Using Mirrors Smartly, Create 'Larger Space' in a Small Home (up)

Home is the haven of dream, own a warm home is everyone's dream, even if it is small.

How to decorate your small home, thus make your small house seemed not very small? Here I’d like to recommend a media star, which can help you to create a large space and smiling when sitting in the house, this media star is, Mirror, no matter new or old one.

Tip 1. Install Mirrors within a Narrow Aisle.


Laying mirrors on one side of the whole wall to create a mirror wall in the narrow aisle, taking advantage of the reflection effects of mirrors to enlarge the space doubly.

Tip 2. Setting Flaky Mirrors in the Locker Room.



Installing a large piece of mirror as a pier glass specially in the locker room, the rest mirrors can be laid with different shapes (wide or narrow) thus to highlight the decorative effect.

Important Attention: Do either Do not settle mirrors in your bedrooms, no matter from the psychology point of view or in the view of Feng Shui theory, mirrors in bedroom will cause bad influence on the hosts.

Tip 3. Making a Mirror Wall aside the Dining Table.



Placing a mirror aside to the dining table in your home, delicate flowers and tableware reflected in the mirror, you can see a vague outline of a more beautiful and warmer small home.

Tip 4. Creating a Mirror Roof at the Entrance.




Creating a mirror roof at the entrance of your home, matched with beautiful wall lamps, then the luster reflected by the mirror roof will make your home shiny much!

Tip 5. Install Mirrors on Doors of Cabinet or Bar Counter.



Here you can use old mirrors wholly, you can install a whole piece of mirror on the door, or you may cut the mirror into several pieces them assemble them on the doors of cabinet, both of the two ways have its own style.

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Two Schemes Make your Gazebo more Enchanting

If there is a gazebo in your home, how would you design and make use it?

Arrange your own outdoor space with your favorite way, enjoy the sunshine, and to experience unexpected comfort and coziness.

Scheme A: Gay Casino



Rebuild your gazebo into an entertainment room, in where grow some of your favorite potted plants, there is nothing more pleasant than chatting or relaxing or having a nap there.

Seats: The steel rocking chair with knitting feel and a dual-use of lying and sitting beauty couch that never get you tired, hand-made armchair made of birch wood emitting enchanting natural flavor. When choosing seat cushions, aside from for beauty purpose, you’d best choose them made of waterproof materials.

Cushions: Outdoor furniture needs comfortable seats ultimately, in addition to lively and bright colors, functions of abrasive resistance and rainproof are all keys to selection.

Striped cushions with bright colors will bring you pleasant psychological feelings, yellow green, orange-red with flowers and green leaves in the gazebo also set each other off beautifully.


Scheme B: Lively Dining Room



Move the dining room outdoor to enjoy delicious foods! With a piece of tablecloth dotted with flowers, exquisite tableware as well as flourished flowers and plants to create a romantic space and mood.

Flowers and Plants: Flouring potted plants can ease the atmosphere in the gazebo, which is helpful for relaxing mood. You may grow ivy in the flower containers aside the gazebo, their extended branches connected which the garden scenery; You may also placing several basil as well as other vanilla plants in the gazebo, they are natural condiments that can be reserved for a gathering dinner.

Carpet: You may choose waterproof carpet made of pure wool for outdoor use, which will be comfortable and the same time good with quality. If it were smeared you may spray polypropylene detergent to clean it, or leave it to professional cleaning staff.

Tablecloth: Select a piece of table cloth decorated with magnificent large flowers can create a type of warm ambience of pastoral, make the whole gazebo full of enchanting flavors. If you are not able to buy a satisfied one, you may DIY such a tablecloth with special fabric.

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DIY Pastoral Style Cushions, Cool Down Your Living Room in Summer

In the white Korean pastoral style, classical pure white cushions will often been choose to be the best match, adorned with romantic lace or flouncing edgings. However, in such a white space, they will be seemed to be too cool.



Two small patches of rose pattern, soft and beautiful pink will add a brush of bright color in the piece of pure white, at the same time full of sweet and romantic feelings.

Delicate lace edgings just like an antique photo frame, encircling two patches in it, just like two elegant decorative paintings hang on the wall, simple but beautiful.



Placing simple linen striped cushions in the room, they will be looked fresh and elegant. But in a pastoral style home, they will looked too rigid and lack smart sweet feelings.

Use four patches fabric with different patterns of plaids and dotted flowers, composed a large patch of four-frame pattern, so the front face of the cushion become rich in pastoral flavor and warm quality. Pristine floral and plaid patterns have unique sense of countryside, which will not destroy the natural flavors of pastoral style.



Elegant black and white plaid cushion, with pastoral style pristine quality and plain elegant style feeling, but if the cushion been done soft and loose, it will lost it original sense as a strict lady.

Therefore, make a pumpkin shaped depression in the center of cushion, then fixed with a white fabric button, thus make the cushion become more ‘concave and convex’, and show its unique sense of elegance and liveliness.

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You should Know about Feng Shui with Placing Plants in Kitchen

Placing some plants in the kitchen can not only clean the air, but also improve the moods who stayed in the kitchen, so you can make best dishes, and placing right plants can increase the kitchen feng shui as well as take you more wealth, here are some tips on feng shui when you want to place some plants in the kitchen.



If the kitchen in your house is located in the South, and placing foliage plants will contribute to your savings.

Kitchen located in the south affected greatly by red sun, and you will unknowingly have a strong tendency to overspend. While foliage plants are able to abate the foul air of sun and reducing the intention of over overspend, so foliage plants is advantageous for saving.



Kitchen located in the East is very auspicious, if it is in other directions, you can place red flowers on the table or settle them close to the refrigerator, which is very conducive to keeping a good health.

If the kitchen in your room is located in the West, you may placing golden flowers, daffodils or pansies, which can not only turn away foul air of sunset, but also bring you more money.



If the kitchen is located in the North, you may placing pink and orange flowers in it, which is helpful to adding vitality to the whole house.

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Black and White, Dance between Modern and Classical III – Chapter of Bathroom & Kitchen

Chpater III - Bathroom



Adding a line of carved stone wall tiles in white tiles, is a popular way in bathroom decorating, while choose the black matched with white which is pole apart, so the dull wall become more dynamic and vital, and the whole visual effect become more comfortable. At the same time, black and white towels, bathroom curtain, ivory white lotion bottle and black tooth mug are all seemed very dissonant and suitable.

In the white tile in the wall posted up a stone flower, is a popular way bathroom renovation, and the choice of white contrasting with black to match the strong exception to the monotonous walls enriched, makes the overall visual feel comfortable. Black and white towels, shower curtains, ivory ceramic basin, white and black, hand lotion bottle tooth cylinder looked very dissonant.

However, as black is somewhat dull, so such a home furnishing settlement is more suitable to a bathroom with adequate light.

The blooming flowers aside to the wash basin, will not only let your shines open at once, but also take more vitality to the bathroom. Now you will see that a little color can also make simple black and white become more energetic and lively.

Chapter IV: Kitchen



A kitchen room totally decorated in black and white will make people stay in it feel clean and tidy. To a kitchen room with rather small area, you may choose black and white mosaic tiles to decorate the flooring, and use black and white tiles to pave half of the wall, the white part can show the cleanness white the black part can conceal smears which are inevitable in kitchen.

Use white on all closets and floor cabinets in the kitchen, matched with black handle and black management countertop, as well as black kitchen appliances, such a match of black and white seemed so orderly and delightful.

While once those colorful dishes were placed in such a black and white world, they will be looked more attractive and delicious.

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Comfortable Sofas, Meet Your Love at the Corner

As the modern life in cities are busy and tense, so we all reliable to a warm home which can bring us each most relaxing leisure time. But how to make your home more warm and more comfortable? As long as to take some tips, you can create a pleasant home easily.

The latest multi-person sofa in foreign countries can be changed flexible, with adjustment of backrest angles, right-angle folding, a variety of combinations of parts, different shapes can be combined and folded into, thus to meet various needs.

Fashion design concept is always the reason for popular stylish furniture. This is an era concerns on individuality, sofas with changeable shapes can displayed in front of people with any form, any gesture. Bold colors, the latest material are all adventurous applications to furniture design by designers.



A sofa with simple design never comes wrong to the public. White sofa demonstrate the simple home style of the master, angular sofa design, bring the tough feelings to the space, and it seemed men are more favorite such a sofa combination.



A weird design sofa will highlight the taste and individuality of the master more, in this era based on individuality, such a sofa will result in added grace to your home absolutely.

This sofa combination is welcomed by women extremely, and the characteristics of ladies are sofa animals demonstrated fully.



A set of sofa combination settled in a widening space will show the generous temperament of the master good. As the nobleness and elegance of leather sofa have been sought after by people all the time, so there is enough reason for you to take a set of leather sofa home.

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Two Color Schemes to Rebuild a Nice Living Room III – Solution B

After 2: Dynamic & Vibrant Living Room



After added elements of color, now the living room is completely a comfortable gathering space. The blue wall make the space appeared larger, and red wall parts added vigor to the room, and the same time, the color of wall is same as the curtain, which make the whole room taken to more coordinated and more personalized.

Specific 1. Soft home furnishings lightened colors



A leather sofa has been added in the rest area beside the fireplace, so when there are many guests it could to put into use.

Those beautiful cushions with rich color on the sofa added a lot of color to the room; soft curtains hanging lately on the window make the room light turn to more gentle, as well as the French-door style hanging curtain make colors of the room doors more vivid and vibrant, too.

Specific 2. Personalized working corner



A new painted working corner will give you an independent office area, and red can improve your working moods, while when your family members are gathering together you can also join them easily. The Two-tier book shelf mounted on the wall will help you to collect a lot of debris. At the same time a beautiful chandelier will make the working area featured with more personal style.

Specific 3. Beautiful and practical storage



Now the living room has a lot of beautiful and practical storage props. You can use the coffee table when eating dessert or watching TV; at the same time the TV cabinet can used to incorporate DVDs; the Chinese style medicine chest can used to collect a variety of toys, which is both personal and very practical.

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Two Color Schemes to Rebuild a Nice Living Room II – Solution A

Step 1. Build a comfortable working corner

The working corner consisting of a desk and a chair, now it become an DIY area. Use two folders to collect those original scattered documents and letters, the dame time place a notice board at the horizontal position in the eye, aside which there is a floor lamp to replace the original table lamp, so it can illuminated the whole region when after dark.








Step 2. Added color elements

Add a piece of carpet to cover the ground, as well as cushions on the sofa, the carpet with plant patterns and those color cushions added vivid colors and soft coziness to the living room, as the bright floor windows reflects windows and the fireplace, all is seemed so dynamic and vibrant.

Step 3. Make the admission more reasonable

A cloak cabinet has been added into the corridor, which can provide abundant storage space for the family members. From small storage cases to large size storage lockers, the family members can store a variety of items, so they will no longer to have those piecemeal items on the table, and no longer make the space looked in a jumble.

After 1: A new tidy and comfortable living room



After a preliminary rebuilding, we have made full use of the original resources in the living room, at the same time added new colors and patterns, thus solved the problem of absence of storage space for small objects. We also have replaced the original old TV, and placed an ultra-thin plasma TV, so the living room looked as a small home theater, is that feeling wonderful?

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Two Color Schemes to Rebuild a Nice Living Room I – Resolve Problems

Maybe you have been aware of that the living room in your house is somewhat too dim, the walls and furniture are pale and monotonous, although they are comfortable but absent of colors and vigors.

Now in this article we enlarged the problems of a living room specifically, and put forward two schemes to rebuild a nice living room, you will see the comparison before and after, and the living room will become a place full of colors and charms, and become a beautiful and nice space for gatherings of you and your family members and your friends, and let you could enjoy more memorable time.



Before: The Living Room without Much Charms

Dull beige walls, comfortable but less vigorous furniture, simple decorations and home furnishings, all make this living room looked quite far to a nice home. But there are still some good elements, as long as it taken some rational reconstruction, the living room should be become very attractive and lightful.

Existed Problems:

1. Lack of Functional Furniture



There is no coffee table in front of the sofa, so you will feel somewhat unconvenient when sitting on the sofa chatting and watching TV. And all things in the room are looked not enough relax and comfortable, this living room is need more colors, patterns, and soft corners which could make you become relaxing.

2. Space is Under Utilization



Corners of the room are special nooks of the home, which could be used for storing or other purposes.

The corner of this living room is sufficient with sunlight, so it is entirely competent to act as a multi-functional workstation, rather than just been placed with a breakfast table and a number of books on correspondence merely.

3. The admission is no structured



The storage of goods in the living room seemed to has some problems, family members will be readily placed their schoolbags, clothing, sporting goods, toys and DVDs by random. There is no suitable space for storage, so everyone only put things by random and without much order.

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Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration III – Soft Wall Package

Trend III with Soft Wall Package: Living in Cloth

When the author entered into a prototype room of the home furnishings MALL, I found myself as if entered into a world wrapped into fabrics, it is so soft and quiet.

"The feeling what we want is just this - use soft cloth to wrap hard walls, and a type of warm and serene feelings thus produced”. Said the designer to the author with smile, “This approach of wall disposing is called soft-wall package, on the surface are fabrics, while inside linings are sponge, that is to use fabrics and sponge wrapped walls, and any type of fabric is applicable.

Due to its excellent performance of sound-absorbing, the soft-package wall are general be used on backdrop walls of TV in the living room, bedroom or audio-visual room, but in most occasions you can not use it in a large area.

In general, walls decorated with flexible packaging cloth are simple, generous, as well as features of soft colors, looked warm and splendid, with angular edges and continuous symmetry, which could giving you soft and relax feelings, it is very comfortable.

Cleaning tips: can be cleaned with spray cleaner.

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Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration II - Textured Brick

Trend II with Textured Brick: Zipper can also on the Wall


If you are still young and meet the fashion trend well, the same time has enough courage to accept fresh and personal elements, you may wish to try textured bricks in a small area.

Textured brick is a type of high-density ceramic tile with unique modeling and imitated leather texture, whose surface was made to imitated leather texture with special mould. The decorating style intend to rather wild and cool, and are more suitable to modern style home decorating, and are mainly used in the decorating of TV walls, bathroom or study walls.



On the wall cover with textured brick displayed by the designer, the author was surprised to find that the wall with leather quality and texture, as well sewing threads, close-ups and polishing edges, on its central area, there is an imitated copper zipper! No wonder the designer was emphasized all along that "fans" of textured brick should be a fashion bird, or else it is really difficult to take it back to your home.



Textured brick is a new member in the porcelain tile group, which is a symbol of fashion and trends, and people who favorite with leather products can achieve a warm, comfortable and soft dream in the home decorating.

Textured bricks featured with novel design, well-made, delicate handcraft, which could restore the sewing art of leather products truly, together with its pure glazed color, so the natural texture of leather were returned to a natural textural quality, and looked very artistic and attractive, so this type of wall decorating material can not only applied to bathroom in large area, but also to all wall space of bedroom, studies, balcony and even kitchen.

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Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration I - Wood Fiber Wallpaper

Wall decoration is the impression builder of the whole cubic space, which can render the space atmosphere effectively, and to create a unique and distinctive impression to the interior space.

Once we referred wall decoration, inertia of thinking will always make us concern to three things: paint, wallpaper and color painting.

So in 2009, what kind of new coatings is in fashion for the wall decorating?

Trend I with Wood Fiber: Wallpapers Made of Sawdust

Can sawdust also be posted on the wall? The answer is: Yes, and the results were pretty good. This is a new term of wall decoration especially popular in this year - wood fiber. According to the introduction of designer, as the visual effects of wood fiber is outstanding, colors bright, simple and generous, wide variety of colors and easy to match with furniture, so there is a very wide application to its suited style, now this kind of wall decoration were mainly used for walls of TV backdrop, bedroom or study to do modeling decoration, but it is not suitable for large-scale use.

As it is called wood fiber, actually it was pressed with wood fiber, wood pulp, cotton fiber and a small amount of quartz, because containing quartz, which makes it shiny, but in fact it is a member of the wallpaper family".

With the designer's guide, the author came to a light yellow wall covered with wood fiber, and found it is really shiny, and rich in texture. Reach to touch it, felt very rough, and looked closely, there are many tiny cavities on its surface, which shown in granular and uneven.

"Does such a wall easy to care for and maintain? Do those cavities inside it will not conceal dust?" the author asked. "Of course it is easy to care for and maintain, you can use a horizontal filter of vacuum cleaner to clean it directly” said the designer, “and it is also very simple to install this type of wallpaper, you only need to do some basic processing on the original latex paint wall” On another side, "wood fiber can also be repaired and overall moved, but pay attention to avoid knocking and bumps”.

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How to Furnish a Beautiful Hallway?

Hallway is an area at the door entrance, which is not designed to produce convenience to the guests to take off clothing as well as change shoes and hang hats, more importantly, it is the first scenery people seen before entered the room, though it is small in size, but play an extremely important role to the style of the whole room. And the most effective way to beautify the hallway is to decorate it with furniture and home decorations.

At first, the design of the vestibule should be based on the room type and home decorating style, it could be made into arc-shaped, strip shaped as well as rectangular shape, and material scope can contained wood, glass, stainless steel, stone and so on. Generally the hallway made of stainless steel and glass materials are more closely tied to the simple modern style home furnishings, while hallways made of stone material and wooden boards will more suited to countryside style home furnishings.

As regard to home furnishings and home decoration, small tables are very suitable to place in a hallway, whose desktop is not need wide, and can stand lean to the wall, above which, to hang a mirror or a selected painting, plus matched with a pair of decorative wall lamps, the effect is be quite good.

If the hallway area is large enough, an arc-shaped wall table will be a good choice, which will even bring your home more luxurious temperament. If you pay more attention to the practical function of the hallway, the simplest way is to display a group of vertical clothes hangers, and there are many novel design clothes hangers are takes up much less space, but also can provide some storage space for things, with them you can store each pieces of things at the door entrance and incorporate them altogether; another choice is to place a big size oblique triangle or converted trapezoidal shaped cabinet in it, which can store a lot of things and at the same time seemed small and exquisite.

As respect to home decorations, you can use fabric furnishings, lighting and green plants to decorate. You can place an exotic printed cloth or an antique desk flag on the wall or tabletop.

Lightings as small spotlights, tube-shaped lights, strip lights, wall lamps, neon lights and other items of lightings can irradiate the hallway very bright, at the same time make the environmental space looked more elegant. If the vestibule size is not much large, you should notice not use too much lightings in it, and two or three pieces is appropriate.

Make use of the wall face and countertop behind the door, put several potted foliage plants, for example, chrysanthemums, primrose, etc., which can bring the hallway a bit of vitality, but should noticed that the placed plants should not hinder sights of guests as well as not impede the access.

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Best Lucky Home Color for 12 Constellations in 2009 (II) --- Capricorn, Gemin & Aquarius

Lucky Color for Capricorn in 2009 --- Red / Purple

As alienated and indifferent as Capricorn, who favorite with emphasizing on logic and reasonable, in particular, their contentious and argumentative disposition always make others prohibitive. However, its down-to-earth way of working to somewhat save some respects and acceptance for him.

Therefore, as the color energy of red which stands for working with feet always on the ground, as well as the color energy of purple stands for good at thinking and learning, become the color energy of Capricorn.

Bring more red with could help Capricorn to walk out from their own world, and with courage to face challenges of outside world, as well as strengthening and building their body energy, it appears that there are really a great deal of benefits!

Brief Summary:

In traditional Chinese culture red is considered as an auspicious and festive color, when we had experienced through 2008 laugh or cry, especially at this time the shadow of the international financial tsunami is still lingering around, we may really need some red to encourage everyone's mood.

In the color psychology theory suggests, red is stands for warm, upward trend, but at the same time it could make people excited, stirred, nervous and impulsive easily, and it is also a color that can caused visual fatigue easily, so it is not a color that suitable using with a large size area at home, only applied it as a embellishment in your home decoration.

Lucky color for Gemini in 2009 --- Blue / Pink

As be extremely gifted as Gemini is a baby born with great curiosity, who can learned new knowledge quickly through his sensitive ability of respond, as well as transferring the information out, especially good at gossip chatting of words.

Also just for this reason, Gemini persons are good at expressing their favors, but not exposed their emotions…Therefore, as pink stands for inner love, and blue is stands for assist to express inside true ideas, become the color energy of Gemini. Looking at self-inner world of stably, and not to flaunt too much so one can not make sure his true purpose, is the task for Gemini endowed by colors.

Lucky Color for Aquarius in 2009 --- Blue / Blue-Green

The energy color for Aquarius is a wonderful combination which mixed with blue, green, and yellow. How do you to check the energy of your water bottle? See if you are familiar with the operation of the Internet, learn all kinds of new high-tech knowledge, as well as the ability to play self-originality ...through this way you can aware that whether you have obtained the energy of Aquarius….

So try to use more blue-green color in your home decorating and home furnishings to help yourself, so you will able to demonstrate in the new era, and no longer to fear of expressing the value view of yourself in public, and you will become more satisfied with yourself.

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Best Lucky Home Colors for 12 Constellations in 2009 (I) --- Taurus, Aries & Sagittarius

The unusual 2008 has been past, and how is the luck of 12 constellations in 2009? What is the lucky color special for you and your home, let’s see together…

Lucky Color for Taurus in 2009 --- Red





As stable and sincere as Taurus persons, its stubborn character is also list top in12 constellations. However, Taurus person are pragmatic and emphasis on economy, as well as enjoy the elegant manners of material enjoyment, and a very clear behave is they insisted on things they owned greatly, therefore, as red stands for substance, sex and living manners, red is acted as the power color of Taurus. Red can improve slow characters of Taurus people and urge them to speed up their paces, and not keep themselves to a small world of its own.

Lucky Color for Aries in 2009 --- Red / Gold



As passionate as Aries, it is born of a brave fighter. They will never shrinking back and rushed out on everything. As long as there are Aries people there are zealous or conflicted scenes…The power color of Aries is red and gold, gold is a color of wisdom, which can appease grumpy Aires person who like to control others, as well as its impulsive characters when something occurred on. However, there could not be hot things at all, because the Aries can attain to success just for this kind of eruption power with which to help Aries to carry out all its forces…

In 2009, the lucky color of many constellations is red


Lucky Color for Sagittarius in 2009 --- Red / Green

Sagittarius are senior intellectuals, they alive and like friends, love of sports, whose character of half man and half horse it is very obvious. Reflected in color, red has a strong eruption power, and featured with a little positive and aggressive inclination, plus with green, a color linked with nature, is so conformed to the free and easy characteristics of Sagittarius. However, as passionate as Sagittarius, whose power color still is red, because for Sagittarius who used to think much, there is no things like more activities that needed by Sagittarius..

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New Green Home Furnishings --- Scientists Has Developed Clean Type Cook Stove

As estimated that the indoor air pollution will cause about 4,000 deaths every day, among which mostly are women and children…now researchers at Envirofit International Group had invented a clean type cook stove which can reduce fuel and smoke, and try to spread it out worldwide… A non-profit group based in the American state of Colorado is working to save lives. Researchers at Envirofit International have developed a clean-burning cook stove that uses less fuel and reduces smoke.

They say it cuts the smoke and dangerous gases by up to eighty percent compared to open fires or simple traditional stoves. The cook stove was designed to produce the greatest amount of heat in the shortest amount of time and with the least amount of fuel. It can burn wood, animal waste or crop waste.

The Shell Foundation has formed a partnership with Envirofit to market the cook stoves. The British charity, established by the Shell Group in the year two thousand, has invested ten million dollars in a pilot project for India.

Martha Kohlhagen at Envirofit tells us that as many as ten million stoves will be sent to southern India by the end of this year. She says the stoves are being manufactured in China and will begin arriving in May. The stoves are designed to have a lifetime of up to three years at a cost of about fifteen dollars.

After India, the plan is to market them to China and Brazil, and to other countries around the world. Envirofit expects twenty-five million dollars from the Shell Foundation and other donors over the next five years to support its efforts.

Nongovernmental organizations and local stores, in some cases, will sell the stoves in villages. The price in different countries will be based on demand and local economic conditions.

Martha Kohlhagen says Envirofit will also work with local micro lending organizations to help support the sale of the stoves.

Envirofit says it will use any future profits from the stoves for further research and development. The group wants to develop combination technology, to be able use energy from the cook stove to provide things like heat or light.

Two students at Colorado State University, Tim Bauer and Nathan Lorenz, started Envirofit International in two thousand three. The group has ties to the university. Envirofit developed from research work in the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at Colorado State.

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Super Creative Ideas! Novelty Home Furnishings Show

Nowadays people try to pursue personality and uniqueness more and more, so more and more and creative home furnishings begin to entered into people's daily life.

Big Foot Cylinder Toilet Paper Stand

Drop Water Tap Design Memo Clip

T-Shirt Mirror

While looking, while writing, while hanging! At on side it is acrylic mirror and another side is a white board, on which you can dabbing at your pleasure with a gel pen and wipe or revise the words with a wet wipe or an alcohol dipped cloth…of course it can be used as a clothes hanger to hang your clothes…you may choose it as a cool birthday gift and giving it to her/he fall for look.

Mr.P Laughing Seasoning Cans

Hollowed Network Fruit Tray

Different with traditional fruit trays, instead of adopting traditional plate shape, this type of fruits tray take a network design. As a result, larger size of fruits such as apples, pears and so on, can be placed on the tray top firmly.

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