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Important Tips to Consider When Designing Your Home for a Growing Family
Even if you are a freshly married couple with no plans of having kids in the near future, you ought to think of designing yourself a home for a bigger family. When the day you consider having children comes, it will be too late to go back and redesign your home from scratch. Although it might be possible, it’s still something that requires a lot of money and time to fix.
Instead, why don’t you think ahead and plan your space for possible newcomers to the family? Follow these tips to make your home ready for more lovely souls.
Flexible and functional
Once you walk into an empty home, the ideas just start flowing. You’re thinking about where you can set up a cozy reading corner, where should the bed be placed or which wall to hang your favorite art on. Albeit the creativity burst, you should stick to the ground and focus on the essentials.
First of all, think about sunlight and how to use it. If you are short on sunlight, then you should choose the most well-lit rooms to serve as the living room and the dining room. Bathrooms and kitchens don’t require much sunlight in order to look and feel good.
Furthermore, multifunctional rooms should be your number one idea. A great way to make a room serve more than a single purpose is to install Murphy beds that you can transform into a wall in a couple of seconds. This is how long it takes a guest room to become a study room.
Protect your privacy
Houses with an abundance of windows and doors tend to be less private. If you have never asked yourself who can see you from the outside or how much of your house someone sees once you open the door, then now is the perfect time to ask.
This is an extremely important issue if you plan on having kids because you don’t want to draw uncanny attention from the streets. When it comes to kids, you also need to think about blinds and locks. Having a camera or two can also be a good idea for keeping an eye on the youngest children.
Think about your privacy as well. Study rooms, offices and your bedroom should be off limits for everyone except you. This can be done by choosing the corner rooms of the apartment, or any other room that is secluded from most of the house.
Hire professionals
If you are planning on making a custom-made home, then careful planning in advance is your key to success. Hiring professionals to do this for you can save you a lot of time and effort, and today Australians are among the best. Since the Australian Bureau of Statistics has announced that Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane are running out of living spaces, Australians have been hitting high on home building. However, the building trend was going towards bigger, but less sustainable houses, so more Aussies have been turning to project home building.
Now you can hire project home builders from Sydney to make a dream house just for you. Not only are these houses more sustainable, but they also come with inclusion packages. This means that you don’t even have to think about installing your air con and tiling your outdoor alfresco, because home builders will do this for you, too.
Allow for space
Leaving a bit of empty space never hurt nobody. Today it’s a guestroom, tomorrow it could be a baby’s room. You should always have that one room that you can use at least as storage space. Designing a home that’s big enough just for three people might not be enough, because what happens if you have twins or decide on having another child in a year or two? Even having a dog requires more space than you imagined.
You need to think outside the box and be aware that every living being in your home comes with its needs. Babies need room to play, and you need storage space for toys and all other baby stuff. Having a single room for two kids is fine for a while, until they become older and need more privacy. That extra room doesn’t look so unnecessary anymore, right?
Keep in mind that you might grow old in this home, so allow yourself to look into the distant future and imagine this home when your children have already moved away. A three-story home is not a good idea for an immobile, old person. Think of your needs too, and be creative while you imagine the wonderful future of your home.
The “Big Bang Theory” actress and Hanukkah ambassador Mayim Bialik new YouTube video breaks down myths and facts about the holiday of lights.
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Thought Hanukkah was all about the presents? False. Pajamas, calendars, stickers, socks, chocolate coins and spinning tops are all fair game for gifts but it’s about so much more than presents.
“It’s about finding light in darkness, about facing adversity, it’s about fighting for what you believe,” Bialik explains. These are the real presents of Hanukkah.”
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Imagine a world where you could own more than just your house and car. A place with endless opportunities, where life is better for everyone because it’s just a specific group of humans that all have the same ideology! Well up until now it’s only been possible aliens who wanted nothing more than to have freedom. By the Cosmic Register giving away their celestial real estate on the moon completely FREE will create not only millions of new supporters but also give us assistance in creating our very own government. These Natural Rights (also called basic rights or fundamental rights) state that everyone has a right to life, liberty and property. You are a human being and these rights belong you, as that’s all there is to it!
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A Chanukah menu includes potato pancakes, fried, of course, in lots of oil. Sweet cream cheese rugelach. Strawberry-jam-filled doughnuts (sufganiyot), covered in powdered sugar. Fried apple fritters. Cheese-filled doughnuts fried in oil and dipped in honey and Cheese blintzes. Chanukah food traditions have their origins in the first years that the holiday was celebrated, and are meant to remembrances of certain miracles associated with the reason for Chanukah.
The first is the miracle of oil. One day’s supply of oil lasted for eight days. Mystically, both the menorah and the oil used to light it are associated with Chochmah, and the war between the Greeks and the Jews.
The word shemen, Hebrew for oil, contains the same letters as shemoneh, eight, the number of days that the miracle of the oil lasted.
The dairy is to honor a young woman named Yehudis. During the war against the Greeks, she fed a Greek General salty cheeses so that he would become extremely thirsty and brought him wine to drink. He fell asleep, she killed him. The Greek army fell into disarray and fled. Thus the dairy in the meals.
Gluten Free Latkes
Be sure to use high-heat oil, which will help keep things from burning. Pay attention to the temperature of the oil—keep it between 325° and 350° F—
Makes 24 latkes
Frying time: 6 to 8 minutes
- 3 large russet potatoes
- 1 large yellow onion
- ½ cup superfine brown rice flour
- 3 extra-large eggs
- 1½ teaspoons kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 32 ounces safflower or other high-heat vegetable oil
- Preheat the oven to 170° F or your preferred keep-warm setting. Line a baking sheet with layers of paper towels.
- Peel the potatoes. Using a grater attachment, grate all the potatoes and onion together. Alternate, if grating by hand, coarsely grate half of the mixture and finely grate the other half, then combine the two mixtures in a large bowl.
- Line a colander with a clean dish towel. Place the potato mixture in the lined colander. Squeeze to get the liquid out. It will be messy, but keep going or the latkes will be greasy and not as light.
- Place the potato mixture in the bowl and add the flour, eggs, salt, and pepper. Mix well.
- Fill a skillet with ¼ inch of oil. Heat the oil until a tiny bit of the mixture sizzles when dropped in. Maintain an oil level that is ¼ inch deep with a temperature of 325° to 350° F at all times.
- Scoop ¼ cup of batter for each pancake, flatten to 4 inches in diameter, and fry over medium heat until nicely browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip and cook for 3 to 4 minutes more.
- Place the finished latkes on the paper towel–lined baking sheet. Place the sheet in the oven to keep warm while finishing up the other latkes.
- Serve the latkes warm, topped with applesauce and/or sour cream.
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