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Flowering pot plants are best considered a long lasting substitute for cut flowers,instead of a house plant with a very short life. Green and flowering plants are a great enhancement to any home or office decor and along with that they are also beneficial to your health.

Many plants have blooms lasting weeks, some even longer. If the flowers die or leaves fade within days, something is actually wrong with your plant. In general flowering pot plants need bright, cool conditions and moist soil. Warm air is usually their biggest enemy.

Different plants need different types of care, some need more light, some more water and the list goes on. But as a whole, there are a few things which one needs to do to take care of the flower plants.

Always keep plants in medium-light locations, direct sunlight may turn out to be harmful for the plant. Natural light is best, but some plants can also thrive in office fluorescent light. Most flowering potted plants should be placed in areas with the most light in order to maintain good flower color and boost the maximum number of flowers to open.

Plant soil should be kept moist at all times. Plants should not be allowed to dry out or wilt but also be careful to avoid over watering. Do not allow your plants to stand in water. Also keep in check that you do not wet your plant’s leaves.

Plants must not be kept in extreme hot and cold conditions as that may deteriorate the plant’s as well as the flower’s health.

Plants should be kept in a cool spot, between 65 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit, for best performance. They should be kept away from direct sunlight, heating or cooling vents, directly under ceiling fans, or on top of televisions or radiators as appliances like televisions give off heat, which causes plants to dehydrate.

To know more one can also consult a florist about plant care.

Home Designing Software provides a way for you to create beautiful, efficient and personalized home designs on your computer that will aid you in the pursuit of your dream home. Good home design software comes with video tutorials, which help us to learn the way of operating the software. Anyone with a dream and a computer can design his or her home with this software.

With home designing software, changing dimensions, roof pitches, or the size of cabinets is as easy as a click and a drag. There are aesthetic tools which allow you to add furniture, appliances, and many other household objects into your design.

Landscape designing becomes much easier with plant finders and dictionaries that help you find the best plants for your area. Not only would you be able to design your interior, but your designs would become even more detailed as you include the layouts of your plumbing, heating/cooling and power.

In the process of designing your home, you will be able to choose 3D and 2D views as per your need to have a view of what you have planned. Since you must pass your drawings on to an architect and a home builder, you would want home design software that allows you to share your home design files easily.

Chief Architect Home Designer Suite 9.0, Better Homes and Gardens Home Designer Suite, Punch! Home Design Suite, Design Workshop Lite , Google SketchUp etc are some of the popular home designing software.

This kind of software is mainly suitable for Windows only. The 3D software requires a 3D graphics card, you can switch to 2D if you do not have 3D graphics card. You will need a separate plug in style mouse to operate this software if you have a laptop as, use of its built in mouse can turn out to be frustrating.

The best part is that, home design software is simply fun to use. Whether you’re designing a home for yourself or are a seasoned general contractor, home design software can make the home design experience a pleasure.

Kitchen is the only place from where one can win anyone’s heart. House wives spend maximum amount time in the kitchen and not only them but other family members also come for cooking and eating in that area so it endures most family traffic. So it should be designed in such a way where anyone can feel fresh and lively. But what is kitchen designing? Designing kitchens means to make kitchens more beautiful and more efficient.

Though kitchen’s basic function is to serve as a food preparing area but still often it has to cater to additional and varying requirements so we should know  the tasks to be performed in the kitchen before designing the kitchen, planning of a kitchen circles around three main work centers-storage, washing and cooking  which forms three corners of the kitchen. Work counters should be connected with these work centers and kitchen can be designed in any style like English, European, Ethnic etc.

But no kitchen design is complete without kitchen appliances, counter, fixtures, doors and cabinets and we need to have right measurements of those things before choosing the scale of those things. Before designing cabinets and drawers we need to keep their use as well as  things need to be stored there in mind. Like for narrow places we could use vertical storage systems. By a well planned storage we can make our kitchen spacious, clean and tidy, besides it’s the most important aspect of the kitchen design.

Flooring of the kitchen should be non slippery, hard wearing and easy to clean. Lighting of the kitchen is very important, it should be functional and bright and it shouldn’t cast a shadow on the working areas. Kitchen is that one particular area which produces most of the odor and smoke so we should take  good care of kitchen’s ventilation. Kitchen walls should be able to stand against all kinds of fumes and splashes. Though in the past kitchen designing had no importance but now it’s very important as we all know that kitchen is that area of a house which is used most.

If we draw a small sketch of a house plan we’ll find that a living room has acquired the maximum amount of area allocated in sq. feet measurements because in any kind of residential building whether it is a bungalow  or any apartment, living room is the place which dominates the plan for the inside rooms.

When designing a living room we shouldn’t forget the purpose of the room, and the most important thing to remember is that the atmosphere and designing of the living area should be comfortable as we are going to spend a lot of time there and we must like the style of our living room too. The simplicity of a living room is also very important as it creates a good long lasting effect on any visitor’s mind, if it is full of clutter then it will create bad impression and remember that, choose only that theme for your living room which will keep a flow of visibility with the other rooms.

Two kinds of furnitures we basically use in our living room first the furniture with a function and second furniture for decoration. Some types of furniture do have a specific function. For example sofas, chairs, etc are for providing comfort to humans and according to your space and budget you  can buy either sleeper sofa or recliner sofa or electric recliner sofa or Loveseat sofa or Sofa bed. Furniture for decoration or secondary furniture are what we use for the decoration which include a TV unit, center tables, and book storage cabinets;these are not compulsory to use but can influence the design theme of our living room.

Chairs are some of the best furniture items used in a living room but what is the basic function of using chairs?  Well if the number of people in the living room increases these chairs can be used as substitute to the sofas but these chairs must match or at least be near to the other furniture style. It’s same with the living room tables which have two categories 1.coffee table which should be placed at the focal point where all the people in the living room sitting on the sofa are facing  and 2. End table which can be used to keep magazines or small flower pot.

The living room is the most popular place in a house for the entertainment of guests, and where families come together to enjoy at the end of the day, relax after a long workweek or to enjoy a television program together and also because living room is a transition point between the external and internal rooms of any home. So the right decoration of living room is very important.

One can win lots of delights in growing house plants. This can really be a nice approach. There are so many advantages of home gardening such as, you can get fresh air to breath, all day long sweet aroma of beautiful flowers around your sweet home, tasty fruits, fresh green home grown vegetables etc. If you are fond of plants or already have a garden, you can feel the joy that plants bring. Plants, which are in and outside your house, can make the ambiance around your own home warmer and cheerful.

Caring for plants is definitely a vital part of gardening because it has a therapeutic effect on the whole. People love to get delights from the real things, but not from the imitations. The plants need not only care but love and understanding also. If you want to make your home garden richer and more rewarding then you should take care of the plants properly as well as efficiently.

Pruning:
Pruning is a process that means cutting away the undesirable branches and shoots of plants. It encourage the new growth of the plants to bear more flowers and fruits as well; and also keeps plants in a beautiful contour. But before pruning the plants in your home garden, keep in mind that different trees and shrubs have their own separate requirements. In case of evergreen plants, they hardly need any pruning since they are able to make new shoots anyway.
According to general rule of pruning, it can be done properly when the deciduous, shrubs and plants are hibernating (winter). Because this period of time could cause least disruption to plant chemistry. So the best period of pruning can be the advent of spring when new shoots and leaves will seem to be emerge.

Pruning of fast-growing plants:
In case of the fast-growing shrubs and climbers, pruning can be done any time as required, if flowers are not your main objective. If you need flowers then the pruning would be resorted to at the end of the flower season.

Pruning of slow-growing plants:
In case of slow-growing plants, generally they do not require pruning. Avoid pruning of the shrubs like bauhinia, gardenia, hibiscus, jatoropha, calliandra etc.

While pruning, you should remove all of the dead stems and branches. Fretted branches should be removed also to provide more sun light to the resting branches. Try to cut above a node which is tending to develop in an outward direction.
Pruning can sometimes be done to deviate more sap energy to restricted zones of few flowers and fruits. With this you can get better results. If some wounds are imposed on the shrubs due to pruning then you can patch up the wounds with coal tar or brush these injuries with a solution of copper sulphate that works as a fungicide.