Task Lighting

“Task lighting is fundamentally any lighting that helps to facilitate a particular visual task.” It should be prioritized when it comes to the kitchen since this is essential to preparing food, and misplacing this may hinder your work efficiency specially when your lighting system throws shadows on your workspace. 

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Having a well lit area to work in makes a task more easy. It also helps relieve eye strain when installed properly giving a pleasant working environment What is Task lighting?.

Task lighting is energy and money saving since it can reduce the amount of energy to light an entire room plus the energy saving light bulbs that can be used. Task Lighting

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There are, however two things to consider before setting up your task-lighting system. You'll have to carefully assess that the light (1)does not give a direct glare to the user (2)nor will it cause to cast a shadow on the working space area; also, dedicate light to the specific space or area where you usually do your work. 5 Tips for Better Home and Office Lighting

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Key locations for your task lighting includes underneath the overhead cabinets and over the island-anywhere you'll be chopping, slicing, reading your recipes or anywhere you need the light to be focused. 

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For both underneath overhead cabinets and over the island:

• You can either use a wired or plugged in incandescent or fluorescent lighting. Incandescent lighting offers better light quality but is much expensive while fluorescent lighting does not cast much light and emits less heat and lasts longer especially with bulbs which also uses much less electricity. 10 Kitchen Design Mistakes to Avoid

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• If you choose to use LED lights, which can also be applied, be sure to choose color temperature wisely.

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• Another choice is the use of halogen lights for underneath overhead cabinet. This should also be dimmable, which should be applicable to the other 3 choices for lighting, so as to lessen the use of electricity and help lengthen the life of your bulb. Get the Lighting Right: 8 Mistakes to Avoid

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After purchasing your preferred task-lighting fixtures, you can ask a reliable electrician to help you install properly.

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Table for Suggested Lighting Strategies and Levels by Rooms 

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Kitchen Lighting System

What happens in your kitchen? How much time do you usually spend with your prime kitchen utensils and valuable counter tops?

Lighting system is used to illuminate a place either during the day or night, for working/task purposes and for other purposes. But most of the time if not all the time, lighting system in a certain room especially the kitchen is taken for granted and/or generalized in the sense that as long as where you want to go and where you can work is lighted, that is enough.

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As Scott Gibson stated in his article Light Up Your Kitchen “Bad lighting can take the joy out of a kitchen. It makes cooking more of a chore and discourages people from getting together. Even the finest cabinetry, appliances, and counter tops look dull and unappealing in dim lighting.” As in any other cases, lighting system greatly affects in setting the mood of a certain area.

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According to Randall Whitehead, there are four functions in lighting your kitchen and blending these functions will provide you an effective yet inviting and fun cooking station. These functions or systems namely are your task lighting, ambient, accent and decorative lighting.

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• Task lighting prioritizes key locations for work spaces like underneath overhead cabinets, islands or anywhere you can chop, slice read recipe or need to focus illumination.

• Ambient Lighting is best in softening lines and shadows on people's faces. This also sets a warm and inviting glow in the room.

• Accent lighting is the least common lighting in the kitchen because it may necessitate something to be highlighted.

• Decorative Lighting should be directly proportional to the size of your kitchen. Whitehead also stated that, "You want to make sure that the scale of the fixtures is right for the space, and that the shade material has enough opacity to effectively hide the light bulb."

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Peripheral Edges

  What comes to mind when you enter a kitchen as chic as Sheryl Crow's?

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What possibly dawns into one's knowledge is the neatness and the combination of earthen colors with the majority of white color, the counter top being used and the cost of it, or one of the most visible commodity the chairs and/or even the most intricate designs of the cabinets.

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A piece of art less noticeable when we enter a stunning room, may perhaps be the edging of a counter top. When we enter the room, our eyes easily place edges on the peripheral view. For one, the edges have become part of the slab that they camouflage effortlessly. It's only when we do some activities in our kitchen that we see the edges' exquisiteness.

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The type of edging/nosing is also one of the most important things to consider in choosing a design for your counter tops especially for those households with children.

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Edging also offers not only sophistication, beauty and elegance, but also benefits and aids to your counter tops and even to your personal workshops. Solflex is made of acrylic modified material; hence, it offers tidy nosing/edging.

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Cobo: Seamless PossibiliTeas

Under the umbrella of its mother company, Possmei Taiwan (biggest milk tea ingredient supplier in the world and home to bubble milk tea), and after allowing Profoods Inc., Possmei Philippines gave birth to Cobo Milk Tea and saw a potential to cause a blast in Philippine palates.

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Bubble tea a cold drink which originated from Taiwan made from tea mixed with milk, fruits and other flavorings usually with black balls or pearls called tapioca.

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Cobo Milk Tea , an acclaimed milk tea in Luzon has now four branches in Cebu which played a trick with tea and milk hit most teenage Cebuanos like love stricken kiddos. With its playful mural, colorful furnishings, mysterious and surprising treats, Solflex Dali Stone completed the whole setting.

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Solflex Dali Stone is a sooty shade of solid surface pigmented with different colors, gold, fog white and maroon not only sprinkled on the surface but drenched unto within.

 

Solflex is as helpful as a bank especially with Cobo since they serve fluids most of the time which easily spill when one simply trips and even the moist from the cold drinks will stay on the material. Solflex can easily be maintained since it can conveniently be wiped with damped cloth and the stain does not penetrate.

 

Its non-porosity is sanitary because it is solid from top to bottom so no fluid can sip through whenever anyone can spill over the counter. Its pigmentation also helps in the promotion of the material's stain resistance since these pigmentation absorb the stains when these stains get unnoticed and are not wiped within twenty four (24) hours.

Solflex is also available in interesting matching colors to choose from: midnight, castor root, coco gravel, dusty gravel, and Ortega brown which like Dali stone can match with any arrangement, and relaxing tones like milky spots, nougat white, polar white, snow white, vanilla sand, white satin and fog pine.

Solflex has a brand new product called Solflex Superior. Although this material is thin, its durability is unquestionable because it is in accord to its kin product and it can tolerate to increasing temperatures of up to 200 degrees Celsius. Like its predecessor, Solflex Superior is also perfect for counter tops, vanity tops, and sink tops. It also comes in many hues like white, abalon and polar white for slabs.

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Share Your Kitchen Contest

Join the Share Your Kitchen Contest of S.E.A Olympus Marketing, Inc. and get a chance to win a KITCHEN SHOWCASE! 

 

Contest Guidelines

Eligibility

• This contest is open to everyone who is of legal age.
• The kitchen entered must be in your primary residence. Entrant must be the owner of the home. Only one entry is permitted per household.

Deadline

All entries must be submitted on or before November 12, 2012.

Contest Schedule

Deadline for entries: November 12, 2012

Contest voting period: November 12-30, 2012

Announcement of winner: December 10, 2012

Mechanics

To join, simply send us a photo of your kitchen. In not more than 100 words, describe what is happening in the picture. Participants must include the following information:

• Complete Name
• Address
• Contact Number
• Email Address
• Profession

Entries must be submitted to contest@olympus.com.ph. Accepted file formats are jpg, png or gif.
Image file must not be larger than 3MB in size.

Only one entry submission per person and email address is allowed. Duplicate entries will be disqualified.

All entries will be posted in Solflex Solid Surface Facebook fan page. Winners of the contest will be determined through the most number of likes.

Entries that are lewd, obscene, pornographic, disparaging of the sponsor or otherwise contain objectionable material may be disqualified in the sponsor's sole and unfettered discretion.

All employees of SEA Olympus Marketing Inc. and its affiliates are not eligible to join the contest.

By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees to all the terms and conditions of these rules; agrees to be bound by these rules and the decisions of the Contest judges; and consent to the use of his/her name, likeness and other information for publicity purposes.

The owner's rights for the contest remain with the owner. Photos may be used in advertisements, print materials, online, and in the contest sponsors' showrooms and stores. (Names and images of individuals will not be used without permission.)

Awards and certificates provided to the winner are non-transferable and have no cash value.

Prizes:

Only one winner will be announced on December 10, 2012. The Winner will be notified through email, mail or phone and will also be posted on the social media and blog sites.

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Solflex Superior

It is clean, eco-friendly, non-toxic, excellent product for better life.

Solflex Superior is a type of acrylic/polyester solid surface. It is made for speedy and efficient installation of standard-sized counter tops, sink tops, vanity tops, and many more. It also has the most impact resistance feature among other material in the market, assuring you of long-lasting beautiful interior countertops. Aside from the pure aesthetics value, this countertops offer varying cost, durability and upkeep.

Features and Benefits

• Speedy Installation process
• Uniform sized and colors ideal for mass production
• Cost-efficient and eco-friendly
• Can withstand up to 200 degree Celsius
• Increased stain resistance and chemical resistance.

Soflex Superior Impact Resistance

• 39% more impact resistant than QUARTZ
• 135% more impact resistant than SOLFLEX
• 286% more impact resistant than GRANITE

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Elegance in Simplicity

Stylish, customizable, virtually seamless and has wide variety of colors to choose from, these are the features and advantages of Solflex Solid Surface Material that made the Zen minimalist architect Josephril Partosa use it in some of his projects.
 
Architect Partosa is an alumnus of Cebu Institute of Technology- University who founded his own architectural firm in 2008 which he called JRPartosa Arkiteks. He observes green designs in architecture and uses Zen Minimalism to achieve simplicity, cleanliness and calmness in the structures that he makes. 

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Although simplicity is evident in his works, Architect Partosa has an exceptional ability to bring in elegance and aesthetics in his designs. His projects include residential and commercial establishments like Nanyang Pension in Dipolog, Chua house, Sy house and Tangpuz house, the Zen Minimalist house which was published in Sun.Star Cebu newspaper. Architect Partosa used Solflex Solid Surface Materials for the completion of the kitchens in these houses. 

Solflex mirrors sophistication and fineness in spite of its simplicity making it perfect to be used for kitchen counter tops, vanity and table tops.

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Bathroom Renovation Ideas

Is your bathroom in need of a boost? The design of your bathroom dictates its overall mood and energy. Tiled walls give it a clean, modern look, while certain colors and stylish accents can make it more inviting. Whether you're planning a complete renovation or a simple update, start with these ideas and tips for your bathroom.

Choose a style

In renovating the bathroom you can choose from numerous styles, including traditional or contemporary, or you can simply redesign the bathroom to coordinate with the existing style of your home.

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Maximize bathroom space

Bathrooms are usually the smallest room of the house, and you don’t need to literally extend your bathroom to make it look bigger. You only need to experiment with colors to do the trick.

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Hang a stylish mirror.
One beautifully framed mirror over a sink is more attractive than many surfaces covered with mirror. Supplement it with a wall-mounted adjustable makeup mirror, and consider installing a lighted, mirrored shaving niche in your shower stall.

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Add the perfect lighting

Right lighting not only makes a room look spacious, but it also makes the mirror reflect what you really look like in natural light so, you don’t have to rely on the light coming through you bathroom window to get natural light.

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Renovating your bathroom gives you an opportunity to enjoy luxury in your own, private sanctuary. 

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Stunning Modern Bathroom Designs

Bathrooms are being employed not only for hygienic purposes but also as a place for getting relaxed. It is a place where we can loosen up our tired mind and body to isolate us away from stress.

There are many style options to choose when setting up a design for your bathroom. You can pattern your design based on your personality or go with something that deviate the kind of plan you have in mind yet make it still visually attractive. But if you have the availability of space and budget then modern designs might just be for you.

Here are the different Modern Bathroom Designs that will surely fascinate you. 

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Designer: Andreas Charalambous

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Modern Minimalist Kitchen Design

The most common example of the minimal style applied in the present is the case of the minimalist kitchen.

Basically, a minimalist kitchen compiles extreme modern kitchen accessories with straight shaped lines and non bold colors and all the accessories from such a kitchen will take minimal space. Still, it is perfectly usable as it will have all the necessary stuff for a normal kitchen.

Basic accessories like the oven, the fridge and the dishwasher should be incorporated in the same corp of furniture. Also, the table where the sink is, is also used as a regular eating table, in order to cut off some space. This is a form that incorporates a blend of kitchen with dining table.

As for the chairs, it should only have chairs without a backrest and preferably made of steel. The chairs should adopt the dominant color of the room, as modernism must be lead to its peek.

The idea of a minimalist kitchen will make you feel friendly, happy and comfortable when on the move in the kitchen.

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