Archive for: June, 2008

Towel Rack for Bathroom

Towel Rack for Bathroom

Many a times, we struggle to find the place to store towels in the bathroom. I have seen people throw the towel over the shower head or squeeze it into the door handle. Some people have the rods like the one shown below. Image Courtesy : jaquar.com Image Courtesy : jaquar.com An alternate solution is [...]

Wardrobe Design from my friend’s home

Wardrobe Design from my friend’s home

This is just an image post. I liked this wardrobe a lot. It was very elegant in it’s design and also simplistic. Click Image to continue As you can see from the image above it has 5 storage units on the top where a family can dump their sparingly used stuff. On the bottom there [...]

Construction costs & escalation clauses – Credai

Construction costs & escalation clauses – Credai

Reports from the construction industry indicate that the cost of constructing new buildings have increased dramatically in the last one year or so. Cost of steel has doubled in the last one year to about Rs. 60,000 a tonne. Similarly, cement prices are continuously rising and so are sand prices. Of course, labour and transport are [...]

Land now being ‘coldsold’ over phones !!

Land now being ‘coldsold’ over phones !!

Yesterday morning I had a surprise phone call from an agency that was arranging to take people on a site visit to some place near the Mahindra World City SEZ in Chennai. They said they had gotten my number from justdial. I certainly hadn’t given justdial permission to share my mobile number with 3rd parties, [...]

Independent house vs. apartment – part 5

Independent house vs. apartment – part 5

With some interesting comments from our readers in the last post, thought I’ll do one more post in this series. This being primarily to identify situations where apartments are better than independent houses purely on an investment basis. Anyone who has read part 3 & part 4 would know in which direction my views lie. [...]

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