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 amount of light. You can mount a long floor lamp in the corner of your home. Also mounting LED lights and other lights in the corners of your home will make your home free from the shadows and the grotto look. If you have a larger corner, you can mount a top lamp along with a writing desk by the side. Corners make a best place to set up your work area.

Storage space: If you are running short of space in your room, corners can be the best place to act as a storage space. Get a corner storage unit or cupboard and mount it to any corner. Such storage space will serve you as a great place to hide things or keep them organized without being missed. Various books, accessories and video cassettes can be stroed in such places. Apart from just acting as a storage space you can also attach media speakers in the corners which will make the noise even more audible by spreading all over the room. This will give your room a chic look.

Decorative space: Comers can also be used as decorative spaces to keep embellishments and various other decorative items. You can mount a pedestal in the corner and keep your expensive decorative items like vases, sculptures or idols which will also be kept safe away from the reach of your child. Also you can make a showcase in the corner and keep the items in it. You can also keep your favorite art work or aquariums in the corner.

Mirrored corner: As mentioned earlier, comers can serve as a place to make your room look larger. This can be done by using mirrors. You can mount mirrors in the corners to make the place look more spacious. You can also line up beautiful framed photos in corners.

Plants:  Corners can also be used for placing ornamental plants with beautiful, colorful pots. Instead of keeping the houseplants on the floor, you can mount the pot on the corner wall or keep it on a pedestal in the corner. Keeping indoor plants or bottled plants in the corners will condition the indoor air naturally. If you do not wish to keep potted plants in the corner with condition the indoor air naturally.

They act as air purifiers. If you do not wish to keep potted plants in the room corner, you can also use artificial plants to decorate your corner. Artificial climbers can also be used.

Don’t ignores the corner as now we know how they can add aesthetical as well as functional value to our interior.

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 laser printers and automobile airbag controls have already incorporated numerous examples of this technology during the past decade. It is the stuff of our future even as it has already percolated into many aspects of our daily lives. In the sweeping ‘glamorization’ of smart materials, we
often forget the legacy from which these materials sprouted seemingly so recently and suddenly. Texts from as early as 300 BC were the first to document the ‘science’ of alchemy.1 Metallurgy was by then a well-developed technology practiced by the Greeks and Egyptians, but many philosophers were concerned that this empirical practice was not governed by a satisfactory scientific theory. Alchemy emerged as that
theory, even though today we routinely think of alchemy as having been practiced by late medieval mystics and charlatans.

Throughout most of its lifetime, alchemy was associated with the transmutation of metals, but was also substantially concerned with the ability to change the appearance, in particular the color, of given substances. While we often hear about the quest for gold, there was an equal amount of attention devoted to trying to change the colors of various metals into purple, the color of royalty. Nineteenth-century magic was similarly founded on the desire for something to be other than it is, and one of the most remarkable predecessors
to today’s color-changing materials was represented by an ingenious assembly known as a ‘blow book’. The magician would flip through the pages of the book, demonstrating to the audience that all the pages were blank. He would then blow on the pages with his warm breath, and reflip through the book, thrilling the audience with the sudden appearance of images on every page. That the book was composed of pages alternating between image and blank with carefully placed indentions to control which page flipped in relation to the others makes it no less a conceptual twin to the modern ‘thermochromic’ material.

What, then, distinguishes ‘smart materials’?
This book sets out to answer that question in the next eight chapters and, furthermore, to lay the groundwork for the assimilation and exploitation of this technological advancement within the design professions. Unlike science-driven professions in which technologies are constantly in flux, many of the design professions, and particularly architecture, have seen relatively little technological and material change since the 19th century. Automobiles are substantially unchanged from their forebear a century ago, and we still use the building framing systems developed during the Industrial Revolution. In our forthcoming exploration of smart materials and new technologies we must be ever-mindful of the unique challenges presented by our field, and cognizant of the fundamental roots of the barriers to implementation. Architecture heightens the issues brought about by the adoption of new technologies, for in contrast to many other fields in which the material choice ‘serves’ the problem at hand, materials and architecture have been inextricably linked throughout their history.