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Tips to Fake an Entryway

With rising cost of housing, few people these days can afford a large house with spacious entryway. Open floor plans are the latest trend where you just walk into the living room without passing through a foyer. Smaller homes are definitely affordable but without an entryway, you are likely to bring in outside dirt and allow draft or rain to seep into your living space. 

However, if you plan your interior decoration in the CBD with thought and a little research, you can easily create an illusion of having a proper foyer even in a modestly sized house. 

Install a Slim Console 

A slim; custom-made console can make for a great focal point in a narrow space. It adds extra style and is extremely useful for picking up keys, bags, sunglasses, umbrellas and other items that you require as you rush out of the front door. You guests too can do the same before entering your living room. 

Add Colours and Depth

Another effective way of creating a faux foyer is to add colour and depth to your space. Designed wallpapers in bold colours and pattern add style and elegance to a small foyer and lend it a personality of its own. You can even install a large work of art to demarcate your foyer and make it a focal point. 

A great interior decoration trick is to install a gilded mirror. These look beautiful by themselves and also add depth to a narrow foyer, making it look spacious and inviting. 

Install a Bookcase Divider 

A bookshelf is another great idea to demarcate your foyer from the living space. It is best if you have an open book shelf that has shelves on both sides.

That way, you can keep decorative items and other essentials on the shelves facing your front door while you can keep your books on the shelves that face your living space. Such a book shelf saves space, is extremely functional and creates the illusion of a foyer. 

And a Bench and Hooks

Similar to a console table, a bench too can define your entryway. Select a seating space with minimal decoration or simple rustic looks in order make your narrow space look organized and spacious. You can even keep a basket under the bench to hold essentials or keep shoes. This makes for maximum utilization of a small space while creating a fake entryway. 

Install a few hooks on one side of the wall to hang coats, backpacks, tote bags and other essentials. 

Turn Furniture towards the Living Area

This is perhaps the cheapest and quickest way of creating a faux foyer when you don’t have much money to invest or time to shop around for things. 

As part of your fantastic interiors, just place all seating arrangements facing towards the living room close together a little distance away from the front door. This creates an illusion space between the front door and the main conversation area in the living room. 

When well-maintained, even the back sides of your sofas and chair can make your entryway look very inviting indeed. 

Want to find out more?

Head on over to interior designers North Shore to get your free info pack!

 

Boot Camp Personal Trainer Shares His Best Fitness Tips

Signs you are Physically Unfit

Being physically fit to work out is important. If you are overweight or tend to get short of breath when you climb stairs, these are signs that you are not fit enough to take up demanding exercises.

Being unfit, you will not be able to concentrate on working out – more often than not you will have one eye on the exit door while using weights. Or, if an exercise is difficult you might say it is not possible to do the same, or look for short cuts.

Worse still, you might ignore early signs of not being fit enough and wait till you reach a breakdown stage to see a doctor. So look out for the signs mentioned below to avoid reaching a crucial stage:

A lethargic feeling

If the oxygen in your body does not move around at the right pace you will not feel energetic enough to work out. A feeling of lethargy and tiredness will dog you throughout the day. Keep in mind that exercise increases the blood flow; so try and do light workouts under the guidance of Dangerously Fit Personal Training.

Feeling breathless?

Feeling breathless is not normal – especially when climbing stairs, walking fast or carrying anything heavy. So if you experience any breathlessness it could be a sign that you are physically unfit, and you need to undergo medical testing to check if specific treatment is required.

Obese problem

As mentioned above being overweight is definitely a sign of being physically unfit. The extra kilos that you carry around on your body will put a strain on your cardiovascular system which in turn can cause heart disease and hypertension. Going in for the right work-outs under the supervision of a personal trainer will help you to shed some of the unwanted kilos.

Importance of a good night’s sleep

If you are physically unfit you will probably not enjoy a good night’s sleep. You might take time to sleep or experience fitful sleep, waking up frequently during the night. To overcome this problem you should look at doing daily exercise which will help to regulate your melatonin (sleep hormone).

Suffering from sore muscles?

If you are not fit, you will not enjoy proper respiration. Respiration happens in two separate stages – one called aerobic which produces energy when oxygen is present. If the oxygen gets depleted you will switch over to the anaerobic stage of respiration which has less efficiency. A waste product called lactic acid is then produced and this can result in sore and aching muscles. By working out for about half an hour a day with a Rushcutters Bay boot camp you should be able to overcome the negative phase.

Avoiding getting injured

If you feel tired and your shoulder aches while carrying a few shopping bags, it is a sure sign of being physically unfit. This problem can be avoided if you concentrate on strength and cardio training. Such workouts will help to strengthen the connective ligaments improving your flexibility and preventing injuries from taking place.

 

4 Tips For Encouraging Corporate Health

Corporate Personal Training

Corporate personal training is important for many reasons. Healthy and active employees can produce more work than people that are not in shape. It is always a good idea that corporations invest in their employees because they produce the bottom line, which carries the company on to profits.

Personal Training Options For Corporations

There are a number of ways that corporations can invest in their employees’ health and fitness needs. They can open a gym on the premises or offer discounted or free rates at a gym nearby.

There are other ways that they can get their employees interested in health and fitness too. They can offer classes that will give the employees a lot of great information about caring about themselves.

Some Corporations Put In A Track For People To Walk Or Run On

In some corporations, they install a track for employees that wish to walk or run on it. This is especially good for when an employee wants to take a break or if they want to stay after work later and exercise. The benefits are fantastic because employees generally take advantage of this option when it is right on the work premises.

Participating in Running Events

A great way to get fit that can also encourage team bonding is taking part in fun runs. Sydney has many of these fun runs, the most popular and famous is the city to surf run that takes place every August.

 

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Dynamic Warm ups Vs Stretching – What’s Better?

Training with a fully qualified personal trainer is vital before performing your strenuous exercises.

Warm ups and stretching comes before starting the rigorous training.It is a very common question asked whether you perform stretches before starting with your exercises or you do a dynamic warm up and then following the stretching exercises after that.

For this reason the fitness training with fully certified trainers is extremely important.

If you’re not sure where to find a personal trainer with the correct qualifications, check out http://www.ptcertifications.com/.

Why is a dynamic warm up necessary?

Dynamic warm up is quite necessary as it helps raising the body temperature. Doing that also helps in increasing the heart rate which also increases to muscles, ligaments and tendons.

A dynamic warm up session helps your mind to focus on the upcoming strenuous and rigorous exercises. It also reduces injuries or the risk of having injuries and also enhances your performance. Dynamic warm ups are a must even before performing yoga. Dynamic warm ups are a major part of fitness training.

Stretching is done after exercises or at the end of warm ups, this is because when you perform stretching it is mandatory for your muscles to be warm. Stretching works the best when your muscles are warm and it also is a great way to bring your body temperature down. Stretching is also a relaxation exercise which is performed before wrapping up for the day.

 

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