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Daybed is the long sofa or sofa that can be converted into a bed.
Aside from being a decoration in the home daybed also used as a place to sleep and to relax, lie down, and sit in the common room. Daybed usually made ​​of wood, metal or a combination of wood and metal. But in Indonesia found that more wood, especially teak or recycleteak. People prefer to choose daybed as possible durability of teak wood more than other types of wood.

There is also a carving daybed with a very interesting and there are impressed daybed plain or ordinary.
In use we usually see daybed combined with a mattress or foam mattress and two bolsters, but there are also adding some small pillows as decoration make it more interesting. This of course depends on the owner daybed because there is also a pure daybed be what it is without mattresses or pillows or bolsters. Maybe the owner wanted to highlight the beauty of the wood.

There are also daybed used for storage at the bottom of the stand. Storage media can be opened from the front bottom or it could be drawn from the above models as opening a box of wooden box.

Here some sample of daybeds:

Gazebo is a mini building that used to be a placed to rest in the small yard. Although many people already know however not many people know the origins and history of the Gazebo.

Gazebo estimated to have existed since the time of Ancient Egypt 2500 years before Christ. At first the gazebo is a small building around the yard as a place of worship of the deity. The Greeks and Romans also had a history of a large gazebo with pillars and statues of gods and goddesses.

Gazebo word, derived from a combination of English: gaze which means ‘eyes’, and the Latin language, ebo, which means ‘to be’. There is also a saying gazebo comes from the French, the que c’est beau which means ‘very beautiful’.

The building is actually designed to provide a broad view of the surrounding area. Gazebo is one alternative to hangout and do leisure activities with family members, receive visitors or doing other activities.

The design itself is very distinctive because the gazebo gazebo built separately from the main building, standing alone in the garden area which shapes and designs vary. In addition it can also be located at the front, rear or side of the house.

In general, the gazebo can be recognized from its basic form consists of the roof, the pillars making up without proper walls and floors are slightly higher elevation than the surrounding ground surface.

Gazebo is a beautiful garden structure, often constructed with four, six or eight sides. Not only during the day, any night you can relax in the gazebo by putting lights on a pole, ceiling or floor gazebo. You can also grow plants around it to make it more stylish and fresh.

Forms can be applied in the garden gazebo according to taste. Model selection diverse, ranging from cottage-style thatched shacks, Java-style pavilion, to the classic style with a monumental dome roof.

Be creative on making gazebo according to your imagination. However, matching the concept of the garden arrangement. Gazebo style traditional saung can still harmonize with the tropical-style garden or minimalist.

Traditional style gazebo is using wood materials, bamboo, and rattan. Wood materials also vary. Can teak, recycle teak, bengkirai, jackfruit, coconut and wood that has a unique motif. For the roof, can be used thatched roofs, shingles or tiles used.

English style garden full of colorful flowers, more fitting is equipped with a gazebo classical or neoclassical design. Gazebo has a typical classical pillars and a domed roof. You can use concrete materials or glass for the roof.

In order to create a more dramatic impression, complete with glass ornaments colorful mosaic. This mosaic glass fluoresces rainbow when sunlight.

Here some sample of gazebo:

If you have a large yard and would like to build a gazebo in your backyard then it is a very brilliant idea. You can set up a gazebo beside or in front of or behind the house, depending on which page you are wide enough to be able to set up the gazebo. From the aesthetic side of the gazebo can enhance the atmosphere, from the technical side you can use your own gazebo, it can be for leisure, you can use as reading room, unwind, relax while surfing the virtual world, having fun with friends, receiving guests, or as a place to look for ideas or inspiration.
You can enjoy sitting sitting in the gazebo in the day, any night you can do it. Therefore, the placement of the gazebo also not be done arbitrarily without regard to the surrounding buildings. Rather than enhance your home instead create an unfavorable impression if the placement of the gazebo just random origin.
Here are some things to consider before you put the gazebo in your yard:
1. Technically ideal proportions gazebo and courtyard buildings should be balanced, the house has a spacious gazebo should be 1/5 of the total area of ​​the page. Do not get if you narrow your page set up gazebo large size, it would look crowded and claustrophobic.
2. You can set up a minimum of 2m x 2m gazebo. With this size, you can put a small table, chair cushions, and a few accessories and also to lie tidura unwind.
3. We suggest you make the minimum distance between the walls of the house with a gazebo nearby, along 2m so that there is enough room to move freely.
4. It should be noted, do not put the gazebo under the weight of fruit trees. For example, mango trees, coconut trees and so on, as if the trees bear fruit, and the fruit tree fell on the roof of the gazebo that will damage the roof. You can change or cut tree will be set up to be safe if the gazebo in place.
5. It is equally important, access to the gazebo houses usually made in the form of the path. For your discretion, make the 40cm-90cm wide.
6. It should be noted also the positioning of where the gazebo is facing because you do not intend to relax but you get afternoon sunlight, thereby disrupting the comfort
you.
7. Add lights to provide lighting to beautify the look of the gazebo. Gazebo lights should be turned on or off from inside the house. Also provide a separate fuse, so as not to interfere with the use of electricity at the main house. But you could also just put the switch at  the gazebo as long as it is safe from the rain in order to avoid short-circuits to be dangerous.

Here some sample of gazebo:

The selection of a model or concept of the gazebo should be noted also that look proportional and “matching” with building your home. Building a house can be shaped classic, traditional, minimalist, ethnic, country and so on. Here are several classifications of gazebo that you can make reference:

Gazebo Art Concept: Generally made of bamboo or wood. The form was adapted from a particular ethnic buildings. For example, the ornate crown shape “joglo” the edge of the roof and motifs carved on the pole. This species has been sold in the form of knock down or ready to install. Buyers stayed assemble yourself at home.

Gazebo Natural Concept: natural style is made of natural stone or wood materials. Model gazebo is usually the most preferred. The materials used are also made of concrete finishing casted with artificial logs.

Gazebo Country Concept: Very Identical to the use of natural stone and exposed brick. The difference is, this type of striped quite firmly. Pole can be of wood finishing with a slab of concrete with natural stone or natural finishing. Although the color is very dominant natural (wood, terracotta), sometimes there is a touch of artificial materials such as ceramics and iron.

Gazebo Industrial Concept: This type is predominantly from metal, aluminum and iron, colored metal staple. This type is also rarely found in housing because more often made for public facilities such as office, cottage or tourist attractions.

Gazebo Modern Concept: Nowadays it is not predominantly natural or natural finishing materials such as natural stone and wood. Commonly used materials of concrete, brick, and wood with paint finishing. The shape also very diverse and should-shaped gazebo in general.

Gazebo Classic Concepts: These are usually decorated with a pole with ornaments, such as pillars. With gracefully curved roof and a thick white color, ideal when paired with a classic home design. You can find this type of gazebo at Satwa Taru Surakarta Palace garden waterfall or Solo.

Here some sample of gazebo: