Outdoor Furniture, Outdoor Patio and Outdoor Gardens

Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   Any ideas for a Trendy Furniture Business Name?
   Product line consists of modern bamboo patio furniture..

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2. QUESTION:
   contemporary modern house design india?
   Hi
   I am looking for some engineer who can give me some contemporary modern house designs for my plot. Would love to have some ultra modern furniture designed within the house with concrete

   I have around 250 sq yards plot and would like to construct a contemporary 3 bed room house with lots of garden around the house.

   I wouldnt mind if you go to duplex to save the space for more garden.

   One special pooja room.
   all as per vasthu please.
   and an open sky space living room upstairs.

   Add on: a lawn in the patio upstairs would be appreciable.

   Hoping to find fab answers in here

   • ANSWER:
     Madhu,
     One of my friend was looking for smiler things and he noticed a India based website www.gharexpert.com with lots of experts to help. You too can contact them.

3. QUESTION:
   Who's a good reader? I have a question about my short story.?
   As far as I'm concerned, this is done. It's not long, but it's not meant to be an easy read. I have a question: can you tell what's going on? And if you can, when did you realize it - at the end, or before that?

   Fair Warning: this is a little on the dark side.

   "A Chilling Wind"

   Fifty-four stories over the city, a blond man stepped out onto a small patio. Shirtless, he buttoned his jeans closed as he stepped to the railing. A constant chilling breeze tossed the curls around his ears and neck and puckered the sweaty skin of his chest. He started to rest his hands on the rail, but his left hand slipped. He wiped that hand on his leg and grabbed it again. Leaning over as far as he could, he gazed down into the steel and concrete canyons below him. In the movies, one could always hear sirens and screams and watchdogs barking. In reality, from this height the air was mostly silent; the wind across his ears was the dominant sound.

   He’d left the woman in the bedroom, lying spent on damp sheets. To be honest, which he preferred to be, he couldn’t remember her name, but he thought it started with an M – a Michelle, or Melissa, or Melinda perhaps. She was no barroom victory, no nightclub conquest. They’d met at a gallery opening after she had purchased one of his pieces. It had given him no pleasure – little did anymore – but he smiled at her and asked her to dinner. That was only a week ago.

   Her two sons were sleeping in their bedroom. He’d done his best to avoid waking them as he left their mother’s bedroom and came outside. There was no reason to scare these children. It would be pointless and cruel.

   Fear was contagious, and there was no one for them to share their fear with. There’d be no comfort from their mother, no rescue from men in uniforms. The rooms were nearly soundproof, and even if he left the door to the patio open, any noise they made would simply be lost in the silence outside.

   The blond man turned and went back into the living room. Leaving the lights off, he made his way past darkened modern furniture and went into the kitchen. He found and flipped a switch. Overhead lights flickered a moment and came on. Glancing around, he found what he was looking for a few feet away. He reached for a knife block and stopped. He raised both his hands. The palm of his right hand was somewhat clear of blood, from when he wiped it on his jeans. His left hand was stained, and the fluid was beginning to dry. For a few seconds, he wiped both his hands on his pants. He would wash them, but it might make the knife slip, and he wanted this over with as quickly as possible.

   It was a distasteful thing, killing children.

   He yanked the largest knife from the block and hurried from the room. As he passed their mother’s bedroom, he pushed the door open again. “M” lay on her back on red sheets, her eyes open, her face disfigured from the beating he had given her before using a small razor to rip her throat open. He gave his handiwork only a moment’s more thought, then moved on to the boys’ room.

   He was quick. In all the years he’d been doing this, he’d never enjoyed killing the children. He’d never call it a necessary evil, but it was that. Neither boy woke as he worked. He breathed a sigh of relief as he finished. It was much easier if the children never woke, never cried, or screamed or begged.

   He tossed the knife to the floor and left it. Fingerprints weren’t something that worried him; no one had ever printed him. He left the bedroom and went back to the patio, flipping blood onto the glass door as he passed it. Again he grabbed the rail and let the wind caress him.

   “Why do you persist in doing this?”

   The blond man didn’t startle or jump at the voice from the living room. He didn’t even turn to see who it was or bother to answer.

   “Not even we do this.”

   “Yes,” the blond man answered. “Yes, you do.”

   “No,” the man said from inside the darkened room. “My people have no hand in that. You forget what we do.”

   The blond man turned around and leaned against the railing, letting the air cool his sweaty back. From here, he couldn’t quite see his opponent inside. A moment later, he saw a dull red glow at around head height.

   “Are you smoking?” The blond man asked.

   “I usually do. It’s how I handle fear.”

   “What are you afraid of?”

   “You. Your people. Your side.”

   The blond man laughed. “You people always get things wrong. We offer hope. We offer security. We offer—”

   “Safety? A world free of psycho killers, someone that will murder a single mother and her two boys – is that what your side offers?”

   “Yes,” the blond man said.

   “And you think we get it backwards. You traffic in terror, fear. It’s your side that has spent all these years trying to frighten the people – not us.”

   The blond man pushed away from the railing and walked back into the apartment. His opponent sat on one of the modern chairs, a ci
   I guess this is too long, though it would've been nice for Y!A to let me know BEFORE I completed posting it.

   The entire thing is available here: http://www.washroomannex.blogspot.com - and I'm sorry about the hassle.

   Ankush, if it's a waste of your time, I'm sorry, but it's not a waste of mine. I DO know what I'm doing. I belong to one R.L. writer's group, a couple online ones, and have been published many, many times. What I wanted was exactly what I asked for: do READERS get what I'm doing, not WRITERS.

   It does you no good to lecture folks here.
   Folks, I'm really sorry about it being cut off. When I checked it before posting it, the whole thing was there. Obviously, I didn't want it cut off. My most sincere apologies to all of you for making you read it without a payoff.

   • ANSWER:
     I'm looking for the purpose of this piece and I see none.However, that maybe because I haven't read the whole thing. I'm a crime buff so the minute he mentioned the boys I knew he was going to do something to them. I'd be able to offer more of a critique if I knew what genre short story this was, literary or genre.

     Mostly what I got was that the voice could be a little more distinct. There's supposed to be something chilling about this man's detachtment but you're not quite there. I want to be in scene more. The setting isn't as strong as it could be. If this is the completed piece then you don't do enough to clarify the main point.

     The writing itself is pretty good. There are some unique phrases. I want to know who he is talking to, but keeping the reader ignorant might be what you're going for.

     I don't think he's going to commit suicide. This seems to be a pattern for him so maybe he's something supernatural especially given the conversation at the end of this post.

     Overall there is some potential here. Just need to work at it.

4. QUESTION:
   I cannot sell my house, can anyone offer any advice to improve the chances of finding a buyer.?
   I have a lovely modern 3 bed detached house in a really nice sought after location, but after 23 viewings I have had no offers.
   The house is a small detached 3 bed property with the 3rd bedroom being only 6ft 10 inches by 5ft 10 inches so not much of a bedroom. I use it as a study with a desk and computer in which works for me. The other 2 bedrooms are doubles and a good size with the main bedroom having an en suit.

   The rest of the property consists of a lounge, dinning room, kitchen, conservatory and downstairs toilet all of which are a good size and well planned.

   There is also off road parking and a garage.

   The house as a whole is not high spec with the kitchen and bathroom being there from when the house was built about 12 years ago. The house is well maintained and in good decorative order.

   I have a Lovely and well maintained rear garden offering lawn, patio area, borders and a Barbecue area all of which is not overlooked.

   I always ensure that the property is well presented for the viewer ensuring everything is clean and un cluttered. I have also removed some furniture to create more space.

   The agent believes that we have got the right price set but being that the property will only appeal to certain groups makes it harder to sell. It will not appeal to families with children hence reducing the market potential.

   So far the comments from the viewers were that the house was not big enough and in particular the 3rd bedroom. People often comment saying you can get more for your money in other area's (which are not so desirable). Are people only interested in square footage and not location? I thought location was key to buying and selling?

   Does anyone have any suggestions to improve my chances of finding a buyer.

   • ANSWER:
     23 viewings is a lot.

     You're right, location is a factor also size and price is too. However, in this case the location does not appear to be the main key as you've had comments about buyers being able to buy bigger houses it other areas. Perhaps the desirability of the different areas is not varied enough to make a major difference.

     You sound like you're marketing the property for each viewing correctly.

     I think you need to have your house revalued by other agents. It's free (normally is, but maybe check to be sure when you book the appointment).

     It sounds like the price is too high.

     Have you identified the target buyer? i.e. Is it for a single professional or a couple with a baby? Is your price generally within their budget?

     For the third bedroom, if you want to market it as a 3rd bedroom, then it's best to have it set up as a bedroom rather than a study. Set it up as cosily and prettily as you can - someone might want to use it as a bedroom or a cot, but with a desk and chair in there people won't imagine it as a bedroom. Maybe you could set up your computer in a downstairs room in a corner.

     Good luck and I hope you can sell soon.

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