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Ideas for Decorating the Corners in Home

Every home has a corner which is present in various angles. Corners in a home can at times look too plain and indecorous. Want would you do in order to make your home corners look attractive? Corners are mostly not attached to any windows and are rather small. They are among the complicated areas of a home to decorate. Unsurprisingly, there are various ways by which you can make use of the corner space in your home. The corner in a room by using it as a storage centre for various objects. The objects can be kept in the corner, in order to save space in your home or to add home décor. Corners should never be ignored as they can serve to an array of purposes. They can be functional or can be used for cosmetic pleasure. While we talk about the various ways of converting your room corners in to a useful place, below are the few tips which can come handy; Make use of lights: One of the best ways to accentuate your corners by making the room look larger is to make use of ample amo...

Materials in architecture and design

Smart planes –  Intelligent houses – Shape memory textiles – Micro machines – self-assembling structures – Color-changing paint – Nano systems.  The vocabulary of the material world has changed dramatically since 1992, when the first ‘smart material’ emerged commercially in, of all things, snow skis. Defined as ‘highly engineered materials that respond intelligently to their environment’, smart materials have become the ‘go-to’ answer for the 21st century’s technological needs. Use of Nano materials in Architecture NASA is counting on smart materials to spearhead the first major change in aeronautic technology since the  development of hypersonic flight, and the US Defense Department envisions smart materials as the linchpin technology behind the ‘soldier of the future’, who will be equipped with everything from smart tourniquets to chameleon-like clothing. At the other end of the application spectrum, toys as basic as ‘Play-Doh’ and equipment as ubiquitous as la...