House Construction is Within Sight

We found out that we are just one requirement away from the start of our house construction. I talked with my friend who is an architect and we scheduled a meeting this Saturday to start the house planning. We need to submit the draft as soon as possible. The rainy season will come soon and we don’t want to build a house with the rain and flood.

Anyway, I know we have to work hard in the coming months. We need to take care of all the details from the electrical switch plates we will use up to the kind of hollow blocks we would need. We have zero experience but thankfully we have my Dad to guide us in every step of the way.

Slide

Aside from GoKarts, slides are Zyke’s favorite. He has tried a myriad of slides – from the small slide at small play-pens when he was still very young, to the bigger slides at mall playgrounds, even the high water slides at Splash Island. I have contemplated on attaching a slide to his bed before – just to make it fun but sadly I’m not much of a carpenter and I’m not good with tools like pliers and even L-handle latches.

Anyway here is Zyke having a good time at a giant slide in a nearby children’s play area:

Go Karts

Since our son is home schooled, it is imperative for us to make sure that he gets to go out and enjoy as often as our schedules permit. Home Schooling and other home based studies are getting popular because of the positive effects and results taken from it. There are even Online elementary education degree available! Finally parents are afforded to take their role seriously – and that is to guide the learning of their children.

To make sure our home-schooler gets his fair share of fresh air, my wife and I have resolved to turn our Saturdays into a special family day. We will be going to kiddie parks or malls with playgrounds for our kids to enjoy. Our favorite venue by far is the Quezon Memorial Circle, although quite far from where we live, the benefits and joy it gives our kids outweigh the cost and travel time.

The place keeps getting better – aside from the many kiddie playgrounds that are available for free, they now have water pedal rides and bike like go-karts. My eldest son really love riding these go-karts as evidenced by the picture below:

I even join him from time to time because the venue offers a big three lane circuit for even dads to join their kids. Each ride costs around P40 to P100 per 20 minutes depending on the type of ride.

Kurt Cobain Jaguar

Nirvana was a very strong cultural phenomenon back in my younger years so everyone my age was either influenced by their songs directly or indirectly.

Now Fender is giving fans a chance to try the guitar that Kurt Cobain was using. Even with it’s above average price, I have a feeling that a lot of young people will still get this guitar for simply being a replica of what Kurt Cobain used. Read more about this tribute guitar at Guitarsite.com

Home Repairs

Since its the rainy season, we expect to see some damage on our old house. If my information is correct, half of the house was built during the late 70′s, and the other half was built when I was around 8 years old.

Now that our house is scheduled for a total reconstruction, we don’t want to spend too much money on repairs as much as possible. Although I love this house and have all my childhood memories on it, I can’t wait to get it fixed for the safety and convenience of my family. It’s also their turn to have happy memories. so for now we will just have to do the minor home repairs.

Wish we had manufactured homes available here, so we can pick a nice house and have it delivered to our lot! For now we wait and we’ll have to see the house being built piece by piece.

House Plans

One of the things that we’re looking forward to this year is the building of our new house. I know it’s not a walk in the park and the process is going to cause us a lot of headaches but we know it will be worth it in the end. We almost ended up moving to an apartment earlier when we discovered water on the floor, one particularly rainy day but thank God the rain stopped on time. We’re in a flood prone area but we’re just going to build the house higher and buy wooden furniture like those Adirondack chairs I saw online. We can just add a stylish and colorful pillow to make it more interesting.

This week, we are going to meet with our architect to put in paper the design we wanted. The house would just be a simple two-storey house but it would be something we can call truly ours.

What’s Inside your Medicine Cabinet?

medicine cabinet

A bathroom has indeed been always a place of comfort and cleansing for us. And we should admit also that we can’t properly live without it or with it being shabby and dirty. Besides from the toilets, sinks and the shower, there is that thing called a medicine cabinet which every bathroom should have. It usually consists of fancy things that people often use for their personal hygiene. Examples are those facial creams and cleansers that we apply for cleaning our faces, shampoos for our hair and a bit of perfume to freshen up our day.

These medicine cabinets, as almost everybody know, are typically concealed or hidden beneath a crystal-clear mirror. Thus, a mirror marks the spot where it is located. They come in different sizes and style, and even in shapes, to suit best what we feel about them. There were frameless, made of metal and of wood. And with this, we should always keep in our minds that the most important essence of having this thing is that it always helps our bathroom to be neater and organized.

Redecorating an Old House

Who says an old house will never look gorgeously stunning? A house, though olden through time, can always look beautiful inside and out. Most often than not, an old house, especially that which is made of wood, is redecorated to have a cabin-like or antique style. You do not actually need to have the whole place renovated, besides, when things and furniture are old or antique, they are of higher value. Wall lights and ceiling lights should be added here and there.

Sometimes, you can mix up old and new ones and still come up with an ultra stylish house. Hinkley lighting is all you need to redefine an old house. This line has all the sorts of lightings and other types of fixtures you need to give your old house a new boost of loveliness. You can place a chandelier on this room, and a pendant light on that room and you are almost done. Some repainting jobs may also be necessary.