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field I was able to discover these secrets…..and I would be sharing these with you in the coming weeks.

(I recommend you read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.)

The true magic happens when the form interacts with the formlessness. So I would be adding this dimension too to help you create your space in my posts

Live an energetic, abundant and joyful life ..bye for now

Love

Pragati

Your Architect

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Dear Clients and Friends,

I just came back from a trip to Chicago and was able to look at how my clients were making money in recession while most people were complaining about recession. I was almost feeling guilty when everyone is panicking we are happily cruising. Then I said to myself hold on I can help others too. It is the perfect time for building, renovating and designing new projects and realising your dreams for the following reasons:

Everywhere I look there’s heaps of no-money-down deals that are returning in excess of 10%.

The interest rate is as low as 2%.

Whether it is a minor improvement to a small property or a highrise building the time is now.So if you are holding back because of recession talk to me I could show you a step by step method to create some good deals now.

Remember the words of Warren Buffet ‘When people are greedy be fearful and when people are fearful be greedy’ and I urge you to find a good project and call me up at and fix up a telephone appointment on +61 2 90253760 for people outside of Australia and a face to face appointment or a telephone appointment at 02 90253760 for people in Australia.
 

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Hi,

Your Architect Here,

A great news now you could get your approvals in 10 days under the new Planning Code in NSW, Australia starting October 30th as per the latest from the Planning Department. Read furthur the info from the planning site.

NSW Housing Code

On 8 May 2008, the NSW Government released the NSW Housing Code for public comment, which outlines a simplification to the State’s development approval system for housing and related residential developments.

The release of the NSW Housing Code follows a comprehensive NSW government planning reform consultation process, including exhibition of a detailed discussion paper Improving the NSW planning system in November 2007.

The NSW Housing Code provides a simple approval process for some forms of housing and related residential development. The NSW Housing Code establishes a number of key principles of good housing design, identifies a clear compliance path for streamlining approvals and offers a number of significant benefits to applicants, including:

• streamlining the approval process for housing developments
• reduced delays in receiving approval for housing developments
• standardising the application of common exempt and complying housing development requirements across the State
• clearer processes for certification of common housing developments.

Over time, there will be a variety of codes developed for the NSW Housing Code for different house types – single storey, two storey, duplex, terrace houses – and for varying lot sizes. This first NSW Housing Code document covers single-storey dwellings on lots 600 square metres or larger (and alterations and additions to these homes), internal renovations for two storey dwelling houses, as well as exempt development in residential and rural zones

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Retail therapy is alive and well and our shopping experiences can be improved with retail interior design.
To be successful retailers need to offer the buyer a genuine experience.
The shop needs to be open and welcoming with a variety of goods displayed.
But beyond that there is a need for colour, texture and movement.
The retailer needs to offer an excitement that remains with the buyer.
A shopper may not be able to buy a certain gown but she needs to be able to think about it, to see racks of dazzling garments.
When she enters your kingdom she needs to feel she is special. She may be embarking on a fantasy but she will come back if she has enjoyed it.
There are many ways to entice shoppers. If there are catwalks to display the season’s best   clothes, if there is music, or if there are exciting visual displays on the walls it all helps. All this can be achieved through retail interior design.
 
 

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The most important issue in retail interior design is definition. This means that your store needs to have a unique personality. It needs to stand out against all the other brands. And it needs to be a flexible space. It needs the potential to change for change happens very rapidly in the retail world. So you need to build in possibilities for change. Moving walls, moving graphics, mobile furniture and modular lighting will all support this ideal shop. In this way you can have future proof solutions at hand. Whatever you are selling your customer will have different moods on different days and you need to be aware of this. Knowing your customer is the basis of the whole retail world. Giving people what they want means that the retailer needs to be able to offer a breadth of product in the same venue. Shopping is often creating a story for the customer and casting them within it. When they enter your place of business they are expectant and hopeful so try to make his day. This can be achieved through retail interior design.

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Using green architecture when buying and building a house will help you to ensure that it is environmentally sound. It will make a difference to you.  You will be much more comfortable in a house that is working to help the environment rather than being against it.  It can be cooler in summer and warmer in winter without any additional use of electricity.  If time allows go to look at the house you are about to spend hard earned money on at the worst possible time.

Go on a hot and windy day or when it is freezing cold. Go in the rain when the sky is dark or in the late afternoon. Don’t let yourself be seduced by a spring day or lovely autumn weather that will make the house seem perfect. It might not be on the wrong day. See past the flowers and the smell of coffee if the house is being tarted up to receive you by an estate agent. Check which way it is facing, where the windows are and smell the drains.  If you are renovating an existing house you probably already know its faults.  Then renovate the right way may fix some of them. 

f you are planning to build a house you can make a perfect plan on the drawing board and stick to it.  Creating an environmentally friendly house is getting easier. Councils are being forced to look at buildings in a different way.  Begin by making a list of all the things you would like to have in your home such as how many rooms. Bedrooms, living spaces, at-home offices, kitchens, bathrooms, verandahs and patios. There could be more than one kitchen if you include an outside kitchen/ barbecue.  Then add all the subsidiary things you want such as picture windows, heated floors, pantries, built in wardrobes and book cases etc. 

When you are sure that you have included everything you want then show it to a builder who understands and has already built eco-housing.  You can get a list of such people from the Housing Industry Association.  A suitable builder will talk you through your ideas and tell you if they are possible before anyone sits down to make a plan.  You may be suggesting a very expensive house but good design is not expensive if simple construction is understood and carried out.  Any extra expenditure on design features and appliances will be quickly repaid by the saving in energy bills and maintenance.  Australian families spend 40% of energy costs on heating and cooling their houses. 

If all this is part of the house it just contributes comfort without fuss as a background accessory to the life of the house.  To some people a house is only four walls and a roof. It uses x amount of energy and emits x amount of waste over its lifetime.  But a house can be looked at as a living organism.  Water can be accessed from the sky to a tank big enough to service the whole house.  Proper insulation of ceilings, walls and floors will help produce an even temperature throughout the year.  Strategic vents can extract heat by wind power. 

Australia has enough sunshine to provide solar power to the house with enough left over to feed back into the system ina sort of banking system.  Waste water can be recycled for the gardens.  Cross ventilation was once considered imperitive for Australian houses but now many large houses are being built on American and English patterns that have no cross ventilation.

Bring it back so that in summer your house catches every breeze that blows.  Site your house to face north with wide eaves or covered verandahs that will let the sunshine in when the sun is low in winter and exclude it in the summer.  It is completely possible to live in eco housing that will give you year round comfort and the cheapest energy bills in your street and suburb.  Make your garden part of the scheme. Plant wind breaks where necessary. Grow your own vegetables and plant deciduous trees for shade in summer and sunshine through the bare boughs of winter. Fruit trees for instance.  It is all simple and possible with green architecture.

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It is everybody’s dream to live well in an environment full of Green Architecture.  Some people long to live in the fast lane but more and more people in today’s society are looking back to simpler times. They are opting for the tree change, for a life where you not only have time to smell the roses, you have time to plant them, nurture them and pick baskets of them for your friends.  We all have to be able to afford to live,so tree and sea changes are only possible if we can move to a job in a better environment or find some way to make money from home. 

f you are planning such a move take it very slowly. If you are not going to be gainfully employed immediately and are about to start your own business from home make sure you have enough money saved to make it possible.  The financial rule of thumb is to have at least six months living expenses to act as a buffer when you make an environmental change. Twelve months would make it easier.  There are some commonplace things to know before you move away from a comfortable city existence.  How far away will you be from friends and family? Will this make it harder to move? 

Connections are very important. If your move is to the country there won’t be the opportunity to meet friends for a coffee or a drink after work. Your own immediate nuclear family of mother/father/child or whatever it might be will be it. This may strengthen bonds but it can also be lonely. Of course you will make new friends and old friends will come and visit but it won’t be the same.  Many tree changes have foundered on this element alone.  Try to make the change affordable.  Is there a suitable house that you can afford? A suitable house in the country is not quite the same as a suitable house in the city. For instance a tiny modern kitchen is no help if you are planning to grow a lot of your food and go back to the basics of making bread and preserving. 

What you need to look for is space. A kitchen that will take a big table or long benches. Rooms with cross ventilation from windows and verandahs that will shade you.  The climate needs to be really a part of your move. Without air conditioning that is easily provided in city living, you need instead to look at trees and windbreaks, at pergolas and to study the position of the house in regard to the position of the sun in summer and winter. Which way does the prevailing wind blow? Will it shower dust on you in hot summer weather? It is a very different way to look at things. Country living is not about how many ensuites you will have.  Another consideration is soil. Is it hard clay, sand or the kid of dirt that can be turned into the perfect black gold for gardening?  Is there enough land to have a garden?  Is there water? Make sure there is water available. If there isn’t water laid on how do you get it?  What about electricity? You can’t take it for granted. What about heating for the winter? 

There are many things to be examined closely on your search for a better life. In all probability it won’t be easier. You may have to learn new skills. These skills may involve physical effort, like cutting wood, attending to chickens and ducks, digging gardens and hand watering plants.  But oh the rewards. Waking in the morning to fresh air, enjoying eggs for breakfast warm from the nest. Picking vegetables for your meals that have had no chemicals on them to help them grow. Seeing your health and your family’s health  improve. These are just some of the joys of living the good life. Green Architecture it’s worth a try.

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