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7 Peaceful Paint Colors
7 Peaceful Paint Colors to Help You Relax
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Paint colors represent the thought process of the owner and also impact the behavioral pattern of the house owner. Calm colors are tending to make you more peaceful, whilst violent colors tend to make you frequently under aggression. Recent study reports convey that painting colors play a huge role in balancing the stress level.
If you are about to carry on drywall repair in San Diego, then consider opting for calm and cool colors for painting your home walls. Because of today’s hectic world, stress can sneak up on you at any time.
Here we have enlisted the 7 peaceful colors to help you feel calmer and relax.
Green color:
The green color is the color of nature, and also represents growth with high energy. Spiritually green color brings a new beginning, hope, peace, and better health. We see the green color in nature everywhere, which makes us stare at green nature for hours. This green color brings peace, and when you are lying on a couch staring at your green wall- it just will help you feel more relaxed.
Blue Color:
Blue color helps in reducing the stress of your busy day and makes you relax. The benefit of blue color is; it’s naturally beautiful, ideal color for large or big rooms, has a soft-neutral tone, and helps you in sleeping faster. As blue color helps in sleeping faster, it eventually will make you more relaxed. The ideal blue color is a choice for many people. The blue color is the color of the sky, so no one could ever have enough of it.
Pink Color:
Pink color has many variations; the darker pink color is trending to be considered as a violent color whilst the lighter pink color brings harmony. The decent light pink color not only embraces your rooms
with decent looks but also keep your mind calm. A lighter version of pink is a calm and relaxing color. The light pink color is generally the choice of every woman.
Purple/ Violet Color:
Purple or Violet color is counted as the royal color because ancient royal people were using that color more vividly. The Violet color has a base of blue color so as same as the blue color, violet is considered as stress buster color. To free your mind from negativity and unstable emotions- Violet color is best as it brings wisdom to a healthy life. Violet color is counted as peace bringer color.
Peaceful Paint Colors
Plain White color:
Who does not know that the color white brings peace, freshness, and clarity? To have clarity in ambiguous thoughts, the white color can play its role to help you think clearly, so naturally, you will be less stressed. White color can eliminate stress and leaves you with a positive, calm environment in which you can feel relaxed easily.
Grey color:
Many people like to avoid the grey color; but most of them are those, who do not know the importance of grey color. Grey color when paired with other calm colors like- blue and green; brings a peaceful environment. Grey color is a mixture of black and white color so it is said to bring neutrality with balance. The neutrality in inner-outer thoughts, with grey color, can bring peace.
Yellow color:
There is one scientific fact about the yellow color that is- The yellow color can be spotted quickly than any other color can. Let us say it is because of the positive impact color brings in our lives. The yellow color brings positive energy, freshness, optimism, joy, and intellect. As it brings positive energy and makes a joyful environment, it is a stress buster color, which leaves you in a positive-calm- relax environment.
Thus, be cautious about the paint colors you choose for your exterior house painting in San Diego. Also, before fixing the budget of the paint color with Interior painters in San Diego, count the impacts it brings into your house. The relaxing colors will give you a stress-free- peaceful full life.
Mi Vida to Set Standards of Living at Garden City
Garden City is one of the most coveted addresses for leisure, work and living. Situated off the Thika Highway just 15 minutes from Nairobi’s Central Business District, the development is Kenya's first integrated residential, retail and office (mixed-use) development, offering apartments, duplexes and family villas, a shopping mall and 60,000 square metres of office space among other facilities. And at its heart, a three acre central park, with a children's play area and generous lawns and gardens.
The mall itself opened in 2015 and is a popular destination for not only Garden City community but also residents of the greater Nairobi.
One of the residential attractions coming up at Garden City is Mi Vida. The housing project is a joint venture by India’s conglomerate Shapoorji Real Estate (SPRE) and UK equity investor Actis. It involves construction of 628 apartments at Nairobi’s Garden City Mall Complex, targeting middle-income earners.
The development comprises beautifully designed and functional 1 and 2-bedroom standard apartments and
family oriented spacious 2 and 3-bedroom apartments with domestic staff quarters. Parking provisions include 2 parking bays per 3-bedroom units and 1 parking bay per 1 and 2-bedroom units. The apartments have high grade finishes and luxury fittings.
At the heart of Mi Vida are amenities developed to promote both healthy and sustainable lifestyles and designed for convenience and enjoyment of residents. The development features green open spaces and large colourful landscaped flower gardens that create a tranquil oasis within a bustling and growing Garden City community.
Mi Vida means ‘My Life’ in Spanish so it’s not surprising that Mi Vida offers a range of health and sports facilities including: indoor gym with yoga and fitness studio, multi-purpose sports court, 300 metre outdoor jogging track and outdoor gym. Residents will also have access to special community and leisure amenities such as a barbeque deck, adult and children’s swimming pools, social events hall and kids play area among others.
PROJECT TEAM Architect: Innovative Planning and Design Consultants (IPDC) Quantity Surveyor: MaceYMR Structural Engineer: Widrups Elec/Mech Engineer: Gamma Delta Eastern Africa Main Contractor: Esteel Construction Ltd Electrical: Mehta Electricals Plumbing: Central Plumbing Ltd EHS Consultant: Ecohub Lifts: Ultra Lift and others
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Highlights of Mi Vida
• Adults’ + Children’s Swimming Pool • Multi – Purpose Sports Court • 300 Meters Long Jogging Track • Indoor Gym with Yoga + Fitness Studio • Social Events Hall • Creche + Daycare; Kids’ Play Area • Barbeque Areas • For Each Apartment: Integrated Intercom System • Borehole Backup • Backup Generator: 2No. High Speed Lifts per block connected to 2 No. fit-for purpose back-up generators. • Kitchen: High Grade kitchen finishes. • Security: 24-hour manned security gate, CCTV, access control to all residential tower lobby points of entry and exit. • Bathroom: Designer and luxury fittings.
Mi Vida is an EDGE certified development. EDGE is a green building standard and a certification system for over 140 countries. It enables developers and builders to quickly identify the most cost-effective ways to reduce energy use, water use and embodied energy in materials.
Elina Residences
kileleshwa is one of Nairobi’s most sought-after residential neighborhoods by young, upwardly mobile first-time home owners or renters. The Kileleshwa community is a mix of local and expatriate individual and family city dwellers with a taste for fine living. The suburb has everything they need – good road infrastructure, proximity to shopping malls, healthcare facilities, international schools and social amenities including a bustling nightlife. The area is also one of the greenest, with a mix of indigenous and exotic trees dotting the entire suburb.
It is therefore not surprising that many developers have decided to invest in this area. In recent years, numerous apartment complexes have been completed and several others are in different stages of construction. Clients are spoilt for choice and developers have had to be more creative in terms of designs and facilities in order to maintain an edge over the competition.
Kileleshwa’s Next Residential Attraction
yet. Situated on Mandera Road, the project consists of 66 threebedroom apartments and four 4,200sqft duplex penthouses inspired by contemporary suburban lifestyle. The apartments are designed to offer a warm, family environment for residents. The development, which sits on 0.8 acres of land, is a great choice for homeowners looking for functional yet aesthetic apartment design. At the same time, the units are designed to deliver attractive returns to investors.
The property is functional yet aesthetic design is inspired by contemporary suburban lifestyle with a penchant for an elegant yet warm, family environment. The designers have kept in mind the need for customization to suit individual residents’ with tasteful finishes and bespoke interiors, qualities that saw the project emerge winner of the 2018 Real Estate Excellence Awards.
already made huge strides in the sector and is the largest warehousing developer in Athi River with over 4,000,000 square feet of light industrial space including Graylands Phase 1 to 3. Other notable projects include Serene Park Villas on Mombasa Road and Marigold Residency townhouses in Langata.
For Elina Residences, Purple Dot International selected Sketch Studio, a respected architectural studio in the city that is behind some of the iconic developments in the country, to lead the project team. Sketch Studio’s portfolio cuts across residential and commercial architecture, interior design and project management. It is associated with the proposed Pinnacle Tower (tallest building in Africa), Tune Hotel, Lakeview Estate and Imperial Court among others.
According to Purple Dot General Manager Jiten Kerai, the company’s choice of Kileleshwa as the location for Elina Residences was a strategic one. “Real Estate remains an attractive and vibrant sector and continues to be one of the growth drivers for our economy. For this project, we did our due diligence, spoke to our clients on what they would like in a house, and then incorporated their feedback in this design”, he says.
Features
Apartment buyers at Elina Residences will experience 2,300 square feet of living space with good cross ventilation and natural lighting. Features include cloak room, open plan kitchen, pantry/laundry area and spacious en suite bedrooms, a passage designed for multifunctional personalized use including prayer area as well as a bar and a reading area. Others are large windows for maximum natural lighting and warm ambience with selected tile colors.
The living room features gypsum ceiling with timber fins, matt finished solid timber Finnish pine doors and vitrified wood look tiles. Modern clean-line warm bathrooms with wall mounted vanities, large wall-mounted mirror with shelving, concealed wall mounted systems with flush plates are other features that make the apartments a delight to live in.
The developer went for a practical open plan kitchen with breakfast bar in modern matt laminate and high gloss finish. A hood and gas top are provided in all units with provision for appliances like double door fridge, microwave and washing machine.
The duplex penthouses have similar exquisite finishes but have 4 bedrooms and are much more spacious, occupying 4,200 square feet. “In today’s world, technology has robbed the family of quality time together. People are constantly on gadgets and electronics and there is little time to interact as a family. What we have done with the designs of these houses, is that we have purposely put an open plan kitchen and dining area to give families time together as long as they are in the house,” said Jaspal Singh, the project’s lead architect during the launch of the three-bedroom show house.
Facilities
Al parking has been provided in the basement, freeing up space in the compound. Each apartment has been allocated two parking slots and additional parking has been provided to visitors. The residences will be served by four high-speed lifts. Residents will enjoy a fully equipped gym, an event hall and a panoramic view of the city from the duplex penthouses.
Access
Elina Residences is easily accessible from Waiyaki Way/ Westlands, Riverside, Uhuru Highway/CBD, Lavington, Kilimani and Upper Hill with social amenities within a few minutes of the development.
Construction Timeline and Buyer Options
The Kes 1.3 billion project kicked off in April 2019 and is expected to be complete by July 2021. Already, 60 percent of the units have been sold off-plan. Flexible mortgage arrangements have been made with partner banks.
Challenges
This year, the biggest challenge across the board has been the Covid-19 pandemic. The construction industry was also significantly affected with projects suffering delays due to movement restrictions and a slow-down in credit approval. The restrictions imposed in Kenya between March and July affected the Elina Residences schedule but the developer is confident of making up for lost time and completing the project by next July.
WHAT THE ELINA RESIDENCES OFFER AT A GLANCE
3 Bedroom Ensuite Apartments 2,300 square feet
• Open plan layout in the living area • Full height sliding doors that create a seamless flow from inside to outside • Panoramic view of suburban Nairobi. • 3 all ensuite bedrooms • 4 bathrooms • Parking for 2
4 Bedroom Duplex Penthouses 4,200 square feet
• Open plan layout in the living area • Full height sliding doors that create a seamless flow from inside to outside • Panoramic view of suburban Nairobi. • 4 all ensuite bedrooms • 5 bathrooms • Parking for 4
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Project Team
Client: Purple Dot International Ltd Architect: Sketch Studios
Main Contractor: Shreerag Enterprises Ltd Quantity Surveyor: Getso Consultants Ltd Civil/Structural Engineers: Civil Engineering Design Electrical: Raicha Electro Services Ltd
Plumber: Kerai Water Build Ltd
Aluminium: Swastik Aluminium Ltd
Joinery Works: Woodways Kenya Ltd Lift Supplier: Endeavour Wintech Eleavators Ltd Fabrication Work: Shreeji Darshan Enterprises Ltd Granite: Hi-Tech Granite Industries Ltd
Insurance: Bapa Insurance Brokers Ltd Project Management: G A Realtors Ltd Sanitary Suppliers: Kitchen and Beyond Ltd Selling Agents: Pam Golding, Dunhill Consulting and others
3D renderings can be referred to as a method of presenting images graphically, which appears real using various computer animations. In 3D dimensions, objects follow the same principle as in real life scenes, when they are moved or rotated, they appear real.
Visualization in simple terms means to envisage and have a mental picture about something. It is a very important aspect of architecture because architects always have various mental pictures of what they want, and it is expedient to bring that mental picture to life in a simple but yet detailed form.
Architectural visualization on the other hand enables architects presents the exterior and interior parts of their designs in a way that depicts reality, gives a feel of real life experience even when the building process has not started.
Minimizing mistakes
In a world where mistakes are unavoidable, 3D renderings reduce mistakes to its barest minimum if not completely eradicate it totally. This is possible because it is not done manually, but with software that are designed exclusively for this process. The software available have over time been trusted, and proved reliable.
The following are ways in which 3D renderings help reduces mistakes in Architectural visualization
See and know: With 3D rendering, the client is fully involved from the scratch on what and how the features of the building would look like. The client sees and understands the blueprints from various angles. His mental picture about the building correlates with the help of 3D renderings.
Gives room for adjustments: 3D renderings designs can be reviewed from time to time. The designs can always be reviewed to suit the client’s taste and preference. The client might decide to include or remove from what was planned initially without stress. Necessary adjustments would be In a world where mistakes are unavoidable, 3D renderings reduce mistakes to its barest minimum
made before the construction begins. With 3D renderings, innovations from both the clients and architects can be introduced conveniently.
Cost effective: With 3D renderings and architectural visualization, preparing a budget for the building is made simpler. This is made possible because with 3D renderings, the client and architects can see what kind of quality and standard materials to be used in completing the project ahead. The client can decide to choose lesser qualities depending on how buoyant he is at that point in time.
Environment sensitive: Architects with the use of other softwares such as Computeraided design (CAD) detects how the environment condition of the area to be built upon is. It detects how the environment will positively or negatively affect the building in the future. They design bearing this in mind, and they leverage on the positive attributes and convert the negative attributes to an advantage. to life every picture of mighty and giant buildings. 3D rendering speed up designs of grand and large-scale projects. It makes it possible to execute several designs plans in their hundreds without delay and errors. It is best known for its effectiveness, efficiency, and error free attributes in designing large-scale projects.
Wrapping up
3D rendering makes it possible to minimize mistakes for architectural rendering services as it completely eradicates errors in architectural visualization. What your clients wants is to have a building they envisioned without flaws and at the best environment where they can enjoy bliss and comfort. 3D rendering makes all of these available while helping to avoid the stress that comes with the job. Although 3D rendering architectural visualization is coming to the limelight, not all has embraced it. To have an edge over others, 3D rendering is the edge itself!
