Rule 1. Rule 1: Every home needs a dining room. One of the biggest pitfalls people fall into when decorating their home is being afraid to change the purpose of a room. Sure, a kitchen is always going to be a kitchen, but dining rooms, formal living rooms, and bedrooms are ripe for repurposing. Like many folks, we don’t make much use of a dining room. While we enjoy visitors, we don’t throw many formal dinner parties, and our eat-in kitchen works just fine for daily meals. Meanwhile, our living room is lovely but not particularly spacious — a piano, fireplace and stairway limit the amount of seating we can add to the room. Our solution was to extend the “living area” into the adjacent dining room. Suddenly, we doubled the amount of space we have for casual entertaining, while creating a spot for a flat-screen TV for watching movies. The result is a cozy, calming room that the British would call a “snug.” We think that describes the space perfectly. This layout — and giving up a dining table to get it — may not be the right fit for every family, but it more closely aligns with our needs and could easily be switched back by the next homeowners. Rule 2. Rule 2: Dark colors make a room feel small. You’ve heard it from designers on TV. You’ve heard it from real estate agents. Neighbors. The guy working the paint counter. “A dark wall color will make a room feel smaller.” I have two responses to that: Not necessarily. Even if it does, is that always a bad thing? In many instances, a darker wall or ceiling color will have no effect at all on the perception of room size. Very dark colors can, counterintuitively, make walls and ceilings appear to recede from the observer, creating the illusion that the room is deeper. So, the jury remains undecided. What dark rooms inarguably do is create an environment that is cozy, elegant or romantic. While your eye may initially perceive a space as smaller, it will not actually be any smaller. You can fit just as much furniture and as many people into the space as before. So maybe it isn’t a problem at all. Our adjacent living room (and much of the house) has stark white walls and big windows to bring in sunlight, so we decided to paint our dining room-turned-snug in Black. Nothing subtle about that, but once we filled it with artwork and furniture, everyone commented on how big the room seemed. Rule 3. Too much furniture in a space will make it cramped. As designers and furniture manufacturers, we talk with clients about furniture layouts every day, and choosing too large a sofa in their home is a recurring concern. While it’s true that the scale of furniture matters, you can often get away with putting more into a room than you might imagine. It’s all about placement and maintaining pathways. Our snug is a great example of this. It measures merely 13 feet by 10½ feet, and has a wide opening to our living room, a door to our kitchen and three big windows. Into the room, we fit a 10½-foot-by-8½-foot sectional sofa, a barrel chair, three small tables, a bar cart, a large wall-mounted flat-screen TV and tons of artwork. Despite squeezing in seating for a big group of people, we haven’t compromised the critical pathway running from the living room back into the kitchen. We absolutely love our cozy, compact lounging space and don’t miss our dining room at all. Our unconventional choices may not make sense for your lifestyle, but keep them in mind as you find the best way to live in your home.
How Breaking 3 Design Rules Made Our Home Feel More Like Us.
Rule 1. Rule 1: Every home needs a dining room. One o...
1. At the beginning of a workout, it is always necessary to warm up. So you prepare the muscles for the upcoming loads 2. Rest between workouts of the same muscle group should be at least 48 hours. This is the minimum time required for tissue repair. 3. Do not exercise in a tired, painful condition. Many injuries result from overtraining. 4. When mastering a new exercise, work with a minimum load until you learn the technique. It is better to do this under the guidance of a coach. 5. Fully concentrate on doing the exercise. Do not get distracted by talking and looking at girls (do it while relaxing). Control weight gain, also be careful during the negative phase. 6. When unbending, never turn off the joints completely (do not fully stretch your arms and legs under weight). This will only carry the entire load on the joints, which is fraught with trauma. Also avoid over-stretching the ligaments and tendons. 7. Try to keep the muscles of the core in a selected state - so you stabilize the spine and protect it from injuries. 8. Doing the exercise, keep the weight closer to the body. Avoid jerking movements. Follow the technique! 9. Never lay your head back while doing the exercise, do not raise it too high up, or lower it too much. So you risk damaging very fragile cervical vertebrae. 10. When working in a standing position, always take a stable position and maintain balance. 11. When sitting, the feet should be completely touching the floor, and the legs bent at the knees should be a right angle. So you stabilize the lumbar spine. 12. While training the leg muscles, walk around the hall between sets, so that the blood circulates through the vessels. In the sitting position, the blood stagnates, which can cause edema. 13. Breathe correctly. The exhale is always on effort, and the inhale on the negative phase. You should not hold your breath for long. This can lead to dizziness, rupture of blood vessels and loss of consciousness. 14. Maintain water balance. Drink water even if you don’t feel thirsty. The first signs of dehydration are hard to see. 15. When working with maximum weights, use insurance. 16. Make sure sports equipment is in good condition. Use locks on bars and dumbbells, put on a weightlifting belt, if necessary, bandage your wrists and use gloves. 17. Your clothes should not be fashionable, but comfortable, not to restrict movement. Pay special attention to shoes - no slippers and flip flops. Shoes should be stiff enough, on non-slip soles, tightly laced. The ideal option is a barbell. 18. After a workout, warm up, stretch, do massage.
18 rules for safe training
1. At the beginning of a workout, it is always necessa...
Advise 1. How much sun will your roof get? ou’ll need plenty of sunlight for solar panel success. Check for trees both on your property and in neighbors’ yards. Have the trees grown and begun to cast too much shade since the solar panels were installed? If that’s the case, some tree trimming or transplanting (and neighborly negotiation) might be necessary. While solar panels work best on south-facing roofs, both east- and west-facing roofs can also gather plenty of energy if they get enough sunlight throughout the day. Advise 2. What about resale value? Solar panels are viewed similarly to upgraded kitchens or remodeled bathrooms—they increase a home’s value. In fact, homes with solar panels sell for 1.4 percent more than similar homes without them, according to Zillow. The photovoltaic value (PV) calculates energy production value for a solar panel system and is compliant with Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. The PV value is a tool that both home sellers and home buyers can use to get the most accurate estimate of a home’s solar energy production. Advise 3. Will you lease or own the solar panels? If you’re considering buying a house with solar panels, you’ll want to ask if they are leased or owned. Owning the solar panels on your house is the best financial decision, since solar panel lessees save less than those who purchase them outright. You might save some money up front with a lease, but you may lose that advantage when buying a home with existing leased panels. When leasing solar panels, homeowners can lose control of just how many panels are placed on their roof and where, since the leasing company will be focused on maximizing its own bottom line.Furthermore, a lease term for solar panels is generally 20 years. That means if you’re buying a home that has years left on the solar lease, you, as the home buyer, become the lessee. Advise 4. Can you still get a mortgage for a house with solar panels? Buying a house with solar panels can affect the way you get a mortgage. In particular, matters like owning or leasing the panels and how the panels were financed might affect your mortgage. If the seller of your soon-to-be home outright owns the solar panels, that’s ideal; the panels will likely only affect the home’s price. If you buy a home with leased solar panels, though, you’ll want to discuss any lease terms and monthly fees associated with the system. Advise 5. What’s the difference between solar loans and financing? If the seller of the home owns the solar panels and is still making payments through a loan or through financing, you’ll want to know the details as the buyer. If the panels were financed through a solar loan, the loan will remain the seller’s responsibility, even if the property is sold. That means the buyer is off the hook for making payments on that loan. However, if the solar panels were purchased through (PACE) financing, the financing remains attached to the property, since payments are made via property taxes. Those payments would thus be transferred to the home buyer.
5 Things You Should Know Before Buying a House With Solar Panels.
Advise 1. How much sun will your roof get? ou’ll need...
Allow your body all 10 minutes a day and it will be grateful to you and soon you will take away the result of your efforts. Neck Stand straight with feet shoulder-width apart. Tilt your head to the right shoulder and with your right palm slowly and gently press on the head from above, stretching the muscles of the neck. Do not pull the shoulders to the ears, focus on the movement of the ear to the shoulder, and not vice versa. Thoracic region and shoulder girdle Standing straight, raise your arms up and to the sides, bend, lowering your elbows to a level just above the shoulders. In this position, take your arms back a little, revealing the chest. Back Extend your arms in front of you and put your hands together in a lock. Round the upper back, as if pushing the shoulder blades back. Pull in your stomach, move your pelvis forward, and bend your knees slightly. Back of thigh Stand straight, take a small step forward. Turn the hind foot to the side about 30-45 degrees and bend the knee. On exhalation, we tilt the body forward, without rounding the back and keeping the abdominal muscles in good shape. You should feel the extension of the back of the thigh of the front leg. The front surface of the thigh Standing on one leg, bend the other at the knee and, grabbing the foot with your hand, gently pull it to the buttock. Hold your knees together, push your pelvis forward a little, bend your leg back.
10 minutes a day
Allow your body all 10 minutes a day and it will be gr...
Tea drinking is a beautiful European custom. Typically, a tea table is set up about an hour after dinner, much less often - immediately after it. A tea table is served in the living room. Tea is served in thin cups, adding sugar, milk (cream) or lemon slices to taste. Small cups of tea are distributed with cups. For tea, you can serve small shortbread cookies or rolls. Guests may well help the hostess serve tea. The evening tea ceremony, adopted in Western countries, does not allow a guest to sit next to her without an invitation from the hostess, since such a place is considered an honor. Especially strictly adhere to this tradition in Latin America. If the guests do not sit at the table, but sit down all over the room, they go to the hostess for tea - she does not get up from her place to serve the guests. Evening tea
Tea and coffee
Tea drinking is a beautiful European custom. Typically...

Healthy nutrition is nutrition that ensures the growth, normal development and life of a person, contributing to the strengthening of his health and the prevention of diseases. Following healthy eating habits combined with regular exercise reduces the risk of chronic diseases and disorders such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and even cancer.

Modern science conducts numerous studies to optimize the diet for the prevention of major chronic diseases.

The first full-scale study, which confirmed that proper nutrition can significantly reduce problems with cardiovascular diseases, obesity and diabetes, was the project "North Karelia", conducted in Finland since 1973. Over 35 years, the population of the region of North Karelia has mortality from cardiovascular diseases decreased by 7 times.

The main changes that led the North Karelia project to this result are smoking cessation and a change in the diet of the population: 1. 80% reduction in butter consumption 2. Increased consumption of vegetable oil 3. Consumption of low-fat dairy products 4. Increased consumption of fruits and vegetables 5. Changes in the recipe of traditional dishes and training the population in new cooking techniques (baking and boiling)

Rule 1. Rule 1: Every home needs a dining room. One of the biggest pitfalls people fall into when decorating their home is being afraid to change the purpose of a room. Sure, a kitchen is always going to be a kitchen, but dining rooms, formal living rooms, and bedrooms are ripe for repurposing. Like many folks, we don’t make much use of a dining room. While we enjoy visitors, we don’t throw many formal dinner parties, and our eat-in kitchen works just fine for daily meals. Meanwhile, our living room is lovely but not particularly spacious — a piano, fireplace and stairway limit the amount of seating we can add to the room. Our solution was to extend the “living area” into the adjacent dining room. Suddenly, we doubled the amount of space we have for casual entertaining, while creating a spot for a flat-screen TV for watching movies. The result is a cozy, calming room that the British would call a “snug.” We think that describes the space perfectly. This layout — and giving up a dining table to get it — may not be the right fit for every family, but it more closely aligns with our needs and could easily be switched back by the next homeowners. Rule 2. Rule 2: Dark colors make a room feel small. You’ve heard it from designers on TV. You’ve heard it from real estate agents. Neighbors. The guy working the paint counter. “A dark wall color will make a room feel smaller.” I have two responses to that: Not necessarily. Even if it does, is that always a bad thing? In many instances, a darker wall or ceiling color will have no effect at all on the perception of room size. Very dark colors can, counterintuitively, make walls and ceilings appear to recede from the observer, creating the illusion that the room is deeper. So, the jury remains undecided. What dark rooms inarguably do is create an environment that is cozy, elegant or romantic. While your eye may initially perceive a space as smaller, it will not actually be any smaller. You can fit just as much furniture and as many people into the space as before. So maybe it isn’t a problem at all. Our adjacent living room (and much of the house) has stark white walls and big windows to bring in sunlight, so we decided to paint our dining room-turned-snug in Black. Nothing subtle about that, but once we filled it with artwork and furniture, everyone commented on how big the room seemed. Rule 3. Too much furniture in a space will make it cramped. As designers and furniture manufacturers, we talk with clients about furniture layouts every day, and choosing too large a sofa in their home is a recurring concern. While it’s true that the scale of furniture matters, you can often get away with putting more into a room than you might imagine. It’s all about placement and maintaining pathways. Our snug is a great example of this. It measures merely 13 feet by 10½ feet, and has a wide opening to our living room, a door to our kitchen and three big windows. Into the room, we fit a 10½-foot-by-8½-foot sectional sofa, a barrel chair, three small tables, a bar cart, a large wall-mounted flat-screen TV and tons of artwork. Despite squeezing in seating for a big group of people, we haven’t compromised the critical pathway running from the living room back into the kitchen. We absolutely love our cozy, compact lounging space and don’t miss our dining room at all. Our unconventional choices may not make sense for your lifestyle, but keep them in mind as you find the best way to live in your home.
How Breaking 3 Design Rules Made Our Home Feel More Like Us.
Rule 1. Rule 1: Every home needs a dining room. One o...
1. At the beginning of a workout, it is always necessary to warm up. So you prepare the muscles for the upcoming loads 2. Rest between workouts of the same muscle group should be at least 48 hours. This is the minimum time required for tissue repair. 3. Do not exercise in a tired, painful condition. Many injuries result from overtraining. 4. When mastering a new exercise, work with a minimum load until you learn the technique. It is better to do this under the guidance of a coach. 5. Fully concentrate on doing the exercise. Do not get distracted by talking and looking at girls (do it while relaxing). Control weight gain, also be careful during the negative phase. 6. When unbending, never turn off the joints completely (do not fully stretch your arms and legs under weight). This will only carry the entire load on the joints, which is fraught with trauma. Also avoid over-stretching the ligaments and tendons. 7. Try to keep the muscles of the core in a selected state - so you stabilize the spine and protect it from injuries. 8. Doing the exercise, keep the weight closer to the body. Avoid jerking movements. Follow the technique! 9. Never lay your head back while doing the exercise, do not raise it too high up, or lower it too much. So you risk damaging very fragile cervical vertebrae. 10. When working in a standing position, always take a stable position and maintain balance. 11. When sitting, the feet should be completely touching the floor, and the legs bent at the knees should be a right angle. So you stabilize the lumbar spine. 12. While training the leg muscles, walk around the hall between sets, so that the blood circulates through the vessels. In the sitting position, the blood stagnates, which can cause edema. 13. Breathe correctly. The exhale is always on effort, and the inhale on the negative phase. You should not hold your breath for long. This can lead to dizziness, rupture of blood vessels and loss of consciousness. 14. Maintain water balance. Drink water even if you don’t feel thirsty. The first signs of dehydration are hard to see. 15. When working with maximum weights, use insurance. 16. Make sure sports equipment is in good condition. Use locks on bars and dumbbells, put on a weightlifting belt, if necessary, bandage your wrists and use gloves. 17. Your clothes should not be fashionable, but comfortable, not to restrict movement. Pay special attention to shoes - no slippers and flip flops. Shoes should be stiff enough, on non-slip soles, tightly laced. The ideal option is a barbell. 18. After a workout, warm up, stretch, do massage.
18 rules for safe training
1. At the beginning of a workout, it is always necessa...
Advise 1. How much sun will your roof get? ou’ll need plenty of sunlight for solar panel success. Check for trees both on your property and in neighbors’ yards. Have the trees grown and begun to cast too much shade since the solar panels were installed? If that’s the case, some tree trimming or transplanting (and neighborly negotiation) might be necessary. While solar panels work best on south-facing roofs, both east- and west-facing roofs can also gather plenty of energy if they get enough sunlight throughout the day. Advise 2. What about resale value? Solar panels are viewed similarly to upgraded kitchens or remodeled bathrooms—they increase a home’s value. In fact, homes with solar panels sell for 1.4 percent more than similar homes without them, according to Zillow. The photovoltaic value (PV) calculates energy production value for a solar panel system and is compliant with Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. The PV value is a tool that both home sellers and home buyers can use to get the most accurate estimate of a home’s solar energy production. Advise 3. Will you lease or own the solar panels? If you’re considering buying a house with solar panels, you’ll want to ask if they are leased or owned. Owning the solar panels on your house is the best financial decision, since solar panel lessees save less than those who purchase them outright. You might save some money up front with a lease, but you may lose that advantage when buying a home with existing leased panels. When leasing solar panels, homeowners can lose control of just how many panels are placed on their roof and where, since the leasing company will be focused on maximizing its own bottom line.Furthermore, a lease term for solar panels is generally 20 years. That means if you’re buying a home that has years left on the solar lease, you, as the home buyer, become the lessee. Advise 4. Can you still get a mortgage for a house with solar panels? Buying a house with solar panels can affect the way you get a mortgage. In particular, matters like owning or leasing the panels and how the panels were financed might affect your mortgage. If the seller of your soon-to-be home outright owns the solar panels, that’s ideal; the panels will likely only affect the home’s price. If you buy a home with leased solar panels, though, you’ll want to discuss any lease terms and monthly fees associated with the system. Advise 5. What’s the difference between solar loans and financing? If the seller of the home owns the solar panels and is still making payments through a loan or through financing, you’ll want to know the details as the buyer. If the panels were financed through a solar loan, the loan will remain the seller’s responsibility, even if the property is sold. That means the buyer is off the hook for making payments on that loan. However, if the solar panels were purchased through (PACE) financing, the financing remains attached to the property, since payments are made via property taxes. Those payments would thus be transferred to the home buyer.
5 Things You Should Know Before Buying a House With Solar Panels.
Advise 1. How much sun will your roof get? ou’ll need...
Allow your body all 10 minutes a day and it will be grateful to you and soon you will take away the result of your efforts. Neck Stand straight with feet shoulder-width apart. Tilt your head to the right shoulder and with your right palm slowly and gently press on the head from above, stretching the muscles of the neck. Do not pull the shoulders to the ears, focus on the movement of the ear to the shoulder, and not vice versa. Thoracic region and shoulder girdle Standing straight, raise your arms up and to the sides, bend, lowering your elbows to a level just above the shoulders. In this position, take your arms back a little, revealing the chest. Back Extend your arms in front of you and put your hands together in a lock. Round the upper back, as if pushing the shoulder blades back. Pull in your stomach, move your pelvis forward, and bend your knees slightly. Back of thigh Stand straight, take a small step forward. Turn the hind foot to the side about 30-45 degrees and bend the knee. On exhalation, we tilt the body forward, without rounding the back and keeping the abdominal muscles in good shape. You should feel the extension of the back of the thigh of the front leg. The front surface of the thigh Standing on one leg, bend the other at the knee and, grabbing the foot with your hand, gently pull it to the buttock. Hold your knees together, push your pelvis forward a little, bend your leg back.
10 minutes a day
Allow your body all 10 minutes a day and it will be gr...
Tea drinking is a beautiful European custom. Typically, a tea table is set up about an hour after dinner, much less often - immediately after it. A tea table is served in the living room. Tea is served in thin cups, adding sugar, milk (cream) or lemon slices to taste. Small cups of tea are distributed with cups. For tea, you can serve small shortbread cookies or rolls. Guests may well help the hostess serve tea. The evening tea ceremony, adopted in Western countries, does not allow a guest to sit next to her without an invitation from the hostess, since such a place is considered an honor. Especially strictly adhere to this tradition in Latin America. If the guests do not sit at the table, but sit down all over the room, they go to the hostess for tea - she does not get up from her place to serve the guests. Evening tea
Tea and coffee
Tea drinking is a beautiful European custom. Typically...