simplest and most convenient way to heat the construction space in residential and commercial buildings.

Size And Portability

Electric heaters come in various sizes and shapes. You may choose them as per your needs for your construction sites in the winter months. In some cases, electric heaters fit in any space. You may put them in any part of the site to generate warmth for your workers. They are also portable and lightweight. It is easy to carry them around. Moreover, they are provided with handles which makes it easy to move it anywhere you want.

Operating Costs

Electric heaters are more convenient and efficient. Fuel-based heaters are 32% to 38% efficient and only produces ½ of the heat. Whereas electric heaters are 100% efficient and combining this efficiency with fuel cost, you will find it more economical. Additional, these heaters are less expensive to maintain. Also, they have a long lifespan, and you don’t need to replace them often.

Greater Control And Eco-friendly

Constructions heaters with electrical high-degree control are the best for your site. It also comes with automatic control panels, specific temperatures, and range changing facility. It is easy to maintain and more reliable. Automatic shut down switches prevent overheating of the space.

These heaters are not only efficient but also eco-friendly. Electricity produces no harmful emissions and results in a smaller ecological footprint.

High-Temperature capabilities.

Electric construction heating machines can reach a higher temperature than fuel heaters. That makes the heaters more capable of performing tasks other than heating. Being able to achieve and maintain high temperatures give electric heaters a significant advantage over other heating machines.